In an interview given for the Rondo Oral History Project of the Minnesota Historical Society, Yusef Mgeni remembered that KUXL was a strange hybrid type of station. The antics of the Wolfman were documented in the 1974 film American Graffiti, and were punctuated with ads for baby chicks (100 for $4), glow-in-the-dark statues of Jesus, and oldies albums from Uncle Georges Record Shop, owned by George Garrett here in Minneapolis. 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. WMIN aired a pop music Spanish-language format as "La Nueva Ley" until November 14, 2005. James Brown and His Revue appeared at the Minneapolis Auditorium on April 25, 1967. Reportedly one of them was a one hour program playing rockabilly and R&B perhaps the first in the area. Recorded of the air in March 1968. Its billed as the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, complete with nine-piece band, singers Bobby John and Jimmy Thomas and a girl trio called the Ikettes. Then there was alternating R&B and Rap at various intervals. Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! And when youre there, youre a celebrity. The Twins management got riled at the implications that its star catcher and other players were hanging around a saloon, and protested, so the Preacher toned it down. In 1974 the Wolfman was into many projects, including a weekly syndicated show that was broadcast here on KDWB. Channel 63 was back! In April 1957 the station was owned by the BFR Broadcasting Corp., N.L. The entire concept, advertising and promotion was headed and created by Mike Siegelman, Rob Sherwood, and Bill Hartman. Each episode focuses on the issues, people and stories that impact the state. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Air Staff 1986. This venerable station was around for a long time, and occasionally tried on new names, including: This page, like this website, sticks to pre-1975, and tries to focus on popular music. If we had to play junky music with morally degrading lyrics, wed get out of the business.. So little time. Published in the Star Tribune on 3/30/2008. KS95 was beginning to take hold. It was great to have lunch with Donald K. Martinand talk about his career in broadcasting, which includes several stations in the Twin Cities. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. Minneapolis Star, Thursday, August 20, 1964. WCOW Staff @ 1953, courtesy Vic Tedesco. Its the swinginest!, In March 1958, WLOLs catchphrases were The Best Sound for Miles and Miles Around and Bigger, Better, Brighter than Ever.. Big Time TV left Chicago and so did Skotch, going out to the West Coast and working as a director until he decided to get out of the rat race and become his own boss. So far, they say, they havent found one. This is getting to be kind of a bandwagon, and a worthwhile one, even if it does come as a result of the desperate try-anything state of things in todays radio business. The original call sign for the station's construction permit was WAOZ, but the station was never on the air with those call letters. Below is a photo thats not too great, but hopefully shows how big the winning monster was. The ad below boasts of their KUXL award for excellence in musical instruction. The switch was preceded by a five minute retrospective radio collage of the history of WDGY, and the first song played was John Denvers Thank God Im a Country Boy.. WDGY was founded in 1923 by Dr. George Young, an optometrist who dabbled in radio as a hobby, and was one of the first commercial radio stations in the Twin Cities area. Photo from Judy Dibble via Rick Burnetts Twin Cities Radio Airchecks. The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. We were kind of in the middle of 1965. To protect stations also on 1130 to the south and east, most of the power was directed north. Merle Edwards was at WMIN from 1949-55 and had shows like Merle Edwards Caravan and Merles Mad House. Bill Diehl tells the story that a car dealer called Slawik Motors wanted to sponsor a show, but it insisted that the DJ call himself Hub Cap. The station approached Diehl, but he thought the idea was ridiculous he was a columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, after all, and had a recognizable name. The agency negotiated non-cancellable contracts with all eight of the Twin City Stations. On WLOL. ! Sam also remembered that the President of station owner Crowell-Collier was pretty mad, and annoyed when the guys on the golf course started calling him Cookie, but when he got to become a celebrity as the story went national, everyone job was safe. Rhythm [in 1955] and played the real soul of rhythm and blues. Lets hope this is sort of right. Another crazy promotion was the time Charlee Brown styled himself as the Emperor and threatened to take over the State of Wisconsin. Without their help, the site would have many less pages of radio history. More than a nostalgia station, more than a mixture of rock n roll history and local rock trivia, TC offers listeners personality programming and a fun sense of belonging to a rock n roll community. Jack Reynolds became General Manager in April 1971. . This shot was taken around 1969 one weekend when Gene allowed some of my fellow pirate radio friends and me to visit him on the air. And although this page is about the AM station, what the heck. The old tower was removed and a new tower erected. WDGY - The Original Rock and Roll Station. The ad below from the October 12, 1963, TV Forecast promises 72 daily features. