Born to be a DJ

I was in Bald Knob, AR earlier this year attending the funeral of a family member.   During my time there I met an uncle of Bobby “Q”  and as usual, after the service,  friends and family members (mainly the men) sat around and reminisced about others who had passed on.  Bobby’s name came up many times in the conversation.   I think this because he was so well respected it would be hard not to think of, or talk about him.

Bobby’s uncle shared with us how he remembered Bobby as a little boy.   He said when Bobby was about four years old he loved to sit around and listen to old Blues records over and over again on an old phonograph that only played 78 records.  Bobby loved to flip over the record, or lift up the needle arm just to watch the record on the turntable start and stop.  His favorite song that he loved to hear and play has the lyric “Moe and Joe had a candy store, telling fortune behind the door”--- Run Joe.

Bobby’s passion and love for radio broadcasting, his talent and ability behind the mike was best understood and discovered in the training of the young DJs who had never experience radio broadcasting.