JACKSON ARMSTRONG

Jackson Armstrong was a Top-40 disc jockey of the 1960s through the 1980s, and an oldies DJ until 2006. Armstrong’s first big break came in 1966, when he landed a job at WIXY-1260 in Cleveland, Ohio. The evening disc jockey at this station was always called “Jack Armstrong” after the 1930s radio serial Jack Armstrong the All American Boy, an on-air name that John Larsh took as his own. With his fast-talking, young, friendly approach, Larsh became a huge hit in Cleveland - so huge that a competing station, WKYC-1100, asked him to break his WIXY contract, and come to work for the 50,000-watt station in January 1967. ' 'Jack Armstrong' was a copyrighted moniker in the market, so Larsh adopted the alias 'Big Jack Your Leader’ and went to work for WKYC. He also occasionally taunted WIXY by calling himself Jackson W. Armstrong.

Larsh moved on, working at other 50,000-watt stations such as WMEX-1510 in Boston; CHUM-1050 in Toronto; KFI-640 in Los Angeles, KTNQ-1020 in Los Angeles, and WKBW-1520 in Buffalo, New York. A t the latter, he developed his 'Motormouth' character, and was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1971 as the world's fastest-talking human. Larsh was one of the original disc jockeys hired for the all-new 13-Q in Pittsburgh in the early 1970s. In the late '70s, he could be heard on Indianapolis' 1310 WIFE before it went dark. Larsh also worked at KFRC, The Big 610 in the early 1980s, appearing in three dayparts through his time in San Francisco. Later, he became part of 93 KKHR in Los Angeles, doing afternoons. In the late 80s, he worked at Power 98 in Myrtle Beach.

His late career was spent doing mornings at WMQX Oldies 93 in Greensboro, NC.