re: The 1st Time You Listened to Rush Limbaugh

I used to listen to KPEL when Owen Spann had his show. He was liberal but had a format where he would interview guest and the shows were usually pretty interesting. Spann left the air to get some type of medical tratment, then Jackson took his place for about six months. I still remember when Rush came on with his first show as well as the lady who called in from Schenecktady, New York and started out her call with "Dittos to that last caller, Rush" and Rush interupted her and said to the audience that to save time on calls, if you agree with Rush, etc, simply start your call with the word "ditto". This is when he started referring to his listeners as "Dittoheads"

He used to begin his show with Clarence Frogman Henry's "Ain't Got No Home" and didn't have a theme song of his own. When he came to Lafayette on his Rush to Excellence Tour, he spent an hour at the KPEL studios answering local calls that afternoon before appearing at the Heymann later that night.

While he was at KPEL, I got to meet him and present a song to him that our studio ghost band had written entitled "Ditto Head", thinking he might like a theme song for his show. He liked it but said that since we had not gotten a copyright (we had finished it that week) that the network probably wouldn't allow it's use. Rush was a very down to earth fellow and I am proud to have met him and get a chance to shake his hand. My wife and I attended his show that night as well.