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It was Percy Faith type music. In 2008, the station became WDGY after sister station 630 AM switched to Regional Mexican music, using the call letters WREY. At that point, having lost the opportunity to peacefully arrest the young man, the police decided to use nightsticks to bar the door to the hall, keeping the people in. With that in mind I had Charles Arlington record, as only he could, a theme line: Sixty Three. and an occasional Top 10 tune. Back to the drama. We have no airchecks, but ratings books from 1953 to 1955 do give us the names of programs that give hints as to what they were playing: KEYD was primarily a country station, with shows by Slim Jim and the Vagabond Kid and programs called Record Rodeo and Random Ranch. Tom did the best impression of Muhammad Ali I have ever heard. Ft. 7013 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90042. In about 1970 there was a shake-up of personnel. Hubbards Hundred Days was the headline in late 1973.. A search through the Broadcast Yearbooks and the Star Tribune turn up no evidence that the FCC ever raised the stations hours or wattage, so KMAP was apparently operating beyond the parameters of its license. In 1950 it was 1.3 percent, and in 1960 it grew to 2.5 percent. Jones explained how Schoenbohm (whom he calls Dave for some reason) and Kamman had talked the management into limited hours for jazz, and then slowly increased. Covering black music was standard operating procedure in those days Pat Boone made a fortune covering Fats Domino records. This is the best I could do with the poor exposure using photo editing tools. As part of the anniversary celebration, listeners were urged to send the station a birthday card with a favorite song from the last year, and if it was drawn the listener could win the Yesterhits Souvenir Album and a chance of winning one of six Hondas. Wonder what E.I.I. In the summer, you waded through chest high weeds and as important as noting the amperage, was pulling (and, for sport, counting) any number of wood ticks that would jump on you for the ride (I counted 27 one day.). You can hear some of Herbs patter from September 7, 1956, on Tom Gavarass RadioTapes Web site: radiotapes.com/WDGY.html. I suppose at full speed, in December, the ride to Peoria would take 18 hours. Pine was known for making people mad, and Dick Driscoll tells of coming on the air after Pine and having people call to yell at him for things Pine said. The number 1 song that week was When by the Kalin Twins; Elvis had two songs, Ricky Nelson, Bobby Darin, and Duane Eddy were represented as well. Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. I stopped and visited him one morning, and he lowered a Bob Dylan album for me. The list of performers runs the gamut of the important influences on rock n roll; Bullmoose Jackson, LaVern Baker, Ruth Brown, Earl Bostic, Dinah Washington, Wynonie Harris, Johnny Otis, James Moody, Louis Jordan, the Clovers, Amos Milburn, Percy Mayfield, Johnny Ace, the Orioles, the Ravens, B.B. The contributed recordings fromfriends and contributors of both airchecks and other material are greatly appreciated. In late 1935 a new non-directional 226 Truscan Steel Vertical Radiator (tower) was erected at the site. Jack Nugent said they went from 13th in the market to 2nd in 105 days. Well, I found no evidence whatsoever of the Four Tops show, but I did find this: On August 23, 1965, a fracas broke out involving 400-500 young people throwing eggs and rocks at cars, about a block from the Marigold Ballroom. In summary, it was a conservative, white bread market with only a handful of stations in those days., Although many give Storz the credit for inventing the Top 40 format, Haines asserts that it was already in place. In 1948 the Sepia Serenade show featured black recording stars, Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:15 to 6:45 pm. and Louisiana] in St. Louis Park. Although he broadcast his morning show from there, there were reports that he went inside the adjacent Young-Quinlan-Rothschild building at night. While a lot of money has gone down the drain, it looks like it has been well spent since the station is gaining solid acclaim in the Twin Cities, and some of the money should start to come back in over a period of the next few years., One fun item is from a Storz Stations Engineering Newsletter dated November 20, 1956. Some took it hard. The best of what youre about to give up on WWTC is what we play all the time on KEEY. Ill always be grateful for the little station in the funky building on Military Road in Newport. Staff included Gary (The Deacon) Johnson, a blind disc jockey. [2] [made possible by the late summer daytime hours] Now he also does a Saturday afternoon session from 1 to 5. Four businesses were fire-bombed and fire trucks were met with sniper fire but no one was injured. Meanwhile, here are some of the dances the station sponsored. Hes still sick of The Wayward Wind., As for where the lists came from, Ramsburg explains, Juke box operators depended on Cash Box, which was a few weeks faster with sales figures than Billboard. They were attacked by about 20 men who tried to retrieve the gun. I had hired Don French to be the KDWB PD. We asked them what WPBC should be playing and it was almost unanimous that we should play the top 40, rock and roll, Stewart recalled. Access Minnesota. 