OF CHICAGO ROCK AND ROLL RADIO AND A PROUD MEMBER OF THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME.

THIS YEAR SHE CELEBRATES 50 YEARS SINCE SHE FIRST WALKED INTO THE DOORS AT WX RTE RADIO IN CHICAGO.

AND IN THAT TIME SHE'S BECOME CHICAGO'S MOST BELOVED DJ.

A PROFESSOR AT COLUMBIA COLLEGE AND THE COUNTRY'S FOREMOST BEETLE, JUST STILL HOSTING HER BELOVED SUNDAY MORNING BREAKFAST WITH THE BEATLES RADIO BROADCAST.

PLEASED TO WELCOME BACK COVER TONIGHT, RADIO LEGEND TERRY HEMMER CARRY HIM.

SO GREAT TO TALK TO YOU WE COULD TALK ALL DAY AND I WE ONLY HAVE A LIMITED AMOUNT OF TIME ABOUT MUSIC.

EXACTLY.

SO WHEN YOU WALKED IN THE ATTACKS, RT, 1973.

DID YOU SAY?

>> I'M GOING TO BE HERE FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT 50 YEARS DOING THIS.

I WAS HOPING FOR 2, HE REALLY IN EFFECT THAT WAS BACK IN THE DAY PART OF TO BE A WOMAN AND GET A JOB IN RADIO.

>> YOU ABOUT 30 YEARS OLD.

YOU START LOOKING FOR ANOTHER CAREERS.

I HAD THAT IN THE BACK OF MY MIND.

NO, I DID NOT GET IN 50 YEARS ANYWHERE.

AND YOU BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN MORNING.

WELL, THE ALL IMPORTANT DRIVE TIME MOST OF THAT MEAN A LOT TO, YOU MY LOVE OF ALL, I DON'T WANT REALLY IT WAS AN ACCIDENT ACTUALLY >> THEY NEEDED SOMEBODY FILL IN FOR 4 WEEKS AND FOR WEEKS TURNED IN 8 MONTHS.

AND I WENT IN, I SAID YOU FOUND ANYBODY YET.

THEY SAID, KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

SO 11 YEARS LATER, THEY BROUGHT LYNN BRAMMER INTO DO MORNINGS.

AND I TOLD LYNN THAT HE SAVED MY LIFE BECAUSE I PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE STANDING BY BECAUSE IT'S SO STRESSFUL TO DO LAST THING TO CAUSE.

LYNN AND I WERE THE SAME IN THAT WE DIDN'T GO TO BED AT 7 O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING LIKE MOST MORNING DEEJAYS COURSE IS PROBABLY HORSE LIVE LIKE I'M STILL 50 YEARS AGO AND SHE USED THAT'S IT.

AND WE WANT LIVE THE LIFE OF OUR LISTENERS LIVES.

SO WE READ ON LIKE 4, 5 HOURS OF SLEEP A LOT AND WE BOTH BECAME GREAT NOT TOGETHER AT ON STARTING RUMORS ABOUT THE WE'VE WE'VE GOT REALLY NAPPING BECAUSE YOU HAVE INTEGRATE THE LATE GREAT LEN TOLD THE STORY MANY TIMES IN 1965.

YOU'RE UP QUO >> YOU SEE A PICTURE IN THE LOCAL PAPER OVER DJ, INTERVIEWING RINGO STARR.

YOU LIKE?

I DO THAT, I CAN MEET THE BEATLES.

WELL, YEAH, ACTUALLY WAS A TEEN MAGAZINE.

ONE OF THOSE, YOU LIKE WHAT THE THE BEATLES LIKE, KEEP FOR BREAKFAST AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF FAR FROM JOURNALISM.

BUT NO, I I SAW A PICTURE OF JIM STAGG WHO WAS A DISC JOCKEY IN CLEVELAND THE TIME AND THEN HE CAME HERE TO CHICAGO TO WORK AT WC FL THE TIME I WENT TO ELMHURST COLLEGE TO STUDY THEORETICALLY SPELL OVER THE CAMPUS RADIO STATION.

NO, I SAW A PICTURE OF JIM'S STEAK INTERVIEWING RINGO AND I THOUGHT WOW, YOU LISTEN RADIO.

I LIKE ONE OF THOSE KIDS HAVE THE TRANSISTOR RADIO AIRED GOOD TO MY EAR AND I KNEW ALL THE SONGS OF THEY'RE GOING UP AND DOWN THE CHARGE.

WHENEVER WE GO TO DAYTON, WHICH IS OUR MANHATTAN, YOU KNOW, FROM PICK WE WOULD GO TO AND THEY HAD THE WINDOW, WE CAN LOOK SEE THE WING LIVELY GUYS.