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Hit Car Photo Contributor, Wild Wilson. The new station would be broadcast at 1570 kilocycles, way at the top of the AM dial, at only 500 watts, daytime only. The station played four categories of Country: Drake-Chenaults sales manager explained that if a station tried to duplicate the format live, youd have to get supertalented country jocks, a top-notch country producer and all the other things. Article on Scott Burton's injury during a WDGY promotional event. The studio, transmitter, and a 3-tower directional antenna array were located off Military Road in Woodbury (just east of Newport). 636 Selby Ave. Photo courtesy Jeff Neuberger. The programming would be segmentized, appealing to the sophisticated audiophile with no verbal interpretation heard during the program We will be one of the few FM stations in the country doing all music programming in stereophonic sound. The FM station would also offer comedy albums, folk music, and spoken word segments. After all, its a thing to be able to sit down and listen to sides all day., There was also a Richard Nelson, who Connie Hechter at the Insider called Dick, but he actually was known as Admiral Richard E, and was on the air from 1966 to 1968, according to Curt Lundgren (who says he would cringe at the name Dick.). Following this change, the WDGY call letters were ironically adopted by KDWB for the 630 kHz frequency. Below is a listing of stations available in the metro area. The new schedule kept the morning religious shows, which did have sponsors and paid the bills. If we had to play junky music with morally degrading lyrics, wed get out of the business. 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. FM station (104.1) was KRSI-FM until 1974. And then, nothing. Oh so many levels. In July 1956 the station stopped playing all night country & western, with Harry Zimmerman playing an hour of jazz, and hour of show tunes, and two hours of country. In November of 1957 WLOL brought stereophonic radio to the Twin Cities. A 1973 ad featured a hippie smoking a pipe on a bed of nails reading a book called Happiness Through Yogurt. Despite the stations weak signal, the show received over 1,500 letters in four months. The cops busted four men and three women for selling liquor without a license (and on a Sunday!). When even a little pimple of a disaster like this strikes, people rise to the occasion. And the response has been so good that the weekday evening jazz time may be extended. Yusef Mgeni, a radio-television program supervisor for U of M station KUOM and member of the Malcom X Pan Afrikan Institute, found the argument lacking, going so far as to accuse program director Mike Cunningham of having racist and oppressive views.. And theyre going to be handled by Rio Pardo, whos been doing a jazz show for us, and who will be the only Negro disk jockey in town. Preacher Paul is no preacher. Trongard, not Trangard. Johnny is on the rear of the bike. As an added advantage, U100 was the first Twin Cities top 40 station to broadcast simulcast on the FM dial in stereo (in addition to 980 AM). Johnson mostly played what was termed easy-listening jazz: Isaac Hayes, Shirley Bassey, George Benson, Herbie Mann, Herbie Hancock, etc. I hope you enjoy them. By that time Elvis had hit it big with Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog a cover of a black record followed. (Minneapolis Tribune, January 2, 1973), For the first time since 1973, black music was again on the radio, with a new disc jockey named Pharoah Black (nee Thornton Jones). See www.radiotapes.com/WDGY.html for airchecks and much more, including the very entertaining history of the station written by Haines. On July 1, 1977, the station went from free-form to album rock. In an article in the Star dated August 3, 1977, Jon Bream called the new format commercial, superstar rock. DJs were restricted to playing a list of songs chosen by a consulting firm in Atlanta. Try some Red Owl green beans. (blah blah). Photo by Steve Raymer. The promotional piece below pictures the stations initial staff. He may have been a part owner of the company for a time, or he may have just been the station manager. It had 5,000 watts, daytime only. 