Daily News | Jerry Blavat’s South Philadelphia style will live forever
Rhythm was inextricable from the way the Geator talked, as he explained to me in a. “If you’re a dancer, there’s a rhythm that you hear in music that goes along with what I say,” he said. “I have the rhythm of a dancer. That’s the secret of it.”
He chose his legendary moniker, “the Geator with the Heater,” as a play on the word gator, and its catchiness helped cement his ubiquity across Philadelphia. Why change gator to Geator? It rhymes with heater, and his record platters were always smoking hot. And maybe that long-E sound falls off the tongue a little more easily than gator’s long-A.Not just on the air, but in casual conversation, Blavat would punctuate his sentences with beats and finger snaps.
Even when I answered my phone and heard, “Yo Jeff! It’s the Geat!” I sensed that he opted in the moment for
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