Juneteenth 2022: Honoring Radio Personality Bob Perkins and Celebrating the Life & Legacy of W. Cody Anderson Temple University Libraries Join the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection and the Office of Community Affairs and Engagement for a day of celebration and remembrance. WRTI's legendary jazz host, Bob Perkins, is surrounded by his cd collection of jazz recordings in his home in Wyncote in 2019. But at age 88, Perkins is signing off passing the ball to the next era of jazz lovers. Bob Perkins, age 8. Who knows what lies behind that smile? News was almost like a religion back in the day. Jazz radio legend Bob Perkins, 88, will retire in June from his full-time role as a host at Philadelphia's WRTI-FM. Its not the same. You know, its magic that Ive been around that long and people have that much confidence in me. Radio started I think, in 1920 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. BP broke into the radio business in 1964 when he landed an on-air job in Detroit. Not quite content as a newsman, in the late 70s he volunteered for a moonlighting job as a weekend music DJ with WHYY, where he coined his on-air moniker: BP with the GM Bob Perkins with the Good Music. What makes history so important is it has to be true. Perkins has been ill and off the air for a few months but will make his return in the first week of January. "[4] He is also an accomplished radio news journalist and a First Call Master of Ceremonies for regional jazz music events. In 1969, WDAS offered him a news and editorial position and asked if he might be interested in moving back to Philadelphia. Ive been in radio for about 55 years and in Philadelphia for 50 years. And Ive been a newsman, editorial writer, disc jockeyI guess just about everything with the spoken word in radio. Thats a long time. WRTI, this 600th review is for you! Information about his on-air schedule may be found at WRTI's website. Copyright 2022 RadioInsight / RadioBB Networks. TN: Have you made any changes to your playlist, in light of whats happening? Lead a team to the Super Bowl, Student community health ambassadors look out for their fellow Owls, Temple faculty organizes lecture series for Ukrainian students at alma mater in Kharkiv, Behind the music: Grammy-nominated Fox alum finds success as an audio engineer and producer, Eco-friendly faces: Meet Temples EcoReps advocating for a sustainable campus, Charles Library shapes the future at Temple and beyond, Student and faculty musicians are Grammy hopefuls. It's kind of an honor when you are played on his program., For Lovett Hines, Artistic Director and Founder of the Music Education Program of the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts, BP represents a sense of history. Fifty-seven years after his voice first graced the airwaves, Perkins, best-known for his weeknight jazz show at WRTI, is entering semi-retirement after 25 years at the station. I always felt like they hired me because they wanted to get back at WDAS. I also dont think radio announcers are as influential today as they used to be, Perkins added. Jazz host Bob Perkins in his office at WRTI. 1054. [citation needed]. Music they danced and romanced to when they were young people.. Bob Perkins, WRTI DJ has been spinning music in Philadelphia since 1969. Lets have fun; lets have a beer. We would listen to WAR in Detroit, which is 500 miles away. Am I going to capture their imagination today? PublishedDecember 6, 2013 at 5:49 AM EST. He said yesand hes been here ever since. (Photo by WRTI). But it seems like the longer I stayed out, [chuckles] the more positive response I got. Eventually, they changed their format to Jazz and Classical music. After a longtime gig at WHYY, he joined WRTI in 1997. But you try to always put that best music forward. WRTI's legendary jazz host, Bob Perkins, is surrounded by his cd collection of jazz recordings in his home in Wyncote, PA on December 19, 2019. Joseph V. Labolito. "You guys go home! Anybody who wants to hear jazz on the radio, you have to tune to WRTI and theres Bob Perkins. He also champions local musicians and music. I went downstairs at the same building, and told the insurance company, Im here to quit a job I never started. Leaving out the door of the insurance company, the man who had offered me a job selling insurance said, Do you know what theyre going to pay you up there? Happy Birthday BP! I look forward to the opportunity to pick up the mic at WRTI on Sundays to continue to serve all the listeners with finely-tuned ears who have said that Ive helped keep jazz music alive in Philadelphia, and beyond.. A mainstay of the jazz music and radio community, Perkins has been on-air at WRTI since 1997. By Bob Perkins | WRTI-FM (Philadelphia, PA) One November night in the year 1934, a 17-year-old girl was about to take the stage at the Apollo theater's Amateur Night program and planned to do a dance routinebut changed her mind and decided to sing a song instead. The world wasnt moving quite as fast. WRTI, which broadcasts classical music from 6 a.m.-6 p.m. each day, and jazz from 6 p.m.