Second up on this special weekend at WROR was Charles Laquidera. Here’s a jock who really deserves more attention as one of perhaps Boston’s most legendary Rock Jocks. Unlike Top 40/CHR formats where the jocks are known for their lightning-fast presentations over the intros of songs, Rock Jocks of the AOR era generally would wait till a song was over to speak and would do their thing and THEN begin playing a song. It’s been said that repeating call letters, time, temperature and the intro of a song
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This runs 11:30. At the very end of this clip, Laquidera says he’s not actually at WROR, and JUST as he is about to say where he recorded the tracks from… the recording runs out. I suspect he did this at his home in Hawaii, as Laquidera’s been retired on the big island since the late 90s.