The photo below was posted on Facebook by Paul Strickland, who says. They want smooth, slick, uncluttered radio., Ad from Minneapolis/St. The transmitter was destroyed by fire on February 23, 1933 and the station operated with WCCOs old transmitter. (The top 40 announcers were a different breed, and we had little to do with each other off-the-air.). Reportedly one of them was a one hour program playing rockabilly and R&B perhaps the first in the area. Harry Zimmerman was playing the Sweetest Music in Town., Something happened on January 14, 1957, but the ads werent clear. The biggest troublemakers appeared to be a group of about 30 from Minneapolis, dressed in boots, Levi jackets, blue jeans, and cowboy or Australian digger hats. Will Jones announced the change in his column on June 18, 1963, and said that the format would go to country/western, folk and ethnic programming. They were born in St. Pauls Swede Hollow. When did they first hear this new music that some loved, some hated, some called just a fad, but few could ignore? 740 AM began broadcasting as WRPX, featuring a locally based MOR/adult contemporary format targeting the Hudson/St. Everyone made up and by 1972 (and probably before) the station had a Super Shooters basketball team. Remember that this website only goes up to 1974, and I did do a thorough search on Newspapers.com for KUXL and other offshoots. In April 1957 the studio was in the Builders Exchange Building in downtown Minneapolis, and the transmitter was described as WDGY Transmitter Plant, Oxboro, Minn. In the 60 I later converted to KDWB, but still listened to WDGY. We were on the air. An obvious reference to his old employing station. The general manager (Mike Sigelman) and program director (Rob Sherwood) (1974), both hired from established Top 40 station KDWB, felt a major change needed to be made. 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. Happy to find and post it prior to Johnny induction into the Pavek'sMuseum of Radio Broadcasting Hall of Fame. The simple fact was that the black population was so small (less than one percent of the states population through 1970) that the community wasnt able to support one. The call letters were also WLOL. was WeeGee getting ready for the country format switch? A couple years back I brought you Serutan, the product guaranteed to cure what ails you. 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?. Broadcasting Yearbooks for 1984 through 1987 show that the name had been changed when KDAN went dark in 1983. The station then bought the syndicated program Music of Your Life from Al Ham. and Louisiana] in St. Louis Park. We hope you will enjoy our first birthday edition YESTERHITS FROM YESTERDAY and join us in listening to the second year of Much More Music on 1130 Radio WDGY. It was emceed by Jack with KUXL, and is believed to be the first appearance of Brown in the Twin Cities. November 1966s In-Beat magazine included an interview with the stations new DJ and Program Manager, Ray Moss. It was Helm that people petitioned to have on the station more than anything, after trying him out on a trial basis starting in the middle of 1972. Schedules and staff were changing that winter of 1965, with Preacher Paul slipping into semi-retirement, working only Saturdays from 1 to 5:30, remotely from the Ebony Lounge. 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! Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. As it stood, it was then peppered with public service announcements rather than the preferred commercials. 1 Bath. He didnt want to scare people away, and he wanted to lure sponsors to the program. in Golden Valley was approved. Save peace in the world. Rock continued to do well in Minneapolis in the eighties. 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. Airchecks from 1964 indicate an emphasis on news and prophesy. Old Joe Clark played country music. Paul caught on fire and was off the air? We kept professional secrets from each other, but otherwise we were just one big, happy family. From 1969 to mid 1970, Tony Glover held down the midnight to 6 am shift. Joe Edwards does the news outro, ending this segment of WDGY's 20/20 News. Jim went on to work for WDGY and KEEY. This is a good quality recording. The Greatest Hits of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. KSTP had some country shows as well, such as Dude Ranch Jamboree, but some of the other programs leave room for speculation that they may have played something hot: Rhythm at Random, Saturday Juke Box, Young Ideas, and Record Rack. Well, there is an Alan Freed in Minneapolis, but hes not the guy! In 1937 the station had a 15-minute program on Sundays featuring black singers that was advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. The photos of the 45 come from Discogs.com, which says that it was recorded in 1965, but that doesnt compute with whats below. Rock n roll came roaring into the Twin Cities like a full force gale on February 6, 1956, when WDGY, 1130 AM, became a Storz station. Except