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I remember when KDWB had their "Secret Sound" contest. They would play some weird noise and ask listeners to call in and guess what made the noise. "Is it a gravel sifter?" I said in my 10-year-old-boy, girly voice. NO it wasn't. UGH! 1972? The contest was pure art though, I mean SOUNDS! this was RADIO at its best with so much imagination and fun times.
-Bennett Graham, Mpls.
BongoBengie 2 months ago
WDGY USED TO LOVE IT.
fromtheright 3 months ago
OOOmyGosh! Only on youtube! Those WERE the days. And never again. Both those stations had "antenna farms." Can't recall exactly how many sticks WDGY had. Might have been 10. And KD has six as I recall. I DO recall that WNEW in New York City was also on 1130 AM. So through the marvels of AM radio engineering, the two stations didn't interfere with each other at night. WDGY beamed straight north at night. One chief engineer was electrocuted at WDGY during maintenance. More later.
Glinkaism1 9 months ago
Don't forget KSTP-AM was also an AM rocker in the 70's. Machine Gun Kelly, Chuck Knapp and others were every bit as good as the talent on Weegee and KDWB.
KQRS was playing hippie drug music back then, before they went mainstream. Tac Hammer, Benji Mckai (and I know I'm misspelling that) and others were way ahead of the curve on where rock was heading.
captaindevotee 1 year ago
Who can forget the immortal dee jay EARL L. TROUT THE THIRD! on Minnesota radio in the 1960s!
Lussenheide 1 year ago
KDWB, all the way baby. I remember being 6 and 7 at the State Fair, and KDWB had their broadcast booth at the foot of the main ramp coming out of the Grandstand and ALL the hippies hung out there groovin' to the music and smoking doobies. Farout times baby.
ryoushii 2 years ago
Wow, I grew up with WDGY until I moved (was draged by my parents( to Denver in 1970 while still a junior at Austin High. I miss WDGY so much that Johnny Canton (per a letter I wrote to him) sent me a cassette tape of all the WGDY jingles...I still have it!
JS
onemilehi 3 years ago
Minnesota in the early 60's...what a GOLDEN AGE with these two giants. I replaced Rob Sherwood at KAUS when he went to WeeGee (WDGY) and he WAS incredible. But come on channel 11...how could you do this piece and NOT include the GREATEST of them all...KWDB's PROFESSOR JAMES FRANCIS O'NEIL!!!
couvtrain 3 years ago
The early 60's in Minnesota...a true 'golden age' I took over Rob Sherwood's slot on KAUS
when he went to WeeGee, and he was great. However, how can you not include in this piece, the GREATEST of them all...kdwb's PROFESSOR JAMES FRANCIS PATRICK O'NEIL!!! Come on channel 11. 'KDWB..YOU HEAR HITS FIRST'
couvtrain 3 years ago
U-100 made FM sound great before KDWB took over the signal.. The Super U !
ilikegia 3 years ago
Bravo !! Great piece....thanks for the tremendous production values..and the memories.
stevegannon 3 years ago
Sixty Three: that's easy to remember. Thanks, Rob Sherwood, for getting me through high school alive. "I get by..........with a little help..........from my friends." I don't know what you were on, pal, and I don't care! You're alive! I'm alive! It worked! (Don Bleu, good as he was, was NOT KDWB's most popular d.j. of the '70s. Rob Sherwood was DA bomb, a major cultural force in the Twin Cities on par with - dare I say it - Dave Moore and Bill Diehl!!!!!!!)
grandpalarsen 3 years ago