-6 a.m. - What would I do without Bobbi Booker as my gentle alarm clock? Perkins' jazz show has been broadcast Monday through Thursday from 6-9 p.m. and from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Sundays. Temple Now: How do you choose the music that you play? For the last 25 years, hes become known for his warm, personable on-air style, extensive knowledge of jazz, and thoughtful, wide-ranging music mix. WRTI has not yet put a new DJ in Perkins usual weeknight spot, which will temporarily be filled by station associate general manager Josh Jackson, KYW Newsradio reported. I never knew exactly how my father came to love radio so much, but he was an avid radio listener, Perkins recalled. Perkins spoke about the evolution of radio. BP: No, I just put out the music. I leaned on them when I got into radio until I got my own sea legs and could navigate on my own.. They had hired me for all the wrong reasons in the first place. Longtime jazz radio host Bob Perkins will retire from full-time hosting on WRTI-FM/Philadelphia in June, the public radio station of Temple University in Philadelphia announced Tuesday. Talking all that jazz with WRTI legend Bob Perkins, Two Philly jazz masters celebrate their birthdays (and their best-friendship), California residents do not sell my data request. 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BP brought the GM back for the first time in more than four months his longest absence from the Philadelphia airwaves in 50 years on a Thursday night in December, followed a few days later by his Sunday show at 9 a.m. What he will bring to the microphone in a neat control room on Cecil B. Moore Boulevard just west of Broad Street is something his colleague Bob Craig describes as a style that is very, very warm and very personal and very loose. I stayed there for about a year and a half, but I was hungry to do news in radio, so I needed to move on. Lance Venta is Owner and Publisher of RadioInsight.com. 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Longtime jazz radio host Bob Perkins will retire from full-time hosting on WRTI-FM/Philadelphia in June, the public radio station of Temple University in Philadelphia announced Tuesday. I try not to ad-lib and talk about what is going on. His selections are like a familiar hug from Jazz Land featuring your favorite standards and vocalists such as Sarah, Ella, and Nat, some Big Band legends including the Duke and the Count . Mr. Bob Perkins, WRTIs own BP with the GM," is retiring from full-time broadcasting after 25 years at the station and 57 on the air. After a longtime gig at WHYY, he joined WRTI in 1997. I was a war baby. Especially jazz music. Not doing anything heroic. My mom would let me stay up on the weekends and sometimes we would pick up stations in other states. Melinda Whiting, Courtney Blue, Bobbi I. Booker, Susan Lewis and Maureen Malloy are familiar voices on WRTI. In this new age of music streaming, where a service like Spotify uses neural networks, big data language analysis, and artificial intelligence machine learning techniques to winnow songs that are channeled down a high-tech digital assembly line to listeners, Perkins relies on a soft, squishy computer that he admits is a bit more unreliable since his stroke and which he refers to in his characteristic parlance as the old noggin. In other words, he plays what he knows and likes. Bob in the mid '60s - a seasoned veteran on the job for one year at WGPR in Detroit. The thing I liked about what Bob did was that he didnt call it a jazz show. Perkins has received dozens of awards and honors recognizing his outstanding career and contributions to Philadelphia jazz, including being honored with a bronze plaque in the Philadelphia Music Walk of Fame on the citys Avenue of the Arts in 2016. I was weaned on radio. Why might that be? That when I first became aware of who he was, said Larry McKenna, the tenor saxophonist who is one of the deans of Phillys jazz scene. I did what I could, he said, because I didnt know a thing about writing editorials. We had great announcers back then. But I didnt really visualize the response that I got. I had a mild stroke. The once well-known jazz, Have you ever discovered that a famous person once lived very close to you? I couldnt leave Mom Perkins to go chasing after radio, he said. About to host his talk show on WDAS in the mid '70s. But theres something about music. He has attended two White House Presidential news conferences - one of Gerald Ford's and one of Jimmy Carter's. It was always in the back of my mind, like a latent dream, that maybe one day, Id get into radio.. He announced his retirement from weeknight shows in April. Previously, Bob was a Board Member at Jazz Bridge and also held positions at Data Site, Unisys, WDAS Fm. A mainstay of the jazz music and radio community, Perkins has been on-air at WRTI since 1997. I did what I could, he told The Inquirer in 2020, because I didnt know a thing about writing editorials. In 1977, Perkins, 88, started up a side gig with a public radio Saturday night jazz show at 90.9 WHYY-FM the station where he coined his BP with the GM moniker. By, Classical Events Calendar Submission Form, Bob Perkins Talks About Dave Brubeck's Legacy Back in 2012, BP Remembers The Glorious Jazz Vocalist Gloria Lynne. He has been with the station since 1997. The world is a lot different than it used to be.. WRTI listeners will still be able to join him for Sunday Jazz Brunch, from 9 AM to 1 PM. This was in the mid-1920s., My