More from Rico's childhood

Rico says that driving late at night when he was a teenager, especially if he was going up to Lake Tahoe (something about the altitude), gave just the right conditions for the ionospheric skip to deliver XERB out of Tijuana, Mexico. The late-night voice, so distinctive you still recognize it immediately even decades later (they still use him, or imitators, in commercials), was, of course, the inestimal Robert Weston Smith, more formally known as Wolfman Jack. (This was well before everyone else saw him in American Graffiti.) His voice still echoes down the years as the quintessential rock-n-roll disc jockey...