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KJMZ 100.3 JAMZ

One of my all time favorite stations. Great music, live/local personalities (24/7)and promotions. They were always on the streets and doing stunts. I'd be at a stoplight and you would hear the station playing on a lot of car radios. The morning show with Russ Par and his news guy was terrific. Also liked their Friday night mix show.
 
That station was a classic. Never could be replaced.
 
I was fortunate to work for that station during the days on McRee in Lake Highlands and at the studios on Rochelle in Irving....some of the best radio memories of my life. Here's to Elroy Smith, Tom Casey, Russ Parr, Al B Bad, Ken Bell, Keith Solice, Jammin Jay Michaels, Sammi Gonzalez, Mary Rose "Champagne", Jennifer "Pebbles" Mary, Alfredas, EZ Street, Helen Little, Al Roberts. I'm sure I've left some names out. I have some airchecks from those days....will try and post sometime.
 
jeffdfw said:
What is the song the stunted with before flipping? I believe they flipped on Christmas Day didn't they?
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Jam On It by Newcleus.

I remember that day. I also remember the day they went from KJMZ to KRBV. Last song for Jamz was End of the Road by Boyz II Men and the First song as V100 was Lets Get it On by Marvin Gaye. Joyner turned V100 on.

Sept. 01, 1995 at 3PM
 
salemjedi54 said:
jeffdfw said:
What is the song the stunted with before flipping? I believe they flipped on Christmas Day didn't they?
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Jam On It by Newcleus.

I remember that day. I also remember the day they went from KJMZ to KRBV. Last song for Jamz was End of the Road by Boyz II Men and the First song as V100 was Lets Get it On by Marvin Gaye. Joyner turned V100 on.

Sept. 01, 1995 at 3PM
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@Salem

Guess I answered my own question at the same time... I am listening to "Jam On It" right now...
 
Does anyone remember Russ Parr (Bobby Jimmy) and "To Da Bowl Ya'll"? Or "Somebody Farted"? We made the video for "To Da Bowl Ya'll" down in the West End"...a blast!
 
Belbiv, I'm looking forward to hearing those Jamz airchecks.
 
I miss 100.3 Jamz still as well. I've noticed a few oval "XO Radio" bumper stickers in DFW now, touting the Liberman duo of 101.7/107.9. From a distance, I've been fooled every time, thinking these were old "V-100" stickers, which were the same size with the same black background.

Yeah, I remember being pretty disappointed on that Friday, September 1, 1995 at 3PM (for whatever reason, I remember sitting at Northwest Hwy and Douglas at the light when the change happened,) but 100.3 Jamz had been veering away from its original premise, which was to be mainly R&B currents but with a multi-cultural flair. Losing a lot of the original jocks didn't help, and EZ Street doing a public affairs show from 9-10 every night was kinda strange. Traded Facebook emails with Jennifer Pebbles Mery not long ago...miss her and the Quiet Storm on 100.3. She's long out of radio, but still in the area.

BelBiv...so could someone assume, since "Devoe" is missing from your nickname, that you might be Rick DeVoe from 100.3 Jamz?? Rick's with KLAK these days, last I heard.
 
Mike...this is "Rick DeVoe" from Jamz. I used the name "Michael Speerz" my first 2 years at the station. Haven't been at KLAK since February of this year. I'm at The Ticket now--really enjoying it!!
 
Man, let's stop talking about this. I'm about to tear up!
 
MikeShannon914 said:
I miss 100.3 Jamz still as well. I've noticed a few oval "XO Radio" bumper stickers in DFW now, touting the Liberman duo of 101.7/107.9. From a distance, I've been fooled every time, thinking these were old "V-100" stickers, which were the same size with the same black background.

Yeah, I remember being pretty disappointed on that Friday, September 1, 1995 at 3PM (for whatever reason, I remember sitting at Northwest Hwy and Douglas at the light when the change happened,) but 100.3 Jamz had been veering away from its original premise, which was to be mainly R&B currents but with a multi-cultural flair. Losing a lot of the original jocks didn't help, and EZ Street doing a public affairs show from 9-10 every night was kinda strange. Traded Facebook emails with Jennifer Pebbles Mery not long ago...miss her and the Quiet Storm on 100.3. She's long out of radio, but still in the area.

