Episode 53 Sandy Gillis

Sandy Gillis started his career in radio broadcasting in 1968 while he was still a kid in high school. It didn't take him long from there before he was hosting a local teen dance show on TV. And before you knew it he had started his own broadcasting school, hiring his radio station bosses as professors. As he quickly climbed the ladder in radio becoming station manager in short order, he gave several popular media broadcast personnel their first breaks. One of his early hires in radio was current CBC on air journalist Ian Hanomansing. He got into comedy out of necessity when a competing radio station entered his local domain as competition. So he started creating comedic characters on air. One of those characters, "Jimmy the janitor" became a huge part of his career. Jimmy the janitor worked with other comedic greats over the years like David Broadfoot (Royal Canadian Air Farce) & Don Harron (Charlie Farquharson). Over time Sandy would forge relationships with promoters & artists like Dobald K Donald who would often ask his advice on booking acts like April Wine etc. .In this episode we discuss all of this and more....with a few laughs added for good measure. https://www.jimmythejanitor.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tommy-solo-s-famous-friends--4318572/support.