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his wife Gerry love to dance — even at home.
An avid Scrabble player from 'way back, Jerry welcomes a challenge from the Missus, and both Michael and Carolyn enjoy kibitzing.
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self involved with Cornell's radio station and later with Station WKNY in Kingston. After receiving his B.A., Jerry was awarded a scholarship to the Cornell Law School, but finances stood in his way and he finally decided upon radio as his life's work, explaining, "I just had to be a mouthpiece one way or another."' And so, the day after his graduation, Jerry was placed on the payroll at Station WAAT in New York. Ten months later he was at WINS, followed shortly by his final move to WNEW in 1943.
Jerry's first big chance at WNEW came in 1946, when he was made emcee of the Music Hall, the station's top daytime program. For the next four years, according to Jerry, nothing much happened: "I just did the show. No one said anything or did anything. I just didn't make a splash — not even a ripple." But, when sta
tion officials replaced him with a team, fans clamored so indignantly, Jerry was brought back with a bigger and better Music Hall. Then, last year, while WNEW bigwigs were scouring the land for a Martin Block replacement, they suddenly took a closer lock at Jerry and agreed he was the man to take over the MakeBelieve Ballroom.
Today, Jerry is heard for more than twenty hours, Monday through Saturday, and, though he's at the studio from 9 A.M. until 8 P.M., spins and cues all his own records, and broadcasts standing up, he claims, "It isn't tough physically. Not when you love it. But it is demanding. So demanding you have to work even when you sleep."
During his eventful rise to the top, Jerry also managed to snag himself a wife — Gerry — who worked in WNEW's accounting department.
Jerry says he fell in love with Gerry the first time she handed him his paycheck.
The Marshalls now live in a sixroom brick house in Bayside, Long Island, with their children, Michael Terry, 5, and Carolyn Diana, 1. Besides his family, Jerry's hobbies are stamp-collecting and raising azaleas in his big back yard.
Jez*ry provides constant proof that deejaying is in his blood. For example, he'll give Gerry jewelry with "12 J 51" inscribed on it. That's WNEW's record library file number for Harry James' "You Made Me Love You" — the Marshalls' "song."
Jerry is such a popular deejay he has his own fan clubs, the most loyal calling themselves the "Marshall-Mallows." As they and all Jerry's countless fans would happily shout: "Vive the Marshall-Mallows! Vive Jerry Marshall!"
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