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September 7, 1963s listings showed: But things were moving along. 63 thats easy to remember. I remember singing Mack the Knife with my aunt as it was playing on WDGY during our ride back to St. Paul from Rush Lake one Sunday evening. Call or Text The Studio Line (651) 564-9349 Trusted Partners We Play The Hits! (From the A. Mintz Collection), Lunch with Donald K. Martin, Former WDGY Newsman and Morning Show Co-Host. Police said the wood snow fence frame beneath the paper had ignited at several points.. 1951 Photo courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. WMIN aired a pop music Spanish-language format as "La Nueva Ley" until November 14, 2005. As an example when your unpredictable Carson Rennie of 6-10 spins a yarn about Aunt Julias first trip to the Twin Cities. The following Monday, 980 AM (WYOO-AM) came back on the air as WAYL. 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. As always, much more information and many airchecks are available at www.radiotapes.com/wwtc.html and http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wwtc.html. Front row John Hines and Larry Carolla. 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. 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. In 1968 Red Owl changed the station policy from middle of the road to all request oldies to try for a high enough rating to at least make the property salable. Despite the stations weak signal, the show received over 1,500 letters in four months. KDWB Studios, 1976 Courtesy RadioTapes.com. Suddenly it was true, 63 thats easy to remember. This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. Some of the soon to be converted files includemore airchecks of DJ's from WDGY, KDWB and others. May 17, 1965, saw the introduction of Billy G to the announcing staff, when the sun stayed up long enough for another shift. Jack Thayer had started his career here, from 1942-1951. The company engineers actually had to install coils to de-tune the water tower before the license could be approved for 50kw operation. Well hear more from Preacher Paul down below. Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. It was a small shack hoisted on a small tower on the corner of 9th and Nicollet. And he noted that it was difficult to even find R&B records in town. 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. In aSeptember 2006 email Tom sent to me, he states he has been on the air for 48 years and is currently at KFGO in Fargo doing a morning news/talk show. I guess. 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. The year closes out with the Fontane Sisters back with Seventeen, a pretty good song if done by Boyd Bennett and His Rockets, a rockabilly band. Jim went on to work for WDGY and KEEY. Radiotapes.com has an aircheck by DJ Phil Conklin playing The Music You Wanna Hear, submitted by Al Arneson. Rob and Bill would sit in the basement of the radio station playing air checks and other sources of radio information on disk. They made a big pot of it at noon, and when it was gone, it was gone, seldom lasting past 5pm. Its the swinginest!, In March 1958, WLOLs catchphrases were The Best Sound for Miles and Miles Around and Bigger, Better, Brighter than Ever.. Ironically, WCOW eventually morphed into rock n roll station KDWB in 1959. I was prensent at the studio when Jimmy and Tac coordinated play of the same record at the same time on both stations. Heres a story from Rod, taken from, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wwtc.html, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wmin.html, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/ktcrfmtapes.html, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/kqrsphotostapes.html. Ft. 31477 E Nine Dr, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677. The show was emceed by KUXLs Jack Harris and Billy G. Little Miltons hits were listed in an ad in the Insider as Were Going to Make It, Blind Man, and More and More.. The station then bought the syndicated program Music of Your Life from Al Ham. This was best done by the Five Keys in 1951, but the song was written in 1936, so whos to complain. Peterson gave the example of Hamms and Grain Belt beer highly patronized by the black community, but refused to buy time on the station. He left in July 1957 to become Vice President of ABC in New York and was replaced by Jack Thayer. Heres one of the dune buggies. John Fine was also part of this tight social group. Wikipedia says the stations last documented owner was KMAP Broadcasting of Tampa. Below is a photo of at least part of the family and shows how close the staffs of the two competitors were. In August 1927, WDGYs transmitter was moved to Superior Blvd. ! and the association never quit from New York to LAIt was the most visible thing we ever did..!!! Its dead, it just sits there. The facts, as reported in the newspapers and in investigative reports approximate these. Rhythm Of The Rain - Cascades 1 2. Thats what caused the severe distortion, despite registering a 4 on my Wards Airline signal strength scale of 1 to 5. you dont have to listen to rock and roll! [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. This page contains some rare tapes recorded off the air during the 50's 60's and 70's. The Original Rock and Roll Station. I had hired Don French to be the KDWB PD. The contributed recordings fromfriends and contributors of both airchecks and other material are greatly appreciated. 