740 kHz AM oldies; The banner gives the shows host as Dave Reau, and the time slot as 11-11:15 am. WMIN adopted an all news format in mid-July 1962. Fortunately, the door blew open before he got there. On his first day found in the newspaper, he was on in front of the Polish Hour and the Methodist Church, both 90 minute shifts in the morning. A memo to the staff from Todd Storz dated May 28, 1956 singles out the gang at WDGY for a job well done. There were going to be 27 separate short entertainment features every day, ranging from the supernatural to what makes raindrops round. During the KFMX days, one of the frequent sponsors was the Leaning Post. Fire trucks are on the scene and well up-date you as additional details come in.. Even the disk jockeys werent let in on it until that morning. Then I was given stacks of albums of rock, bands from primarily the West Coast, to audition and play once my show began that Spring. Hennepin Ave. at the Lyndale bottleneck looking north. Rock station WDGY - which can be heard on metro area FM dials at 92.1, 103.7, and 107.1HD2, as well as at 740 AM - announced on Monday that Sue Falls is the new host of its weekday 11:30 a.m. show, slotting in between Morning Drive host Dr. Don Michaels and Afternoon Drive . CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE. I do enjoy it! Ed replaced Machine Gun Kelly when he split for KHJ. Not all of the airchecks on this site were in my original personal collection. WeeGee tended to be a little more conservative than KDWB reportedly even their staff wore suits and ties, but that has been disputed. The call letters of WTCN radio were changed to WWTC on October 2, 1964, after Time Life sold the station to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. Other Facebook stories of the strength of the transmission: In 1952 the station was sold to a group of four local businessmen, one of which was Clarence T. Hagman. Storzs company, Mid-Continent Broadcasting, purchased WDGY on February 6, 1956 for $212,000. The epic blizzard of March 1965 prevented Bobby Blue Bland from making a KUXL-sponsored dance at the Marigold, but a local musician was found to substitute, admission price was lowered, and the event still drew 2,600 people. The station was located at 8th and Wabasha in South St. Paul, conveniently adjacent to the stockyards. WDGY-AM 1130 Sign-Off, 1970 - YouTube This sign-off announcement from a radio station in Minneapolis (now News/Talk KTCN) is one of many audio files preserved at:http://www.radiotapes.comNo. 1945. Music consultants included folks from the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra, Schmitt Music, and Leigh Kamman. Interestingly enough, in my KUXL file I found an article from the Minneapolis Spokesman, the black communitys weekly newspaper, dated December 26, 1958. Jimmy also worked at KDWB-AM and KRSI prior to this gig. 1936 ad below courtesy Jeff Lonto. You will hear Johnny's brief Art Fern imitation and at 5:30 he will say hi to the Twin Cities in a slightly similar fashion as a competing DJ did. Airchecks are samples of old radio recordings, with the music cut out. Jackie Wilson was scheduled to perform at the Marigold on January 14, 1966, but didnt arrive until midnight, causing a near-riot at the ballroom when the 1,600 people in the audience became annoyed. Police were called and the City Council discussed the matter. The names of the shows were pretty ambiguous: In most cases programs were identified by the names of the DJs: Personalities selling time in this 1953 broadcasting magazine were, January 19, 1953 ad Courtesy mnkidvid.com. http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/kstpam70s.html. Can't Get Used To Losing You - Andy Williams 5 4. This survey provided by Steve Raymer of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. We thought Formula 63 with the Colonel was really a good way to introduce our station. When WDGY began to play it, WDGY salesmen found an amazing reluctance on the part of advertisers to buy time on a station that was rated number two in the market. Efforts to find out who was playing that night were fruitless. (Storz died in 1964 at age 39.) Selby and Avon Streets. Leigh (pronounced Lay) Kamman had presented jazz shows for years, lately on KSTP radio until that station summarily fired him along with a number of longtime staff for some unknown reason. In 1983 the station was sold to John and Kathleen Parker. The fire department didnt want us beginning the clean up until the inspector could make sure the building was safe to enter. In May 2006 the recordings started to beconverted to MP3 andsharedhere. I hope to get some late 60's clips up on the site soon. Ad from the Hopkins Sun, May 2, 1968, courtesy Jeff Lonto; also in Minnetonka Herald, February 22, 1968, Image courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, In 1969 KRSI issued a two-record compilation of oldies called the KRSI Request Album. The photo below is from the album. Top Row: Arnie Peterson (sports), Gene Taylor, Sam Sabean, Jack Douglas. Bo Diddley by (are you ready?) Finally, Rob Sherwood arrived back in Minnesota with new