To the listeners who made him the top-rated morning-show host in metro Phoenix, Dave Pratt was the Morning Mayor, a title somewhat jokingly bestowed on the DJ by Phoenix’s mayor-elect at the time, Terry Goddard.

It was 1983 and Pratt had Phoenix Mayor Margaret Hance and
her newly elected successor on his morning show at KUPD-FM
just a few days apart.

“I said to Terry, ‘Soon you will be mayor of Phoenix,'” Pratt recalls.
“He replied, ‘Yes, but you will always be the Morning Mayor.’ I must have played that clip 100 times the following week, and it stuck. Now, almost everybody except my family calls me ‘Mayor,’ ‘Mr. Mayor’ or ‘Your Honor.’ It
will stick with me forever,” he said.