In 1956 or 57 Zingale went to New York as an account executive and, with two others, bought a White Plains radio station. King, and the Spaniels are perhaps the best known. Around that time, a young Leigh Kamman and his friend Sev Widman hosted Studio Party Wham, named after a Jimmie Lunceford tune, showcasing big bands, small combos, and jazz. The general manager (Mike Sigelman) and program director (Rob Sherwood) (1974), both hired from established Top 40 station KDWB, felt a major change needed to be made. Notice the Catman poster on the upper wall. WDGY: Dick Driscoll remembers trying to sneak in some peppier tunes in the mid- 1950s, to his bosss chagrin. There are some quality problems, different recorder. It had 50,000 watts during the day and 25,000 at night. Coast to Coast AM is overnight talk radio with daytime ratings. One mainstay was the Key Room, broadcast on Saturday mornings. The following year, the station moved to 1140kHz. An October 1949 ad in the Trib called it The Northwest Empire Station and morning shows featured Irene and Lou, hillbilly favorites; Sschunemans Red Rooster Hour; and Johnny Aarthun, popular singer of old-country songs. And he skipped out on the landlord, too. The station had a conglomeration of programs, ranging from waltzes, classical, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, Hawaiian, religious, cowboy, and novelty. Below is a listing of stations available in the metro area. WDGY Hit Car - Late 60's. Who is this guy? You cant imagine how his popularity took off. In 1974 the Wolfman was into many projects, including a weekly syndicated show that was broadcast here on KDWB. The Gavins sold their mimeographed service to one station per market and it was kind of a co-op into which we all poured our tips. Well, at least with the progressive announcers on KRSI. He actually bought the time from KUXL himself and sold commercials to pay for it. In the July 2, 1967, edition of the TMC Insider, we learn that KDWB went off the air last Friday when a 50-foot tower was blown down and fell on top of the stations studios. Hagman had previously worked for WLOL, whose owner, Ralph Atlass, had adopted the Top Forty format during Hagmans time there from 1947 to 1952. This is a shot of the transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along 35W at about 102nd Street. On June 3, 1963, KTWN began programming by its new owners, K-TWN, Inc., headed by Gene Posner, President of Cream City Broadcasting, Milwaukee. The crowd moved west down 4th Street, smashing store windows, until they got to the Selby-Dale neighborhood, where many of the Citys 10,000 black people lived in what could only be described as a ghetto. Then there was alternating R&B and Rap at various intervals. So if you went into a Red Owl store to shop, there would be a voice saying something like, Want to perk up family meals. The music ran a slow speed on gigantic tape reels. WDGY went through several ownership changes until 1956, when it were purchased by Todd Storz' Storz Broadcasting, an Omaha-based owner of a five-to-seven-station group (the maximum number allowed in those days). 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. By 1977, FM radio had arrived big-time in MSP. the second line is pretty shocking: Skotchs research concluded that the suburban housewife was a lonely person was too busy to hear her troubles and who tied herself in knots over small problems. Peterson cited economic factors as the reason for this change. [4] Faced with much stronger competition on the FM dial, WDGY adopted a country music format, which continued well into the 1980s. Click on the following web address for the museum: http://www.pavekmuseum.org/2006HOF1.htm and click on the following address to see the museum's entire Hall of Fame: http://www.pavekmuseum.org/hall.htm. Police said the wood snow fence frame beneath the paper had ignited at several points.. The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. Reported the Minneapolis Star, The new station will go on the air in early May with a music format, said Herman, and not all that yakety-yak you hear on some stations. He had a pilots license so he rented an airplane and he and the engineer, Rey Lark, and someone else hopped in with Bob and flew through the night to Peoria where they picked up the transmitter. The small 1000 watt daytime station was located at 1470 on the AM Dial. Thermometer posted on Facebook by Jay Arnold. More great stuff is on http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html. A 1972 article in the Echo opined that KDWB played new songs that were just released, while WDGY only played nationally-established music. Thinking about how to tell the good people of the Twin Cities there was some good radio on the South end of the dial was pretty much all I was thinking about. ' (April 13, 1965). Well, they didnt love it, and at noon on November 2, 1972, oldies station WYOO signed on for the first time with See You Later Alligator by Bill Haley and His Comets. Clockwise from Jack are Bill Diehl, Don Kelly, Dan Daniel, Stanley Mack, and Ramsburg. KDWB went on the air on September 16, 1959, as a top 40 station. 