  Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1325 Registered: 12-2003 |
Quote: "Yeah sure he was. Prior to him every other DJ in Detroit was mundane and uninteresting. Babbling nonsense." Wow ...every Detroit DJ prior to Steve Dahl was worthless. Now there's a bold venture into ...idiocy. And I thought Steve was pretty good, before he ventured into the anti-disco nonsense. But nowhere near the best Detroit produced. | ||
Redvetred Member Username: Redvetred Post Number: 36 Registered: 04-2007 |
Still haven't seen: CKLW's Tom Shannon who was here, left for Buffalo, came back, left, came back, etc. WXYZ's Joel Sebastian and Don Zee with the "all night satellite". | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 831 Registered: 02-2007 |
i second the coachman | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 179 Registered: 02-2007 |
Quote: "Wow ...every Detroit DJ prior to Steve Dahl was worthless. Now there's a bold venture into ...idiocy." Its just an opinion. But I have to ask who was as entertaining prior to and after him? It sounds dumb now, but letting records skip for 15 minutes, and saying in a stoner voice "Oh wow man, sorry I was down at the party store". It was new and inventive at the time. Nobody had ever did it, that I recalled anyway. And it captivated a lot of listeners. It seemed everyone was listening to him. He was saying and doing what alot of us would've done if we had the chance. He wasn't another boring stuffed shirt driving his voice as deep as it would go and trying to sound intelligent. Conforming to some schedule. He came across as genuine and real. And a lot people connected with that. He shaped his show for the audience of that time. He hit it just right. Today, doing the same thing he'd probably be a total flop. To just discard him as a "Jackass" is obviously offered by someone who wasn't even around then and is just another Google expert. | ||
Islandman Member Username: Islandman Post Number: 736 Registered: 08-2004 |
Mojo. Brave New Waves (coming in from Canada). | ||
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto Post Number: 3835 Registered: 10-2003 |
ahh, I forgot about good old Brent Bambry... and Coachman, yeah, he was a unique personality. | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 127 Registered: 07-2006 |
For the Old Schoolers it has to be "FRANTIC" Ernie Durham.... 'Great Googa Mooga Shooga Wooga' | ||
Wally Member Username: Wally Post Number: 287 Registered: 12-2003 |
quote: How about Doug Podell then? just kidding  | ||
Applesauce Member Username: Applesauce Post Number: 51 Registered: 06-2007 |
Mojo, Martin Bandyke, Ed Love. "Hold on Tight, dont let go, and when you feel yourself slipping, tie a knot and hold on! | ||
Oldestuff Member Username: Oldestuff Post Number: 29 Registered: 01-2007 |
Tom Clay, Dave Prince from Broadcastle - remember? | ||
Applesauce Member Username: Applesauce Post Number: 52 Registered: 06-2007 |
Anyone know of any old Mojo broadcasts out there? | ||
Tiberius Member Username: Tiberius Post Number: 36 Registered: 06-2007 |
Dave Dixon. How many DJ's can introduce music and not be relegated to the stations play list. Had the pleasure of meeting FRANTIC Erie Duram. He was pretty cool | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 1958 Registered: 10-2003 |
Frantic Ernie D, Mickey Shorr, Scott Regen. | ||
Ladyinabag Member Username: Ladyinabag Post Number: 308 Registered: 03-2007 |
Frantic Ernie Durham, Martha Jean, The Queen, Jay Butler, and Jeff Mills (The Wizard). Tiberius- Frantic Ernie used to say...."Remember your ABC's....Always Be Cool". He would call his girlfriend "Ooya Coo" on his show. I had the pleasure of meeting his wife at an Afro-American Festival one year before he died and I asked him is she was Ooya Coo. He got a chuckle out of this and was flattered that I remembered. He was a wonderful man. | ||
Oladub Member Username: Oladub Post Number: 59 Registered: 08-2006 |
Fred Wolfe used to wake me up on the clock radio with, "get outa bed". His Wandering Wigeloo sometimes was parked in front of the Broadhead Armory. photo of Fred and the Wandering Wigeloo http://www.reelradio.com/gifts /fwwxyz121064.html Later, I remember Frantic Ernie, on his Nighttime Delight Time program, saying that "Nighttime was the right time to be with the one you love" as only he could. He stretched out the word "love". | ||