AND I MY GOSH, I WAS LIKE A NIRVANA.

YOU YOU WANT TO DO THAT AND KIND OF IGNORED EVERYBODY.

WHEN THEY SAID I COULDN'T CAUSE THEY'RE WARNING WOMEN ON THE AIR.

SO I WENT TO FILM HEARST AND THAT'S WHERE I LEARNED HOW TO DO MY CRAFT AND ALSO MET THE GUY GAVE ME MY FIRST FULL-TIME AIRSHIPS A FEW YEARS LATER.

AND YOU ALSO DID NEED SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE BEATLES.

CAROL MARINE MY COLLEAGUE TOLD ME THIS STORY THAT THERE WAS A CONCERT SHE WAS AT WRIGLEY.

THE PAUL MCCARTNEY WAS DOING AND MCCARTNEY COMES BACKSTAGE TO MEET THE GOVERNOR IS LIKE OKAY.

BEAT THE BEAR THAT HE SEES YOU WHEN THE LIGHTS UP AND GIVES YOU A HUGE HUG.

SO CLEARLY THIS RELATIONSHIP THAT KID DOESN'T GET YOU SOCIETY OVER ADMIRATION.

WELL, HE KNOWS ME, YOU AND HE'S VERY SWEET.

>> HE'S A HE AND RINGO.

BOTH UNFORTUNATELY NEVER MET JOHN AND GEORGE.

THEY HAVE BEEN VERY GENEROUS AND THEIR KINDNESS AND CONNECTEDNESS.

IT'S NOT LIKE DOING IN THEIR VIEW ANYMORE.

CHECK CHAD.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO CHAT ABOUT WHEN YOU'RE TALKING WHEN YOU GET THEM TO OPEN UP YOU KNOW, LIKE ONE TIME HE CALLED ME ON THE AIR AND THE SUN TIMES THAT THEY HAVE DONE A FEATURE ON HIS DAUGHTER STELLA WHO WAS JUST STARTING HER BIG DESIGNING COURIER.

SO I SAID, WELL, WE WERE GETTING A CALL FROM LONDON FROM STELLA MCCARTNEY'S FATHER PAUL, AND HE WAS NEVER BEEN INTRODUCED.

SO RIGHT AWAY IF YOU GET THEM OFF PUT.

AND SO I READ HIM SOME OF THE THINGS OVER THE AIR AND HOW MUCH SHE SAID HER SUCCESS.

BECAUSE OF HER PARENTS, THAT THEY REMARKABLE.

PARENTS HAD A GREAT FAMILY LIFE AND I'M READING DEPAUL AND HE'S MELTING ON THE OTHER.

SO WE JUST GO FROM THERE AND JUST TALK ABOUT.

THE VALUES HE HAD, YOU KNOW, LIKE HE WASN'T JUST YOUR TYPICAL ROCK STAR AND HIS FAMILY WAS NUMBER ONE FAN IS OBVIOUSLY VERY WE KNOW HOW MUCH HE LOVED HIS HIS LATE WIFE AND THEN ALL OF HIS WIVES.

YOU'VE INTERVIEWED SO MANY DIFFERENT ROCK AND SOUL STARS OVER THE YEARS.

ANY ANY OTHER INTERVIEWS REALLY STAND OUT TO ANYTIME I GET TO TALK TO MAVIS STAPLES.

I'M A HAPPY PERSON.

>> ALL BECAUSE YEAH.

>> BECAUSE SHE IS JUST SIMPLY THE BEST.

SHE REALLY IS CHICAGO.

SO LUCKY TO HAVE SHE STILL SHARE.

YEAH, HER WHOLE LIFE.

BRYAN HUGE TRUCKS MUSIC, RIGHT?

CARRIE ANN AND HE ACTS LIKE WORLD FRIENDS, EVEN THE SUNS ARE REALLY SWEET TO TRAVEL WITH HIM AND ALL THAT.

SO I'M ALWAYS AMAZED THE LIE WAS TOLD THAT YOU SHOULDN'T MEET HEROES BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO DISAPPOINT YOU.

THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY THE THE WAY IT'S BEEN.

IN FACT, YOU TELL ME A STORY.

YOU WERE MAVIS STAPLES AND A FORMER.

>> A PERSON WHO USED TO COURT HER POPPED MISTER BOB DYLAN, MISTER ALSO KNOWN AS BOB RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT.

TELL ME.

SO WHAT HAPPENED?

WELL, SHE IS TOLD THIS STORY AND IT'S IN BOOKS AND STUFF.