that police reported that the incident only involved several youths. After several call letter changes, including WHAT and WGWY, Young settled on WDGY, which was based on his initials. When you hear it, youll find youve been missing enjoyable listening Music, mature and distinguished, in distinctive settings and performance . The station again went dark, this time for good, but when? I had hired Don French to be the KDWB PD. Note the article actually prints his home address. (Minneapolis Star, October 18, 1966) Interestingly, the name of the act was never mentioned in the news reports. Wedgy Devices for a variety of Electrical, Low Voltage, Plumbing, Piping, Mechanical, HVAC, Fire Protection and other construction applications using Wedgy Cable Supports. In 1948 the Sepia Serenade show featured black recording stars, Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:15 to 6:45 pm. (Kamman left for New York in 1950 but came back to the station in 1956-58.). Billy G, the Prime Minister, started doing daily remotes from the Cassius Bar and Cafe on May 4, 1965, from 6 to 7 pm. WMIN had several shows that might have included some jump tunes. The switch resulted in low ratings, according to an article in the Star Tribune on September 3, 1977. 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. Now that TV had grabbed everyones attention, and radio was just background music, he wanted to reverse the process and create The Nations Most Attention-Programmed Station. The key was to provide entertainment, but not with comedy or drama, but with ideas and thoughts. We were kind of in the middle of 1965. 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. WDGY Hit Car - Late 60's. Who is this guy? 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. Minneapolis Star, Saturday, April 10, 1965. That night God must have liked bubble gum music because his gentle hand protected that flight. 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). CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Air Staff 1986. All stations will soon be equipped with an echo chamber for ON AIR use. Those Yearbooks and a Minneapolis Star Tribune article dated April 30, 1988, provide the details below. WTCN was the home of Jack Thayer and Bill Diehl (before they moved over to WDGY) and had a lot of music shows with ambiguous titles. They all said the same thing, essentially: screw your non-cancelable contract. Interestingly enough, in my KUXL file I found an article from the Minneapolis Spokesman, the black communitys weekly newspaper, dated December 26, 1958. They continued to run the spots. 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. In 1942, the station gained approval to broadcast at night. Proceeds would go to a charity mutually agreed upon by the two teams. It wasnt long before the radio stations heard about the fact that they were advertising a competing radio station. U.S. Patent . Dont ask me what that all means. If he had opened that door, the back draft would have engulfed the engineer in flame. The station's studios and offices are in Lakeland, Minnesota, while its transmitter is off Commerce Drive near Interstate 94 in Hudson. Though our names are nearly identical, we were two different people. Most important, WMIN had some powerhouse disk jockeys: Bill Diehl tells the story about a car dealership called Slawik Motors that wanted to sponsor a show, but 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. 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. KDWB morning personality True Don Bleu launched the new KDWB-FM simulcast the following morning at 6 AM, replacing WYOO-FM. Later they would admit that the Todd Storz they often disparaged very well may have saved radio at a time when television was stealing its audience. One contest in 1963 was a challenge to bake the worlds biggest Christmas Cookie. 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. Since KDWB did not cover the area as well as WDGY, that was the station my uncle listened to continuously. He spoke about the dangers of ennui, tedium and boredom and how these things could absolutely dull your life. He also plans to start an on-the-air school dedicated to enriching the personality of the housewife who finds herself bogged down by dishes and diapers.. Performers included: These groups were well known in clubs like King Solomons Mines where Soul music was a staple. The shooter was never identified. Courtesy of the museum archives provided by Steve Raymer and Daniel Henry at the. Don was probably one of the first newscasters to experience terrorism while at KDWB, and shares this story with us. The WMIN call sign was used from 1936 until 1972 by the predecessor to today's 1400 KMNV, and the call sign was also briefly used for a shared-time television station on channel 11. Its president was Marvin Kosofsky, who said he was not going to change the jazz programming, which had been taken over by Art Hoehn and Paul Franklyn. The station had signed off the air at 11 p.m. when I did evenings until I was offered the overnight slot with Musicland as a sponsor. Bill Diehl worked at WMIN from 1948 to 49 and from 1951 to 55. This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. 