Rich Conaty, a 10-year-old obit
- missevegolden
- 8 minutes ago
- 1 min read
I am paying a belated tribute to New York DJ Rich Conaty (1954 - 2016) because I miss him, and because I wanted to provide a link to his wonderful archives. Rich hosted The Big Broadcast, a Sunday night radio show, from 1973 till his death. He played 1920s-30s pop and jazz, my favorite music. I was interviewed on The Big Broadcast when my Vernon and Irene Castle book came out (Rich kindly dug out some 1910s tunes for that), and I won the Miss Big Broadcast pageant two years in a row! I always said I had the looks for radio. Anyway, his station, WFUV, very nicely worked around copyright issues, and put his shows online, which you can access at https://www.library.fordham.edu/bigbroadcast/ . Enjoy, and tip a hat to Rich, who lives on in the airwaves.

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