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MTV didn’t want to play his videos from Off the Wall. There was a rebellion against Black music. You have to remember that there was a time when a lot of radio stations didn’t want to play our music. What’s been the most dramatic change in radio?
The world is such a different place than when you started out.
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She’d just made the cover of Vogue and was promoting that horrible, horrible movie Beloved. She was a little weird and didn’t warm up until the end. Well, my first one was Gary Hart, that guy who ran for president until he got caught with that chick. You’ve interviewed so many people over the years. So we will play music from the ’70s and ’80s, but also music of today that adults would like. Today I played the new one from Lizzo, the Jay-Z song from the ’90s, “Excuse Me Miss,” and because it’s a Monday-on Mondays I celebrate artists from Philly-I played some Teddy Pendergrass, Phyllis Hyman, Billy Paul’s “Let’s Make a Baby.” At ’DAS, we are R&B and throwbacks. What did you play on your show earlier today? Especially now that we came out of those masks. I get the sense that happens to you a lot, people recognizing you. And at this time, ’DAS was owned by a Black man - Power 99 may be a “Black station,” but it was not owned by Black people-and I moved to ’DAS. Management changed, and I didn’t think I had a future there. And then I wound up getting a job at Power 99 in ’86. But I actually fell in love with Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson. My father was so mad: What’s wrong with our name?! So I changed my name for them, and don’t you know, about five seconds later, they changed formats to country. And who was popular then? Michael Jackson. It wasn’t “Black enough” for an “urban” station. But the station manager at ’XTU said that was an Irish name. They hired me, but with one condition: I had to change my name to Patty Jackson. Well, when I went to ’XTU, it had this so-called “urban” format. I read that you once worked at WXTU, the country station. I got my butt on the Broad Street Line and then the PATCO, and then I walked to the station through the snow. And then I got the chance to be on the air when one colleague wouldn’t come to work because it was snowing. The pastor of my church lived around the corner from the owner of a radio station in Camden, WSSJ. Let’s back up 40 years to your first job in radio. I was just with him in December for his book launch, and he was like, “Paaa-teeee!” This is not the Will Smith we all know and love.
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We didn’t even get to your full career path yet and you already went and brought up Will Smith. Hey, I like Will Smith’s “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It.” What can I say? That’s when I had to ask my one niece, “What is this?” She said I was so corny. To us, it was the most exciting form ever. This was rap back when most people had no idea what rap was. They’d let me play one song over the PA, and then I’d make the announcements for the day. In high school at South Philly High, I would do the morning announcements over the PA system. On Youth Sunday, I would help lead the service. When I was a little girl, I would step up and read the Easter poems in church. I’ve always been in front of the microphone. She couldn’t believe I turned my back on Carnation. But I decided to try heavy whipping cream. What would you make me if I invited you over for my Fourth of July barbecue? Dad always wanted his dinner on the table on time, and I went from sous-chef to chef. Mom got me in the kitchen at a very early age. And from my mom, I got my love of cooking. He wasn’t one to just take a day off nilly-dilly the way the kids do today. My dad was a rigger and foreman at the Navy Yard. I take it your mom lived with you until the end.
Jackson with her mother in their South Philly home in 1993 So once we pick up these flowers, he’ll take me home. I still don’t have enough strength to switch back and forth between the gas and brake fast enough.
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Now, I still have problems with one of my legs, so my driver takes me everywhere. And that is when I realized that God did not abandon me. I never wanted anybody to see me depressed or crying. I had a stroke in 2015, two weeks after my mom passed. I love to be surrounded by beautiful things. And then on Sunday, I throw everything out and start all over again. On Mondays, I go to the Acme, because they sell cut flowers for a really good price. Lately, I’ve been getting into floral design. Yes, my driver is taking me to the Acme to pick up my flowers for the week. Here, she talks Lizzo, her deep-rooted faith, and why you’ll find her at “the Acme” every single Monday. And the best-known local personality at that station is its midday host, the one and only Patty Jackson. The most listened-to radio station in Philadelphia is 105.3 WDAS-FM. Patty Jackson / Photograph by Linette & Kyle Kielinski
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