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. Frequency. The Big 5 jocks were Bob Bradley, Leigh Kamman, Don Kelly, Steve Cannon, and Jerry Cunning. From the early 1940s to the early 70s the brothers owned and operated 11 radio stations throughout the Upper Midwest. It does appear that Kamman was still on the air at 3pm during the month of January 1965. Please enable JavaScript on your browser to best view this site. An October 1949 ad in the Trib called it The Northwest Empire Station and morning shows featured Irene and Lou, hillbilly favorites; Sschunemans Red Rooster Hour; and Johnny Aarthun, popular singer of old-country songs. Much of the following information about this ever-changing station comes from Jeff Lontos book Fiasco at 1280, The Rise and Hard Fall of a Twin Cities Radio Station, available through the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. Shapira wrote about how difficult it was to sustain a jazz show in Minneapolis, and how Johnson, first hired early in 1971 to do the news, wanted to give it a try. Minneapolis / St. Paul radio station WDGY 1130 AM survey chart for the week of 1970-02-13. Although I dont normally provide snapshots of FM stations, this one is pretty interesting. In the main studio, there was a sticky sap-like residue on everything. One 20-year-old was arrested. Jerry Telser, 10-2 electrifying the afternoon airwavesJohn Pete, 6-Midnight seasoning your evening with top pop hitswide-eyed George Murphy, holding sway with the night people from midnight to dawn. What Storz did was apply the Top 40 concept to rock n roll. Its the swinginest!, In March 1958, WLOLs catchphrases were The Best Sound for Miles and Miles Around and Bigger, Better, Brighter than Ever.. Will Jones reported that they would alternate with the local R&B group, the Amazers. I remember recording Rock Around the Clock from a WMIN broadcast on my Wilcox- Gay recorder. You will hear Curt share stories on WDGY personalities, including Jim Dandy, Rich Holter, George Young and others. The Star Tribune article also reported that Al Alonzo reported to Newport. In November of 1957 WLOL brought stereophonic radio to the Twin Cities. The reaction to the music I played overnights was very favorable and the format expanded to evening hours and then into days and [by 1968] KQ became full time rock. At night, WDGY was very strong, but could never be received clearly. Meanwhile, here are some of the dances the station sponsored. If he plays Polk music, He must be a true Minnesotan. My wife and I had long discussions late into the evening. After he left WDGY, he actually called me a few times from his new position in Washington DC to have me do some bits for him over the phone. The very next day, November 13, 1963, the stations permit was approved to change its studio location and remote control point to the Golden Valley Inn, a motel at 4820 Olson Memorial Highway. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Air Staff 1986. 1 tune was Ernie Ford singing Mule Train, and can you imagine me calling from home on the phone that we werent playing Mule Train often enough? (The name change from WISK was reflected in the radio listings in the newspaper on September 19.) Here is what had happened. When even a little pimple of a disaster like this strikes, people rise to the occasion. This first tape was recorded of the radio on June 4, 1973 from 10 AM to 11:30 AM with the music and commercials out. WDGY-AM 1130 Perry St. John All Night Shift 5/12/63 The quality is not great on this recording, but you can still hear everything. WPBC (Peoples Broadcasting Co.) was owned and operated by Bill and Becky Ann Stewart and went on the air in October 1949. A huge booklet issued in 1949 provides pictures of everyone involved in the station and all the reasons why America is better than any other country. His wry, understated wit, carefully studied word choice, and RELAXED delivery won him a following unheard of since the days of Murray-go-round on KDWB and Throckmorton at WLOL. And, those cops took $350 in cash. Dr. Young cycled through the names WHAT, WGWY ("W-George W. Young"), and finally WDGY ("W-Dr. George Young") in the next two years until being chastised by the government for changing too frequently. 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. BB King performed at the Marigold on September 12, 1965. After the news, you will hear the Charlie and Don jingle into the music. It was to be a program format, readily identifiable concentrating on jazz, according to Burke. The news is left in and you will hear about the big CPI index increase. The program was one half hour long and started on October 17, 1964. He made a ton of money, eventually owning part of the Cleveland Nets World Tennis Team, Cleveland Indians, and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. (Guess who said that?) That November Ty Mack put in some hours, and it was now Autumn Serenade. Kash Box was apparently an advertising gimmick. A December 1, 1955, ad says Now All Day and announces DJs Texas Bill Strength and Johnny T from Tennessee, and Slim Jim. WDGY (740 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Hudson, Wisconsin, and serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul radio market. It was a small shack hoisted on a small tower on the corner of 9th and Nicollet. Sweet Potato, September 1979. Will Jones reported in his column on March 