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. In March 1970, two engineers struck for higher pay and the disk jockeys honored the picket line. 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. Photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. Hed also done some research in music therapy, and planned to play records for what they did for the listener. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. The first lineup of DJs was Hall Murray, Phil Page, Sam Sherwood, Bob Chasteen, Bob Friend, Randy Cook, and Dick Halvorson John McCrae was the first General Manager, and Sam Sherwood held that position throughout the 60s. Paul Magazine, August 1978, courtesy Jeff Lonto. On June 12, 1967, the stations application to change its studio location to 5728 Wayzata Blvd. The Broadcasting Yearbook for 1983 indicates that the format was country. WCOW, owned by the Tedesco brothers, was definitely a country make that a hillbilly station, with DJs named Sidesaddle Sore Sam (Sabean), Denver Don Doty, Buffalo Bob Montgomery, and Pecos Paul (Denault). And then, nothing. WDGY (630 kHz AM, "Radio Rey") is a small Spanish-language radio station with studios located on Lake Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For his own protection, his real identity was kept secret. It was never clear whether he used it or even who he was. From a Program Log, courtesy Patrick Sweeney, 1021 LaSalle Ave., 1966. WDGY was certainly a much different station pre-Beatles than it was as the 60's progressed. Image courtesy Jeff Lonto, Adult Standards, February 1980 to 1982. An interesting headline in the March 11, 1973, Minneapolis Tribune was Automated Radio: Nobody is there by Irv Letofsky. 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 station is the oldest continuously operating station in the state, dating to December 23, 1923 when Dr. George W. Young signed on with the call letters KFMT. Try it yourself. It broadcasts a conservative talk radio format to the Twin Cities radio market and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. 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. Thats easy to remember. Of course, we could say that sixty three times an hour, and if no one was listening, it wouldnt be that easy to remember. So, we had to do something to let people know we were there there. CLICK TO ENLARGE, Donald K. Martin at The Pavek Hall of Fame Dinner, October 2006. 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. Station manager Jim Peterson said the change, effective January 1, 1973, will involve afternoon programming only, with religious programs to stay on the stations schedule until 1 pm daily. That beam was so strong that the GROUNDWAVE signal made it at night in addition to the skywave signal. 1 Pick Revealed: Report Feb 27, 2023. See Top 30 and Top 40 countdowns from 1966 on Robb Henrys blog. I hope you have some audio clean up program. In 1937 the station had a 15-minute program on Sundays featuring black singers that was advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. Inside of Formula 63 package, courtesy Sam Sherwood. From late 1953 to mid 1955 WMIN had tons of shows that might have included some jump tunes. So they convinced Edwards to do it and he became Merle Hub Cap Edwards. 740 AM began broadcasting as WRPX, featuring a locally based MOR/adult contemporary format targeting the Hudson/St. We kept professional secrets from each other, but otherwise we were just one big, happy family. It also provided local-oriented public service information on groups like Y.E.S., Pharm House, Red Door, Womens Counseling Service, and more. Tom has been in radio for 48 years and was at WDGY in the early 60's. 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. The first tape was recorded off the air on February 21, 1973 and is a good quality recording. A search through the Broadcast Yearbooks and the Star Tribune turn up no evidence that the FCC ever raised the stations hours or wattage, so KMAP was apparently operating beyond the parameters of its license. Following this change, the WDGY call letters were ironically adopted by KDWB for the 630 kHz frequency. He promised: One day it may be modern, the next day flavor of blues. At that time, the Twin Cities had only about nine stations, all AM, of course, with WCCO being the powerhouse. Jimmy Reed was originally at KDWB-AM 630 before coming to WDGY 1130 onSeptember 23, 1969. He came with no radio training at all in fact, he was a bartender but the station executives were impressed with his verbal fluency and vast knowledge of music. 