The email came into the Airlift Productions Studios to my attention, innocently enough, just last week from a producer at WTN Nashville with a simple question…
Would I be able to make myself available for an interview the following morning with Michael DelGiorno?
Well, color me intrigued.
Of course I agreed, and then found myself back on the air in Nashville on October 4th, 2017 being “grilled, chilled and thrilled” (sorry Acme Oyster House) by Michael DelGiorno himself!
As the fates would have it, growing up in New Orleans as the son of famed WWL talk show host Bob DelGiorno, young Michael was an unabashed fan of that Q-93 Radio Mike McCann dude.
Really?
Dude, who knew?
Together with stories about meeting me briefly back in the 1980s at the WQUE studios and the huge impact my on-air work had on him back in the day, he salt ‘n peppered-in probing questions about the way I dressed back then (my choice of jeans) – and even this choice one, “Did you ever date (then-WDSU-TV Anchor) Lynn Gansar?”
It was all a lot of FUN. And very, very flattering.
We reminisced, caught up and laughed – HARD – about many things – my early WGNO-Tribune TV announcer days, Scoot’s transition to talk radio (not pretty), and the times I recorded both his dad, for TV-radio spots, and his brother Bobby, for Ray Brandt TV-radio campaigns at the Airlift Productions Iberville location in the ’90s.
And it all came out of Nashville radios like this….
**** 10-4-17 WTN Nashville Interview with Mike McCann ***
Gee, the POWER of radio, huh?
As I traveled town-to-town all those years – Harrisburg to St. Louis, on into Nashville, then Philadelphia, and on to New Orleans, I always thought of myself as a modern day ‘Johnny Appleseed’, sowing little seeds and nuggets of wisdom & whimsy among the records I played.
But little did I know, until just last week, that one would find fertile soil in the heart, soul and mind of little Mikey DelGiorno.
I do now.
Chalk another one up to the powerful – yet intimate – MAGIC of radio.
Oh yeah, and a free dinner and Tennessee Titans game are now but a cell phone call and a road trip car ride away.
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“For years, I have worked with Micheal Ziants and Airlift Productions recording songs for Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Miracle Network. Mike’s attention to detail is legendary, but his commitment to the kids and the challenges they face goes far beyond that. He gets it. Professionally, he’s as good as it gets. Everyone SOUNDS better after a session with Mike. And no matter what the audio project, you FEEL better after a session with Airlift. That’s “Z” truth! ~ Heath Allen, WDSU-TV Reporter, and veteran guitar picker
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