Hot 105 - WHQT Florida - Rickie Ricardo & Sandy Thomas - April 19, 1987

The Nickname, "Rickie Ricardo": Born Jorge Lima Jr. in Newark, he was given the stage name "Rickie Ricardo" by Frankie Crocker (WBLS) himself. Crocker told him, "Nobody will ever forget your name," and it stuck—though Rickie often jokes he’s been asked "Where’s Lucy?" thousands of times since. Sandy Thomas is one of the nation’s most prolific brand imagers of broadcast stations in the country. And for the uninitiated, “brand imaging” is the voice of the station. It’s not the DJ, but instead, the big, beautiful, compressed, and filtered voice that gives the station its’ BIG sound. Imaging is to radio what movie trailer voice artists are to the VO world, the crème de la crème. It’s what you strive for, although most voices don’t succeed. To date, Sandy has voiced (400 stations) across the country A mixmaster Glenn Chiaccheri archive recording. ref: 260420_0121