Broadcast legend Jerry Blavat, the Geator with the Heater, the Boss with the Hot Sauce, is dead at 82. My roommate and I used to call in to Blavat’s request program in Philadelphia back in the mid-1980s. Already, he seemed as if he had been around forever, but of course he was only in his 40s. On one memorable occasion, we got into an on-air contest of matching Woody Allen character names with their respective movies. These were simpler times, before the very mention of Woody stirred controversy. Of course, the Geator himself was not without his complexities. The Boss was saucy to the end, with his annual oldies all-star concert at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center pending. As Jerry proclaimed in the title of his autobiography, you only rock once. R.I.P.

Obituary in The Philadelphia Inquirer

https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/jerry-blavat-dies-82-philadelphia-geator-with-the-heater-20230120.html

Talking Sinatra, the mob, and music in Philadelphia Magazine

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/04/04/jerry-blavat-interview/

With my editor, Dan Aubrey, in the Princeton weekly U.S. 1

https://www.communitynews.org/news/legendary-dj-jerry-blavat-still-spinning-at-80/article_cf5b452a-ba38-5e2d-a45d-a6401b71050d.html

PHOTOS: (left) The Geator strikes a characteristic pose; and (top to bottom) spinning discs at his club, Memories; with James Brown; and on “The Monkees”