12, 1964: Of all the new for-women-only features on KUXL, the station reports the ladies are most interested in a feature called The Unbelievable, Yet it Happened. Its about the supernatural. In September/October 1957 it announced new programming, with more music, more news, more often. By October it was a big-time rock n roll station, at least until that December, with DJs Rog Kent, Don Hawkins and Harry Zimmerman. The recordings of the contributors to this web site who recorded them off the air may show up on other sites. The ever-blessed Will Jones announced on June 5, 1964: KUXL is airing jazz. We Play The Hits! He broadcast over the radio that there was a fire at KDWB, no joke, and that someone should call the fire department. Jim Ramsburg says that in 1956 we pulled our own music from the big record library with no rules or restrictions. Cap Cities/ABC's KQRS combo (1440 AM and 92.5 FM) was a solid top three station by the end of the decade, far ahead of It made its final move to 1130 AM in 1941 as required by the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) under which most American, Canadian and Mexican AM radio stations changed frequencies. Half an hour later, police were called to break up the crowd of 200 who had gathered outside the Ballroom when an unidentified youth discharged a fountain pen tear gas gun. Program directors like me used the more exclusive Gavin Report from Bill and Janet Gavin in San Francisco. A lot of people thought it was a broadcast training center like Brown Institute or something. The program director, Rob Sherwood, used this opportunity to abruptly change the format of both stations, debuting the AM and FM simulcast of Super U100 with a Joe Cocker song and a two-minute montage of the new stations new jingles. In the first year they logged over a million calls to the Request Line: 920-9999. Locally owned and programmed. Alan Freed found another award made by the station to the American Legion North Side Post on May 1, 1962, for Excellence in Community Service. Checker recording star Little Milton, with local band Maurice McKinnis and His Fabulous Blazers, appeared at a dance at the Minneapolis Armory on Friday, April 12, 1968. The station began broadcasting on July 1, 1965, as WMKT. When such a strictly-top-40 station as WLOL decides to go in for the classics, it smacks of chaos rather than culture. The names of the programs may give an indication of what the station was like, apparently dispensing a lot of wisdom and advice. I really dont remember which station I was on then. A 1969 shot of me (Rick Burnett a/k/a Rick Mason) when I was visiting the studio. She missed winning $678. Along with enough news to give you information, but not anxiety. Who had the key? The format of the station is actually kind of ambiguous in this ad from the Minneapolis Daily Herald from September 13, 1962: Hear it Yourself Tune up to 1570 on your radio dial where you are never more than 2 minutes away from the Hi-Fi sound of good music, Associated Press news on the hour and half hour, latest in sports on the quarter hour. Jimmy Reed was originally at KDWB-AM 630 before coming to WDGY 1130 onSeptember 23, 1969. 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. So., Minneapolis, 5, MN. The station was nicknamed "WeeGee," the phonetic pronunciation of the call sign, and its format was near the top of the ratings for several years. The venerable family station bowed to pressure in 1954 and 55 and started playing rock n roll. The state of the art facilities were dismantled, salvaged and/or destroyed to make room for the construction of the-then State Farm Insurance Companies regional headquarters. We thought Formula 63 with the Colonel was really a good way to introduce our station. Art Hoehn and Ralph Hull left with Wolfman, either to Mexico or Southern California. Special thanks to Jim du Bois for the use of the recording studio & to Donald K. Martin and Mike Cunningham for spending timein the interest to preserve some of the Twin Cities radio history. A January 1957 ad touted The Latest Platters with the Lightest Chatter on Sam Sabeans morning show On the all new, brand new WISK. 1130 AM: News/Talk: Clear Channel: KLBB: 1220 AM: American standards: Endurance Broadcasting, LLC . KDWB morning personality True Don Bleu launched the new KDWB-FM simulcast the following morning at 6 AM, replacing WYOO-FM. He didnt plan to start his new programming until he got a power increase from 500kw to 1,000kw. Courtesy Jeff Lonto. On October 16, 1964, Will Jones announced that: Jazzman Rio Pardo has undertaken a new KUXL show, heard at 10:30 am each Saturday and Sunday, called Flying Along With Rio. He stresses soul-jazz and airs a bulletin-board feature for the Negro community. Brother Al Tedesco wanted to call it WPIG or WHOG, but Vic protested the barnyard connotation. On October 3, 1955, an ad boasted that the station would play more music and had a new record library. WDGY (740 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Hudson, Wisconsin, and serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul radio market. While there were clearly some country/western shows Saturday Hoedown and Western Favorites and perhaps some old-time songs Tin Pan Allan was on a lot there were others with