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Ed “Fenway” Hider | Jack Raymond Radio. My mentor and great friend, Ed Hider, portrayed “FENWAY” and “ED MITCHELL” in Boston before dj-ing in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Ed wrote and performed dozens of songs as Fenway on WMEX and on WINS RADIO’s “HERE’S HIDER” Show in the “Big Apple”.
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Follow TSJ56 and others on SoundCloud. (audio courtesy of jackraymondradio.com)Ed Hider, portrayed “FENWAY” and “ED MITCHELL” in Boston before dj-ing in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Ed wrote and performed dozens of songs as Fenway on WMEX and on WINS RADIO’s “HERE’S HIDER” Show in the “Big Apple”.
KYA Oneders (left to right) Sean O'Callaghan, Ed Hider and Johnny Holliday strike a pose for the press before rolling over another faculty opponent. SOURCE: Bay Bay Area Radio Museum
Stream WMEX/Boston - Fenway in the Morning (Ed Hider) 1/5/1963 by TSJ56 on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
Front row far left is Sean O’Callahan, 4th is Johnny Holliday, next is Ed Hider. Johnny brought Ed Hider with him to San Francisco. Hider was a one-liner machine, much like Dr. Don Rose at KFRC , but Hider didn’t laugh along with his punchlines.
After the shift, Ed Hider and Howard Kester parted company, and that firing — by Kester — was one of the biggest mistakes KYA ever made. Really, it was an AVCO decision to fire Hider, since AVCO had hired Kester in the first place.
Rock Radio Scrapbook: AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK. Talent: ED HIDER as FENWAY. Station: WMEX Boston. Date: January 31, 1961. Time: 16:38. One of the notable features of WMEX in the 1960s was its use of "house names" for its deejays. If you did the morning show, you were Fenway.
