MARY REICHARD, HOST: Here’s a Guinness Book of World Record we can get behind. Mary McCoy has been spinning country music records on Texas radio stations for a long time. Audio here from FOX 26 Houston:
MARY McCOY: It’s quite a change from the turntables, the reel to reel, tape recorders and goodness, the eight tracks.
REICHARD: The 85-year old got her start after showing up at a radio station talent show. Soon after she started working at KMCO Radio in 1951. Her first program was a 15-minute live singing show. She was 12 at the time.
McCOY: I wasn’t happy just doing the one where I sang for 15 minutes. I wanted to play records because I wanted to play the artist.
REICHARD: So it’s been 72 years! One perk? She’s met a lot of famous musicians over the years.
McCOY: I…
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