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Pete Myers

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I have an aircheck of Pete "groovy gravy" Myers, early top 40 Cleveland jock. Anybody have any current info on him? He was one of the air personalities in top 40 that made AM radio great.
 
howardm said:
I have an aircheck of Pete "groovy gravy" Myers, early top 40 Cleveland jock. Anybody have any current info on him? He was one of the air personalities in top 40 that made AM radio great.
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Partial quote from Wikipedia article about WKNR (formerly WJW):

Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers

In January 1958, Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers joined the station from WHKK 640 AM in Akron....
Myers' show was heard nightly from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Myers had a brief but meteoric career at WJW, lasting only until May 13, 1958, when he resigned to go to Metromedia's WHK which was establishing itself as the new Top 40 powerhouse in Cleveland.

"Mad Daddy" reached the peak of his popularity at WHK, hosting record hops and live after-midnight shows dressed in a Dracula costume. In July 1959 he moved to WHK's sister station in New York, WNEW 1130 AM, where "Mad Daddy" was not well received. He played it straight as Pete Myers there until 1963, when he moved to WINS and resumed the "Mad Daddy Show." This show was syndicated to other stations until WINS changed format to all-news in 1965.

As again just Pete Myers, he returned to WNEW once more. Myers lived until November 4, 1968, when he took his own life in New York City, shortly after he had been informed that his show was to be moved from afternoons to evenings at WNEW


More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKNR#Pete_.22Mad_Daddy.22_Myers
 
I was a big fan of Mad Daddy shows from WJW and WHK in 1958-59. I heard him in London, Ontario from across Lake Erie. Since then, I have collected a large number of airchecks of his shows as well as photos and other material and am always looking for more. It is my hope that one day some reel-to-reel tapes of his shows will surface from some Clevelandite's basement or attic.
 
Quiet by accident, I met Pete Myers' wife back in the mid-1970's.

Back when my wife & I lived in Florida, we went into a real estate office as we were looking to buy a home. Mrs. Myers worked in the real estate office....and introduced herself after we said we were from northeastern Ohio.

"Oh, Ohio...my husband was on the radio in Cleveland years ago. His name was Pete Myers. Ever hear of him?".

Now, that was cool!
 
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