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On November 8th, 2009, I received the highest honor of my career when I was officially inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame at its 2009 ceremony at Tin Hall in Houston.

Many of the names of Texas Radio Hall of Fame inductees are familiar to just about everyone in radio.  Heck, many of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame inductees are familiar to just about everyone outside of radio as well:

Gordon McLendon, Chuck Blore, Ken Dowe, Wolfman Jack, Barry Kaye, Dan Rather, Russ Knight (the “Weird Beard”), Verne Lundquist, Chuck Dunaway, Sam Donaldson, Lowry Mays, George Carlin, Ron Chapman, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Rabbitt, Rod Roddy, Walter Cronkite, Bob Schieffer, Frank Glieber, Brad Sham, Lee Abrams, Kent Burkhart, Charlie Van Dyke, Bill Young, Gary Owens, Dan Ingram, Kidd Kraddick, Brother Jon Rivers, Michael Spears and every incarnation of the legendary KILT/Houston morning team of Hudson & Harrigan are inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame, as are dozens of other individuals well known to folks in and out of the Lone Star State.

To be included on such a list is, well, humbling to say the least.

It is also extremely gratifying to know that fully twelve years after leaving Texas for Atlanta in 2007, there are enough people who remember the quality of my body of work in Texas that they deemed it best to bestow this unbelievable honor on me.

Unfortunately, due to my undergoing double surgery on October 26th, and the fact that I was convalescing at home, I was unable to attend the event at the legendary Tin Hall just outside Houston.  I was, however, able to provide a recorded acceptance speech, which was played at the event.

In the audio file posted below, you’ll hear my introduction that was produced by the Texas Radio Hall of Fame, featuring the voice of my best friend Tommy Kramer.  Although they skipped a couple of stations on my career resumé, for the most part they got it right.  After Tommy’s words of introduction, there’s a montage of air check snippets from many of the places I worked in Texas beginning with my first stop in Dallas at KNUS-FM in 1972 right up through my work as a play-by-play announcer with PGA TOUR Radio, as a weekend jock on a syndicated Oldies network based here in Suburban Atlanta, and even a promo that one of my client stations produced from my current work as their signature voice.  After that aircheck montage is my heartfelt acceptance speech.

Both the aircheck montage and speech were edited for playback at the actual event so people wouldn’t nod off and have their heads fall into their baked potatoes.  But here is the unedited aircheck montage and speech as I submitted them.

Just click the PLAY button below.  (Total length:  13:09.)

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