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.. . He finally had some blackeyed peas on New Years Eve, and other successes after that. As an example when your unpredictable Carson Rennie of 6-10 spins a yarn about Aunt Julias first trip to the Twin Cities. $1,175,000 Last Sold Price. Think of all the bad karma we collected every time we played Puppy Love by Donny Osmond. One young man was in a rest room with some others who were drinking, and he flashed a gun. The recordings of the contributors to this web site who recorded them off the air may show up on other sites. On December 10, 1962, the station launched one of those call-in shows where people argued with the host, who was called Norman Frederick. Lord Jeffrey, (Jeff Diamond) came to work at KUXL in 1967, when he was about 15 years old. you dont have to listen to rock and roll! A listener needed an FM radio tuned to WLOL and a standard radio tuned to KUOM for full stereophonic effect. For his Masters Thesis on the history of WDGY, Jerry Verne Haines interviewed WDGY announcer Leonard D. Bart on June 15, 1970. Preacher Paul reported that the show drew an audience of 5,000 people! A September 21, 1958 playlist shows jocks Bob Bradley, Tom Wynn, Jim Boysen, Dan Anderson, and Sandy Singer. Donald K. Martin at the mic again for a July 7th, 2008 interview. Labor Temple, third floor. The contributed recordings fromfriends and contributors of both airchecks and other material are greatly appreciated. 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. Donald K. Martin and Rick Burnett, July 7th, 2008, Mike Cunningham (Left) andJim du Bois (Richt) in the studio with Donald K. Martin, WDGY December 1972 Survey Contributed by Donald K. Martin, WDGY December 1972 Survey Back Cover (page 4), WDGY - Don Martin in undated photo he contributed. 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 . Or when Bill Bennett 2-6 cuts in on Nancy Wilsons HOW GLAD I AM to tell her about THE BOY FROM IMPANEMA. They made a big pot of it at noon, and when it was gone, it was gone, seldom lasting past 5pm. First, the story of the building. (The name change from WISK was reflected in the radio listings in the newspaper on September 19.) The music first played on KUXL was of the Percy Faith/David Rose/Henry Mancini/Peggy Lee/Bing Crosby/Lawrence Welk fare. KQRS was close to adopting the SuperStars format, making them a major player. By the 1960s, the station didn't use the name itself, but the name stuck among people in the radio industry for many years to come. Look Younger is on twice. KDWBs general manager at the time, Gary Stevens, claimed that they did not buy WYOO-FM to shut down a competitor, but rather to take advantage of what they saw as a good deal. Collins, a transmitter company located in Peoria, Ill., I think, had a 1,000-watt transmitter and a 630 crystal. WDGY moved from 1130 to 630 AM and became sports station KFAN. No Top Forty. 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. The street address was 6541 Military Road. A note in the Minneapolis Tribune dated December 10, 1965, said that The discotheque scene at St. Pauls Ebony Lounge which disappeared a couple of weeks ago, is back in action, with much the same cast, at Big Als in Minneapolis. Guaranteed to make life more fun. The stations schedule wasnt printed in the Tribune until December 10, 1961. The following is from an email dated September 19, 2007, from Chuck Blore to Rick Burnett describing the Formula 63 and 63 Thats Easy to Remember promotions that Blore devised when KDWB first went on the air. (Were they ahead of their time?) At about 9:30 pm, someone with a shotgun wounded three police officers who, with about 20 others, were trying to break up a crowd of about 200 who had gathered at the site of a firebombing. Cap Cities/ABC's KQRS combo (1440 AM and 92.5 FM) was a solid top three station by the end of the decade, far ahead of Then I noticed the missing tower lights. 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. Yeah, but I hated newspaper advertising. On June 3, 1963, KTWN began programming by its new owners, K-TWN, Inc., headed by Gene Posner, President of Cream City Broadcasting, Milwaukee. The feeling seemed to be we are not going to advertise on that station., Jim Ramsburg, an early WDGY jock, says we were given strict orders never to utter the phrase, Rock & Roll, because it was black slang for sex. WTCN Radios history goes back to September 1934, and even further back if you count its predecessors, but Ill just start with the 1950s. Download Our Free iHeartRadio App! Hammer and Reed had come over from KDWB in 1968. This station was pretty freewheeling and one could hear Jimmy Dean in the same breath as the Supremes. Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! 