TOM KENT WITH "THE ULTIMATE PARTY" & "MY 70s SHOW"

It all started on a two watt pirate radio station in his bedroom in Winston-Salem, North Carolina at the ripe young age of 13. Young Tom Kent would put long songs on and get on his bicycle and ride around the neighborhood knocking on doors asking his neighbors to listen. Soon after, he would have his own weekend radio show on local station WAIR. All through high school, young Tom would work overnights and go to school all day gathering that precious airtime that he so craved while being an excellent all but "zombified" student at North Forsyth High School. Upon graduation, Tom took his radio career on the road.

At the ripe young age of 18, he hosted the night show at WHBQ in Memphis hired by Memphis Mafioso George Klein who was also Elvis Presley's best friend. "GK" as he was affectionately known was the person who helped create the "Truckin' Tom Cookin Kent" persona thus "Truckin' Tom" was born. He was and is the most outrageous radio personality perhaps in the history of top 40 radio. So outrageous in fact that one night in 1974, as legend has it while on the air in Memphis, George Klein would be at Graceland listening while visiting his friend "The King." Elvis was so impressed with this outrageous personality known as "Truckin' Tom", he would ask George to set up a meeting. Elvis wanted to meet this crazy person he had been listening to on the radio and had become a self professed "Truckin' Tom" fan. A complete stranger and crazy person such as Tom Kent would never be invited to Graceland upon the first meeting. Elvis would rent out the "Memphian" movie theater in downtown Memphis and show old movies all night long. The meeting was set. Just prior to that day, a huge radio station in Cleveland, Ohio would come calling and courting the young 18 year old flame throwing Truckin' Tom Cookin' Kent. That station was WIXY 1260. Life back then was all radio to Tom Kent. He promptly dissed the King and took the job in Cleveland thus never meeting Rock and Roll's greatest idle.

Over the next several years, Tom Kent would enjoy success on the air at legendary stations WIXY CLEVELAND, KLIF DALLAS, WIBG PHILADELPHIA, WMJX MIAMI, WGCL CLEVELAND, WLS CHICAGO, and WAVA WASHINGTON. Nominated for many awards including Billboard Magazine Major Market Air Personality of the Year, Tom would become legendary in the ranks of radio greats. Today Tom lives just outside of Cleveland, Ohio with his wife Karen and hosts the fastest growing syndicated radio show in America called "The Ultimate Party". Tom Kent cab be heard seven nights a week coast to coast. Tom's radio shows are heard on over 150 radio stations across the USA. He broadcasts live every night from his basement in his home. Some say he's come full circle back to his very early teen years when he would also broadcast from his home. Only this time, his neighborhood is the world!