It is licensed to Hudson, Wisconsin, three miles east of its studios in Lakeland, Minnesota. Forrest Powers of the Star filed his report on March 17, 1964, explaining how Ed Skotch was doing market research with a group of 40 housewives. Call them, not me. Roof rebuilt. On June 18, 1975, 1280 switched to NBCs News and Information Service (NIS). WYOO was owned by Fairchild Industries, an Aeronautics company from Maryland that was looking to diversify. For his Masters Thesis on the history of WDGY, Jerry Verne Haines interviewed WDGY announcer Leonard D. Bart on June 15, 1970. We were thinking about this positioning problem when Don remembered something which had been a national marketing phenomenon a few years earlier. In September 1956 a Will Jones item in the Trib referred to WMIN as the anti-Presley station, with a DJ called Alice Presley playing Benny Goodman records. If he plays Polk music, He must be a true Minnesotan. Sincerely by the McGuire Sisters. It was payback time. Garcia was so good that Colonel Parker pulled him off early so he wouldnt upstage Presley. After a brief shutdown in 1993 due to business failure and the sale of WRPX, the station picked up the vacated WMIN call sign, which had a long history in the market. Glad you got that right, as our listeners just couldnt figure it out. How to get it to St. Paul? 3D WALKTHROUGH. Photo from Judy Dibble via Rick Burnetts Twin Cities Radio Airchecks. (Storz died in 1964 at age 39.) Try it for a week. A history of the station prepared much later explained that: In 1956 the owners of WLOL AM added one of the first FM stations. Feb 28, 2023. Jimmy also worked at KDWB-AM and KRSI prior to this gig. There, at 63, where no Minnesotan had gone before. Everyone made up and by 1972 (and probably before) the station had a Super Shooters basketball team. Bottom Row: Jenny Rein (secretary), Vic, Nick, ? In 2014, the station began broadcasting in HD. You will enjoy tuning up to the quality sound of sound radio programming on KUXL. Inside of Formula 63 package, courtesy Sam Sherwood. As always, much more information and many airchecks are available at www.radiotapes.com/wwtc.html and http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wwtc.html. He stayed until February 1978. It was emceed by Jack with KUXL, and is believed to be the first appearance of Brown in the Twin Cities. Its IN but NOT far out!!!! While their job was to arrest one man with a gun, they instead barricaded the door of the hall with their night sticks and used tear gas to subdue the crowd. Minneapolis Star, Saturday, April 10, 1965. An envelope dated October 1, 1956, is addressed to 10350 Fremont Ave. On August 28, 1981, the station was purchased by Soho Broadcasting, Stanley Soho, President. There were a bunch of people but no real activity. From an ad from May 1970: WDGYA Touch of Taste.. Ramsburg says, Let me put it this way it was all show-biz. Rhythm Of The Rain - Cascades 1 2. He truly loves the business. Broadcasting Yearbooks for 1984 through 1987 show that the name had been changed when KDAN went dark in 1983. Johnny Canton is at the top left. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" The Original Rock and Roll Station--Shows. This is a list of AM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters WA to WF. U100 signed off for the last time at midnight on Wednesday September 15, 1976. Five or six foxes shake and gyrate on the stage each night to KUXL records, and Jones assures us they are the liveliest of them all. This is a shot of the transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along 35W at about 102nd Street. Tune in, now . Whether it actually had to pony up the $10,000 is unknown. Meanwhile, here are some of the dances the station sponsored. Another genre could be nascent Rhythm & Blues. He was program director from 1968-1971. The transmitter was destroyed by fire on February 23, 1933 and the station operated with WCCOs old transmitter. 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. Not knowing when he was writing the article, one would suppose that the Four Tops was between Ike and Tina and B.B. It was never clear whether he used it or even who he was. This page contains some rare tapes recorded off the air during the 50's 60's and 70's. Click on Photo to go to a site with old bloomington antenna site and transmitter photos put together by Aaron White. internet settings, will start streaming the file once the link is clicked, Some files are large and may take time to open. The important goal was to cover the Twin Cities. On this tape you will catch Johnny in the middle of a WeeGee Triple Power Play at the home of the "Twin Cities Most Music." 