Bruce Morrow

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Bruce Morrow (2009)

Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow (born October 13, 1935 in Brooklyn , New York City as Bruce Meyerowitz ) is an American radio host .

life and career

Morrow was born in 1935 (1937 according to other sources) as one of two sons of the couple Abe and Minna Meyerowitz. He attended Madison High School. During this time his interest in radio was piqued through workshops at Brooklyn Technical High School .

Since 1959 he has hosted as "Cousin Brucie" on the New York radio station WINS . Morrow took on the pseudonym after an elderly lady came into the radio studio and addressed him as a cousin , because she believed that all people were related to one another. The manager of the radio was initially against this "trite" name, but gave Morrow a contract after enthusiastic audience reactions. In 1961 Morrow moved to a radio station in Miami , before he returned to New York in 1961 and worked as a presenter for the radio station WABC for the next 13 years . In 1974 he went to the New York competing broadcaster WNBC .

In the late 1970s he bought two New York radio stations with entrepreneur Robert FX Sillerman . They later founded the Sillerman-Morrow Broadcasting Group, Inc. , which owned several radio and television stations.

In 1982 he started working again as a radio host for the New York broadcaster WCBS . Morrow, who had sporadically seen and heard in film and television productions since the 1960s, became internationally known in 1987 for his brief appearance as a magician in the cult film Dirty Dancing . In the same year his autobiography, Cousin Brucie: My Life, appeared on Rock 'N' Roll Radio . In 1988, Morrow was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame .

He has worked for Sirius Satellite Radio since the mid-2000s , from which Sirius XM emerged in 2008 after a merger .

Morrow has been married to Jodie Morrow for the second time since 1974. His first marriage resulted in a son and two daughters.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1966: The Beatles in New York ( The Beatles at Shea Stadium , documentary)
  • 1972: Between Time and Timbuktu (TV movie)
  • 1972: stigma
  • 1978: Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  • 1979: The Gas Pump Girls
  • 1987: Dirty Dancing
  • 1996: Babylon 5 (TV series, one episode)
  • 2005: Brooklyn Lobster (voice)
  • 2007: Across the Universe (voice)

Works

  • Cousin Brucie: My Life on Rock 'N' Roll Radio. (with Laura Baudo) Beech Tree Books, 1987, ISBN 978-5550664810
  • Doo Wop: The Music, the Times, the Era. (with Rich Maloof) Sterling, 2007, ISBN 978-1402742767

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Listen to your Cousin at thevillager.com, accessed May 20, 2015
  2. ↑ Cousin Brucie Recalls His Brooklyn roots in adweek.com, accessed on May 20, 2015
  3. ↑ a b After Decades on the Dial, Cousin Brucie Falls Victim to a Changing Media World at nytimes.com, accessed May 20, 2015
  4. ^ A Profile of Radio Personality Bruce Morrow at radio.about.com, accessed May 20, 2015
  5. ↑ At Home with Bruce and Jodie Morrow at hvmag.com, accessed May 20, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Morrow, Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cousin Brucie (pseudonym); Meyerowitz, Bruce (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American radio host
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City