Maintaining one's illusion as a record fixer-upper

A memory of former St. Louis R&B station WZEN from the early '80s: I remember the announcer, Dr. Jockenstein, playing Bobby Womack's "If You Think You're Lonely Now," when it began to skip.  Jockenstein faded it out and started another record.  A little while later, he said on-air that a listener had called and asked him, "What are you going to do about 'If You Think You're Lonely Now?'  I've got to hear it!"  Jockenstein said he "went into the operating room and came back with this..."  Womack's tune started playing again, without skips.  I always liked that instead of just saying, "Here's an alternate copy of the tune that won't skip," "I changed the needle on the turntable," or "I switched to a different turntable," he stayed true to his on-air persona and maintained the theater of the mind that a radio show is supposed to provide.