On April 13, 1968, Billboard reported that Ray Moss had gone to California for a job with XERB, but returned quickly and with a new name: Daddy Soul. The Insider reported that Moss became the new music director in April 1968, and was on-air from 3 to 7, Monday through Friday. 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. Each episode focuses on the issues, people and stories that impact the state. 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. (Minneapolis Daily Herald, August 8, 1962). With the new sound of Metropolitan Radio coming in strong and clear, youll discover perhaps for the first time why so many more people are now enjoying wtcn 1280s outstanding programs in the Twin Cities. What happened to the records? This page contains some rare tapes recorded off the air during the 50's 60's and 70's. A Hammond RK4 reverberation unit has been ordered The echo unit will be .. controlled by push buttons installed at the news table and console. The call letters of KUXL changed to KYCR on May 19, 1988. He left in July 1957 to become Vice President of ABC in New York and was replaced by Jack Thayer. As a promotion, in November 1958 Jim Ramsburg cooked up the Radio Wonders basketball team. The ad below was placed during the Cuban Missile Crisis: The ad below is from the Minneapolis Herald, the replacement paper started when the Star and Tribune were on strike in 1962. WISK, soon to be known as KDWB, was at 630, a spot no one in the listening area had ever heard, or even heard of. 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. That clock is probably showing real time. The show was not widely advertised. He was a captivating jock on WDGY. At night (with 25,000 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. Jay Philpott was the only holdover from the old format they had me doing 7 to Midnight until I left for WLOL in July 1980., Country music (SMN County Coast To Coast) (1982-1984), Contemporary Hit Radio (SMN Rock America) Hot Rock 950 KRSI (1984-1985), The last KRSI logo, 1985, courtesy Jeff Lonto, Simulcast with KRSI-FM as KJJO (1986-1988). It has been my opinion that a big lightning storm in July 1989 was an excuse for the station to shut down operation. In 1967 KQ-FM made its first foray into album rock with its Night Watch program, broadcasting from midnight to 5 am. 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. In the wake of the incidents, a committee was formed by the St. Paul Urban Coalition to investigate them. Dont ask me what that all means. Well, there is an Alan Freed in Minneapolis, but hes not the guy! The caption to the photo below, from Minnesota Music magazine, 1980, reads. Except that police reported that the incident only involved several youths. 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. Fairchild contemplated selling the station. 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. 1967 bumper sticker courtesy Curt Lundgren. I encourage you to check back from time to time. Curtis J. Johnson sits down with Twin Cities Radio Airchecks website creator, Rick Burnett to discuss his career in radio, starting from high-school with concentration on his work at WDGY in the late 1960's as a 20/20 newsman. Generally, WDGY came in second in overall audience ratings to market-dominant, clear-channel WCCO. Photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. Al Tedesco purchased the station in 1968. What are we gonna do? A history of the station prepared much later explained that: In 1956 the owners of WLOL AM added one of the first FM stations. I thought if we could get somewhat organized on a daily continuous basis that it would be a step in the right direction. Seriously, who thought progressive rock on AM was a good idea? The studio, transmitter, and a 3-tower directional antenna array were located off Military Road in Woodbury (just east of Newport). Some not so happily as others, he admits. Wikipedia says that the station went through jazz, and all news formats. Will Jones dedicated most of his April 22, 1965, column to the station, saying, Life is simpler on KUXL. He declared that hip teenagers were abandoning the standard rock n roll stations late in the afternoon to tune in to Preacher Paul Anthony. Jay Philpott was the only holdover from the old format they had me doing 7 to Midnight until I left for WLOL in July 1980., KANO was Disk Jockey Rod Persons first radio job in 1959. Jack Hazlett was Station and Sales Manager, and Ralph R. Smith was Program Director. By 1956 WLOL was squarely in the rock n roll camp and stayed there until at least 1959, although WLOL-FM featured classical music. The building itself was very dark. Newspapers? Unlike most metropolitan areas of our size, the Twin Cities did not have a black radio station until December 1964 when KUXL changed its format from jazz to R&B. The studio and transmitter were located at 158 N. White Bear Ave., St. Paul. 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. 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. In a column dated January 24, 1954, Will Jones of the Trib called Cannon a Hep Talking radio disk jockey.. 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. 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. 