SO IT'S PRETTY STANDARD.

BUT THE FACT BOB DYLAN WANTED TO MARY HER WENT BACK IN THE 60'S AND ACTUALLY SHE TOLD THE STORY TO MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME YEARS AGO.

WE WERE AT THE EX RT FREE 4TH OF JULY CONCERT.

SHE WAS BUT HER AND HER SISTER BECAUSE BOOKER T WAS THERE FROM BOOKER THE MGS AND THEIR THEIR OLD FRIEND.

SO BUDDY GUY WAS THE HEADLINER IN NUBA DEFECT.

BUT HE CALLED HER UP ON THE STAGE AND I GOT A SCORCHER OUT.

BUT BUT WE WERE SURROUNDED BY STAFF MEMBERS AN INSURANCE.

AND I GOT GO AND I SAID, SO WHAT ABOUT YOU AND BOB DYLAN?

AND SHE SAID, WELL, WE WANT TO POP-IN SAID, I WANT TO MARRY YOUR DAUGHTER AND POP SAID WHY US?

GOOD ME.

ASK HER.

AND THEN SAID THAT HE WANT THEM TO OF FUNNY.

HER SISTER AND NEVADA SAID WANT TO MARRY YOUR SISTER.

WHY ASK ME, ASK HER.

HE NEVER ASKED SO BUT THEN YEARS LATER, SHE TOLD ME THE STORY ABOUT HOW THEY WENT ON TOUR TOGETHER AND THEY HAD EACH OTHER IN DECADES HE WALKED INTO DRESSING ROOM TO SAY HELLO.

SHE SAID UP, YOU COULD HAVE HE WAS JUST TOO NERVOUS TO EVER ASK TO SHOW HE WAS SHOT.

MET WITH HER.

YEAH.

YOU GO JAZZ FEST IN NEW ORLEANS EVERY YEAR MY FAVORITE FESTIVAL AND I KNOW YOU HAD AN EXPERIENCE THIS YEAR.

THAT WAS PRETTY TRAUMATIC.

YOU DIDN'T GET TO GO BECAUSE YOU'RE AT A RESTAURANT.

>> WHERE A SHOOTING BROKE OUT.

YOU NARROWLY GETTING SHOT.

THANKFULLY FOR US HOW YOU'RE PROCESSING FRIEND OF MINE DID GET HIT AND SHE WAS RIGHT NEXT TO ME.

AND SHE GOT HIT IN THE BACK.

AND THE BULLET STILL THERE.

BUT WE JUST BOOKED A FLIGHT THE OTHER DAY TO GO DOWN NEXT APRIL.

SO YOU'RE GOING BACK TO JUST I'M GOING IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY PARTY.

28 OF MY BEST FRIENDS THERE, THE RESTAURANT I'VE GONE TO SINCE 85 WHEN IT FIRST WENT IT WAS JUST A NIGHTMARE.

IT WAS JUST BECAUSE WE COULDN'T SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON.

WE WERE LIKE A MEZZANINE LEVEL.

SO THERE ARE NO WINDOWS THERE.

BUT BULLETS ARE FLYING IT WAS JUST A VERY TRAUMATIC AND TO SEE MY FRIEND FALL RIGHT AT MY FEET.

BUT SHE'S HANGING IN THERE.

IT WAS.

IT'S A MATTER OF INCHES AND THOSE THINGS.

BUT IT JUST REMIND YOU THAT THE YOU COULD GO ANY MINUTE, IT REALLY IS KIND OF ONE OF THOSE THINGS.

IT WAS KIND OF A SPIRITUAL MOMENT OF CALM THIS AT ONE POINT WHEN THEY WELL, THIS IS REALLY WEIRD WAY TO GO.

MY 75TH BIRTHDAY IN RESTAURANT SAUL CITY CHICAGO'S HOME ORLEANS AND MY SOUL CITY.

ONE OF FAVORITE EVENTS.

TO GO THAT WAY.

BUT I THOUGHT, WELL, THIS IS IT.

IT'S FUNNY.

I NEVER IF IT EVER HAPPENS AGAIN.

IT MIGHT BE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT REACTION.

THANKFULLY, YOU'RE YOU'RE STILL HERE TO DO MORE RADIO AFTER 50 YEARS.

YOU'RE STILL DOING BREAKFAST WITH THE BEATLES.

TAPING AT THE OTHER DAY.

WHAT STILL EXCITES YOU ABOUT?

>> THE MEDIUM OF RADIO GETTING TO CONNECT WITH LISTENERS.

