With the way radio has evolved, that’s pretty much unheard of today. As a disc jockey back then, I was hired because I knew a lot about music and I was able to play whatever I wanted to play on the air. When I started in radio, there were no playlists or specific formats to follow. What are some things that help you come up with songs to play on the spot? For example, is it what you were listening to that day, who you ran into, what you are going through personally, or simply what music is going through your head at the time? On your “After 6” segment at The Peak, there is a loose approach to what music you play, as there are never any set playlists going into it. He was a very warm, gentle soul with an angelic voice.
When he passed away a few years ago, I was very sad. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t doing this with every interviewer.
Robin opened up on a very personal level about that and by the end of the interview, he was sitting at the piano and playing songs for me and telling me stories about the music. Interviews are held at all different venues and that particular one was in a very luxurious hotel plete with a piano! It was at a time when the Saturday Night Fever album was atop the charts and many rock & roll fans were turning their back on the Bee Gees for getting so involved in the whole disco scene, especially through their music. What was it that made this interview so special? However, you have said that Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees was one of your favorite interviews of all time. Through the years you have spent time with many iconic musicians and celebrities, the likes of Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Elton John, and Wilt Chamberlain. When I returned home for the Christmas holiday break I did some fill-in work at the station and when it was time to go back to school in January, I decided to hang on to a weekend gig there and commuted back and forth from DC to New York to keep my job so I would have it when school ended.that turned into a lasting relationship with ABC who owned WPLJ and the various networks that kept me employed all through the 1970s and 1980s.īelow is Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora in his first band in 1980 on Jimmy's Show "Sights and Sounds" At first, it was just a summer job and at the end of that summer, I left the station to finish school (American University in Washington DC). I think the relationships I made during that first summer were key. What initially turned this stint into your first major gig? You got your job in the early 1970s in New York through a stint one summer at WABC-FM, which turned into a 13 year long run with WPLJ as well as various affiliates within the ABC network. Condolences may be posted at a first-hand look as we dig into the career and experiences of broadcasting legend Jimmy Fink, and be sure to come out to his After 6 Holiday party at Garcia's on December 7 with featured band Scars on 45! Doors open at 5PM! We spoke with Jimmy about his start in radio, his most compelling interviews, the origin of his immense love for music, and more. The family requests memorials may be given to the American Diabetes Association or American Heart Association in care of Garnand Funeral Home, PO Box 854, Elkhart, KS 67950.
Graveside service will be held Monday, April 2, 2018, at 2:00 PM at Elkhart Cemetery with Pastor Terrell Giddens officiating, with military rites by VFW Point Rock Post #3162. Jim is preceded in death by his parents son, Kirk Davis brothers, Phillip D. Of Vancouver, Washington, and Penny Fink of Portland, Oregon son, Kim Ogle of Mesa, Arizona brother, Harold “Dutch” Fink of Rye, Colorado sister, Dorothy Farrington of Arlington, Kansas 13 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Survivors include his daughters, Holly Bilden and husband Don of Vancouver, Washington, Tammy McMurtry of Mesa, Arizona, Cindy Radcliff and husband Warren He enjoyed spending time with his family, traveling to New Mexico and Colorado, visiting with friends, fishing, and hunting. Jim returned to southwest Kansas and farmed with his brother and nephew. He was stationed at several bases in the United States, as well as overseas including Spain, Vietnam, Austria and Africa. He enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1953. Jim drove school bus for Westin Colorado Schools and helped his father who drove logging trucks in the Stonewall area.
He graduated from high school in Colorado. Jim moved to Stonewall, Colorado, around 1940. He was born June 14, 1933, in Elkhart the son of Charles William and Leona Laura (Schoor) Fink. “Jim” Fink, age 84, died Thursday, March 29, 2018, at Morton County Senior Living Community in Elkhart, Kansas.
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