DJ'S DREAM

Now that I have officially begun my retirement

I thought it time that I stirred some excitement

So I headed down to the radio station K-R-O-C

Went in applying to be an “On Air Personality”

They looked at me like I was about half-crazy

Hell, I worked 40 long years! I sure ain’t lazy

They said it was just well-known common sense

To get that job, I needed some heavy ‘sperience

I replied, “Just listen to my fine, fine radio voice!”

I am sure when you hear it that I’ll be the choice

I can play mounds of sounds and stacks of wax

Everything from Johnny Cash to Fleetwood Mac

I’m a pundit, a poet, and story-teller of many sorts

I can gain you some listeners and win their hearts

I just need to get my voice broadcasting the words

Your market penetration will exceed levels unheard

I love good music and know decades of the style

I can play it very cool, pepped up, or really wild

I know all the Beatles, Stones, and the Monkees

And I throw in James Brown if you want it funky

They laughed at me and pointed me to the exit door

Get out they said and don’t come back here no more

You think this stuff is easy; you have said that it’s so

Baby, you need talent to have your own radio show

I said, “Look I grew up during the living history of rock”

Already born when Bill Haley “Rocked Around the Clock”

I watched American Bandstand and that funky “Soul Train”

I know all the songs and can call the singers by name!”

“Yes,” They admitted, “But no one knows who you are!

In this business, it takes a long time to be an on-air star

You’ve got to have a license and long hours in the trade

And please remember…stars are born, not likely made”

Well I left that radio station all dejected with the blues

Here I was talented with skills they would not try to use

I would never get my chance to lay down some tracks

Howl into the microphone and growl like Wolfman Jack

That’s my story and you have heard it in fine detail

How I suffered rejection; watched a radio career derail

My fine radio voice is silenced; never on air to be heard

Lost my dream job before I ever broadcast a word

So if you have talent and a raging need to let it show

I caution you heavily against trying to be on the radio

Those radio executives will laugh as you go out the door

And shout out to you, “Don’t come back here no more!”

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19 December 2012