Steve Murry, Oral History
Title
Steve Murry, Oral History
Creator
Steve Murry
Bob Friedman
Publisher
Birmingham Black Radio Museum
Date
April 12, 2021
Contributor
Donald Arnold
Emily Bibb
Format
PDF
MP3
JPG
Language
English
Interviewer
Bob Friedman
Interviewee
Steve Murry
Transcription
Audio snippet:
Steve Murry (SM): We listened to the military radio, and that was pretty cool.
Bob Friedman (BF): USO? Not USO, the…
SM: It was the…
BF: I know it I just can’t think of it. Anyways, this was broadcast out of where?
SM: They were in Saigon. They had another station in Da Nang, I believe.
BF: Did they play popular music?
SM: Yeah, yeah. Good stuff. It was everything, they played everything.
BF: Were you curious about that?
SM: I was curious about that. I never lost my curiosity for the technical aspect of radio, and after I got back, somehow, I just by chance took the ACT and passed that, then I applied at Loyola University for their business school. I was accepted there, and then during that time I was driving a cab. The yellow cab. I was a lease cab driver. It’s where you make the money.
BF: I did it.
SM: Yeah. Lease cab driving. Man, I loved it.
BF: You get paid every day.
SM: Yeah. You get paid every day. You make a nice buck. Every day.
BF: I can’t say what I did with that.
SM: Oh man. I can’t say either. It’s a lot of stuff…
BF: Anyways…
SM: Anyways, I used to get a ride that was a- I got a regular ride every day. I’d pick her up at 5 o’clock. It was a little, old, white lady. Gray hair, or white hair, and I’d drop her off in downtown Chicago at this big building. I didn’t know what was in there. We got to be kind of friendly, talking and stuff, and I finally asked her What the heck do you do down here? And she said I’m the night jock at WLUP. Trudy Fisher was her name. The powerhouse rock and roll station in Chicago.
BF: WLUP?
SM: WLUP the Loop.
Steve Murry (SM): We listened to the military radio, and that was pretty cool.
Bob Friedman (BF): USO? Not USO, the…
SM: It was the…
BF: I know it I just can’t think of it. Anyways, this was broadcast out of where?
SM: They were in Saigon. They had another station in Da Nang, I believe.
BF: Did they play popular music?
SM: Yeah, yeah. Good stuff. It was everything, they played everything.
BF: Were you curious about that?
SM: I was curious about that. I never lost my curiosity for the technical aspect of radio, and after I got back, somehow, I just by chance took the ACT and passed that, then I applied at Loyola University for their business school. I was accepted there, and then during that time I was driving a cab. The yellow cab. I was a lease cab driver. It’s where you make the money.
BF: I did it.
SM: Yeah. Lease cab driving. Man, I loved it.
BF: You get paid every day.
SM: Yeah. You get paid every day. You make a nice buck. Every day.
BF: I can’t say what I did with that.
SM: Oh man. I can’t say either. It’s a lot of stuff…
BF: Anyways…
SM: Anyways, I used to get a ride that was a- I got a regular ride every day. I’d pick her up at 5 o’clock. It was a little, old, white lady. Gray hair, or white hair, and I’d drop her off in downtown Chicago at this big building. I didn’t know what was in there. We got to be kind of friendly, talking and stuff, and I finally asked her What the heck do you do down here? And she said I’m the night jock at WLUP. Trudy Fisher was her name. The powerhouse rock and roll station in Chicago.
BF: WLUP?
SM: WLUP the Loop.
Duration
Full interview: 2 hours, 10 minutes
Audio snippet: 2 minutes
Audio snippet: 2 minutes
Files
Collection
Citation
Steve Murry and Bob Friedman, “Steve Murry, Oral History,” The Birmingham Black Radio Museum, accessed October 8, 2024, https://thebbrm.org/item/552.
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