It never crossed my mind that I would be adding to our Prayer List
so soon, but a dear friend of mine up here in the Washington area
got this bad news only a couple of days ago:
"The latest news is not good. The doctors have told Ed that the mass they discovered in his bladder is cancer and not operable."
Ed Walker is his name and those of you outside this part of the
country probably don't know him, but he's very well known
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| Ed Walker |
having been in radio...maybe
even longer than I was...65 or
perhaps even 70 years.
A few years ago he was
inducted into the RADIO
HALL of FAME...along with
his partner for
many years, Willard Scott...of NBC Weatherman Fame.
The two of them did a very popular local show up here in the
50's and 60's that local people still talk about!
They called themselves THE JOY BOYS....
and made up little skits, almost on the spot, four or five times a
night on their 5 days a week un-rehearsed DJ show:
The Lone Arranger
Betty Crockett
If you have the time, (it's about 6 minutes long) I believe you'll enjoy
this video of Ed and Willard's final JOY
BOYS show in 1972. It's an inside look at a
local radio program in progress.
Enjoy!
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| Joy Boys Final Show (Click on LINK at right) |
Washington, DC
Ed and Willard met in college and have been the closest of friends ever since.
Ed was born blind.and
told me once that according to his Mother,
his first spoken word was......"Radio."
Pray real hard for him!
-Ed