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. No doubt the Random Ranch show was similar. It was perhaps the only American commercial radio station the Russians had to jam to prevent their people from hearing all that decadent American Rock & Roll! Don's mother preferred that he work at a country station. In November 1957 Jerry Cunning did Night Watch, Twin Cities first all-night record party Top 40 and then some from 11 pm to 6 am. The Colonel loved the whole idea and agreed to do it. Freed: KDAN, being a daytimer, was a perfect station to shoot at because it was off the air from sunset to sunrise, so a film shoot wouldnt interfere with normal operations if the filming was overnight. Think of it this way. Each episode focuses on the issues, people and stories that impact the state. Paul.[5]. Original staff consisted of Rob Sherwood, Jeff MotherRobins, Benny Blore (Bill Hartman) Jerry Brook, U.S. Merle announced me when I called in, and gave me five seconds of dead air to start my home recorder at 78 rpm. Rock Around the Clock was recorded in 1954 and became big news in 1955. A license to install a new transmitter was approved on June 29, 1964. 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. MONDAY, MONDAY - Mama's & Papa's. Tonight's Top 20 as heard on WeeGee Wayback Wonders! 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. Recording are from museum archives and provided courtesy of Steve Raymer and Daniel Henry at the. 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. The Yearbook also gives the personnel as: Regardless, it went bankrupt by 1983 and left the air. Some of the airchecks are off reel to reel tapesthat were recorded off the air by the web site creator. Curtis J Johnson, formerly of WDGY. Tweedle Dee, not by LaVern Baker or even Georgia Gibbs, but by someone named Vicky Young. 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. Locally owned and programmed. They broke through one of the doors, and then the police decided to keep them back by lobbing teargas into the crowd. They used KUOM AM instead of WLOL AM because they did not want to scare away their AM Top 40 listeners by playing even only one hour of the FMs classical music. Alan Freed posted the photo below of WWTCs control center taken in 1981. Unfortunately, I have started to notice some of these posted airchecks from my personal collection are now being sold on eBay, when they are available at this site free. From the Yesterhits of Yesterday compilation issued in 1967: In June of 1966, WDGY began programming Much More Music for its listeners in the Twin City Area. So they had to have an engineer on duty at the KRSI transmitter to change the store announcements that interrupted the music. The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Because AM 740 is a Canadian clear channel frequency, WDGY is a daytime-only station. 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. Radiotapes.com has airchecks from 1957 of Steve Cannon and Leigh Kamman doing what was billed as the Twin Cities first and only Double Disk Jockey Show. (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.) And so goes the history of one of our most obscure radio stations. I thought if we could get somewhat organized on a daily continuous basis that it would be a step in the right direction. I had to park on the highway and walk up the hill to the studios. In 1967, winning a Honda might have meant just a motorbike. was WeeGee getting ready for the country format switch? Once in there, though, it was kind of cozy. It must sign-off as sunset to prevent interfering with Class A CFZM in Toronto. Steve Bowman, Nancy Rosen, B.J. In 1974 the Wolfman was into many projects, including a weekly syndicated show that was broadcast here on KDWB. The music first played on KUXL was of the Percy Faith/David Rose/Henry Mancini/Peggy Lee/Bing Crosby/Lawrence Welk fare. In 1978, promoter Tom Tipton noted that KUXL played only 11 hours of soul music per week. What Storz did was apply the Top 40 concept to rock n roll. 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. In his usual wry style, Irv describes how KRSIs General Manager, John Enoch, was testing Control Unit Model 901, which generated automated programming. We were doing just that. The problem was that by the time he got to a place that had soul food, it was all gone. ERP. Photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. [1] This station is unrelated to the original WDGY, which was a popular top-40 station in the area during the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Preacher Paul (nee Ralph Hull) had come from KDWB and it appears that he was working at both stations until June 1965. The best of what youre about to give up on WWTC is what we play all the time on KEEY. The roof hadnt collapsed, but the