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Home My WebLink AboutProject HOLD Sam Early ShiftProject HOLD WTAW Interview Sam Jones | WTAW Morning Radio Show Member Tom Turbiville | WTAW Radio Host Laura Quezada | Transcriber 00:00:00 Dick Bolin (DB) [Music] College Station, Texas, April 24, 1947, Dick Bolin talking. Here's the latest news from the Associated Press… 00:00:07 Associated Press (AP) He got a touchdown! Oh, doctor! 00:00:10 Speaker 3 … News and Talk, WTAW. ------------------------------- 00:00:12 Tom Turbiville (TT) This is WTAW, The First 100 Years, I'm Tom Turbiville. Those unique people who set their alarm clocks for 4 a.m. in order to do morning radio starting around 6 a.m. are a mainstay of WTAW. Personally, I only did it for 22 years, that's about half as long as Scott DeLucia has been getting up early. Sam Jones was part of the morning show here, and getting up that early five days a week, well, he says that's something you never really get used to. 00:00:43 Sam Jones (SJ) When I told my mom about the change, that I'd be doing the Muck & Myers Show, and then I'd be doing my regular on-air shift as a country-western disc jockey, my mother said, “You'll never make it”, because she knew how much I detested getting up early in the morning and how much I loved to sleep. And she said, “You'll never make it, you'll never be able to handle that adjustment”, and she was almost right. I'd been doing the show for a couple of weeks. I can remember one Friday evening, two weeks after I started doing the show, and I was a single guy, 22, and it was Friday night and I was gearing up to go out. I was tired, I said, well, I'll just lay down on the bed and I'll just, you know, I’ll take a little siesta, you know, and wake up and then we'll go out and hit the town. I looked at the clock, and it was 6 p.m., and I put my head down on the pillow and the next thing I knew I looked at the clock, and it was 7 a.m. on Saturday morning. 00:01:46 (TT) So, a tip of the cap to the farmers, the paper throwers, and all the early risers. The early shift, on WTAW, the First 100 Years.