With Halloween around the corner, Chicagoans often start to think about Svengoolie, the city's top horror movie host. The original Svengoolie, Jerry G. Bishop, was also a DJ on WCFL-AM for a few years prior to putting on the TV makeup and Transylvania-esque accent. Right before coming to Chicago radio, when he was a DJ on Cleveland radio in 1966, a young Jerry Ghan (Jerry G. Bishop's true name) recorded a small local hit single called "She's Gone." Billed as "Jerry G & Co.," the song featured Bishop's vocals over an Eastern Soul/Brit Pop musical track by a local Cleveland group, The Statesmen. The song was also played often on WCFL-AM after Bishop arrived here in 1967, making it a small hit in Chicago. While there are no traces of Svengoolie's corny sense of humor, it does showcase Jerry G. Bishop's musical talent, which did appear almost weekly with his Svengoolie character on WFLD-TV's "Screaming Yellow Theatre." Here now is that rare single from Jerry G & Co., "She's Gone." (Running time: 2:50)