intriguing names: Ralph (Smith) and His Records, Top Tunes, (Judys) Juke Box, and Your Rhythm Review. It was KFMX from 1974 to 1979. Front row: Susan Bradley and John Pete (KRSI). . Jay Philpott posted it to Facebook, and listed the names: Brian Cosmic Phenix, Bob Lange, True Don Bleu, Tim Kelly (nee Sebean), Smokin Joe Hager, Chuck Britton, Dave Cooper (nee Hamilton), John Sebastion (PD), and Dave Thompson. This was on the grounds of the U.S. Silver Fox Farm, at the very northern border of the Village.The document below is the application to move the transmitter in 1927. This was on the grounds of the U.S. Silver Fox Farm, at the very northern border of the Village.The document below is the application to move the transmitter in 1927. KRSI personalities in this second Request Radio stint included Don Thompson, Jerry Anderson, Mike Records Ryan, Ray Walby and Bill Hutchinson., Urban Adult Contemporary (SMN Heart and Soul) 1988, Hard Rock (Satellite Music Networks Z-Rock) as KZOW (1988-1990), Business Radio Network (as KJJO), 1990-1992, R&B Oldies as KSGS (ABC Solid Gold Soul) with local AM Drive) (9-5-0 Solid Gold Soul), 1995-1999, Urban Adult Contemporary (ABC The Touch) with local AM Drive), 1999-2001, Business Radio as KDOW, then KCCO (Business 9-5-0), 2001-2004, KRSI-FM (104.1) went on the air for the first time on about September 1, 1962. New furnace, electricity etc. The Original Rock and Roll Station Contact Us I may get the dates wrong, but the devil is in the details and I am loaded with details. You will also hear about his time as a morning co-host and hear him do some of the impressions from back then, including "Truman Compote," Sargent Schultz, and Preacher Paul. Because the two signals arrived out of phase, they cancelled each other out. I stopped and visited him one morning, and he lowered a Bob Dylan album for me. Airchecks from 1955 57 on www.radiotapes.com seem to indicate that the music was pretty middle-of-the-road, but they did play Hound Dog on September 7, 1956 Its #1! The station was DJ-driven, with a July 2, 1956 ad touting the Fabulous 4+1: Herb Oscar Anderson, Don Loughnane, Jack Thayer, Bill Armstrong, and Bill Bennett. Unfortunately, Mike Siegelman received a letter of cease and desist from Heftel communications in Miami, which owned Y100 Miami. Rob and Bill were in a state of shock, and the decision was made to not launch the station on the first day of the State Fair. 2,838 Sq. Jimmy Reed let me sit in his chair, but did not let me go on the air. Subscribe Now To Listen Your Favorite Songs On Demand! He was program director from 1968-1971. The cookie was displayed in the lobby of the Foshay Tower, where viewers filched pieces of it until French dispatched a guard. watts) you could hardly pick up the station 5 miles to the south of the site, but the signal had an effective radiated power of 300,000 watts to the north and went right over the North Pole into the Soviet Union. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" The most interesting thing about working there at the time was feeling the surge of relevance the station had regained on since taking on the Country format. The station was one of the first stations in the country to program rock and roll music in a top 40 format in the mid 1950s. Tom Wynn was at WDGY in the early 1960's and the two WDGY airchecks below are from January 6, 1961. Not sure where the photo above came from. KEEY seemed to specialize in handing out these FM radio station directories, which seem to me to advertise the competition more than anything else. For those who prefer to look on the gloomy side of things, there are always the daytime soap operas on television. Soon they added Monday Night Sports Talk with Reusse and Soucheray but continued to play music until news and talk completely took over in August 1981. These summaries focus on the 1950s through the 1970s, with an emphasis on trying to figure out which stations might have played rhythm & blues, rockabilly, or straight-on rock n roll before WDGY, the first full-time rock n roll station, hit the airwaves in February 1956. Without their help, the site would have many less pages of radio history. internet settings, will start streaming the file once the link is clicked, Some files are large and may take time to open. Top O The Radio Dial. WDGY was certainly a much different station pre-Beatles than it was as the 60's progressed. Also, they are not necessarily in the right order. Although we think of WDGY as the Twin Cities first rock n roll station, it was not at all clear at the time. Those songs were not rock n roll. The Insider reported that it was moving toward soft progressive in September 1971, when Dick Driscoll came back to the station after Dick had turned KQRS from classical to progressive. Below is a photo of at least part of the family and shows how close the staffs of the two competitors were. Photo by John Glanton, courtesy Hennepin County Library, From 1946-1950 Leigh Kamman and Bob Smith hosted the We Call it Jazz Program, featuring live performances from the Treasure Inn, Calhoun Beach Hotel, and Radisson Hotel downtown. Skotchs idea was to create something new. No lights. 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. 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