Big Jack Armstrong
American radio personality
Died when: 62 years 108 days (747 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Big Jack Armstrong (born John Charles Larsh on December 4, 1945, in Durham County, North Carolina; died March 23, 2008, in High Point, North Carolina), also known as Jack Armstrong, Jackson W.
Armstrong, and Big Jack Your Leader, was a top-40 disc jockey of the 1960s through the 1980s, and an oldies DJ until 2006.
His parents were John Edgar Larsh, Jr., who was a professor in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, and Ruth Ella Neal.
His father once served as the acting dean of UNC's School of Pharmacy.He held a Guinness World Record for "fastest talking human alive" at one point in his career.
He developed two imaginary sidekicks - the Gorilla, who speaks in a raspy bass, and likes women, banana juice, and whiskey, in that order - and the Old Timer, who wheezes, tells lame jokes, and was always getting shot after one of them.
Larsh was known for his distinctive signoff.At WKYC, it was a few catchphrases, spoken over the instrumental version of The Beatles' "And I Love Her".
On WKBW, he used "Shimmy Shimmy Walk II" by the Megatons.On most stations, he used no background music.Eventually, it became a Motormouth extravaganza, spoken so fast it was hard to understand.
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