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. in Golden Valley, across from the Point Supper Club. Jimmy Reed cues up a record in the control room at WDGY in 1969. And he noted that it was difficult to even find R&B records in town. 9:00 AM-11:00 AM. The ratings books from late 1953 to late 1955 identify programs by names of shows and names of DJs, and its a challenge to match them up. Its first owners were John Devaney (Minnesota Supreme Court Justice?) Preacher Paul (nee Ralph Hull) had come from KDWB and it appears that he was working at both stations until June 1965. Some not so happily as others, he admits. Don Martin_________________________________________Thanks Don for letting me share on the site. Although they play the jingle "The Music's on Us" you will hear a little more talk compared to the typical WDGY music format. On October 3, 1955, an ad boasted that the station would play more music and had a new record library. So maybe well never know. It made for a very fast, progressive Top 40 and far less corrupt than sales lists that could be influenced by cases of free product which is how payola really worked. Even among Storz stations, Ramsburg says that each individual station made up its own Top 40. The Beatles, Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, ZZ Top, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Ike & Tina Turner, The Who, Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Santana, Billy Joel, The Doobie Brothers, The Steve Miller Band, The Beach Boys, Van Morrison, The Animals, Guess Who, Neil Diamond, Herman's Hermits, The Supremes, Sam and Dave, Stevie Wonder, The Four Seasons, Blood Sweat and Tears, The Allman Brothers, Johnny Rivers, Sonny and Cher, The Moody Blues, The Spinners, Grand Funk Railroad, Three Dog Night, The Box Tops, Chicago, Electric Light Orchestra and the list goes on. Theairchecks on this not for profit web site were recorded off the air. 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. . Additionally, the recordings can be used byvision impaired visitorsto get an audio perspective of radio history. WDGY Jimmy open his 1st show at WDGY he stated he was "..out on pass from the suburban rest-home." The policemen called for backup and the melee started. As a courtesy, once we had been exposed, the agency called them apologetically offering to rescind the non-cancelable clause. KEEY seemed to specialize in handing out these FM radio station directories, which seem to me to advertise the competition more than anything else. 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. We did it. On about September 1, 1962, the AM station expanded to 24 hours. 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 . Never would have believed this if I hadnt seen it with my own eyes!. WDGY (630 kHz AM, "Radio Rey") is a small Spanish-language radio station with studios located on Lake Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. But also Doris Day, Dean Martin, and Patti Page. Pleased by the response to a recent project on emotionally induced illness, Skotch said the station will devote another day to the subject in the near future. Again, I apologize for the quality. The music would continue to be in the pop album category, but each selection would contribute to the pattern of feature material. (And where would they get eggs?) In a blurb in the Minneapolis Star (September 1, 1977), station manager Dale Webber was quoted as saying the reason for the change was getting out of the ridiculous Top 40 market. There were three other country stations on AM in the market at the time. U.S. Patent . I remember recording Rock Around the Clock from a WMIN broadcast on my Wilcox Gay recorder. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. WDGY: Dick Driscoll remembers trying to sneak in some peppier tunes in the mid- 1950s, to his bosss chagrin. King, and the Spaniels are perhaps the best known. WDGY at one time carried "The True Oldies Channel" programmed by New York City DJ Scott Shannon. The first song was Bad Blood by Neil Sedaka. Peterson said R&B never even paid salaries. From 1 to 3, Mike Cunningham would be on the air, and then from 3 to 5, Paul Helm, the man people loved to hate. Suddenly it was true, 63 thats easy to remember. WDGY seemed to appeal to 18- to 35-year-old listeners while KDWB held a fair share of the teen audiences - considered hot properties during this period. Is it possible Don glowed in the dark? CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, One of the last music surveys published by WDGY. Heres a story from Rod, taken from Bullerdash, the newsletter for KSTP Pioneers: I ran the mid-day shift from 10 AM to 2 PM. 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. A unique look at sports. Good New Show on KUXL: Saturday at 5:00 pm is the time to listen to all the old hits on Bill Blast Hits of the Past. The show, hosted by Al Collins of Music City, downtown Minneapolis, received good response from listeners. At 7 AM following the news we played popular music until signoff. We Play The Hits! It was to be a program format, readily identifiable concentrating on jazz, according to Burke. And it is impossible to do a newspaper search on Bob Smith. He did continue to make Wolfman tapes in the Golden Valley studio and ship them to Mexico. This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. Will Jones tells us that security was so tight that the 120,000 packages were stuffed at the Society for the Blind. 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. Paul?) From 1969 to mid 1970, Tony Glover held down the midnight to 6 am shift. In September 1979 the station became known as Musicradio I-95, playing Album Oriented Rock/New Wave. WDGY's longtime Top 40 format came to an end at 3 pm, September 2, 1977. Here in my file is a page out of the July 9, 1966, issue of Billboard magazine, where the information about KUXL lives. Tom Wynn at his current job at KFGO in Fargo ND. Courtesy Alan Freed. The music spanned the black musical spectrum, from bebop to pop, delta blues to Motown, Dixieland to the Philadelphia disco sound, said Adams. 