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. The address of the first transmitter and main studio was 7711 Sixth Ave. No. If he plays Polk music, He must be a true Minnesotan. So far, they say, they havent found one. So many questions. Since KDWB did not cover the area as well as WDGY, that was the station my uncle listened to continuously. Billboards? 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. Format was Urban and they were targeting inner city Minneapolis. The country format continued until 1989, when it became "News Talk 1130, WDGY". They also reported that people were buying tickets for 50 cents entitling them to buy drinks. Seven people were arrested the first night. 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. What we didnt realize was how much unexpected publicity we would get in the Twin City newspapers and on TV. KLBB Building in 2014, courtesy Reed Hagen, For airchecks from WMIN, see http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wmin.html. Below is a listing of stations available in the metro area. This was best done by the Five Keys in 1951, but the song was written in 1936, so whos to complain. The call letters were changed to WWTC on October 2, 1964, after the station was sold to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. This first tape was recorded off the air in March 1973. Nobody died. in Golden Valley, across from the Point Supper Club. He left in July 1957 to become Vice President of ABC in New York and was replaced by Jack Thayer. 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. 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 . 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. On February 26, 1964, Randall Hobart of the Star reported that Ed Skotch credited his women-oriented programming for a 480 percent increase in business since he took over the station. The turning point came one night around [January 1956] when we tuned in the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Show on TV and they had on Elvis Presley They predicted that he and his music would be the wave of the future, and when we heard what he sang and how he sang it, we began to be concerned. On November 3, 1972, the AM station was relaunched as WYOO, picking up an oldies format (with rock and roll included). After a couple of changes the call letters became WDGY (Dr. George Young) in 1926. In 1954 the call sign for 1400 AM briefly changed to WMNS, reflecting a change to a full service format of music, news and sports. Courtesy Jeff Lonto. 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. With a constant bombardment of loud jingles, the jocks would scream YEEEEWWWW ONE HUNDRED! and BOOGIE! when they werent giving the time, temperature (its 72 degrees in Frriiidleeeeey!) or bad jokes. cookies . The radios had to be placed at one end of a room 6-8 feet apart and the listener had to stand about 10-15 feet away. Because the two signals arrived out of phase, they cancelled each other out. In the fall of 1985, KQ adopted the Classic Rock format. In 1973-75 Chuck Knapp and Charlie Bush in the morning, Machine Gun Kelly and others livened things up. It was taken with one of those Mid-1960's Polaroid cameras. The roof hadnt collapsed, but the rafters were charred black. 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. In August 1927, WDGYs transmitter was moved to Superior Blvd. The fire from the furnace traveled to the transmitters and out the intake vents. Due to the re-heightened awareness of HD broadcasting on AM surrounding the October 27, 2020 FCC vote to approve voluntary all-digital broadcasting by AM stations, WDGY resumed an HD Radio signal on November 17, 2020. WDGY 1130 Minneapolis (Scroll Down For Airchecks), WDGY was owned by Storz Broadcasting and when they started it jukebox format of plying the hits again and again, they gave WCCO a run for the money. Photo by Greg Helgeson, Minnesota Music magazine, Bumper sticker @ 1980 1984. In January 1973, KUXL officially went out of the R&B business at least for a while and began a talk show format. With that in mind I had Charles Arlington record, as only he could, a theme line: Sixty Three. The following year, the station moved to 1140kHz. . The stations R&B programming had averaged about two hours daily during recent months when the stations sign-off time local sunset had been late afternoon. His shows were variously called Diehl n Music, Diehls Caravan, and Its Your Diehl., Steve Cannon was at WMIN from 1949-54. King, and the Spaniels are perhaps the best known. The show was called Rhythm n Blues Time. Engineer Herb Schoenbohm, a jazz buff, started by emceeing a nightly 7 7:30 pm spot. He didnt want to scare people away, and he wanted to lure sponsors to the program. Paul caught on fire and was off the air? Airchecks and other cool things are available at: KQRS-AM first signed on as KEYD, billed as Family Broadcasting, 1948. After becoming VP and General Manager, I made sales calls in all the major markets and it never failed.Sam Sherwood?!!! (Minneapolis Star, October 18, 1966) Interestingly, the name of the act was never mentioned in the news reports. This billboard at 9th and Hennepin tells us that WTCNs radio and TV studios were at Radio City. Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) The call letters were also WLOL. That wouldnt happen until daylight. And, I can confirm that the man was everything his name implied: he was Little (411 tall), Jimmy (for James Cecil), and he admittedly was full of the Dickens. But thats another story. From 1969 to mid 1970, Tony Glover held down the midnight to 6 am shift. There were other ways for Twin Citians to hear pre-WDGY rock n roll, of course: Records from Melodee Record Shop in Downtown Minneapolis, movies like Blackboard Jungle, and live performances of pop, jazz, and country acts. Thats why wed like to call your attention to the music of KEEY-AM at 1400 on your standard radio dial. WDGY 1130 AM MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Week: 1963-03-18 Format: T40 WDGY 1130 - MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL TIGER TUNES WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 18, 1963 TW LW 1. An article in the Star said the show included skits, blackouts, parodies on talk and telephone shows, and interviews. Although the show was an hour long, KQ began by airing a half-hour version at 10 pm on Sundays. Screen grabs below courtesy Alan Freed. 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. WDGY-AM (1130) - Charlie Van Dyke and Donald K. Martin - 10 MB (provided by Danny Sigelman Includes newscast and commercials for Anacin, Eastern Airlines, GAC Finance, Target, Fairview Chrysler Plymouth, Joyous Christmas LP at Beneficial Finance, Hansord Pontiac, Xerox, Sears, First Minnehaha National Bank, and Quality Mercury. 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. Along with enough news to give you information, but not anxiety. The recordings of the contributors to this web site who recorded them off the air may show up on other sites. July 12, 1964, brought the advent of Arthur Hoehn, who would become Fat Daddy Washington as the station became more black oriented. Four people were killed when their light plane, flying in a blinding snowstorm, hit a guy wire holding up one of KDWBs radio towers in Woodbury. The station signed on with a cowbell. The ad campaign for 1964 was UP radio (imagine an arrow on the UP). Sometime between March 1976 and January/February 1979, the station flipped to Disco. Photo from Judy Dibble via Rick Burnetts Twin Cities Radio Airchecks. The owners brought in Robert Purcell to inject life in the station, and a friend who booked Country & Western touring shows told him that the area was one of the top in the country. The station was the first to put in the companys prepackaged Great American Country service. The show, Pharoah Blacks Soul Til Sundown, began on May 1, 1975, and ran from 7 pm until sundown. 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). It was started through his Minneapolis Brokers Association, which bought the two-hour Sunday time slot from KUXL after Adams and his associates sold enough advertising. According to PD Chuck Roberts, the new format is closer to AOR than Top 40 radio. However, you can still hear what is being discussed and the sound for the WDGY portion of the interview is unaffected. Black brought major R&B acts to the Labor Temple on 4th Street SE in Minneapolis. Trongard, not Trangard. On the day the station switched over, rival station KEEY, published this rather gruesome ad. The station was fined $10,000 in March 1961 for exceeding its authorized power in nighttime operations. 50,000 watts. We were kind of in the middle of 1965. Although authorized for only 500 watts from midnight to 4am, it had been broadcasting at full 5,000 watt strength since Crowell-Collier Broadcasting bought the station in late 1959. WWTC started out as WTCN radio, 1280 kc AM. 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. 1400 AM changed its call letters again in January 1972 to KEEY AM, to match that of its FM sister station, and installed a soft rock format separate of the FM, which aired Beautiful Music. The rest of that Sunday night, people continued to mill about. 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. Airchecks are samples of old radio recordings, with the music cut out. The photo below was posted on Facebook by Paul Strickland, who says. Casey Kasems American Top 40 began broadcasting on KDWB on January 6, 1974. There, at 63, where no Minnesotan had gone before. For awhile they called the AM station KEVE and the FM station KADM Adam and Eve in the Valley. The two stations were simulcasting classical music when they both went to KQRS. Herb Oscar Anderson was the first disk jockey on the air with the new Top 40 rock n roll format that morning, and the jocks and the new sounds boosted the station from a tepid Number 4 to second place behind behemoth WCCO. and Falvey Cross Road [Wayzata Blvd. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY's Johnny Dollar in a promotional photo from the mid-60's. 