JAYBIRD
DRENNAN
Of
his on air delivery, The Akron Beacon Journal said “if
God his own self were to come down and pay you a visit,
He probably would sound a whole lot like Jerry William
Drennan”. During Jaybird’s 27 years as
morning drive air personality for WSLR in Akron, Ohio,
he pioneered Country radio in Ohio and paved the way
for successful Country stations in Akron and Cleveland.
He has been called the best known and best loved personality
the market has ever seen.
Born December 9, 1928, he grew up as the son of a sharecropper on peanut farms
in Texas and New Mexico. He worked at stations in markets in those states including
Tucumcari, Clovis, Hereford, Perryton, and Lubbock before moving on to Colorado
Springs, Colorado and Turlock, California. Jay Drennan passed away on December
10, 2006 from a blood clot that formed after surgery for a broken ankle.
