If you are a child of the 60s, you listened to rock on the radio. Remember the DJs ??????

[fuzzybuddy]

If you were a kid in the 60s, you had a transistor radio, or the car radio was set to the local rock n roll station. And do you remember your local DJ, with " the stacks of wax"? Remember Cassey Kasem, and the top 40. My local station was WBZ, Boston, with "Juicy Brucey Bradley". That's when DJs were DJs.

 

[RadishRose]

One of our neighborhood kids grew up to be program director of a local station. He had his own show too.

I remember others.

 

[dobielvr]

Wolfman Jack

 

[Pepper]

Murray the K
WMCA Good Guys
WABC Dan Ingram, Herb Oscar Anderson, Scott Muni, Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow and Bob "Bobaloo" Lewis.

 

[Furryanimal]

over here..

Radio Luxembourg had Tony Prince,Mark Wesley,Bob Stewart, Stuart Henry,Paul Burnett,some of whom joined Radio One who had Tony Blackburn And Emperor Rosko.
Those two are still broadcasting.
The pirate ships i listened to in the seventies…the likes of Andy Archer,Mike Ross and Graham Gill.

 

[Pepper]

I remember when I couldn't sleep I would listen to the transistor radio under the covers and if it were late enough, or early enough, I was excited to get stations as far away as Canada.

 

[hollydolly]

over here..

Radio Luxembourg had Tony Prince,Mark Wesley,Bob Stewart, Stuart Henry,Paul Burnett,some of whom joined Radio One who had Tony Blackburn And Emperor Rosko.
Those two are still broadcasting.
The pirate ships i listened to in the seventies…the likes of Andy Archer,Mike Ross and Graham Gill.

we're lucky that we still have so many of ur 60's and 70's DJ's still working .....

Stuart Henry was a big loss when he died so young..I had a pash for him when I was a teen...
Find a whole list of past & present UK dj's here
Radio Rewind - BBC Radio 1 People - 1967 to 1993 Listing

 

[TheOtherRick]

I got a transistor radio for Christmas 66 that opened up new worlds but for Kansas City and the surrounding area it was Johnny Dolan spinning the hits on WHB.

 

[Colleen]

I was born in 1946 and a teen in the 60's (graduated in '64) and lived in MI. I use to listen to CKLW (Detroit) and WLS (Chicago) on the radio. I guess because MI is flatland, air waves traveled pretty far...haha.

 

[againstthegrain]

Allison Steele "the nightbird until 2" WNEW-FM

 

[Rich]

Allison Steele "the nightbird until 2" WMEW-FM

 

[MarkinPhx]

KRUX was the "go to" AM station for me in the 60's here in Phoenix. And in the 70's I graduated to FM radio and listened to KDKB. The difference between the DJ's on AM stations and the FM stations was very significant

 

[DebraMae]

In Dallas it was KLIF 1190 with "The Weird Beard" as DJ

 

[Ruthanne]

Yes I remember them. I used to call them up and try to win things. I won a jazz CD once.

 

[jimintoronto]

I was born in 1946 and a teen in the 60's (graduated in '64) and lived in MI. I use to listen to CKLW (Detroit) and WLS (Chicago) on the radio. I guess because MI is flatland, air waves traveled pretty far...haha.

CKLW was in Windsor, Ontario, not in Detroit. The clue is that the station's call sign is a Canadian one, starting with a letter "C". Even today, all Canadian radio station call signs begin with the letter "C", except for VOCM in St John's Newfoundland, which got it's distinctive call sign in 1926 when Newfoundland was still a British colony. VOCM stands for "the Voice of the Common Man ". It was originally a christian broadcast station with it's studio located in a church in the downtown part of St John's.

American radio stations used to have three letter call signs if the station was located East of the Mississippi river, and 4 letters if they were located to the west of the Mississippi river. With the increase in stations during the 1960's that rule kind of went by the wayside. Somebody mentioned Wolf Man Jack who operated from a outlaw station in northern Mexico, that had a radiated signal of more than 500,000 watts at night. No US controls on that kind of powerhouse station booming out on the AM dial. The so called "Clear channel " US stations had tremendous geographical reach at night.

Here in Toronto I used to get WWV from Wheeling West Virginia, and WBZ loud and clear after sundown. The local Buffalo NY station WBLK was a hit and miss thing, depending on the weather conditions over Lake Ontario. CFRB here in Toronto had a 50,000 watt signal that could be heard about 450 miles away in northern Ontario at night. CFRB in Toronto was on 1010 AM, and so was a NYC station, so sometimes they would be running all over each other all night long. JimB.

 

[Pepper]

CFRB in Toronto was on 1010 AM, and so was a NYC station, so sometimes they would be running all over each other all night long. JimB.