1936 ad below courtesy Jeff Lonto. In the September 1971 Insider, reviewer Will Shapira profiled W. Amos Johnson, who did a two-hour jazz show on KUXL each Sunday. 36 years later, Im still in the radio game with more than my fair share of terrific experiences. There was apparently a change of heart; ads from the mid 50s asked: tired of one-note guitar players and hiccup singers?, like to crawl in a hole when you hear rock and roll?. Its unclear when KSTP started playing rock n roll. On December 9, 1938, Tom Colemans Famous Swing Trio, with Florence Ward, appeared at a dance at Pioneer Hall, 588 Rondo, advertised as being broadcast on WMINs Down Beat Program. The recordings of the contributors to this web site who recorded them off the air may show up on other sites. Nearby Recently Sold Homes. Mon 13.02 Tue 14.02 Wed 15.02 Thu 16.02 Fri 17.02 Sat 18.02 Sun 19.02 Show by radio station time ( now in Minneapolis 16:44) Unfortunately, the radio station did not provide a playlist for this day. The license for that station expired in 1938, partly because mechanical television development was heavily discouraged by that point. 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. First you will hear the turkey gobble sound indicating listeners should call Johnny to be a part of the WDGY Turkey Shoot. Alan Freed: Al Alonzo still owes many of us our final paychecks. Lets do bullets: Douglas Rice, Director of 3-man news department, General Manager: Robert W. Smith (Wolfman Jack). But the advent of WDGY was the quantifiable arrival of the genre that influenced lifestyles, attitudes, fashion, language, and of course, radio formats for generations to come. The team could not play high school and college teams, but would go out to small towns for exhibition games. WYOO was owned by Fairchild Industries, an Aeronautics company from Maryland that was looking to diversify. Super U100, the Twin Cities powerhouse was the original catch phrase, used on-air and in promotion and advertising beginning on August 26, 1974. The call letters WDGY were based on the name of the founder Dr. George . 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. The WDGY call letters lasted from 1925 until 1991, first at 1140kHz, then to its longtime home at 1130kHz beginning in 1941. KQRS was close to adopting the SuperStars format, making them a major player. In 1950 it was 1.3 percent, and in 1960 it grew to 2.5 percent. The stations license was always in the name of Universal Broadcasting during these years, so it is difficult to know what role Smith played at KUXL. Mid 60's photo of WDGY's Johnny Dollar on the back of a Honda being driven by a constest winner. We needed new transmitters, new phones, new carpet, new roofs, new this and new that. I found no other advertising in the Minneapolis papers, but the St. Paul papers are not online. Many thanks to Jeff Lonto, who is one of the Cities experts on radio history, for much of the information cited here. Seriously, who thought progressive rock on AM was a good idea? The call letters were changed to WWTC on October 2, 1964, after the station was sold to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. 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. The article in the Star Tribune outlined the new program: Drew Durigan: I DID hear them very well in 1988 as KMAP. Radio was going through a fearful period in the face of the TV monster, and Stewart and his co-owner wife, Becky Ann, urgently called their staff together. WDGY is the only AM radio station in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market that broadcasts in HD. Optometrist George W. Young started radio station KMFT in 1923; his first broadcast was on January 13, 1924 from his house at 2219 N. Bryant. 63 thats easy to remember. Miller estimated that there were an estimated 70 radio stations in the U.S. that programmed entirely for blacks, but felt that there werent more than a half-dozen of them that were sincere and tried to program up rather than shoot down. Announcers on white stations used their own names, while black DJs were given the name of a clown, a name in keeping with the false and grotesque stereotype of the idiotic smiling Negro. The following Monday, 980 AM (WYOO-AM) came back on the air as WAYL. Contact me at Rick(at)HotMail.com --- NOTE Replace "(at)" with @ when typing email address, Curtis J. Johnson, Former WDGY 20/20 Newscaster. (The top 40 announcers were a different breed, and we had little to do with each other off-the-air.). I took this from a flight I took in 1977. 