Mickey’s devotion to early rock ‘n’ roll began as a young boy in western Massachusetts when he nearly levitated the first time he saw Elvis Presley on TV in ‘56. The back beat so gripped him that he hasn’t been the same since. Soon his meager paper route earnings allowed him to start buying rock records to spin on his home-built radio station, with a weak AM signal that radiated into nearby homes. Ratings were low (let’s say nil), but he didn’t care. He was a rock ‘n’ roll deejay!
Mickey eventually worked in commercial radio in western Mass., Boston, Texas and, during the Vietnam War, Armed Forces Radio in Thailand and Korea. Later he began a career as a broadcast journalist for the Voice of America in Washington, D.C. Upon retirement, he jumped into the oldies scene with his “Rock ‘n’ Roll Revue.”
Since then, he’s been an avid collector of American rhythm and blues and rock ‘n’ roll recordings from that post war period until the British invasion of the early ’60s. Please share them with him each Saturday from 6-7 p.m. Eastern Time (2300 UTC) on Mickey Bo’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Revue over WEBR in Fairfax, Virginia.
