101 asked Murphy in the Morning about his Ktown radio name...Below is what Smokey, oops, Murph, had to say...
Smokey Burns??!! Ouch!!
"I made me a vow to the moon and stars
I'd search the honky-tonks and bars
And kill the man that give me that awful name"
J. Cash
That man being Bob Baron, who foisted that name on me when he hired me from WTBC in Tuscaloosa when I was a baby DJ. I was forced to accept it or settle for another nom de radio Bob had concocted, Cas Cumberland - combining the regional name with that of the hillbilly grocery store magnate, Cas Walker, whose TV ads were ubiquitous on Knoxville TV at that time. I know that Uncle Bob-Bob foisted the Smokey moniker on at least one other DJ when he left Knoxville, David Craig Lankford in Erie, PA (Last at KLOU in St. Louis). When Mooney transferred me to WMAK Nashville, I was allowed to use Murphy in the Morning.
Smokey Burns??!! Ouch!!
"I made me a vow to the moon and stars
I'd search the honky-tonks and bars
And kill the man that give me that awful name"
J. Cash
That man being Bob Baron, who foisted that name on me when he hired me from WTBC in Tuscaloosa when I was a baby DJ. I was forced to accept it or settle for another nom de radio Bob had concocted, Cas Cumberland - combining the regional name with that of the hillbilly grocery store magnate, Cas Walker, whose TV ads were ubiquitous on Knoxville TV at that time. I know that Uncle Bob-Bob foisted the Smokey moniker on at least one other DJ when he left Knoxville, David Craig Lankford in Erie, PA (Last at KLOU in St. Louis). When Mooney transferred me to WMAK Nashville, I was allowed to use Murphy in the Morning.