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Jocko Henderson on 1280 WADO New York | December, 1964

This tape didn’t come with any background information, but ‘Jocko’ sounds suspiciously like the late Rosko Mercer, before moving on to WOR-FM. There are a LOT of 50s and early 60s tunes on this tape which was sent to us unscoped (so legally, I had to scope this down - kinda too bad though).

Really, if you listen to the jock patter this is SO much the same style as Rosko that I’m convinced he is one and the same person in this presentation. The nice thing is, while there’s really not much audio from those days, and ‘Jocko’ / Rosko airchecks are HARD to find, we have a complete cassette side to present here.

Listen now to WADO. The station would have been being creamed by WABC and WMCA in 1964, but they tried, eh? No jingles and very little in the way of programming elements to identify the station on this - so enjoy what appears to be a minor station playing in the big leagues.

WADO New York

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Total Time: 12:41 | Scoped Real Audio - Monaural

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August 21st, 2005 New York | 6 comments

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6 Responses to “Jocko Henderson on 1280 WADO New York | December, 1964”

  1. Dale R. Patterson on August 22nd, 2005 12:30 am

    Jocko Henderson and Rosko Mercer are in fact two different people. Jocko was on WBAL, WDAS, WHAT, WWRL, WOV-WADO and also appeared on the WCBS-FM Radio Reunions. Mercer worked at WOR-FM, WNEW-FM, WKTU-FM and KMET. He also the voice of CBS Sports. He died in 2004. Henderson passed away in 2000.

  2. Steven Green on September 20th, 2005 2:33 am

    Man! I never see airchecks of Jocko anywhere. This is the first one that I ever heard of besides the CBS-FM airchecks, where he came out of retirement for a few hours.

    Thanks for the great discovery. Everyone can use a little more Jocko in their lives.
    I hope that more are discovered.

    Steven Green

  3. matt blender on January 6th, 2006 11:34 am

    This is Jocko Henderson…I’m sure of it. Broadcasting from Jersey swamps where WADO was located. This is very rare….

  4. Jeffrey Bennett on November 6th, 2006 3:51 pm

    Well, the year was 1962, and I first heard Jocco on WWRL. This is a great aircheck. I just found your site, thanks for such a great Web site.

  5. joel eisenberg on November 11th, 2008 4:59 pm

    THIS IS THE JOCK\\
    LOVED HIM SHOULD HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT BEFORE OBAMA

  6. Jim Bertera on November 30th, 2008 2:57 am

    Just wondering if you got this from Aaron Mintz as I did many years ago when I was first searching for Jocko for a friend. I am very grateful for Aaron… I think of him as the king of airchecks!

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