By Rick Kaempfer
MURPHY IN THE AFTERNOON
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Kermit Ruffins and
The Barbecue Swingers
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Seated show in the club
obert Murphy is one of the best
known radio personalities to work in
Chicago over the past forty years.
During his heyday in the '80s, he was
"Murphy in the Morning" on Q-101, delivering a big-time morning madhouse complete
with wacky bits and a cast of characters. He
has since worked at several other radio stations in town, doing a similar type of show.
Murphy is now working at WLS-FM (94.7
FM) for the second time, but there are almost
no similarities between those previous days
(in the '90s), and today.
"The last time I was at 94.7 WLS," Murphy
recalls, "it was a different format, in a different timeslot (he is now doing afternoons), in
a different century, and for a brief time, so I
radio story or two. If we're lucky, Biondi will
treat us to a raunchy joke from his catalogue.
They are both swell fellas. Also, Greg Brown,
Danny Lake, and Brant Miller. That's a lot of
star-power for one radio station!"
The real star of the radio station, of
course, is the music, and Murphy has more
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