INTRODUCING...

Johnny Holliday

Johnny Holliday called his 2002 autobiography From Rock to Jock, a title which has sizzle, indicates speed, and in two words seems to encapsulate a man's joyous  career as a media star.

It doesn't tell the half of it.

It's true that in his spectacular past, there was a period when Johnny Holliday was a rock and roll disc jockey of considerable note in Cleveland, Ohio, so much so that he was named America's Number One disc jockey. If you visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, you can hear Johnny's voice from his deejay days. He was also the announcer on the long-ago "Hullabaloo" show on NBC and The Roger Miller show.

It's equally true that for four decades Holliday has been theplay-by-play voice of the University of Maryland, broadcasting more than 850 football and basketball games, a radio achievement that has climaxed in the resurgence of Maryland football over the last two seasons and the Terp basketball team's NCAA championship in 2002.

It's true that Holliday broadcasts a sports report for ABC Radio Network, which has include coverage of Olympics, major golf tournaments, boxing, and football bowl.  In Washington alone,  he's built a career that spans the Washington Senators and the Bullets/Wizards, the Orioles, gymnastics and, of course, the Washington Redskins.

If you want to talk and hear about sports, listen to Johnny Holliday.

If that weren't enough, Holliday is something of a famous actor in the region working the summer stock and dinner theater circuit, playing leading roles in such musicals as "Bye Bye Birdie", "Company", "The Music Man" "42nd Street" and "Me and My Girl" for which he was nominated for a Helen Hayes award for Best Actor in a Musical.

But that doesn't cover Johnny Holliday, husband, father of three daughters and grandfather of six grandsons.

That doesn't cover Johnny Holliday, citizen of the community, charity leader, and tireless fundraiser.

When Washingtonian Magazine named him one of their annual Washingtonians of the Year it wasn't just because his voice is familiar everywhere, because his enthusiasm is infectious, because he's naturally energetic or because he knows every sports figure within a thousand-mile radius. It's because he's raised in excess of $l.5 million dollars for charity with his basketball and softball teams. It's because he's passionately and effectively involved in organizations as Special Olympics, the Catholic Charities and Operation Smile, Victory Youth Center and the Children Charities Foundation. It's because he's been television host for the Muscular Dystrophy, Leukemia, Easter Seals, March of Dimes, Cerebral Palsy and Childrens Hospital Telethons.

That's the other half of  the story of  From Rock to Jock.

	Johnny Holliday: From Rock to Jock

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