I LOVE RADIO BECAUSE I REMEMBER BEING ON THE OTHER END OF IT AND HOW IT IS AND HOW ENGAGED I FELT WITH IT.

YOU KNOW, I'VE MET LISTENERS OVER THE YEARS OF CALLED ON ME DURING THEIR ROUGHEST TIMES.

YOU KNOW, AND SOMETIMES WELCOME YOU INTO THEIR LIVES LUCKILY, I SORT OF HAD SOME TRAINING CAUSE.

I REALLY DID WANT TO BE A PRIEST OR NUN OR SOMETHING NOT REALLY IN AN BUT PRECEPT MORE FUN.

I WANT TO BUT THAT NEVER HAPPENED.

THAT WAS EVEN WORSE THAN RADIO.

I MEAN, TRY GOING OVER THE BUT JUST GETTING TO KNOW THEM IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD TIMES AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE I'VE MET OVER THE YEARS.

THAT IS THE MOST SATISFYING THING TO ME.

IT'S NOT A GREAT THING WHEN PEOPLE COME I LOVE YOUR VOICE.

LIKE RIGHT NOW VOICE IS TRASHED BECAUSE OF SICKLE WEEK.

WHEN THEY COME UP AND SAY YOU GOT ME FEEL ROUGH TIME YOU'RE THE REASON A BEATLE FAN ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

WHAT IT SHOWS SOMETHING REALLY THERE IS A RELATIONSHIP THERE THAT I RESPECT.

NOT THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL OBVIOUSLY, AS A BEATLE, ALA JUST A.

>> WHAT WHAT DO YOU WHAT YOU THINK IT IS ABOUT THE BEATLES THAT THAT CAUSE YOU TO GO SO DEEP INTO EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM?

>> WELL, THEY WERE JUST IT'S IT'S LIKE A.

WHEN IT HAPPENED.

IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN LIKE THIS BECAUSE WE WERE ALL WATCHING THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW THAT NIGHT.

AT THE SAME TIME YOU COULDN'T.

>> THE VR ATTORENY.

THANK YOU KNOW YOU COULD GET THE VIDEO OR THE DVD YOU HAD TO BE THERE.

AND THAT WAS A SUNDAY EVENING AND MONDAY WE WENT TO SCHOOL.

THAT'S LIKE ALL WE TALKED ABOUT.

WE WERE JUST FREAKED OUT AND I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS GOING TO LIKE ACTUALLY, I DIDN'T LIKE ALL THE HYPE AND OTHERS THAT BIG SO FAN AND I THOUGHT, OH, WE NEED FOR PAT BOONE'S LIKE WE NEED A COVER, AN R B SONGS WITH FUNNY OR CUTS AND ALL THAT.

AND I WATCHED HIM AND I WAS WON OVER IMMEDIATELY.

THERE'S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT THEM.

THE MUSIC WAS GREAT.

HAVE THIS ENERGY, JOY TO IT THAT YOU DIDN'T OFTEN HERE AND STUFF THAT WAS ON THE TOP 40, THAT AND JUST THEY WERE REHEARSED.

YOU KNOW, THEY WERE DOING THE GUITARS LIKE THIS LOOK AT EACH OTHER AND SMILE LIKE THEY REHEARSED THAT IT WAS SPONTANEOUS AND EVERYBODY.

WELL, NOT EVERYBODY, BUT WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE.

WHAT OUT, BUT GUITARS AND DRUMS BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE IN A BAND.

THEY WANT TO BE THAT THAT THERE'S THAT SENSE OF CAMARADERIE THAT THEY SHOWED US THAT WE HAD SEEN HIM SHOW BUSINESS BEFORE.

HOW MANY MUSICIANS, HOW MANY BANDS STARTED BECAUSE OF THAT MOMENT?

YEAH.

MAKE PEOPLE GOTTEN RADIO.

I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE.

THAT'S FOR SURE.

AND YOU TRANSLATE THAT LOVE TO SO MANY LISTENERS FOR SO MANY YEARS AND MANY MORE TO COME.

>> TERRY HEMMER, THANKS FOR JOINING US.

WHAT ONE MORE THING, ONE MORE THAN KIDS.

THE YOUNG KIDS ARE STILL INTO THE BEATLES HOST FEST FOR BEATLES FANS AND WE GET TEENAGERS TO PUT THE BATTLE.

THE BEETLE BANDS.

THEY KNOW ALL THE WORDS.

KNOW THE CORDS WELL, BECAUSE NEW SONGS NOW AND THEN WHICH I JUST LISTEN TO FIRST TIME A BEAUTIFUL, SUNNY, BEAUTIFUL.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT, TALKING WEEK, I LIKE I