740 AM began broadcasting as WRPX, featuring a locally based MOR/adult contemporary format targeting the Hudson/St. I encourage you to check back from time to time. We had been wounded, but we werent dead. He had to play the #1 song every hour, and the others at will. They kept the WYOO call letters, to avoid the hassle and long process of changing call letters with the FCC. . (Phones at fire departments all across the vast Twin Cities area rang causing a ton of confusion as to just exactly where there was a fire.) Finally, Rob Sherwood arrived back in Minnesota with new jingles for the Twin Cities powerhouse station U100. (Guess who said that?) They could hear WDGY all across the AM dial, at points on the FM dial, on their CB radio base station, on their telephone, on their electronic organ, and(drum roll please)on their TOASTER! The country format continued until 1989, when it became "News Talk 1130, WDGY". The Lucky Lou program was on Sundays and was described as Jazz and Bits and Pieces of Music.. Sources are cited, if known. And there was one other important requirement. The jocks shouted, snarled and chanted the KSTP slogan that was spilling from billboards and buses all over town, according to a 1977 Strib article. WDGY, Rock and Roll Oldies Radio, playing the best oldies of the 1960s and 1970s for the Twin Cities! It was made by a student named Goodman, who financed the venture by selling $1 shares to his friends with a double-your-money guarantee. Harry Zimmerman was playing the Sweetest Music in Town., Something happened on January 14, 1957, but the ads werent clear. On the day the station switched over, rival station KEEY, published this rather gruesome ad. Any white man who lingers momentarily over a Negro emphasis station hears poor programming and crummy talk, he hears low down music, and is left with the strong impression that they are really different. Our family cabin was located north of Park Rapids. Tom was a grad of Richard Brown's American Istitute of the Air, a predecessor to Brown Institute. The shows were identified by the name of the DJs, which included Morris, Rodger Kent, Riley, Valentine, and Ingram. The Star Tribune article also reported that Al Alonzo reported to Newport. You can see the full shot of the turntables with their massive tone arms. Courtesy Jeff Lonto. Since it was the only bid submitted, they were handed a building worth $35,000, complete with air conditioning, transmitting equipment, control board, and paneled studios and offices. For $7,000 they moved the entire concrete block structure 25 miles across town. What about a transmitter? WDGY/Minneapolis has modified its Top 40 format to an AOR-slanted approach. George Donaldson Fisher describes the transformation: I began the Progressive (I referred to it as Underground) rock on KQRS in early 1967. I was a young kid when I first listened to WDGY and KDWB. In 1962 WDGY broadcast the Vikings games. Let us assume that the mighty CCO did not dabble in such vulgar music and focus on the others. The Twin City stations were all on the upper part of the dial at 1070, 1130, 1490, etc., but nothing below 1000. (Minneapolis Daily Herald, August 8, 1962). Note the article actually prints his home address. On the same day, Forrest Powers, TV and Radio reporter for the Minneapolis Star, indicated that the station would start broadcasting that weekend. I remember recording Rock Around the Clock from a WMIN broadcast on my Wilcox- Gay recorder. Photo dated November 6, 1942, courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. The cookie was displayed in the lobby of the Foshay Tower, where viewers filched pieces of it until French dispatched a guard. Ray left in June 1957 because he was too busy with baseball and was replaced by Jim Boysen. In 1956 the station was sold to the Crowell-Collier publishing firm. See more about Harris under his listing on the Disc Jockey page. More great stuff is on http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html. Unlike in 2017, C-QUAM AM stereo did not return. The other stations had an unwritten agreement not to play race music because they assumed the Twin Cities audience would be outraged. Photos from the Minnesota Historical Society show the Augie Garcia Quintet performing at the River Road Club in Mendota in front of a banner that says they were featured on the Key Room Show on KEYD-AM. [1] Contents I asked a black friend of mine how her father heard his music in the 40s and 50s, and he said that Pullman porter friends of his would bring them in on the train from Chicago. was? 1,135 Sq. The team could not play high school and college teams, but would go out to small towns for exhibition games. Rock continued to do well in Minneapolis in the eighties. In July 1969 the two were doing an underground show. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. The frequency was originally 1140 kc. Jones described him as a mild-mannered, blond, pipe-smoking sort, who grew up in Chicago and worked in radio as a writer, director, and producer on radio shows and in TV when that city was its center of the early days. On August 13, 1968, KDWB started programming underground music from midnight to 5 am. What to do next? Skotchs idea was to create something new. 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. The Future is Now (bbzztt) The Future is Y-11, At 3 pm, September 2, 1977, the station changed its format again, this time to country. Nicked named Wildman, he has an internet polka show. In fact, all were in their 20s. 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