The Larry Black Show Radio. At the end of the section about The Scott Ross Show, I mentioned that a new voice was being heard as host of the show by late in 1. That person was Larry Black here is his story. Additional material from emails with Larry Black in November and December 2. DISCLAIMER This page was written as a focus on the part of Larry Blacks career when he was doing a syndicated radio show playing Jesus music, from the late 1. I have added additional information about his activities before and after this time. This page is not connected directly with Larry Black and his current activities it is primarily a fan page focused on this part of his radio career. To make contact with Larry Black, try the Larrys Country Diner page. Learning To Rock Around The Clock. Born November 1. 0, 1. Larry Black grew up in Mobile, Alabama in the home of an Assemblies of God pastor. He went forward to accept Christ as his savior at a service at his fathers church when he was eight years old. William Ernest Drummond born 29 April 1953 is a South Africanborn Scottish artist, musician, writer, and record producer. He was the cofounder of late 1980s avant. As he grew up and became a teenager in the 1. Larry tells it this way In the Assemblies of God we didnt go to movies, we didnt skate because that was like dancing on wheels, and we didnt dance, and we didnt put money in the jukebox, because that was throwing money away. So, I would get a quarter, and Dads church was on Michigan Avenue in Mobile, Alabama, and just down the street was a Putt Putt golf place that had a jukebox, turned up real loud. And I would go down there, and walk up to that jukebox, and I wanted to play a Coasters song. Birthday Jingles Mp3 Free Download' title='Birthday Jingles Mp3 Free Download' />Historic airchecks of radio stations and personalities from Northeastern America. Make A Monthly Donation via Patreon. The Best Radio You Have Never Heard is free to download and to share, but it isnt without cost to produce and deliver this show. And I kind of backed up to it and looked all around. I dropped that quarter in, and I hit that button four times real fast, then walked back down and sat in front of the church on the steps, and listened to the Coasters all the way down the street. And Ive loved The Coasters ever since. He continued to enjoy this style of music through his teenage years. After high school, he attended a semester at Southeastern Bible College in Lakeland, Florida, and then had to return home to Mobile to wait for a decision from his draft board on whether or not he would be going into the service. The findings of a back x ray helped the board decide that Uncle Sam didnt want him. So, Larry got a job working at the Albert Pick Motor Lodge, doing some auditing during the night shift. Larry Black, D. J. After getting off work at the motor lodge at 6 am, Larry hung out at a country music station in nearby Prichard, Alabama. The DJ there let him read some commercials, and eventually let him actually do a morning show. At the time, the station was in the process of being sold, but since Larry really wanted to learn how to do this kind of work, he was allowed to do this show for three months, without pay, in order to get the experience. Virtual Disk Driver Windows C. Larry later used this experience to get his first paying job in radio at a station in Chipley, Florida. He did so well that he was able to move back to Mobile, and worked at WABB, 1. AM, then the number one rock station in that city. Disk jockeys in radio move from station to station in order to get just a few more dollars per week here or there, and Larry Blacks experience was no different. He married, and by the mid 1. WIST, 1. 24. 0 AM, in Charlote, North Carolina. Rock and roll AM radio in the 1. Charlotte. WIST was doing the music, the jingles, and the contests but so was its neighbor down the dial, WAYS at 6. AM. And by 1. 96. WAYS made Larry Black an offer to take his talent over to the music, jingles, and contests at that station. After leaving Big WAYS, Black moved to Hartford, Connecticut and worked from 1. WPOP 1. 41. 0 AM, doing an afternoon show 1. Sundays. While working at WPOP, pop music was undergoing a change from the fun rock and roll music of his youth and earlier radio years to more of the style of hard rock and acid rock, and Larry was finding it less enjoyable to play and listen to. So he began to consider getting out of the on air side of broadcasting, and considered becoming involved in an advertising agency in New York. At about this time, someone sent a recording of his work on radio to Pat Robertson, the president of the Christian Broadcasting Network CBN, who in turn passed it on to Scott Ross. Robertson called Larry and asked him to help with the new radio stations that CBN had purchased in upstate New York, what they were now calling CBN Northeast. At WPOP he was earning 3. CBN offered him 1. He took the offer. Work With The Scott Ross Show. The show Larry tried to do for the CBN radio stations was a little too hot for their tastes see the story about The Scott Ross Show for more about issues with the CBN Northeast stations at that time, and Larry stepped away from the microphone to work as a salesman for the stations. He did not find this type of work to be very enjoyable, however. During the latter part of 1. Scott Ross and Pat Robertson discussed the formation of what would eventually become The Scott Ross Show, they approached Larry to help with  the show. Because of his experience in radio and what work he had done in sales for CBN Northeast, Larry was asked to market this new syndicated prorgram to radio stations across the country. This was actually not a difficult task for him. At the time when this took place, the FCC required radio stations to provide some of their airtime for religious programming, and mandated that it not be relegated to graveyard hours over night, for example. Consequently, the stations that played rock music were anxious to find something that met this FCC requirement that would help keep hold of their target audience. The Scott Ross Show fullfilled that need. By about 1. 97. 1, Larrys sales efforts got the program on the air on nearly 2. Back To Pop Radio. His success in marketing The Scott Ross Show actually left Larry with very little left to do at Love Inn. The show was being produced by Alan Belknap, and with the distribution network of the show accomplished, he began to look for something different to do. Larry ultimately decided to get back into radio, and was briefly back to work in Hartford at WPOP. He worked for four months there, from late 1. The Reverend Mr. Black. Note An aircheck of his work at WPOP from October 1. Larry Black and then click on the picture of a speaker. During 1. Larry was hired away from WPOP to start work at WAXC in Rochester, doing a morning show, which he continued until 1. There is another aircheck here. While in Rochester this time, he also build his own recording studio, and did some production work. During this time, he and his wife also served as youth leaders, Sunday school teachers, and elders in an Assemblies of God church. Eventually, the other church elders asked him if he would also serve there as an associate pastor. Life was pretty good, and he was satisfied with all that he was doing. Changes To The Scott Ross Show. I mentioned at the end of my segment about The Scott Ross Show that in the latter part of 1. Scott. He was actually getting tired of doing the show week after week, and began to look for someone else to host the show. And high on his list of choices was Larry Black. Larry was called at his studio at WAXC by Scott Ross, who asked him to come back to Ithaca and Love Inn to do the show. Despite taking a cut in salary, Larry felt that it was the right decision to work on the show. However, his wife Luann was not so enthusiastic. Larry jokes that she was so reluctant to leave on this venture that when they made the move in October 1.