  Pythonmaster Member Username: Pythonmaster Post Number: 76 Registered: 12-2006 |
Dave Dixon was a good guy, and years ago on DET Gary Burton[Bombay Bicycle Club]. Fred Zelenka on Gone But Not Forgotten. | ||
Applesauce Member Username: Applesauce Post Number: 55 Registered: 06-2007 |
Check this out! http://www.detroitradioflashba cks.net/djpagefame/index.htm | ||
Stromberg2 Member Username: Stromberg2 Post Number: 36 Registered: 10-2006 |
Did I miss it or did no one put the great Dick Purtan on this list? If not, he belongs. He made some great prank phone calls in his days at CKLW. Stromberg2 | ||
Long_in_the_tooth Member Username: Long_in_the_tooth Post Number: 57 Registered: 01-2007 |
how 'bout Mike Halloran, Charles English, DJ Dianna, Dj Todd? | ||
Offical_birdbath Member Username: Offical_birdbath Post Number: 6 Registered: 06-2007 |
65memories, Don is in the Real Estate business in the metro Detroit area. He left radio quite a while ago. | ||
Waz Member Username: Waz Post Number: 137 Registered: 11-2006 |
Fred Zalenka! That's who I was trying to think of, pythonmaster. I forgot the name of the show, too, with "sounds sweet as a honeybee"! He played some incredible music. | ||
Whisper128 Member Username: Whisper128 Post Number: 9 Registered: 05-2007 |
My favorite club DJ was probably Colin Harris who used to spin at Ascension UK, the legendary unmmarked club hidden behind the facade of a boarded up Chinese restaurant in the necklace district. He did this beautiful, ethereal blend of trip hop, ambient groove and slowburn stuff until 4 am in the late 90s. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6332 Registered: 10-2003 |
No one was fond of Hillary The Z-Rock enforcer Babe? | ||
Hpgrmln Member Username: Hpgrmln Post Number: 68 Registered: 06-2007 |
Z-rock went through so many that the few people who listened to the station can't remember most of them. I recall a donielle flynn at night and the only other one I remember was Joel The Party Dude, mostly because for a guy of his name, he seemed like he'd probably throw pretty lame parties.They came and went so quickly you couldn't keep track of them. | ||
Mallory Member Username: Mallory Post Number: 159 Registered: 05-2006 |
I think Z-Rock was satellite delivered, so, technically, they wouldn't be Detroit DJ's. | ||
Hawthorne Member Username: Hawthorne Post Number: 32 Registered: 12-2006 |
Tom Force, formerly of WOMC, is a great person and has an incredible knowledge of music. You can still hear him doing voiceovers for some commercials on WKBD. | ||
Rocket_bozo Member Username: Rocket_bozo Post Number: 5 Registered: 07-2007 |
does anybody remember Russ "The Weird Beard" Knight? In the early 60's WXYZ brought him over for a year to capitalize on the British Invasion? He would announce with his British accent, the station call letters as "WXY Zed" He had the 7-midnight shift. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 5632 Registered: 11-2004 |
Musically growing up, it was the Electrifying Mojo. He had a program where he used his musical knowledge to take a variety of genres and make it uniquely his own. He wasn't afraid to mix genres to make a good program. From that upbringing I grew to appreciate folks like Dave Dixon, Judy Adams, Ann Delisi, Liz Copeland, Martin Bandyke, John Penney, Darren Revell, Mike Halloran and others who weren't afraid to use their vast musical knowledge to craft shows. Nowadays it seems as though DJs just play scripted playlists that get stale after a few weeks. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 5633 Registered: 11-2004 |
And yes, Tom Force is one of the kindest guys anyone's liable to meet in or out of broadcasting. | ||
Hpgrmln Member Username: Hpgrmln Post Number: 69 Registered: 06-2007 |
Z-rock started out its detroit run via satellite but then became localized.People like the aforementioned Hilary came in after the station was based out of Mt. Clemens with all local Dj's. | ||
Vetalalumni Member Username: Vetalalumni Post Number: 506 Registered: 05-2007 |
WDRQ was a cool FM radio station in the late 70's. And there was the great WJZZ as well. CKLW, WGPR, WCHB, WJLB, WDET, WAAM (A2), WRIF and WLBS round out the list of radio stations I listened to in the 70's and early 80's. Most of the various DJ's names escape me right now. Anyone know the name(s) of any WDRQ DJ's? | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 5636 Registered: 11-2004 |
Eddie Rogers was a huge mainstay at DRQ for the longest time. | ||
Offical_birdbath Member Username: Offical_birdbath Post Number: 8 Registered: 06-2007 |
Back in the 70's on WDRQ, Paul Nickolous (Sunday mornings) Don Christi, Bill Bailey, China Jones,and Robert W. Morgan. The late Al Casey (who later was PD at WYCD) was PD at WDRQ for a short time. The original Studio was on the South side of 8 mile just West of Greenfield. There was a cute diner right next door called " Hot Diggity Dog". | ||
Briankm Member Username: Briankm Post Number: 3 Registered: 08-2007 |
Lee Alan used to end each show with the Frank Sinatra song "Can't get started with you". He and Joel Sabastian used to do a remote on Friday nights from the Walled Lake Casino. I'm feeling old. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 5663 Registered: 11-2004 |
Just out of curiosity here, I was wondering what made these individual DJs so special to you? Was it their voice? their delivery? the presentation? their knowledge? the playlists? or some other factor that made them connect with you? And do we still have any of those qualities in the DJs in town now? | ||
Trying_2_stay Member Username: Trying_2_stay Post Number: 10 Registered: 08-2007 |