BelBiv...so could someone assume, since "Devoe" is missing from your nickname, that you might be Rick DeVoe from 100.3 Jamz?? Rick's with KLAK these days, last I heard.
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I think I still have a 100.3 Jamz bumper sticker. I know I have some balloons. I have some V-100 shirts as well.

A station that I really miss is KNOK 107.5....now that was a station.
 
I had the opportunity to be a part of 100.3 Jamz from the December 1998 sign on until the Sept 2005 sign off (with the exception of 90 - 92 in Atlanta)....working with Elroy Smith in the early days and later with Tom Casey (Calacocci) in the later days was like taking an excellerated Master's Degree course in radio execution, promotion, team building, combat, etc. It was the best experience in radio that I have ever had! Who can forget our intern in the "ape suit" standing on top of the Jamz Van Friday night at 8:00 in front of Tony Roma's in the West End thowing out $200.00 in $1.00 bills...sure the promotion only last a few minutes because DPD made us leave but we did make Ch 4's 10:00 news that night and the Morning News the next day. I remember hanging out in the McCree studio with a new female rapper that was guest hosting the "Thunderstorm" with Al B. Bad...she would later become the world famous Queen Latifah...or the promotion that we did with the Texas Rangers where I met one of the owners and held up a Jamz t-shirt over his suit as we took a picture together....that picture ended up somewhere in the promotions office "file cabinet" because what urban radio trade magazine would ever publish a picture of some guy that no one had ever heard of named George W. Bush!....We were able to do some of the things that we did because we had a company (Summit Broadcasting) and people running the company (Mary Catherine Sneed & Owen Webber) that believed in it's people and gave us the tools to play the game...
 
If anybody have any Jamz airchecks, post them and I will post the ones that I have.
 
salemjedi54 said:
A station that I really miss is KNOK 107.5....now that was a station.
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You're right, but I can remember it a lot further back than you. I'm talking mid 70's to early 80's. Back around 1975 it was R&B, disco and some tasty jazz tunes that really got adventurous at night. A couple of songs that epitomized their approach (at least for me, anyway) were Donald Byrd's "Places and Spaces" and Donna Summer's "Love to Love You, Baby" (the long and very explicit version that took one whole side of the album).

That's what I liked about Jamz in its prime, too: there was nothing else like it in the market.
 
jd said:
salemjedi54 said:
A station that I really miss is KNOK 107.5....now that was a station.
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You're right, but I can remember it a lot further back than you. I'm talking mid 70's to early 80's. Back around 1975 it was R&B, disco and some tasty jazz tunes that really got adventurous at night. A couple of songs that epitomized their approach (at least for me, anyway) were Donald Byrd's "Places and Spaces" and Donna Summer's "Love to Love You, Baby" (the long and very explicit version that took one whole side of the album).

That's what I liked about Jamz in its prime, too: there was nothing else like it in the market.
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I remember it when from the mid 70's right up to when they flipped it to KDLZ...With Woody Woods in the evenings.
 
belbiv said:
Does anyone remember Russ Parr (Bobby Jimmy) and "To Da Bowl Ya'll"? Or "Somebody Farted"? We made the video for "To Da Bowl Ya'll" down in the West End"...a blast!
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Don't remember To Da Bowl Ya'll, but do remember Somebody Farted, Prankster Prankster as well as Gotta Potty. In light of his many efforts in the bathroom humor genre, one could easily mistake "To Da Bowl Ya'll" as a tune about a guy heading towards the commode.

Mike...this is "Rick DeVoe" from Jamz. I used the name "Michael Speerz" my first 2 years at the station. Haven't been at KLAK since February of this year. I'm at The Ticket now--really enjoying it!!
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Ahh yes... though I remember you as Michael 'prime time' Speerz
 
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