The defensive coordinator at the University of Michigan, who was known as Wink by his fellow students due to their similar last names.
He was born Winston Conrad Martindale in Jackson, Tennessee, on December 4, 1933. He has always enjoyed radio and, when he was six years old, would read aloud the text of Life magazine ads.
At the age of 17, he started working as a disc jockey at WPLI in his hometown, making $25 per week.
Jackson’s only other station, WDXI, hired him away for double the pay when he moved to WTJS. While attending Memphis State, he went on to host mornings at WHBQ in Memphis.
When he graduated in 1957, he was married and had two daughters.
On July 8, 1954, WHBQ aired the first Presley song, “That’s All Right,” while Martindale was in the studio but not working on-air that evening.
