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Gary
"The Wagman"
Wagner

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Gary Wagner is known to blues radio fans around the world as "The Wagman."

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Growing up as a Southern California teenager in the 1960s, Wagner had decided to focus on a radio career by the age of 13, about the time his voice was changing. He claims he hadn't even noticed the difference until several adults had made a comment that his voice sounded more like a man's than that of a 13 year old boy. They said, "You should be on the radio with a voice like that."

Seeing this as a calling, Gary began his affair with the world of broadcasting. He kicked it off by listening to the radio incessantly for two years. He listened mostly to L.A. rock stations like KFWB and KHJ as well as his hometown Ontario's local station, KASK. Late at night he secretly listened to the "forbidden" broadcasts of Wolfman Jack, using a small transistor radio he had hidden under his pillow. Although the formats and personalities he was listening to on-the-air were entertaining and educational, still he yearned to "get behind the wheel."