father was kind of a genius in handling his radio, Perkins continued. Perkins sat and listened and learned his lessons and developed a calling. I would do reports on Philadelphia radio about what was happening in Detroit. I knew the Athletics batting averages like they were my own name. Since I turned 65, he reports with a tone more of irony than self-pity, its been one thing after another. His show will come to an end June 30, but he says this wont be the last his fans hear from him. All rights reserved. Growing up in a two-bedroom rowhouse near 19th and Reed in South Philly during World War II, Bob Perkins received intimate and powerful instruction on the healing properties of radio. Read More. In turn, news reporters from WDAS would report via radio, in Detroit, about what was happening of importance in the city of Philadelphia., The management team at WDAS liked my work very much, and one day they asked me the question, Do you want to come home and work in Philadelphia radio? Saxophonist Larry McKenna has been listening to him for 40 years. On the set of his jazz cable TV show at the old Greater Media Cable in South Philly in the early '90s with guest vocalist Paula Johns. She was 81.Bob Perkins recalls how, Tommy Potters name wouldnt get much attention in jazz circles these daysunless the gathering were comprised of musicians and jazz fans with, WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source | When Bob Perkins was growing up at 19th and Gerritt Streets in South Philadelphia during the Great Depression, his father, Deforrest, was stricken by arthritis at age 39 and could no longer work at his job as a freight elevator operator. My dad was my radio school, the 86-year-old remembered. BP broke into radio in Detroit on WGPR/WCHB/WCHD in 1964. Bob Perkins on Trumpeter Red Rodney, an Overlooked Philly Great! The general manager told me one of his announcers would be leaving in a few days and I could try out for his job. This job and that job until I really found my niche in radio and I just happened to walk into a radio station one day and they happened to need someone. Bob Perkins has been a fixture on Philadelphia's airwaves for 50 years. His last weeknight show on WRTI is Thursday, Jun 30, from 6 to 9 p.m., but he will continue to host Sunday Jazz Brunch from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hes speaking their language especially people who have been listening for years and years.. He got his first job in radio during a trip to visit his two brothers in Detroit in 1964. Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject's importance, use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance. He's introduced thousands, if not millions, of listeners to this music over the course of his career, delighted young and old with his signature sound, and been a tireless advocate for jazz appreciation and education," said WRTI general manager William Johnson. And whats he talking about doing after that? Happy Birthday BP! Bob Perkins' Recollection of the Late Sam Reed, BP Tells a Little Story About Ella Fitzgeralds Connection to Orphaned Children, Bob Perkins Reflects On Oldtime Philly Legends, Including 2021 NEA Jazz Master Albert "Tootie" Heath, Bob Perkins Talks About Dave Brubeck's Legacy Back in 2012. Mr. Perkins owns 88,692 shares of Targa Resources stock worth more than $6,747,687 as of February 16th. He has a very comforting presence on the air. I think what separates him from some of the other programming is that Bob is tried and true, said vocalist Denise King. Have Your Say - WRTI's Bob Perkins 97 views Aug 17, 2020 4 Dislike Share Save MLTV - Main Line Network 2.72K subscribers Hosts Anne Minicozzi and Diana Robertson welcome radio personality. Bob Perkin's, a legendary DJ at the radio station WRTI,. Im thrilled hell continue to host Sunday Jazz Brunch after he retires, because we all need some GM (good music) with our toast and jam!. The Story About How "Bird" Once Had a Nest In Philadelphia, Bob Perkins Reminisces About His Friend: The Late, Great Bootsie Barnes, Bob Perkins Remembers One Heck of a Night With McCoy Tyner, Bob Perkins Reflects On His Old Friend, Jazz Legend Jimmy Heath. We have a father right now and that's Bob Perkins.. His stories are not secondhand.. William Johnson, General Manager of WRTI said, Bobs contributions to jazz are innumerable. Radio has changed dramatically over the years, [particularly] with all the new technology, he said. I knew that people kind of liked my music. You trusted the newsperson you were listening to. Experience Board Chair Orennia 2021 - Present 2 years. Thats our savior, man.. He was known for his laid-back and mellow style. We werent sure at first when hed be back, so we didnt say anything. Finally, in mid-November, a post went up on the WRTI web page. Read more MICHAEL BRYANT / Staff Photographer 1 photo. You had to sit around the radio and visualize. Perkins. Believe it or not, I next ended up at Power 99. They were a great family of jazz artists. He currently hosts from 6 pm to 9 pm Monday through Thursday, and from 9 am to 1 pm Sundays. In 1988, big changes came to WDAS, and I was amongst the first of the old group of employees to be let go, he continued. I got a job working at a Black-owned insurance company, Great Lakes Mutual, in