New York 1964 Mad Daddy Air check

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[Alex Browne]

Good quality air check! My dad was a teacher at Thomas Jefferson H.S. in Brooklyn, and one day he brought home a bunch of colorful, shiny book covers (do they still use book covers in schools?) that WINS had given the school, including ones promoting Mad Daddy and Murray the K. Mad Daddy mentions the Leaders Club at Thomas Jefferson H.S. early in the aircheck! They looked very cool on my school books, even though I was more of a WABC/WMCA fan. Mad Daddy was very entertaining; sad about his ultimate demise in 1968.

 

[alok]

I am sure many know that MAD DADDY was Pete Meyers, who had worked at WNEW 1130 before WINS. I remember his show well on 1010 WINS, when Westinghouse purchased WINS, I think they purchased WINS around 1962. The station started to sound bad, like the personalities really didn't care much about their shows anymore.
It really showed on Murray The K's nightime show in my opinion . . . by April, 1965 WINS went ALL-NEWS.
When WABC 770 came along late in 1960 playing RnR, things changed in NYC RnR radio, WMGM 1050 dropped RnR in 1962 and became WHN 1050, its old call and MOR, as mentioned earlier, by April, 1965 WINS went ALL-NEWS.
Mad Daddy was great playing RnR when he was at WINS. He came to WINS around 1963. I read one thing that I don't recall, it said when Pete Meyers came to WNEW in 1959 he wanted to do his Mad Daddy bit, WNEW did not want him to, but they gave in a chance. I find this surprising that WNEW let him try it. Within a day he was told no more, audience reaction was not positive, so while at WNEW he became Pete Meyers and played MOR like everybody else on WNEW did.

Al