jingles for the Twin Cities powerhouse station U100. Commercial from a 1988 Beta recording of the TV movie Leap of Faith on Minneapolis, Minnesota channel 4 WCCO-TV Coast to Coast AM is overnight talk radio with daytime ratings. Now Im back to tell you about a product, guaranteed to cure an even bigger problem. Early disc jockeys were July 1, 1965 to November 14, 1966: Tom Kaye and Bob Lulline (1965 to 1966), Denny Long (1966 to 1967), Jay Daniels, Phil LaManne (1966 to 1968), Dick Daniels, Ed Lowell, Harvey Moss (1968 to 1969), and Doug White, Tony Young, Dee Carr, and Tom ONeal (1969 to 1970). WDGY operated on a number of different frequencies before settling onto 1130 AM in 1941. Ill tell it right when I find it again. Supposedly, a gentleman that lived within the main lobe of the pattern had decided to wind copper around his attic and, with an appropriate capacitor, made a tuned circuit at 1130 which allowed him to power his florescent lights. The switch to talk was gradual over two years. The switch resulted in low ratings, according to an article in the Star Tribune on September 3, 1977. As for ownership, that, too, is a jumble. Image courtesy Alan Freed. On May 27, 1965, Will Jones noted that with Daylight Savings Time and sundown getting later Billy G would be able to wail with the records from Cassius Bar until 9 pm. The FCC required that the station identify itself as KDWB Lake Elmo, also occasionally serving Minneapolis and St. Paul. The station provided immediate competition to leading rock n roll station WDGY: See a good piece on the KDWB/WDGY rivalry from KARE-11 News. Cream City purchased the station from Franklin Broadcasting of New York. Not sure exactly when these recording ran on WDGY. Sherwood and the rest were at their antic best, cooking up contests and announcing test answers to kids. The presentation was tight, fast-paced and very up-front. WDGY Jocks teamed up with professionals Ed Kalafat, Bobby Cox, Jim Springer, and Corky Devlin, possibly former Minneapolis Lakers. The ad below boasts of their KUXL award for excellence in musical instruction. The station in the early years played a variety of middle of the road pop music and standards, and was even considered an innovator in the concept of singing jingles. John Fineberg was at both stations during those years and described a KQRSI (KQRS and KRSI) family. It was sold to Park Broadcasting [Roy H. Park]. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. It was baked in five pound slabs in a church basement and delivered just an hour before the deadline. The Temptations came to the Marigold on October 16, 1966, and police had to be called when 800 to 1,000 people on the sidewalk got impatient waiting to buy tickets at the one ticket booth. Sixteen pastors gathered to support this action and expressed their concern that the investigation be impartial and representative. The slogan was 15 KSTPTHE MUSIC STATION., The Insider made note of the change to a rock format, playing a mix of current and older top 40. At every Provident Drug Store (not the real name) was a giant stack of tiny boxes beneath a huge sign saying, Free Samples of Formula 63. The manager was Roger D. Wilson, and in an ad for sales people he called the station Katy Radio.. KYCR changed to KDIZ on December 24, 2015. The first song was Bad Blood by Neil Sedaka. Below is a listing of stations available in the metro area. He didnt plan to start his new programming until he got a power increase from 500kw to 1,000kw. After becoming VP and General Manager, I made sales calls in all the major markets and it never failed.Sam Sherwood?!!! You will hear the WeeGee $10,000 Record Stash promo and Johnny ply "1130 Caret Gold." WDGY operated on eight frequencies [1] by the time it settled on 1180 AM. In April 1929 the frequency apparently became 1180. WDGY, Rock & Roll Radio, playing the hits of the '60s and '70s for the Twin Cities! The ad below is for Position 63, a rather suggestive takeoff of the popular Position 69 that every schoolboy loved to joke about. On November 8, 1954, WMIN hosted a four-hour remote from the new Melodee Record Shop at 704 Hennepin Ave., advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. So two cops from the morals squad took the elevator and found 150 men and women, a four-piece band, 36 tables and a 15-foot liquor bar with 54 quarts of liquor, 21 bottles of beer. Slogan. In 1978, promoter Tom Tipton noted that KUXL played only 11 hours of soul music per week. To celebrate its first anniversary, WDGY is happy to present this album of YESTERHITS FROM YESTERDAY. It includes a collection of twelve of the greatest hits from the last year. Rick B. Station manager Jim Peterson said the change, effective January 1, 1973, will involve afternoon programming only, with religious programs to stay on the stations schedule until 1 pm daily. In August 1927, WDGYs transmitter was moved to Superior Blvd. The station had signed off the air at 11 p.m. when I did evenings until I was offered the overnight slot with Musicland as a sponsor. I have a few examples, but dont have the provenance they probably came from Jeff Lonto. On October 28, 2006 Johnny Canton was inducted intoPavek's Museum of Radio Broadcasting Hall of Fame. It has been my opinion that a big lightning