"WRKO's numbers had slipped drastically in its "AOR" days. So out went PD Scotty Brink, and in came Gerry Peterson, to shore up the Big 68.  Gerry needed high energy to replace the boring, laid-back sound of WRKO, and he needed it fast. While in Miami, Florida at a radio convention, he heard Jack on Top 40 WFUN/790. Jack began his successful WRKO days in December of 1973. But he grew tired of the icy winters and big-city life, so Jack, a native of Albany, Georgia, returned to the laid-back pace of his old home town in June of 1975, where he found work at Albany's WALG.

They loved him in Boston, and Jack's next move might have been to New York City radio...maybe even to the then-RKO General outlet WXLO/98.7, known as "99X," a real Top 40 cooker, with the likes of Walt "Baby" Love, and Steve "Smokin' " Weed! But good ol' boy Jack preferred settin' on a stoop sippin' lemonade on a hot summer night in Georgia over the traffic jams and noises of a big city.

Today, Jack's out of radio. Not that he hasn't had offers from stations in his area, but as he told The Big 68 Remembered, "Nobody pays much money in this small-market area." So for now, he drives a big truck for a living, and makes the most of it. Jack adds, "I'm playing steel guitar with a gospel group called Sounds Of Faith. The group was formed in 1995 out of our local church."

Jack's wife, Beth, once worked in sales at Albany, Georgia Radio station WGPC, for which she sometimes asked her husband to voice commercials.  This photo shows Jack and wife Beth at their daughter's June wedding in 1995.

We are most-fortunate that Jack has only great memories of The Big 68, and was more than happy to share many more photo-memories with us, all of which you can enjoy at Jacks Photo gallery.