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.. Hobart also announced the increase in power. You will hear Curt share stories on WDGY personalities, including Jim Dandy, Rich Holter, George Young and others. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. Charlie does a ply on the Chicken Man radio series by introducing Donald as "the most fantastic newsman the world has ever known." This survey provided by Steve Raymer of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. 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. WDGY (740 AM, " The True Oldies Channel ") is a daytime-only oldies radio station serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. The station will feature top cuts from current albums along with a selection of singles, with no jingle package and segued sets. In the meantime, it was Zingale who arranged for Augie Garcia to open for Elvis when the King came to town in May 1956. He had a pilots license so he rented an airplane and he and the engineer, Rey Lark, and someone else hopped in with Bob and flew through the night to Peoria where they picked up the transmitter. The names of the programs may give an indication of what the station was like, apparently dispensing a lot of wisdom and advice. In 1967 KQ-FM made its first foray into album rock with its Night Watch program, broadcasting from midnight to 5 am. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY's Johnny Dollar in a promotional photo from the mid-60's. The new station would be broadcast at 1570 kilocycles, way at the top of the AM dial, at only 500 watts, daytime only. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, One of the last music surveys published by WDGY. Jones explained that Lanphier was a former Milwaukee radio and TV man, and would act as the station manager as well as owner. The venerable family station bowed to pressure in 1954 and 55 and started playing rock n roll. He was not an on-air personality, although Secret Stash tells us that he once did a commercial in his normal voice and it was taped by a friend of Preacher Pauls who was learning how to run the board. She missed winning $678. Enter Bob Reed the news director. "WDGY Means the Most Music and the Most Money." Studio and Transmitter were at 611 Frontenac Place, St. Paul. Program Director Sam Sherwood: I so remember how Don French was on the hot seat for getting hit by such a large prizehe and I argued: Ill take the hitno I willno no, I will and thats the way it went until the cookie picture hit the front pages of news papers across the country.THEN.we became heroes, both Don and I. The roof hadnt collapsed, but the rafters were charred black. Fortunately, the door blew open before he got there. From an ad from May 1970: WDGYA Touch of Taste.. This month the losses should be fairly slight and we have every hope that June will see the station in the black for the first time in a long time. 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. Will Jones of the Trib noted on January 11, 1957, that the station suddenly decided to go to symphonic, opera and chamber music. 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. In the photo below, the KUXL trailer is in the parking area behind the building. The Original Rock and Roll Station Contact Us . The reels are changed by an actual human person., Oldies, the all-timers but not whammo smashes, not instantly recognizable but they sold a lot., Top country hits new reels sent in weekly. So, our problem was not only to be the best station on the air there, we first had to let them know there was a there there. 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.. Hed also done some research in music therapy, and planned to play records for what they did for the listener. There were fire trucks everywhere. But the Country format was gaining acceptance among older baby-boomers and melding that growth with WDGYs big 50,000-watt signal gave new purpose to the station and validation to a growing, willing audience that perhaps Country musics time was coming. KLBB Building in 2014, courtesy Reed Hagen, For airchecks from WMIN, see http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wmin.html. 1936 ad below courtesy Jeff Lonto. 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. In 1933, Dr. Young was granted a license for W9XAT, an experimental mechanical television station. http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html. Photo courtesy St. Paul Police Historical Society. A memo to the staff from Todd Storz dated May 28, 1956 singles out the gang at WDGY for a job well done. probably not. Standing from left to right: Steve Shannon and Ed OBrien. He left in July 1957 to become Vice President of ABC in New York and was replaced by Jack Thayer. It held some interesting insights not revealed in the one Will Jones did (on August 18, above). The feeling seemed to be we are not going to advertise on that station., Jim Ramsburg, an early WDGY jock, says we were given strict orders never to utter the phrase, Rock & Roll, because it was black slang for sex. After the wayward flight to Illinois and a non-stop trek through Wisconsin, the transmitter arrived, tied to a U-Haul trailer pulled by a rental car. The radio studios are on Utica Avenue South in St. Louis Park . 