Introducing the 2020 Living Legend Award...Eddie Beacon "The Swingin' Deacon"!!!
I'm not sure what dial position that Eddie has not occupied during his wall of fame career in East Tennessee.
I was honored to team up with Eddie and Jimmy Vineyard starting back in 2010 to host a weekly racing show called Bumper2Bumper on the then WNOX-FM 100.3, owned and operated by our first Living Legend Award recipient Johnny Pirkle.
Eddie's career goes back to his working at the transmitter days for WNOX 990 to WKGN to W149 to 15Q to...well the list goes on!
I got to work with Eddie at Q94 in Oak Ridge in '81, he cohosted mornings with Linda Scott. Then the next year he and I joined 62 WRJZ when the station played country music.
Did you work with Eddie? 101 would love to hear from you at ktownradio@gmail.com.
Here are (some) of the stations where Eddie shared his insegrevious talent...WLIL, WNOX, WCPH, WPXI, WAAY, WGYW, WJBE, WKGN, WORD, WIMO, W149, 15Q, WROL, WRJZ, WTNQ, WATO, KGAL, WMFJ, NewsTalk 100.3, WSEV, WDLY, WBMK.
PS...for those of you holding your breath for all these decades wondering, Eddie was born Clay Huskisson!