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. I sent time at my grandparents lake home on Rush Lake (60 miles north of St. Paul). It was discovered during an antenna proof, when it was noticed there was a drop in signal strength in the main lobe and it was traced to this guys house. Each one of these selections was especially chosen by the WDGY All-Americans, and is performed by the original recording artists. At the same time, the station will be entering the background music field, supplying a separate channel of music to supermarkets, offices, plants, and other installations, reported the Minneapolis Daily Herald on August 8, 1962. Paul radio stations featuring recordings dating back to 1924, with many from the 19. Consequently the launch of U100 was delayed three days. 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). Scripts saved all these years by DJ John Evans list songs such as: WLOL had lots of shows with tantalizing names, such as Top Tunes, Roys Record Shop, Todays Hits, Top Ten, Hit Parade, and Off the Record. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. Presumably the shows Cannonball Express and Cannon Fodder were his. KUXL hosted the Impressions at the Marigold Ballroom on January 22, 1967. U100 Studio. Johnny Canton in the WDGY control room. The news is left in and you will hear about the big CPI index increase. The station was innovative in its promotions, had legendary DJs, features like Solid Gold Weekends, and at least two airings of The History of Rock n Roll, an all-encompassing rockumentary.. The format changed from full-time Country & Western to a combination of Lombardo/Welk/etc. Did they bring Imogene the horse inside Jennings? They were to buy only where they could get exactly the same guaranteed times on all stations at one time. 1 Bath. Jim Foster was the Program Director. See more about Preacher Paul on the Disc Jockeys page. Jeff Lonto explains: To plan a schedule of programming consisting of things women supposedly would like, the station hired male psychologist Dr. Jacob Berg, whom management said would provide psychoanalyzed programming. In addition, the new format included horoscopes, James Aldens advice to the anguished and lovelorn, two-minute newscasts and editorials slanted toward the womans point of view, and 60-second lectures on sex, marriage and family problems. From about 1955 to 1977, the station played popular music and was one of the most popular stations in the area, primarily competing for music listeners with KSTP 1500 and KDWB 630, though WCCO 830 was the major force of the day with a mixture of music, talk, and farm reports. Tune in, now . Its called, Formula 63. Out on the East Coast listeners heard the original version by the Moonglows. Formula 63, will relieve ennui he promised right from the first moment you try it. But that was overnights (considered a throwaway daypart by management) on a 50,000 watt station that reached from Canada to Cuba. I did it several times before Scott discovered it was actually me, and that's what started me doing character bits for his show. The stations schedule wasnt printed in the Tribune until December 10, 1961. The ad below from the October 12, 1963, TV Forecast promises 72 daily features. The concerts were advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman, the citys African-American newspaper, but rarely in the mainstream dailies. Keep your spirits high with KRSI, 950 on your radio dial, finest in hi-fi.. Preacher Paul reported that the show drew an audience of 5,000 people! The gun-toting news director? The fact of the matter is that 40 records plus a few extras (or extra commercials) conveniently fit into the three 55 minute periods that made up each afternoons Top 40 Show. He also says that the concept of only playing 40 records was blasphemy in the business. WDGY News Room Shot from DJ Control Room - 1969. Note that one of the attributes of the station mentioned in the ad above is Awards. A memo to the staff from Todd Storz dated May 28, 1956 singles out the gang at WDGY for a job well done. Access Minnesota. Paul.[5]. ' (April 13, 1965). 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. 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. 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. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. Paul Johnson recalls the remote surroundings of the transmitter and other memories of the tiny station: To make a once-per-day required base current reading at the bottom of the center tower meant you had to trudge through chest-deep snow in the winter. What became of the building? We dug up the Colonel, I called and told him what we had in mind. It had 5,000 watts, daytime only. 3D WALKTHROUGH. 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. Then there was alternating R&B and Rap at various intervals. In 1956 or 57 Zingale went to New York as an account executive and, with two others, bought a White Plains radio station. Download Our Free iHeartRadio App! And although this page is about the AM station, what the heck. Call or Text The Studio Line (651) 564-9349 Trusted Partners We Play The Hits! The Greatest Hits of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Unfortunately the photos arent dated, but we do know that the band formed in 1954 when Augie returned from Korea. The last listing in the paper as WMKT was April 11, 1970. Storz quickly changed the format to Top 40, taking advantage of the early rise of rock and roll music. 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