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Good evening everyone. Today on podcasting
Blues, I'm going to talk about ed

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Nassa Daddy Cook. Ed Cook was
a beloved DJ for w v o N,

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one of Chicago's first major black radio
stations. Ed Cook played rhythm and

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blues. He played Sonny Boy Williamson's
Bring It On Home. Sometimes he was

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a little upset while doing his job
because things weren't quite turning out the way

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he wanted. I can truly understand
Ed Cook switched the record to Sonny Boy

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Williamson because the wrong record was playing. He wasn't in a good move.

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Just look Cook had to say about
the weather, Sunny Boy Williams to get

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this other way. For the second
hour of the uh Eve Rodney Jones Show,

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I wanna thank money for sitting in
for me from three until four o'clock.

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As you know, I'm sitting there
for Rodney, and I guess you

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wanna know why I'm not here,
Well, I'll tell you simply in terms

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that my automobile wouldn't stop, just
like everybody else's. And about this Chicago

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weather of yours, it's the worst
in the world. This is the worst

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weather. And if somebody says,
ain't it great to be in Chicago.

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You gotta be out of here cotton
picking mine. Yeah, I got a

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letter from a friend of mine in
Puerto Rico and he's reading the newspapers every

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day and got nervous enough to send
me. He says, how you doing.

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Temperature down there is eighty degrees and
I'm swimming and having myself a ball.

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Holler at anybody ever moved to Chicago. What's the temperature in Miami?

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Uh, Jim, Uh, fifty
five? Well it's better than here.

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Look where they got in two Bolong
Where two Bolot? Well, I hope

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they have a nine hundred inches of
snow downland. Dig said snow has entered

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in Arkansas and Mississippi after jumping twelve
inches on Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Ten

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inches of snow A two bulo Mississippi. No better farm bar. I know

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those people down there are suffering.
Well, uh, you don't have the

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temperature you at fifty five degrees in
Miami. Well that's not too bad,

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cause I know they're freezing me.
I know where they're fifty five. But

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uh, it doesn't land longer.
If I understand, it's gonna be like

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this for a couple of more day. Yeah, about three more days here,

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might as well sleep out here at
the radio station or in that accident

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out there, and that Steve is
an expressway with something else, some guys

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with drag racing aut this time six
car accident and then there's I'm tying traffick

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up all the way west. Well, alright, but this is the now,

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sung daddy, shurear Ed Cook,
can you tolerate me between now around

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seven o'clock. Well, it'll be
no effort for me to tolerate he as

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long as you keep that heat up. Now, I think somebody, a

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friend of mine, took his battery
in the house with him last night.

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Now that guy's got some sense.
Tell me that's what you ought to do,

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take a battery in the only thing
about it, I don't know how

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to take my battery out. Yes, I can truly understand, Ed Cook.

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When it turns cold in the winter, things start happening and it's aggravating.

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It gives you the blues. Ed
Cook played B. B. King

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and mentioned that King used to be
a DJ and said that he was smart

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to quit and become a musician.
Bought as a cat, bought as out

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of sight. His name is B. B. King, I get you

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know, what can you say about
him that there hasn't already been said?

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You know, he used to be
at this jockey himself years ago at WDA

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and Memphis, and then he realized, he said, there's no heature on

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this. I got to get out
of this. Yeah, he has some

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sense in me. So they sure
ain't no future in this. And you

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see what's happened to about you?
All right? Sat to the blind on

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that one twenty four minutes after the
hour, five o'clock. It's out of

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the E. Ronner Jones show.
My name is Ed Cook. I'm a

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substitute for him between now and around
seven, and he will be back.

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And you want to know where he
is. He's in ring a Bell Jarge

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will. I hope you enjoyed getting
to know something about DJ Ed Cook.

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I certainly did. I enjoyed hearing
his conversations in the radio world. If

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you would like to hear the full
broadcast, you can go to archive doc

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org. I'm Gail Nobles. Goodbye
friends. Thank you for listening to Podcasts and Blues