The NYC station is 1010 WINS NYC, a 24 hour news station. It's signal is so strong I could even pick it up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. When living in New England, I enjoyed hearing this station, which could be picked up rather easily after around 8pm

 

[hollydolly]

On Virgin radio about 12 years ago, there was a phone in quiz... my daughter rang in.. and won a 5 star Holiday to Cape town S/Africa...

 

[Alizerine]

A group of us in NY listened to Alan Freed out of Cleveland. He went from Rhythm and Blues to coining the term Rock & Roll. This was in the 50's. He brought black music into the mainstream.
A NYC disc jockey named Ed Stokes bought a small restaurant in my neighborhood and sometimes invited recording artists to come out to Long Island and entertain the locals.

 

[dilettante]

I was just asked to consider playing DJ with a very small Internet radio organization. That feels way out of my bailiwick and of course it's a commitment of time in prep, on air, and interacting with its community during airtime.

Flattering I suppose, and I haven't ruled it out. But I'm not sure I can live up to their standards, and DJing isn't something I have ever considered since my 20s when I got licensed. One of the DJs says he knows my requests and "could live with" my music.

But the reality is they cater to an older audience and they are running out of on air folks gradually due to the associated attrition.

 

[HazyDavey]

I remember when I couldn't sleep I would listen to the transistor radio under the covers and if it were late enough, or early enough, I was excited to get stations as far away as Canada.

I did the same, although I was supposed to be sleeping. I would be listening to the local radio station with my one earphone stuffed in my ear. My Mom would come in and bust me for listening instead of going to sleep for school the next day.

I can't remember the local DJ's name but I can still remember his weather forecast, it was always the same..
"Tomorrow's weather will be.. High in the mountains, low in the valleys, dark until dawn, and sunshine, if it doesn't rain."

 

[dilettante]

We had a guy who played a TV cowboy on a weekday afternoon kids show and a more elaborate Saturday show. But he also played an early morning DJ, and when I was young I got up to get the coal furnace stoked and I'd listen to him from 5 AM until the rest of the family got up.

Buck Barry - Wikipedia

In his early career, Barry appeared in small roles in several movies starring Gene Autry, and was a featured performer in a touring Wild West Show.

Barry was also well known to early rising factory workers in the Grand Rapids area, with his morning radio show on WOOD am 1300, which was simulcast on WOOD FM at 105.7. Barry had an encyclopedic knowledge of cowboy and American Indian lore. He started his morning show with a spirited yodeling cowboy song which he accompanied with an acoustic guitar. Barry shared stories of American Indian lore and cowboy legends, interspersed with recorded music.

In his radio broadcasts, he spoke to listeners as if he were sitting at their kitchen tables. He often shared postcards from listeners on vacation, and saluted local listeners' birthdays and anniversaries. His programs were flexible rather than adhering to a strict format.

I remember one morning he interviewed the film actor Whit Bissell. I think Whit was the one who sang "Winchester Cathedral" through a megaphone filter. It was bizarre. But I suppose that may have been another guest another day.

 

[Della]

We had one family radio and my father kept it permanently tuned to 100 Monitor.

My only chance to hear rock-n-roll was on dates. I remember one boy I was out with who parked the car, then said smugly, "I know what puts girls in the mood," and proceeded to tune his radio from exciting rock music to my dad's station. He didn't even make it to first base.

 

[chic]

I remember my transistor but not any of the radio stations I listened to that far back. FM was becoming popular at the time so AM radio was okay for 2 min. songs or portions of songs, but FM was really where it was at.

 

[Colleen]

CKLW was in Windsor, Ontario, not in Detroit. The clue is that the station's call sign is a Canadian one, starting with a letter "C". Even today, all Canadian radio station call signs begin with the letter "C", except for VOCM in St John's Newfoundland, which got it's distinctive call sign in 1926 when Newfoundland was still a British colony. VOCM stands for "the Voice of the Common Man ". It was originally a christian broadcast station with it's studio located in a church in the downtown part of St John's.

American radio stations used to have three letter call signs if the station was located East of the Mississippi river, and 4 letters if they were located to the west of the Mississippi river. With the increase in stations during the 1960's that rule kind of went by the wayside. Somebody mentioned Wolf Man Jack who operated from a outlaw station in northern Mexico, that had a radiated signal of more than 500,000 watts at night. No US controls on that kind of powerhouse station booming out on the AM dial. The so called "Clear channel " US stations had tremendous geographical reach at night.

Here in Toronto I used to get WWV from Wheeling West Virginia, and WBZ loud and clear after sundown. The local Buffalo NY station WBLK was a hit and miss thing, depending on the weather conditions over Lake Ontario. CFRB here in Toronto had a 50,000 watt signal that could be heard about 450 miles away in northern Ontario at night. CFRB in Toronto was on 1010 AM, and so was a NYC station, so sometimes they would be running all over each other all night long. JimB.

Thanks for the info but CKLW Broadcast areas: Southwestern Ontario, Detroit–Windsor

 

[PeppermintPatty]

1960s - 1970s DJs with link to source article - reference material