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&#13;
Bob Friedman- Did you have a…um…a special name on the air?&#13;
Andrew Fields- Well, at first, I just told them I want to be known as Andrew Fields, cuz I was Andrew Fields the third, but I didn’t use the third. And so, later on, Jimmy made my name be as a thang that we had to do for…he had me out there…called the Money Man&#13;
BF- The Money Man? &#13;
AF- Money Man. We had to go all over town, every day, five days a week from 6 o’clock til 9 o’clock.&#13;
BF- In the evening?&#13;
AF- Morning.&#13;
BF- In the morning?&#13;
AF- Morning. Yeah. Jimmy was on the Drive Show.&#13;
BF- Okay.&#13;
AF- And. Uh. He started out at 5. But I didn’t start til 6.&#13;
BF- Um hum. &#13;
AF- And we’d go from town part…from neighborhood to neighborhood, and we didn’t have the freeway at that time.&#13;
BF- Didn’t have what?&#13;
AF- The freeway.&#13;
BF- Okay.&#13;
AF- We had to go the old way. And man, I was…fifteen minutes, I was in one part of town; ten minutes, I was somewhere else. I was right there…&#13;
BF- What were you doing?&#13;
AF- We was giving out money. Five dollars a whop, as they called it. If I was sitting in front of your house, and tell Jimmy where I am, and call your address, you came out, I would give you a certificate for five dollars.&#13;
BF- A certificate for five dollars.&#13;
AF- Um hum.&#13;
BF- Now how old were you when you started working for WJLD?&#13;
AF- Forty, I mean twenty-one… thirty-one years old.&#13;
BF- Thirty-one years old?&#13;
AF- Um hum.&#13;
BF- And. Um. What do you remember about Jimmy?&#13;
AF- Jimmy was a hard-hitting man, when it come to radio. &#13;
BF- Um hum. &#13;
AF- He… Uh… knew his radio.</text>
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Audio snippet: 2 minutes</text>
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