About Bruce Morrow
Bruce Morrow (born Bruce Meyerowitz; October 13, 1935) is an American radio performer, publicly known as Cousin Brucie or Cousin Bruce Morrow. In an October 2020 interview, Morrow said he received the moniker "Cousin" while in the lobby of his midtown Manhattan WABC studio when an elderly woman once asked him "Cousin, lend me fifty cents to get home" to whom he did give that fifty cents. The name stuck for six decades. == Early life == Morrow was born in New York, New York, the son of Mina and Abe Meyerowitz. Morrow, who is Jewish, was raised in the Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn neighborhood, where he attended elementary school at P.S. 206. While attending James Madison High School, he was involved with the All City Radio Workshop at Brooklyn Technical High School. Wanting to pursue a radio career, he spent 10 hours a week working for dramatic educational productions at radio station WNYE-FM. Morrow enrolled as a student at Brooklyn College but transferred to New York University to study in the Communications Arts Program. == Career == === Radio work === Morrow's first stint in radio was in Bermuda at ZBM-AM, where he was known as "The Hammer". He began his career in the US at New York City Top 40 station WINS (AM) in 1959. In 1960, he relocated to Miami, Florida, for a stint at WINZ (AM) before returning to New York the next year for the major station WABC (AM 770), another Top 40 station.
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