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Article: WGCI's Joyner Going Out on Top
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 31, 1993
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Tom "Fly Jock" Joyner's first crack at the bash thrown in his
honor by WGCI-FM (107.5) last week sums up why he has been the
heartbeat of black Chicago radio.
"If the party is good, I might want to do it another eight years
just to get another party," said Joyner, when asked whether he was
really going to retire at the end of the year.
Joyner, 43, has always been the man who could get folks to
forget just how tough things really are and to have some fun.
WGCI estimates that 3,000 people showed up at the Chicago Hilton
and Towers to party - and celebrate the eighth and final anniversary
of Joyner's daily commute from Dallas to Chicago.
Joyner announced last December that he will ...