It was the 70s, where black women wore their own hair and plastic surgery was only for accident victims. Look at these stunning women in all their natural beauty in the picture with Frankie, won’t you?
I said LOOK! There has not been, is not currently nor will there
EVER
be another
trailblazer
like
Frankie
Crocker in Black
radio
.
Today’s current
corporations
will make
SURE
of it.
Mr. Crocker broke ALL the rules and had a
great time
doing it.
He was from my hometown (Buffalo) and I remember him on
WUFO
when I was very young in the
60s
(the announcer in the video gets it wrong when he says
Frankie
started in
NY
radio
). I met Mr.
Crocker once in
LA
post
WBLS
. He was playing golf and enjoying his previously earned
fortune
.
Had I known he’d be gone a
short time
after that, I would have had a much longer conversation with him.
He
died
at 60 in 2000 and he would have been 72 this year. What an incredible honor to meet him and shake his hand.
He’s the only other person I admire in the industry besides myself (and of course my
clients
, oh how I love thee too).
All the youngens in Urban
radio
check out the video at the bottom so that you will have a
TRUE
appreciation for a
LEGEND
. R.I.P Chief Rocker (pics credit: G Keith Alexander)
