Yes, I think I remember Rick Richards...blondish hair? Our running joke at the station was how many times in one day can they play I can't drive 55! or Money for Nothing. those songs still nauseates me to this day and I LOVE Dire Straights.
Rick Richards followed me from 10am to Noon... we called him our CD 'jockey' (we actually used a very derogatory term that I cannot repeat - Diamond Dave came up with it and of course I said it on the air because, hey, I didn't know it was a bad Hebrew word)... Rick was always cleaning CDs before his shift. Real nice guy.
I hosted "Fresh Tracks" on Tuesday nights - circa 1985 - and one of the new releases we played was the Dire Straits album that had Money for Nothing on it. That song prompted a lot of calls for that time of night...
And heck yeah, we played the hell out of Boston back in the day, especially when they released "Amanda"...
I still recall when we had this huge event - Jason Alexander was the afternoon drive guy and we hyped up for days that we were going to play a song from A COMPACT DISK!!! It was this massive German CD player - probably the size of a microwave, that you could play
one CD on.
The first song was... Bryan Adams 'Summer of '69', which actually sounded great with that opening guitar riff...
I used to wander over to the AM side of the studio and yell to Otis..."1800 -The Big -O" ... he was a great guy. He and Jim Finch were a great pair...