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 call letters of WTCN radio were changed to WWTC on October 2, 1964, after Time Life sold the station to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. Nobody died. Labor Temple, third floor. The Catman was Tom Bernard who at one time was a record rep (Capitol Records, I think). A Hammond RK4 reverberation unit has been ordered The echo unit will be .. controlled by push buttons installed at the news table and console. Always a different color of Twin Cities life. There were a bunch of people but no real activity. For those who prefer to look on the gloomy side of things, there are always the daytime soap operas on television. WDGY was different pre-Beatles. This aircheck has the music scoped out, but the commercials and promos are left in, providing a glimpse into the times. Jimmy also worked at KDWB-AM and KRSI prior to this gig. Feb 28, 2023. Sign-on was at 6 AM followed by five minutes of news and then country-western music for 55 minutes. Skotch was the highest-paid director-producer in Chicago, with as many as six shows he created, network and local, being aired in town every week. Roof rebuilt. In Will Joness interview of December 10, 1964, station owner Kosofsky said that out of the first 65 or 75 top markets in the country, ours was the only one that didnt have a rhythm & blues station. $1,175,000 Last Sold Price. Dr. Young died in 1945 and the station was transferred to the Twin City Broadcasting Corporation 1946. WDGY, Rock & Roll Radio, playing the hits of the '60s and '70s for the Twin Cities! Bad luck was cited, as it was the Twin Cities 13th radio station, and Lanphier pointed out that if you added up 1570 it came to 13. Todd Mitchell found this article in the March 18, 1977, issue of Radio and Records, an industry newspaper. While newspaper listings are not 100 percent reliable, the Tribunes listings of Monday, November 11, 1963, reflect the old format, with Jim Eckert from 6 to 11 am, Mort Garren from 11 to 3, and Jack Hyatt at 3. Then I was given stacks of albums of rock, bands from primarily the West Coast, to audition and play once my show began that Spring. From Midnight to 6 am they would broadcast The Quiet Storm, a syndicated program of laid-back music. Ironically, the abandoned WDGY call letters were quickly picked up by the former rival station at 630 kHz. WWTC AM Radio is something of an oasis in the local radio market. I will cut in on occasion with additional/alternate information from Will Jones of the Minneapolis Tribune. And well supply material so that listeners can excel in certain areas of conversation.. Format was Urban and they were targeting inner city Minneapolis. In April 1973 there was an ad for WWTC Spectrum, If youre not thrilled with KSTP, WYOO, KEEY, or WLOL. All things to all people, apparently: Every twenty minutes its a different color of spectrum. 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. 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. So many questions. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. Each one of these selections was especially chosen by the WDGY All-Americans, and is performed by the original recording artists. Youll LOVE IT!!!!! Bo Diddley by (are you ready?) Although he broadcast his morning show from there, there were reports that he went inside the adjacent Young-Quinlan-Rothschild building at night. General Manager was Marlin D. Schlottman, formerly with WLOL. It was an overnight smash. At the time you want it. Stronger, clearer than ever before. Format. They all said the same thing, essentially: screw your non-cancelable contract. JAVASCRIPT IS DISABLED. 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. It was also described as 90 percent dance music in a TV interview on YouTube. The epic blizzard of March 1965 prevented Bobby Blue Bland from making a KUXL-sponsored dance at the Marigold, but a local musician was found to substitute, admission price was lowered, and the event still drew 2,600 people. No audio, but the wires would vibrate in time to the modulation. In 1976, U of M student Gregg Lindahl joined for summer employment as music director. cookies . Johnny is on the rear of the bike. OUR SURVEYS FOR WDGY; WEEK #1 THIS WEEK; 1956-07-21: The Platters / My Prayer: 1956-07-28: The Platters / My Prayer: 1956-11-09: Guy Mitchell . Fortunately, the door blew open before he got there. 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. He was keeping the call letters their full potential had never been fully utilized. Find out by playing this clip. Also, a fun fact is that in October 1964, wide-eyed George Murphy (something you cant see on radio) became Dino Day and began hosting A Date With Dino on Channel 9 TV. An historical archive of surveys and nostalgia from radio station WDGY 1130 AM, Minneapolis / St. Paul. This ad appeared in March 1964. 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. 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