I remember Charles "The Electrifying Mojo" Johnson. His Landing of the Mothership. This was the intro to each show with spaceship sound effects and related dialog. His Lover's Lane. A half an hour of "slow jams" for lovers. The Midnight Funk Association. Consisted regularly of Parliament-Funkadelic, the Gap Band, Zapp and other funk bands of the era. Mojo's show was different every night. Mojo would introduce segments such as:Star Wars - A classic "artist vs. artist" set, where Mojo would alternate selections from two different groups or artists, and the listeners would call in to vote for their favorite. Journey - Sometimes a multi-night segment, where Mojo would play songs by a single artist or group, spanning their entire career. Shout-out - Everyone that called into the station during his show was the recipient of a "shout-out". He would go on for as long as it took rattling off the first names of every single person who had called in to the show. 35-35-35 - Mojo would take suggestions from listeners about their favorite artists and bands. He then would choose the three most popular groups that night and play thirty-five minutes, commercial-free, of each group. This segment often gave airtime to groups that no other radio station in Detroit would play. Those were the days.....now we have to put up with DJ's cursing and talk of the bedroom, and we wonder why we hear children talk they way they do. | ||
Tigers2005 Member Username: Tigers2005 Post Number: 135 Registered: 02-2005 |
Howard Stern | ||
Vetalalumni Member Username: Vetalalumni Post Number: 508 Registered: 05-2007 |
Smogboy, Offical_birdbath: Thanks for the data on WDRQ DJ's. I did not know the WDRQ studios were at 8 Mile Road and Greenfield. I don't recall the "Hot Diggity Dog" diner at the 8 Mile Road and Greenfield Road area during the 70's. I do recall the Playboy Key Club (off the James Couzens), Strip Club (maybe in the 80's, name unknown), Bowling Alley (sw corner of 8 and Greenfield), 1 or 2 motels/hotels (hourly), a large Car Wash (se corner of 8 and Greenfield), Comstock Playground, and Elias Brothers Big Boy (sw corner of James Couzens and Greenfield). Doubtful that any of these places still exist in that general area, except the park. Smogboy: My reason for connecting to a DJ was primarily the playlist. Mojo had it all in my opinion - playlist, voice, delivery, and presentation. While hanging out on the island on a Friday or Saturday evening, my radio stayed on WGPR or WJZZ. WJZZ was an underated jazz station and was very cool to chill out with while out on a date. During the late 70's to mid 80's, JZZ turned me on to a lot of good groups and artists like Azymuth, Yellowjackets, Michael Franks, Ritenour, Al Di Meola, Grusin, Metheny, Ponty, Noel Pointer, Jeff Lorber, Hiroshima, Benson, Jarreau, Deodato, Bob James, Tania Maria, Shadowfax, Casiopea, Spyro Gyra, etc... A lot of these artists and groups are rarely played on the radio today, especially the 70's and 80's stuff. WRIF DJ's had enjoyable personalities as well, especially the guy with the deep booming voice. WDRQ often played funky music which was one of my preferences (i.e. Heatwave, AWB, Kool ..., Parliament/Funkadelic etc...). CKLW played great popular music. Cannot say whether the Motor still has any of those qualities in the current DJs in town because I currently reside in another state. I did go to high school (Redford) with Keith Neal AKA "Tune Up" Man on WDMK 105.9 KISS-FM. That station is now ironically occupying the 105.9 spot on the FM radio dial. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 1607 Registered: 10-2003 |
"No one was fond of Hillary The Z-Rock enforcer Babe?" Hahah oh yeah. Guaranteed to be partying at the Hayloft Liquor Stand. Don't forget Joel the Party Dude. | ||
Jazzstage Member Username: Jazzstage Post Number: 26 Registered: 08-2007 |
I sure miss hearing Jim Gallert on the radio although he sounds good on Jazzstage.us. The Electifying Mojo, Brent Bamberi(sp?, Mike Halloran, Nkenge Zola, the Famous Coachman and Ed Love were also very influential in my musical enlightenment. One night the famous Coachman was bragging on the air about a young pianist that he had just heard play some blues at a club called AFB. He was talking about me and I almost hit another car I was so excited. I wish I had a tape of that. | ||
Ahartz Member Username: Ahartz Post Number: 4 Registered: 04-2007 |
How old are you people???...I am 40 and havent heard alot of the names being tossed around...andy | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 1162 Registered: 01-2006 |
I don't mean to send one over (or under) the heads of the younger folks reading this thread, but back when the Air Aces of WABX-FM were in their heyday, I really liked Dave Dixon. I remember how he would sometimes, after playing some particularly raucous, aggressive rock tune, refer to it as "the hauntingly beautiful ________." | ||
Trying_2_stay Member Username: Trying_2_stay Post Number: 14 Registered: 08-2007 |
Vetalalumni You went to school with "Tune UP"? Was he as obnoxious then too. LOL It's not that he's that bad, but when you get his age saying "What up doh? as many times as he does is annoying. Did you know a Tony Huddleston too. Ahartz What radio stations did you listen to as a teen. I'm 4o something and I know a lot of these. (Message edited by Trying_2_stay on August 09, 2007) | ||
Tarkus Member Username: Tarkus Post Number: 361 Registered: 04-2006 |
Dave Dixon WABX. The WABX Air Aces "Broadcasting form high atop the David Stott".  | ||
3rdworldcity Member Username: 3rdworldcity Post Number: 850 Registered: 01-2005 |
Mickey Shorr. Ed Love's very good. A few years ago I was driving about 100 mph at 2 AM on the Interstate heading out of OK City to TX, flipping around the dial, and there was Ed Love. Never knew he was syndicated at the time, but enjoyed some great jazz in an area not noted for it. |
