![]() I’d bring jazz records - not like I play now, but I’m talking vocals. They’d give us time to speak and each play one or two records. … In the beginning, there were a good 18 or 20 of us that were down there on that program. “Me and a girl named Hazel Smith started going down there. Love found himself pulling from his mom’s beloved jazz collection to share. There also came the opportunity to play records when one summer KLKC hosted a Saturday show called the “Platter Playhouse” that featured a group of teens who would bring in their own favorite records and play them. Jay Pratt, while people would call in requests. Next thing they knew, they found themselves hanging out there, assisting where needed in the afternoons, like pulling records from the record library for D.J. It took a little convincing, but Love was finally in. In 1948, when Love was around 16, his best friend, Harry Coker, showed up one day at his house trying to convince him to go with him to check out the new radio station that had opened in Faye Hotel with the call letters KLKC. … She got me interested in music and subsequently, my lifelong career.” She’d bring them home and have me listen to them. She would bring home two, three, four records, which would be those 78, breakable, RPMs. One was called Richmond’s and one was called Interstate. … She had an account, like the bills at grocery stores, at the two record stores. She was making about as much as my father (William Love) was. “When World War II started, they opened up the Kansas Ordnance Plant, and she started working. That is how I got my interest in music was listening to my mother’s record collection,” Love said. “My mother (Bessie Love) was an avid record collector, of all kinds of music. However, by the time he reached late elementary school, Love was becoming familiar with the diversity of music as he was introduced to the world of records. The journey to where he is today began in Love’s native home of Parsons, where his interest in both jazz and broadcasting were first ignited.īorn on May 6, 1932, in Parsons, Love’s family listened to the radio on occasion, his father favoring the country music played then. He has spent the last 38 of those years at WDET-FM. ![]() WDET-FM 101.9 is paying special tribute to Love this year, celebrating his 60 years of being “the Voice of Jazz” in Detroit. “I’ve worked hard and been devoted to my career since day one.” “It was as much a part of my life as family,” he said this week, speaking from his adopted hometown of Detroit. This story was originally published in Parsons Sun.Įd Love’s career as a broadcaster has been a longtime love affair.
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