Coincidentally, four years ago today I wrote a post on Burl Womack and his Breakfast with Burl radio show. Through social media we have learned of the local Savannah radio legend’s passing. Mr. Womack was 90. Today I have reposted an edited excerpt:
The radio station I listened to most as a kid was Z-102 in tiny Savannah, Georgia. Now, I realize that the station was only another Z-100 New York clone. This CHR format over populated the FM dial all across the USA in the 1980’s. Yes, Z-102 was derivative but I enjoyed the station and copied their style often when I became a deejay. One unique element of good old WZAT-FM was Burl Womack (himself positively not derivative). His show, the aptly named, “Breakfast with Burl” was on my car radio every morning on my way to high school circa 1983. Burl played religious music alongside Adult Contemporary and Pop hits of the day; strange combination of “secular and sacred” but, for us locals, it worked! Burl had the number one show on the number one station in the market many years running.
Rest in Peace
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