Mike Edwards
I was raised on the radio, both parents were, my dad on-air and my mom a Music Director. I was 9 when I turned on the microphone for the first time at KRLA back in the days of The Beatles on the Dave “Hulabalooer” show. The first song I ever played was the Ronettes “Be My Baby” as I introduced my dad’s news, and immediately got a call from a 16 year old who thought I sounded “cute”. I was hooked! I’ve done just about every format there is from oldies to disco!!! I got hooked on country while at “KRAZY” Radio in Farmington, New Mexico in the 1970’s. The owner was an old time country promoter, so I learned to love Webb Pierce, Ray Price, Ernest Tubb, Dottie West and the classics… but what really turned me on was the listeners. On my first day in a new town (we used turntables back then) the turntable arm fell off, I had to read the record labels off one turntable as they spun around up to 78 RPM (that’s pretty fast for the CD crowd). I didn’t know anything about where I was, who I was playing, etc., but by the end of the day I had a an apartment, an invite for dinner, and a new set of tires!!! God bless the country music folk!! I went back to California and got into country radio in Orange County at the dawn of the “Urban Cowboy” craze and have worked in radio in Los Angeles and San Diego, but am glad to be back with another “KRAZy Nation” crowd, right here on the Central Coast!!!