#DJ REGGY GREASE DRIVER#

His listeners knew the meanings of the terms. He calls his deep voice his 'basso grosso' or 'basso profundo.' Īs The Greaseman, Tracht invented a clever way of getting around limits on indecent language by using slang terms for body parts and functions that he invented. 'The Greaseman Show' is a fast-paced array of what he terms 'bits.' Calls from listeners inevitably lead to a story of a recurring character from his repertoire, and no topic is taboo. In later years, Tracht took up bodybuilding to improve his physique. At WENE, he was asked to do remote broadcasts from a sponsor's business and listeners were disappointed to see that he looked like a wimp. He used the radio as an alter ego a guy with a swaggering bravado. In reality, Tracht was 6 foot 2 and 150 pounds.

#DJ REGGY GREASE DRIVER#

His voice deepened and he projected the image of a middle-aged tattooed truck driver with a beer belly and a cigar. His radio name had been Dougie T, but when he became the Greaseman, a different personality surfaced. I said it enough times, so one day one of the other deejays referred to me as the Greaseman.' It was my way of saying I was out-cookin' the other guys. One day I said I was cookin' with heavy grease. 'In those days of top 40, everybody who was on the radio was 'cookin' cookin' with the Temptations, cookin' Four Tops, that kind of thing. The Greaseman pseudonym originated while he was in college. Tracht graduated from Ithaca College in 1972 Īnd married Marie Massara who was the sales secretary at WENE. The following year, he had moved up to night DJ at a larger station in Binghamton, New York, WENE. After my first year in college, I had this station ( WYSL) in Buffalo, New York, offer me a big time job.' Tracht got a job at WTKO, a low-power top-40 station in Ithaca. 'From the first day I got on the air, I was trying to do comedy bits and tell jokes. He majored in broadcasting at Ithaca College and landed a job at the college radio station. Tracht attended DeWitt Clinton High School and graduated in 1968. His father was a native New Yorker who sold dental supplies his mother was a Lutheran immigrant from Germany who stayed home to raise her two children until they were in high school, then became a noted educator.

Tracht was born and grew up in the South Bronx, New York City with his younger sister, Diana, and parents, Alfred and Gertrude Tracht.

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