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MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) - At one point, more than half of the radios in the Twin Cities were tuned to the WCCO Radio morning show team of Charlie Boone and Roger Erickson.

Boone died in 2015 and now Erickson's voice is silenced. He died Monday night at his home in Plymouth at the age of 89.

“He loved Minnesota. He just loved the people he saw,” said Dave Lee, currently the morning show host at WCCO.

They were the voices many Minnesotans grew up with.

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“He was legitimately a really great person. And off the air, he just loved being a part of the state.”

Roger Erickson started working at WCCO in 1959 and just a few years later he began the partnership with Charlie Boone that would become legendary.

“Boy, they owned the market at a time when you could,” Lee said.

“And now with social media and everything else, it’s a different beast out there.”

Boone and Erickson hosted together for 38 years, perhaps the longest running duo