Is the theme song about Johny Fever?
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rebound4july — 9 years ago(April 20, 2016 06:46 PM)
It's definitely about Andy, who was supposed to be the primary character on the show when it started. In one of the episodes he talked about his life, using the line "town to town, up and down the dial" which got a laugh from the studio audience.
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Catnip86 — 9 years ago(April 23, 2016 08:03 AM)
If it was supposed to be Andy, why would it say "living on the air"? He was never on the air.
On a side note, when I saw this show as a kid, I did think it was about Johnny. But I thought the line was "up and down the aisle", as if Johnny had been married and divorced a few times. -
darryl-tahirali — 9 years ago(July 13, 2016 07:01 PM)
If it was supposed to be Andy, why would it say "living on the air"? He was never on the air.
That's the metaphor. You are correct that Andy was not actually an on-air personality. However, the business he's in is to put programming on the air, so he is "living on the air" in a figurative, not literal, sense.
If you asked if I could "lend you a hand," my hand could be helping you, but it would need the rest of me to make that happen, and it might not even be my hand that is providing the help. And I'm certainly not detaching my hand to give to you as I might "lend" you my hammer, my book, and whatnot!
And just to have even more fun here, even if it were Johnny or another on-air personality, they are "living" on the air only temporarily as part of the jobthey do not actually reside "on the air." And radio waves are only "on the air" in that they move through the air from transmitter to receiver.
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morrell2000 — 9 years ago(July 26, 2016 12:35 PM)
It could possibly be just as you stated. Definitely plausible. He did mention in Les' Groupie, though, when they were talking about weird fans, that a female listener wanted to wear his clothes or try on his clothes or something. So it could be that at one time he was actually a DJ and then moved into programming.
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snelling — 9 years ago(January 15, 2017 08:37 AM)
At some point Andy says, "I have lived and breathed radio since I was a little boy. I've done just about every job you can do at a radio station." So the song is definitely about Andy and not Johnny. The very first episode is Andy arriving at WKRP and finding out he might not be staying before this pilot even ends.
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