Former Triad Radio Man gone at age 72

Looks like we have lost another former Triad radio legendary personality…

Alan Jeffries, nearly famous for being on WCOG/1320 AM, WRQK/K 99 FM, and he was on WMAG/99.5…Lots of radio experience for Alan Jeffries from over the years…

He was also a school resource officer, in the Greensboro Public Schools, as a member of the Greensboro Police Department/GPD….Jeffries family also ran a locksmith shop, and they excelled in that locksmith business…

The family locksmith business, and ironically Jeffries was a school resource at Smith High School/Ben L. Smith HS….

He was known all over town for his radio work back in the days, with 1320 WCOG…At one time, that station was the #1 radio station in the Triad….Back in the days of Dusty Dunn, Bob Dayton/Bob Pennix, Alan Jeffries, Charlie Russell/Chadwick Rockwell Russell III/Buddy Bray, Bob Shannon/Bob Roach, Sam “The Freight Train” Scott, Scott Derringer, and more big names from back in the 1960’s and 1970’s….

By the time the 1980’s rolled around, the AM stations were dying out, and these days WCOG might be lucky to have a handful of listeners, and they pretty much operate out of a closet, over in the Trade District of Winston-Salem, N.C.

But as the demise of AM radio was emerging, Alan Jeffries made his way over to K 99 FM/WRQK…Alan Jeffries also began to specialize in Beach Music, and on the weekends on WRQK, you could hear AJ spinning his tunes, from the dunes….The sand dunes along the Grand Strand, that is….

Jeffries did well in the radio business, but it was for the most part, his secondary job…Radio was sort of like his hobby/pass time, and his job with the GPD, and the work at the family locksmith shop, were his primary focus…

Alan Jeffries had a bundle of talents, and his work became known around the Triad…You would have to say that Alan Jeffries was a true, Triad Troubadour….

Gone today at age 72, but not to be forgotten, Alan Jeffries…

RIP:Alan Jeffries