Superjock: The Loud, Frantic, Nonstop World of a Rock Radio DJ

by Larry Lujack

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809283026
• ISBN13: 9780809283026
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great biography

I did not think I could find this anywhere. But...I found it on EBay! I have read it many times and enjoy Larry's interesting life.

The road to success

Superjock is an excellent biography of how Larry Lujack climbed the rungs, known as markets and got to pinnacle of his career in the Windy City. There is a lot of what went on then, that goes on today. The book was written when radio was more about the talent then about the business. While Lujack does drop a few names from radio stars of that era i.e. Charlie Tuna, Mac Richmond, Jerry Kaye, Pat O'Day, Tom Murphy, etc. What is missing is how Lujack networked to get where he did. But, then again, the book is about Lujack's career path, not about those of his radio bretheran.A MUST READ for anyone in the business then...and now.

How it REALLY was on the radio in th '70s.

Very simply, there would be no Don Imus, Howard Stern or Tom Leykis had Lujack not proved first that crabbiness could win on the radio. Ruling the airwaves in Seattle when Imus was still a railroad worker, Lujack was belicose, sarcastic and witty between Beatles and Motown records. No library should be without it!

A Primer for Personality Radio

What did Larry scream into Paul Revere & The Raiders' dressing room? And WHY? Did he really share a billboard with a huge advertisement for Cruex? And not complain?Larry Lujack describes the tornado that REAL control rooms are with real solid state equipment - no RCS or Scott Systems in 1970 - and cussing engineers, annoying salespeople and breaking equipment! He had cart machines and maybe an ITC r2r - and plenty of cigs. He brings the 70s radio world alive: what radio station people are like - what it was like to party with the pop stars and to nail down an intro while lighting another cigarette and taking another request from one or two of scores on hold as ter lights flash during the last ten seconds of his commercials -- he delivers insight into why radio management will never change - and why radio is such a scintillating, infuriating and beloved calling. Retired and playing golf in Arizona now, he ruled Chicago for years and this book is a MUST for any radio afficionado's collection.

Great Chicago Disc Jockey Tells Insiders View

Twenty years before Howard Stern's movie, there was Larry Lujack, "Superjock" on Chicago's WCFL-AM and WLS-AM during the Second City's radio wars. Lujack tells of his married life and radio family in true details, beginning with KFXM-AM in San Bernardino to his place in Chicago Radio History. A "ten". Mark Heller, Pres. WTRW Radio Two Rivers, WI