Didn the radio stations find it funny that a kid who had barely reached puberty was calling them?
Well, let’s not talk about at what age I reached puberty! [laughs] The fact is, my age didn’t really enter into it. I was basically calling saying, “Hi this is Marc from Ampex, and I wonder if you got the new Todd Rundgren record.” It only came into play when I was seventeen and Director of Promotion for the label. I wasn’t old enough to go to a bar or rent a car. Eventually, Ampex Records folded, and Bearsville which was part of Ampex went to Warner Bros. I went with them. I graduated high school in 1972, and enrolled in New York University. About five days into it, I realized that every time I had a 45 minute break from class, I was running to a pay phone and calling radio stations in Fargo, North Dakota, asking if they had added my records. I came to a fork in the road. People always ask a child, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” The fact was, I was doing it. I knew I wanted to be in the record business, and I was in the record business. I was devoting fifty percent of my t
