Sonny Flamingo joins The Elm - 1620 AM!

If you’ve been scanning the dial on a quiet afternoon, you may have already stumbled onto it. A soft fade-in through the static, the trace of salt water in the air, and a voice laid-back enough to slow the day to half speed. That’s Sonny Flamingo.

Sonny’s the newest voice on The Elm - 1620 AM. Picture him in a sunlit booth, shades on, leaning back with a stack of vinyl that smells like salt air and long summers. Since the early 70s, Sonny’s found ways to get himself on the air, sometimes straight, sometimes sideways, but always with a style that feels like it belongs to him alone.

His promise is simple, “songs the stations forgot.” But when Sonny Flamingo spins, it’s more than forgotten. It’s music that feels like it washed ashore. Soft grooves, Carolina beach music, yacht rock smoothness, a little Caribbean breeze drifting in from nowhere. Between tracks, Sonny doesn’t just cue records, he talks to you, like an old friend sliding across the barstool beside you.

Before drifting onto our frequency, Sonny Flamingo spent seasons spinning records up and down the coast in Ocean City, Maryland, and even slipped south of the border to Tijuana, where his voice carried through cantinas and midnight airwaves alike.

Sonny Flamingo keeps his hours loose, but you’ll find him some afternoons, letting daylight drip into golden sound. No set show time, no promises. Just a feeling waiting on the frequency.

After all, our existence is known only to the observant or initiated.