Years ago, I worked on The Midnight Special with Wolfman Jack from time to time. Once, on a break, I told him something about him reminded me of a guy from my hometown who went by the name of The Hound Dog. He said, “It should, little brother, I based everything I do on him.” As it turned out, Wolfman was from Brooklyn (when he was named Bob Smith!) and at nighttime, he could pick up the WKBW signal. So every night he listened to the Hound. According to him — and who would know better? — his name, Wolfman Jack, was a personal tribute to the Hound.
In one of those sad coincidences, like the Hound, Wolfman too died way too young.
Hey, Jill Glaser, I want to know more about the ol’ Zanzibar. And Big Bob and Pal Al from “Handsome” Harry Bilsky’s if you remember that.