Larsh moved on, working at other 50,000-watt stations such as WMEX/1510 in Boston CHUM/1050 in Toronto KFI/640 in Los Angeles, KTNQ/1020 in Los Angeles, and WKBW/1520 in Buffalo, New York. WKYC was listed as the number three record-buying influence in Miami in that era, no doubt due to 'Big Jack' and the 50,000-watt night signal that was so strong over the East Coast of the US. He attracted fans all over the region, and became a huge hit. With WKYC heard all over the eastern half of the US, Larsh went national. He also occasionally taunted WIXY by calling himself Jackson W. 'Jack Armstrong' was a copyrighted moniker in the market, so Larsh adopted the alias 'Big Jack Your Leader', and went to work for WKYC. With his fast-talking, young, friendly approach, Larsh became a huge hit in Cleveland - so huge that floundering WKYC/1100 asked him to break his WIXY contract, and come to work for the 50,000-watt station in January 1967. The evening disc jockey at this station was always called 'Jack Armstrong' after the 1930s’ radio serial Jack Armstrong the All American Boy. Larsh's first big break came later in 1966, when he landed a job at WIXY/1260 in Cleveland, Ohio. Larsh later remarked, "Jack (Gale) has forgotten more about the radio business than I've ever known." When asked, he often cited Gale as one of his major influences. He was hired to fill the overnight shift.Īt WAYS, Larsh met Jack Gale, a seasoned veteran of both the radio and music business who would become his mentor. When Larsh applied for a job there, the station quickly saw an opportunity to fill two sets of shoes with one person, since Larsh already had a First Class license. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations at the time required that any station must have an engineer on duty at all times the station was on the air. In early 1966, WAYS in Charlotte had begun 24-hour operations. Larsh dropped out almost immediately, having gotten a radio job at WCOG. His parents enrolled him in Guilford College in Greensboro in the pre-med course. Upon graduating from high school in 1964, Larsh moved to Atlanta, where he got an FCC First Class engineer's license, while working on the radio at WDJK. At some point, he worked for WSSB in Durham, but the time frame is unclear.
He also worked at WCDJ in Edenton in the summer when his family would go back home during summer break. Larsh began his radio career at WCHL in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1960 at the age of 14 as an after-school and weekend job. Eventually, it became a Motormouth extravaganza, spoken so fast it was hard to understand. On most stations, he used no background music. On WKBW, he used "Shimmy Shimmy Walk II" by the Megatons. At WKYC, it was a few catchphrases, spoken over the instrumental version of The Beatles' " And I Love Her". Larsh was known for his distinctive signoff. He developed two imaginary sidekicks - the Gorilla, who speaks in a raspy bass, and likes women, banana juice, and whiskey, in that order - and the Old Timer, who wheezes, tells lame jokes, and was always getting shot after one of them. He held a Guinness World Record for "fastest talking human alive" at one point in his career. His father once served as the acting dean of UNC's School of Pharmacy. His parents were John Edgar Larsh, Jr., who was a professor in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, and Ruth Ella Neal. Armstrong, and Big Jack Your Leader, was a top-40 disc jockey of the 1960s through the 1980s, and an oldies DJ until 2006.
Jack Armstrong Show, Jack Armstrong Go-round,The Jack Armstrong Experienceīig Jack Armstrong (born John Charles Larsh on December 4, 1945, in Durham County, North Carolina died March 23, 2008, in High Point, North Carolina), also known as Jack Armstrong, Jackson W.
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