rafters were charred black. The ad below is for Position 63, a rather suggestive takeoff of the popular Position 69 that every schoolboy loved to joke about. The result of this was that our spot was on every radio station at the same time. Photo courtesy Curt Lundgren a/k/a Evan Curfew. and Louisiana] in St. Louis Park. After several call letter changes, including WHAT and WGWY, Young settled on WDGY, which was based on his initials. Rocking and rolling and repeating over and over.Well advertise on the other stations. One highlight of the stations programming from about 1958 to 1973 was Leigh Kamman, whose jazz programs emanated from Freddys night club in Minneapolis and featured performances by Count Basie, Ramsey Lewis, Errol Garner, and Ella Fitzgerald. Take the elevator, said the sign. The KDAN Remote Caboose Studio was used in the early 1970s for commercial remote broadcasts and for broadcasting from the Minnesota State Fair. Haines wrote: Rock and roll had a difficult entry into the Twin Cities market. Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) Bob Short bought the station from Buckley Broadcasting in early (in or before March) 1978. 1 WCPR; 2 WKYY; And although much of the 96-page report centered on the disturbances themselves, the committee had plenty to say about discrimination patterns in housing, education, recreation, employment, welfare, and police-community relations, and includes recommendations for improvement in those areas.. Try it yourself. The entire concept, advertising and promotion was headed and created by Mike Siegelman, Rob Sherwood, and Bill Hartman. 3 Beds. Photo by Greg Helgeson, Minnesota Music magazine, Bumper sticker @ 1980 1984. Some of the airchecks are off reel to reel tapesthat were recorded off the air by the web site creator. They were to buy only where they could get exactly the same guaranteed times on all stations at one time. Well, they got out of the rock n roll business but stayed in the radio business until November 1972, when the station was sold and became WYOO. When Hagman moved to WDGY, he brought the Top Forty concept with him, as well as the Mutual Broadcasting System, which aired programs like Queen for a Day and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. A schedule from April 1955 shows Eddie Cantor and a lot of Springtime Serenade, but also shows just identified by the DJ (Bill Rudd and Irv Smith put in a lot of time.). Paul airchecks dating back to 1924 including WDGY and other Twin Cities radio stations, Oldiesloon.com, featuring information about former Twin Cities Top 40 stations, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WDGY&oldid=1134539013, This page was last edited on 19 January 2023, at 05:18. RecordedMay 12, 1963. Admission was 50 cents and open to teens age 16 and over. It's like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the radio 24 hours a day. 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. Somewhere theres a story about how a station staffer would drive a dune buggy around town, and the listener who guessed closest to the number of miles driven at the end of the summer won the vehicle. Subscribe Now To Listen Your Favorite Songs On Demand! The term we are using to describe this particular form of AOR is Coloradio. Our research and general observations indicate that this is the direction of AM Top 40 radio, so we may as well start now.. Personnel listed were: The stations format was described in the Yearbook as Urban Contemporary. Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. 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. His shows were variously called Diehl n Music, Diehls Caravan, and Its Your Diehl., Steve Cannon was at WMIN from 1949-54. Skotch felt that once radio became a juke box and all talk was eliminated, the heart of radio was lost as well. The ad campaign for 1964 was UP radio (imagine an arrow on the UP). Also, they are not necessarily in the right order. Bob Allards call-in show nearly caused a riot on July 14, 1978, when he hosted Nazi Steven Martinson. Wayne Red Williams was Station Manager and Ray Christensen was Program Director. The country format continued until 1989, when it became "News Talk 1130, WDGY". Note that one of the attributes of the station mentioned in the ad above is Awards. 