65memories Member Username: 65memories Post Number: 431 Registered: 10-2003 |
Lee Alan On the Horn...the Cream of the Crop Until 12 O'Clock! And watch how you drive that automobile...Don't ya dare turn it into a couple thousand pounds of deadly weapon. Don Zee...two E's if You Please. Martha Jean the Queen...shoutin' out to all her workers. Frantic Ernie Durham. Tom Clay and Dave "The Ugly Little" Prince. | ||
Lukabottle Member Username: Lukabottle Post Number: 87 Registered: 12-2004 |
Devil in the Red Dress, I think Danielle. Good old Z Rock, still got my dog chain (it was cool when I was in high school) | ||
Christos Member Username: Christos Post Number: 125 Registered: 12-2006 |
How could we forget Liz Copeland?! Or Magic Mike? I second Jeff Mills, Mojo, and Teresa Hill! | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 891 Registered: 10-2003 |
Oldestuff.... ....You're of course talking about Sangoo from Broadcastle House. Liked Joey Reynolds too, and really liked his "Big Girls Don't Cry" theme done by the Four Seasons..... I had the pleasure of meeting Tom Shannon at an Art Vuolo party nearly 15 years ago. Wonderful gentleman with some great stories. If you want to feel really old, Tom discusses his theme, "Wild Weekend" here.... http://www.staffannouncer.com/blog scroll down to the piece on Tom Shannon at WKBW, Buffalo.... (Message edited by douglasm on July 26, 2007) | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 4472 Registered: 10-2003 |
I still say Jeff "The Wizard" Mills was the one... *reminiscing of the Saturday Night House Party* | ||
Waz Member Username: Waz Post Number: 135 Registered: 11-2006 |
Sstashmoo, did you even read my first post? I been around, and let's leave it at that. And yes, I saw that Tigers/White Sox game on TV. It's not "publicity" that the second game couldn't be played because the field was trashed. Your responses make absolutely no sense. Dahl might have been interesting as first, but then he started to buy into his own BS. If he's so f-ing great in your eyes, why didn't he go national? To me, a great DJ speaks TO his/her audience, not AT them. I got the feeling that Dahl thought he was better than his listeners, especially later as his popularity grew. Whatever. I've got better things to do than argue about second-rate DJ's with you. At least we agree about Penhallow | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1326 Registered: 12-2003 |
Sstashmoo, You seem to be stuck on the stoner DJs. So many greats from the generation before that; Robin Seymour, Scott Regen, Frantic Ernie Durham, Tom Shannon, Martha Jean the Queen, Lee Alan ... From the "stoner" generation: Dave Dixon, Jerry Lubin. | ||
Terryh Member Username: Terryh Post Number: 423 Registered: 11-2006 |
The ELECTRIFYING MOJO. Played what he wanted to play. Mixed it up with Hendrix -Pfunk-Stones. He would be on a roll playing funk and slip in a Hendrix tune. | ||
Jiminnm Member Username: Jiminnm Post Number: 1338 Registered: 02-2005 |
Lee Alan on the horn. My old 45 sleeve:  http://www.detroitradiolegends.com/ | ||
Pdombr Member Username: Pdombr Post Number: 7 Registered: 03-2007 |
Ed Love, love his voice and insite. | ||
Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall Post Number: 283 Registered: 05-2004 |
I worked with Jerry Lubin at the post office in the early 90's. He said you either made peanuts or a lot of money in radio depending on who you were and where you were. Karen Savelly is still on radio I think. She was one of the first rock gals. Had her in a Italian novel class down at Wayne State. She smoked in class and drank coke back in the 70's. | ||
Dsmith Member Username: Dsmith Post Number: 120 Registered: 07-2005 |
Radio, Rude Jude Angelini on Sirius 45. Real DJ, Houseshoes. | ||
Offical_birdbath Member Username: Offical_birdbath Post Number: 5 Registered: 06-2007 |
Don Alcorn | ||
Mallory Member Username: Mallory Post Number: 151 Registered: 05-2006 |
Applesauce, anyone who was a fan probably has a cassette or two stashed somewhere. I know I do (somewhere). Anyone know whatever happened to the Electrifying One? Where is he now? | ||
65memories Member Username: 65memories Post Number: 432 Registered: 10-2003 |
Hey Birdbath... whatever happened to Alcorn? He was a personable DJ who hopped around various FM stations. |
