Yesterday’s Dan Gross column mentioned that Joey Vento got a “rousing hand” when he introduced the Geator at the DJ’s birthday bash at his club in Margate, SRO with boldface names. Which got us to thinkin’, and when we get to thinkin’ we always get to Googlin’. And as we’ve said before, you find the DARNDEST things on that Google. For instance, if you set the City Paper Wayback Machine to 1998, you find this:

In late June 1995, the New Jersey Commission of Investigation released a report quoting mob informant Phil Leonetti saying that Jerry Blavat (aka The Geator with The Heater) asked Nicodemo Scarfo to rub out Hy Lit in 1984.

A week later, the two DJs sat face to face, on live television, with Wally[Kennedy] as moderator.

Geator denied it. “He said, ‘Where’d this stuff come from‚Äîthat I was associated with the mob?’”

Wally says a light bulb went off in his head at that moment‚Äîhis self-described “BS detector.”

“No, no, I thought, I’m not gonna let this guy get away with this. Whether he was in the mob or not, his associations with mob figures have been documented. That was the point.”

So he leaned over to Blavat and, in his trademark wide-eyed but confrontational style, asked, “You think?”

City Paper: You Call It Archive, We Call It Skeleton Closet
Dan Gross: Also, News About Some Lil’ Girl Named Kim
Broadcast Pioneers: Who The Fuck Is Hy Lit, You Say? Why, Only The Most Handsome DJ Of 1967!
Wikipedia: WOGL, The Shaft & The Lawsuit
Hy Lit Internet Radio: Old Dog Learns New Tricks
The Hy Lit Show: The Electric Prunes Perform “I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night”

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 6th, 2006 at 1:53 pm.