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.). They continued to run the spots. Just tune to 1500 on your dial! First, the typos are NOT mine this time. Two off-duty policemen who were hired for the event came on the scene and took the gun away from him and tried to arrest him. Todd Storz had purchased this storied station, whose roots went back to 1923, and patterned it after his other rock n roll stations in New Orleans, Kansas City, and St. Louis. (Both recordings from the A. Mintz Collection). Somewhere theres a story about how a station staffer would drive a dune buggy around town, and the listener who guessed closest to the number of miles driven at the end of the summer won the vehicle. Advertising sales for the stations paled in comparison to the competition, and managing both stations became a burden for the couple, so the Stewarts sold the station in 1972 to Fairchild Industries for $1.5 million. Oh so many levels. The rest of that Sunday night, people continued to mill about. This was in the basement of the old bloominton studio/transmitter site. 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. Oops! 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. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! They also played some Whoopie John and Frankie Yankovic for the polka crowd. Similar to the biggest Christmas cookie contest of 1963, in 1973 the station sponsored a contest for the biggest snowman. The only coordination was (sometimes) the Pick Hit of The Week as a freebie to a record maker.. Photo provided by Mark Vollmer to Radio Tapes. We are a resilient species arent we? Ads to rent out the St. Louis Park studio appear in January 1973 and sometime between then and March 1973 the studio moved to Valley View Road in Eden Prairie. It had 50,000 watts during the day and 25,000 at night. In 1980 KDAN was airing the syndicated Wolfman Jack Show. In July 1957 Kamman was doing the noon to 2pm show from Southdale, just off the Garden Court. (The station, planning to syndicate its features nationally, has been looking for a mature, friendly, relaxed male voice in these parts. I dont recall if he spent 21 days up there, but it was a while. A KDWB Fabulous Forty survey that Don donated to the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting called the shack a four-story-high flag pole playhouse. John Pratt saved an article from the Minneapolis Star reporting that four hoodlums set the crepe-paper wrapping on the 40-ft. pole on fire. Much More Music is simply that WDGY played, and is playing, more music with the bright pace of the modern sound. 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. In February 2022, the station resumed broadcasting in AM HD. Another view of the Holiday Motor Hotel, Golden Valley, Jack Hyatt and Hugh Cardenas selecting records at the new studio in Golden Valley. Nearby Recently Sold Homes. He sold me (for the cost of materials and production time) the following: Dick Driscoll, The January '73 Charlie Van Dyke, George Young, Perry St. John, Tom Wynn, Hal Raymond, Dan Daniels, and the Various WDGY DJ (composite) clip. Recorded of the air in March 1968. See more about Preacher Paul on the Disc Jockeys page. Seven people were arrested the first night. Donuts Douglas (news man) Later on, the following talent also became a part of the station: Jerry St. James, Mesa Kincaid, Patrick M. Cookin' McKay, Chucker Morgan, and Jo Jo Gunne. Radio was going through a fearful period in the face of the TV monster, and Bill Stewart and his co-owner wife, Becky Ann, urgently called their staff together. . He was a captivating jock on WDGY. It faded into obscurity shortly after its release.. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. Hammer and Reed had come over from KDWB in 1968. On December 1, 1964, KEVE was changed to KQRS Quality Radio Station, still playing classical music. Ft. 7013 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90042. In a 1972 article the Insider noted the leaky roof and yellowed wallpaper at the aging studio in St. Louis Park. April 17, 1973, ad image courtesy Mark Luebker. you dont have to listen to rock and roll! In a June 4, 1959, article in the St. Louis Park High School Echo, it was reported that the FM station would feature dance band music on Fridays and Saturdays. Cream City purchased the station from Franklin Broadcasting of New York. Presumably the shows Cannonball Express and Cannon Fodder were his. Ed replaced Machine Gun Kelly when he split for KHJ. On April 28, 1977, there was a voluntary relinquishment of positive control of Universal from Kosofsky to Miriam Warshaw, if Im reading this right. Its dead, it just sits there. There were a few periods of time when the studios were remotely located in (glassed-in) studios across from the 1st floor elevators of Metro Square shopping mall in downtown St. Paul. He was keeping the call letters their full potential had never been fully utilized. But stay tuned. Image courtesy Jeff Lonto. You will also hear a commercial for a drive-in promoting a double feature rat movies (Ben) and that you can get free entrance if you bring your family cat. 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