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My Bio? Who am I and what have I done, is that what you want to know? OK let's see...First of all, I'm just a nice girl from St. Louis, born and raised.
I went to SLU thinking I wanted to be a surgeon, then I had to disect a toad in biology and changed my major!
I transferred to Mizzou and started to study Broadcast Journalism at one of the best schools for Journalism in the country (yeah, I like to toot my own horn sometimes)
After I graduated I found out that hard news was really not my THANG. I like Entertainment, Gossip and plain old trashy news! It is so much fun to find out what trouble Paris Hilton has gotten herself into isn't it? I TOTALLY KNOW!
So I came back to St. Louis when all of my friends were getting their new careers started in small markets. I hosted an entertainment TV show in St. Louis for a bit.
THEN Somehow I met someone in the radio biz, I think it was at a bar (see, partying helped my career!) and thought it would be kind of cool to be able to wear jeans to work every day because you can't see me when I'm on the radio! (ha ha!)..
I did traffic reports for a few radio stations, then met someone from the Steve and DC show and eventually became a personality on their show and then the executive producer.
I came with them to 101.1 The River, then it changed to Movin and I got hired back as a weekend DJ, then Movin changed and now I'm on 106.5 The Arch on the weekends.
I am also a Producer at Show Me St. Louis on KSDK during the week!
So I have my foot in the radio door and the TV door. I love both jobs so much and feel very blessed that I get to do both!
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School of Rock (Thursday June 4): Hang on Sloopy
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replying the story in its archived form does not constitute a re-publiccation of the story.Hello Students, I'll be your teacher this evening, call me Ms. T
Tonight’s School of Rock is brought to you by The Missouri Division of Tourism.
The lesson for you today is about do’n your thang because you just never know. For that lesson we turn towards a song from The McCoys called “Hang on Sloopy”.
Who or what is a “Sloopy” anyway?
I’ll tell you, it’s a person! Jazz singer Dorothy Sloop, she was just do’n her thang and performing in the New Orleans area using the name Sloopy and someone created a song all about her.
The song was originally recorded by an R & B group The Vibrations as “My Girl Sloopy”.
BUT when The McCoy’s version came out it became so popular that the Ohio State University marching band began playing at it football game. THEN somehow it got designated as the state rock song of Ohio…all because the real Sloopy was do’n her thang, look what emerged. Isn’t life funny?
Do your thang!
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