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. We have a contract and youll be billed for 2 spots an hour for 2 days. 740 kHz AM oldies; The call letters were changed back to WMIN later that year. The news is left in and you will hear about the big CPI index increase. In January 1973, KUXL officially went out of the R&B business at least for a while and began a talk show format. What we didnt realize was how much unexpected publicity we would get in the Twin City newspapers and on TV. And so goes the history of one of our most obscure radio stations. 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. KDWB went off the air at 5:21 PM, Sunday Afternoon, and was back on the air on Tuesday. On August 28, 1981, the station was purchased by Soho Broadcasting, Stanley Soho, President. Where is the equipment? The first of the stations catchphrases was My Mommy Listens to KDWB., Ad from September 19, 1959 courtesy Jeff Lonto. The State put it up for sale, and three cheeky guys, Roger Wilson, William Woods, and Dave Herman, put in a bid for $200. WMIN aired a pop music Spanish-language format as "La Nueva Ley" until November 14, 2005. They were from Andover, MN. Storz also ended the affiliation with the Mutual network. Fairchild subsequently dismissed the entire staff and overhauled both stations. Radio contacts Time in Minneapolis: 13:28, 02.27.2023 Install the free Online Radio Box application for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! In 1952 everyone on the staff had a corny western name: Sam Sabean (aka Sam Sherwood) started out with the Sam Sabean Show in 1954, which became Hobo Sam and His Bum Program from about November 1954-March 1955. Formula 63, will relieve ennui he promised right from the first moment you try it. If you look carefully, you can see the old WDGY transmitter through the studio glass. At 7 AM following the news we played popular music until signoff. On August 19, 1963, the stations license was voluntarily assigned to Edward D. Skotch. Visit http://www.radiotapes.com for historic airchecks of Minneapolis/St. Apparently the station had a wide variety of programs. In 1962 WDGY broadcast the Vikings games. ! 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. Steve Bowman, Nancy Rosen, B.J. By 1977, FM radio had arrived big-time in MSP. Since one company could not own more than one AM or more than one FM station in the same market at the time, they needed to find a buyer for the FM station, and sought out the owners of various AM stations in the area. CLICK TO ENLARGE, Donald K. Martin at The Pavek Hall of Fame Dinner, October 2006. This is a list of AM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters WA to WF. Im going to try Minnesota to the bust before I try and move on someplace, because I feel that black programming is needed here more than anyplace else. (Minneapolis Star, August 3, 1976). Billboards? WLOLs Swing Club had Dan Anderson on Saturdays from noon to 6 pm., also Top 40 and then some.. (1970's), The WDGY Production Room. The first station in the country to receive disciplinary action was KDWB. 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. The exact date of the change seems a little murky (unlike the very sharp change to country below), but experts say it was probably in January 1977. At that time, the Twin Cities had only about nine stations, all AM, of course, with WCCO being the powerhouse. Commercial from a 1988 Beta recording of the TV movie Leap of Faith on Minneapolis, Minnesota channel 4 WCCO-TV This photo was taken in 1969 after he came back to replace Rob Sherwood when he left for KDWB-AM. In March 1970, two engineers struck for higher pay and the disk jockeys honored the picket line. Like an acid-etching, the events of that day in early December 1969 are sharp as cut crystal. Talk about a time frame, eh?) Tom was a grad of Richard Brown's American Istitute of the Air, a predecessor to Brown Institute. 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. Some notes about this copy. Glover finally finally took two weeks vacation in New York City and never came back. [He became a freelance writer and contributing editor for Circus, a music magazine.]. Rob and Bill would sit in the basement of the radio station playing air checks and other sources of radio information on disk. Paul?) See more of WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll . 1130 kHz (also on HD Radio) 106.1 WLHS-FM-HD4. Garcia was so good that Colonel Parker pulled him off early so he wouldnt upstage Presley. In January 1971 the station started to gradually move away from the oldies and gradually more toward album cuts. WDGY/Minneapolis has modified its Top 40 format to an AOR-slanted approach. CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE, KOMA Guide. 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