Detroit. Once Mom made transition, I decided to go for it, and so I packed my bags, and I was off to Detroit. Everything is so fast nowadays. After 58 years of working in broadcast radio, Philadelphias Bob Perkins will lay down his microphone by the end of this month. He wanted to share his obsession. He wasn't doing well at, Classical Events Calendar Submission Form. Beginning in June, he will end the weekday program and continue with the Sunday broadcast on90.1 FM. But his well-honed approach to the music would remain unaffected. Perkins, a longtime jazz DJ, will continue hosting his weekly "Sunday Jazz Brunch show. BP broke into the radio business in 1964 when he landed an on-air job in Detroit. After establishing himself on Detroit radio in news and jazz, Perkins returned to Philly in 1969 and became WDAS-FM's news/editorial director while hosting a jazz show at WHYY-FM. Someone can think of something and express it in a musical form and without hitting any sour notes and make it sound melodic, where you can tap your foot or you can close your eyes and dream on it. Dave and Bob share the same birthday! Bob Perkins at home at WRTI-FM studios. I'm thrilled he'll continue to host Sunday Jazz Brunch after he retires, because we all need some GM (good music) with our toast and jam!". On this show he would play a record by Dick Haymes or Doris Day or Rosemary Clooney. Perkins was also one of Pennsylvania's favorite night-time jazz listeners, in the Philadelphia area. We would listen to radio from sun-up, through the night, and into the next morning.. Thats the magic part about this thing called music. Those letters always remind me that you have people out there listening to you and theyre expecting some good things from you. Looking back over his broadcast career, Perkins said he had dual passions one for anchoring the news, the other for playing jazz greats on the radio. King agrees. I enjoy it. People call me and tell me, I didnt like jazz till you played it, Perkins told The Inquirer in 2016. I became the news and editorial director after Jim Clash died at WDAS, Perkins said. Bob Perkins said of his retirement, After 57 years in media, 25 of those years spent at WRTI, I am now into my 88th year, so this is a good time to retire from full-time hosting at the station, and reflect on where Ive been, with whom Ive talked and what I have learned over the decades as a news man, editorial writer and jazz music host, and see where that leads me. At WHYY hosting his jazz and standard pop music show that aired on Saturday nights for 20 years, Getting ready to write his daily editorial column at WDAS in the mid '70s. My father must have been listening to radio from the very start. Mr. Bob Perkins, WRTI's own "BP with the GM," is retiring from full-time broadcasting after 25 years at the station and 57 on the air. This music conjures up some beautiful memories. His fathers illness is what really led to radio becoming an important part of the Perkins household. Radio was saturated into me like a sponge thats put in water, Perkins said. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Perkins recalled that his father, at the age of about 40, had such severe arthritis that he could barely walk. Maybe were getting back to that today. One of the most familiar voices on Philadelphias airwaves, BP is also an elder statesman of the citys jazz community, cherished by listeners and musicians alike. Robert "Bob" Perkins (born December 6, 1933) is an American radio personality. Our beloved BP with the GMBob Perkins with the Good Musicis turning off his mic on weeknights starting on June 30th after a long and storied career. He is known as "BP with the GM," short for Bob Perkins with the Good Music. Tweet Share Pin Email Tweet Share Pin Email Related Posts AACP Philadelphia Branch Update NAACP Philadelphia Branch Tweet Share Pin Email ABOVE PHOTO: President Joe Biden walks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at St. Tweet Share Pin Email By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO WASHINGTON (AP) Conservative justices holding theSupreme Tweet Share Pin Email By DAN GELSTON PHILADELPHIA (AP) Irv Cross was a man of faith Tweet Share Pin Email Tweet Share Pin Email Related Posts Whats Cookin? We listened sometimes to WGN in Chicago that was like 650 miles away. Music. New Temple Press book celebrates Philadelphias Italian legacy, Hundreds of Temple community members gather to celebrate the life of Sergeant Christopher Fitzgerald with his family, Temples Lenfest Center increases job opportunities for the North Philadelphia community, Globally connected campus: A presidential visit to Temple Rome, Whats the best way for an athlete to build their brand? All rights reserved. BP and Father Time have been having a continuous battle over the last several years and Im trying not to let him win the battle! BP's last WRTI weeknight shift is on Thursday, June 30th from 6 to 9 PM. Over the last 20-some years, BP with the GM has become an icon of the Philadelphia airwaves, holding down a prime, three-hour early evening time slot Monday through Thursday on WRTI. At one time, you could hear him from 6-9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and. We cant eat our dinner without you. 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