storm in July 1989 was an excuse for the station to shut down operation. Engineer Herb Schoenbohm, a jazz buff, started by emceeing a nightly 7 7:30 pm spot. A fellow out of Texas, after first commissioning himself a Colonel, was bottling what was essentially sweet prune juice, calling it Serutan, and telling the great American radio audience over and over again, day after day, Serutan is Natures spelled backwards. When even a little pimple of a disaster like this strikes, people rise to the occasion. It was automated country with a Schaffer pegboard sequencing unit when I was given the duty of being the stations Program Director in early 1975 added to my duties of being production coordinator for the short-lived Viking State News Network. Bill Diehl worked at WMIN from 1948 to 49 and from 1951 to 55. The next night, violence continued on its own momentum. Call them, not me. The turning point came one night around Christmas 1955 when we turned in the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Show on TV and they had on Elvis Presley, Stewart remembered. In addition to this web site creator's recorded aircheck collection, there are also manyairchecks that were recorded and submitted by friends and acquaintances, or contributed by other collectors. Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) A 1969 shot of me (Rick Burnett a/k/a Rick Mason) when I was visiting the studio. When the oldies format of WYOO started to slide in the ratings, more MOR music was added, but ratings slid even further. Formula 63, will relieve ennui he promised right from the first moment you try it. Rock n roll came roaring into the Twin Cities like a full force gale on February 6, 1956, when WDGY, 1130 AM, became a Storz station. Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! The report by the St. Paul Human Rights Department, released in February 1969, placed the blame for the disturbances mainly on how the police handled it. I remember recording Rock Around the Clock from a WMIN broadcast on my Wilcox Gay recorder. [4] Faced with much stronger competition on the FM dial, WDGY adopted a country music format, which continued well into the 1980s. As they were limited by their then-daytime only license at 980 AM, they started up WPBC-FM at 101.3 MHz in August 1959, simulcasting the AM station. The new station would be broadcast at 1570 kilocycles, way at the top of the AM dial, at only 500 watts, daytime only. A lot of people thought it was a broadcast training center like Brown Institute or something. In 1974 the Wolfman was into many projects, including a weekly syndicated show that was broadcast here on KDWB. Ironically, he then started the next record, Na Na Kiss Him Goodbye by Steam and once again left the building. Don Morrison of the Star revealed even better news in his 2 Cents Worth entertainment column on June 20, 1964. Packhorse/Pecos Paul Denault -There was also a Packhorse Paul and/or a Pecos Paul same guy? Labor Temple, third floor. He was in town doing two shows at the Flame Nightclub at 16th and Nicollet in downtown Minneapolis. Supposedly, a gentleman that lived within the main lobe of the pattern had decided to wind copper around his attic and, with an appropriate capacitor, made a tuned circuit at 1130 which allowed him to power his florescent lights. My wife and I had long discussions late into the evening. Hagman had previously worked for WLOL, whose owner, Ralph Atlass, had adopted the Top Forty format during Hagmans time there from 1947 to 1952. At the time it was billed as The New WDGY Your Radioactive Station! Top 40s available from July 21, 1956 on do show that the playlist was definitely rock n roll, although they played a lot of cover versions and a lot of schmaltz. One song in 57 looks suspiciously local: Paddlin Ingabord Home by Ole The Singing Janitor. Those shows included: TV Forecast, October 12, 1963, courtesy Jeff Lonto. Youre not losing WWTC, youre gaining a KEEY. Out of reflex, I punched the 63 button and silence. A December 1, 1955, ad says Now All Day and announces DJs Texas Bill Strength and Johnny T from Tennessee, and Slim Jim. My wife and I had long discussions late into the evening. Then, on Tuesday, November 12, 1963, we see a completely new kind of schedule a Happiness Schedule! Heres a group shot of the Country WDGY airstaff from late 1978 or early 1979, taken at a Conway Twitty concert at the Minneapolis Auditorium. Joe then took it a step further and booked the St. Paul Auditorium for a rhythm and blues show with great locals such as Augie Garcia. It broadcasts a conservative talk radio format to the Twin Cities radio market and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station played Country music with a heavy emphasis on local North Suburban news and sports. Ramsburg says, Let me put it this way it was all show-biz. http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html. The names of the programs may give an indication of what the station was like, apparently dispensing a lot of wisdom and advice. In ad in the June 14, 1969, TV Digest pictures Tac Hammer, Rick Easton, Anthony Gee, Jim Reed, and Don Shore. If we had to play junky music with morally degrading lyrics, wed get out of the business. 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