If you missed the return of Aircheck last Thursday night, then you owe it to yourself to check out the Realaudio or the MP3 archives of Murray Saul. For years, we only knew of Murray as the "It's Friiidayyy!" guy, and we included a brief snippet of his insane on-air banter on Radio Archival Oddities, Vol. 2.
From there, he was ID'ed by former Clevelandites, who remember his rants as the city's top rated DJ on WMMS. Saul's take on the rapid-fire Top 40 radio announcer is unique to say the least, due to his utter inarticulateness. But he doesn't let a loss of real words stop him - he descends into yowza bowza wowzas, roaring infectious gutteralisms that'll soon have you joining in his celebrations of the weekend, potsmoking, sex and his endless tirades against the evil slavedriver.
I used to love listening to this in high school and always wanted to meet this exciting guy. fast forward 30 years and I have, and then some. :)
Posted by: Abbie | August 30, 2006 at 02:16 AM
I remember driving home from work and listening to the Friday "countdown" - Murray's screaming rant and Bruce Springsteen "Born to Run" - every Friday to kick off the weekend.
Murray also sold radio time back then and came into the ad agency where I worked, so I got to know him. I went to some show at the Cleve. Convention Center where WMMS had a table set up - Murray at it, signing autographs, surrounded by teenagers. He said hi to me and suddenly they swarmed me too because if Murray knew me, I had to be "somebody." Kind of a heady experience.
Posted by: Donna | September 01, 2006 at 12:57 AM
Ooh. Met him and he is old and ugly now.
Posted by: Sandra | September 10, 2006 at 11:36 AM
Last I knew (and I did) hewas paying a homeless woman for sex.
Posted by: Foo | July 12, 2007 at 03:44 AM
Murray Saul was NOT a deejay at WMMS in Cleveland, but a sales guy who happened to moonlight as the official weekend starter. Every Friday at 6PM, he would do 10 minutes or so of a mix of yelling, screaming proclamations about the joys of being free from the "slavedriver" and the joys of "twisting up a tuna and spending time in the rack with your honey" to some pretty perceptive political and social observations (done with humor and crazy double talk). One of a kind. Did his thing in the mid to late 1970s, and the tapes are still pretty entertaining and completely unique. "Yayza! Bowza! Wowza! Obla Di Obla Dah! Shhhhhhheeeeet! Oh...Oh...Richard Nixon....WHY ISN'T THAT MAN IN JAIL!".
Posted by: James | May 27, 2008 at 08:26 PM