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Simon Train on 79 WQXI Atlanta | August 1969

You know, we’ve been hoping to collect WHBQ airchecks like this - but who’s complaining? Karl Phillips sent us a ton of reels and most are of WQXI Atlanta, so we may end up with the largest repository of ‘Quicksie’ airchecks in the world!

Simon Train (Trane?) was apparently the morning man during this period - late Summer 1969. I’d say he’s not typical of most morning guys, but perhaps it was typical for WQXI. Compare this with Gary McKee’s morning show on WQXI from 1973… any similarities?

As with our other Karl Phillips, this one was delivered on reel. As I did most of the work for this one away from my home studio, I haven’t had a chance to photograph the source reel - will fix that soon!

79 WQXI Atlanta -

Total Time: 56:51 | Real Audio | Monaural

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September 7th, 2005 Atlanta • Karl Phillips | 5 comments

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5 Responses to “Simon Train on 79 WQXI Atlanta | August 1969”

  1. Paul Duca on October 27th, 2005 8:47 am

    This guy is pretty good…especially considering the circumstances in which he came to WOXI…he replaced Pat Hughes, who died suddenly that year, of complications from diabetes.

  2. Karl Phillips on November 29th, 2005 3:54 pm

    Paul’s comments are pretty much on the money as I remember it. I started working at WQXI shortly after Pat Hughes passed away, so I never got to meet him. I started right before Simon Trane joined us so I did get to work with and “hang” a little with him. His delivery was very different from the “fast talkin” guys and his sense of humor “off air” was as dry and unique as his on air persona. I thought he was very different and funny. After I left Quixie to go into the Navy and over to American Forces Radio Iceland -I believe that Simon went to WRC in DC.

  3. Ed Hastings on January 9th, 2006 2:41 pm

    Simon Train is my father; his real name is Edwin Ray Hastings. Apparantly he sometimes used the radio name “Eddy Ray” as well.

    After Atlanta he moved to Florida and switched to country music. He worked at several radio stations in FL such as WSWN, WIRK, and WHEW before retiring about a decade ago.

    He has suffered several strokes and other health problems over the last few years and is not well, but if you have any questions / want to get any information about him drop me an email and Ill try to get it out of him.

    Thanx!

  4. Gary Reynolds on June 25th, 2006 1:06 am

    Ed,

    I’m just now reading your comment about your father. I’ve recently come across some old tape of him as Simon Trane at KAKC in Tulsa. He sounded great doing the morning show there in 1972. It was my understanding that he went on to Washington DC for a run there.

    I currently work for the ABC Radio Networks in Dallas and have had some old tapes I made of KAKC burned onto CD. Let me know if you have any interest.

    Thanks!

  5. Skip McCloskey on June 26th, 2006 10:10 am

    Hi Ed:
    Very sorry to hear about your dad. We have some bios and airchecks of him at http://www.98wrc.com The site is currently offline while we give it a fresh look. It’ll be back up fully on July 5th as we celebrate 6 years on the web.
    He was a true perfectionist on the air. I enjoyed working with him.
    If ou get a chance please check it out and if there are any corrections or additions we’ll be more than happy to update any info.
    -skip

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