I’m fuzzy on what he did immediately before WSWN as he wasn’t prone to talking about his past. I only knew he had worked in Atlanta at some point because my mother went to college there and had listened to him on the radio, years before she met and married him in Florida. Pre-Atlanta and maybe post I think he worked some in the Midwest; he was from Missouri originally, but in what capacity I don’t know. There is a gap between Atlanta and Florida of a number of years, in which he very well may have worked in DC. He got around a lot, my dad

My mom moved my dad to a nursing home in Williston, Florida years ago and lives nearby with a sister.

Your air-check story sounds a lot like my dad -> he was nothing if not unconventional.

Larry.

Ed, I first met your dad, Simon Train, back in February, 1978, when he was the PD for WSWN, Belle Glade. I can still remember pulling into the parking area where this mobile home type structure sitting off of a state road in a corn field or some sort of agriculture area. I walked in and found him to be the only person in the station at 3:00 in the afternoon. I spoke to him about possible air work at the station, at the time I had worked part time at a few stations. He told me to perform a live air check on the station and let him know how I felt. I have worked at many radio stations during my 30 plus years of experience and no one before or since that time has ever asked me to do a live air check. Before I walked into that station I never had any interest in country music, after working there for just a short while, I was converted to country music, and Simon Train had something to do with it, though he doesn’t know that. I have tried numerous times to get in touch with him over the past decade or so, but lost track of him. The last I heard he was living in Ft. Myers, Fl. Today, I host and produce a three hour weekly specialty radio program on a public alternative (not an NPR affiliate) station in Connecticut, “Country Classics”. Please give my regards to your Dad, they just don’t make’m like him anymore when it comes to radio D.J’s. I miss him.

Regards,

Steve Brewer

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!

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!