Ted Clark

The quintessential mid-day pro. Perfect pipes. Smooth execution. Friendly vibe. And the guy you tap as your voice for the station’s imaging. It’s one of the few radio gigs that can be 9-5. You can easily work record hops, concerts and personal appearances and still get eight hours of sleep.

That describes Ted Clark, the man most associated with Keener’s branding during the height of the station’s popularity.

By all accounts, Ted was the dictionary definition of a radio professional: Humble yet confident, an introvert who could come out of his shell and entertain with class whenever the on-air light came on, and a master in the production room. With a microphone, a record library and a razor blade, Ted was the voice of almost every legal ID that ran during Keener’s prime. “WKNR AM-FM, Dearborn. Offices in the Sheraton Cadillac Detroit,” was a phrase we all reflexively new by heart. Ted backed it with dozens of different sound effects, but it was his concise delivery that cemented the brand.

That’s Ted, holding the “Welcome Bob Green” sign to the left of Jerry Goodwin, when all three Key Men worked at WQAM in Miami.

If Keener ever had a Florida sister station, WQAM was the place. So when Bob made his return to the Motor City, he wanted to bring both Jerry and Ted with him to WKNR. And there was another Florida voice that Bob had his ears on. A guy who called himself “Rock Robbins” worked across town. It took several swings of the bat to get Frank Maruca’s attention, but Rock Robbins eventually did come to Detroit. He didn’t want to be confused with WKNR’s legendary Robin Seymour, so he picked a name from the Detroit telephone book and became Scott Regen. The rest, as they say, is history.

As Keener evolved, so did Ted. He found his way to Chicago, adopted a Country and Western skill set and worked mid-days at WJJD. But those who grew up with 1310 permanently programmed on their car radios will always remember him as a WKNR All Star.

WKNR Station ID Montage [ LISTEN ] (:58)

Ted on Keener – March 1968 [ LISTEN ] (5:48), WKNR Mercury Cougar Contest Promo [ LISTEN ] (:58), Ted on WJJD – Chicago [ LISTEN ] (7:35)

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Roger Ashby

Back in the day, young Roger Ashby was considering life as a university student, had even paid his deposit, when a radio station in Hamilton stepped up and hired him during the summer. Ashby decided to forego university and embarked on what would become a rather remarkable career in radio. Ashby was a radio nut even as a kid and his dad set up a home-made radio studio in the basement, with speakers throughout the house, and Ashby would practice his "broadcasting" every afternoon.

Kids would go to the high school dances and football games and Roger would be in the basement playing radio. After beginning his radio career in Kitchener, the summer he left high school he got an offer at CKOC in Hamilton, for his first full-time job.

Then he was brought to CHUM by Program Director J. Robert Wood. As is tradition with new CHUM jocks, Roger began his career at 1331 Yonge Street on the all-night show.

CHUM 1975.

Here's an aircheck featuring Roger working the turntable at CHUM from July 16, 1972. [ LISTEN ] (21:12)

CHUM was flying high in July of 1972, with an all-star jock lineup. There was Jay Nelson (5-9 a.m.), John Rode (9-11 a.m.), Roger Ashby (11 a.m.-3 p.m.) and Duke Roberts (3-6 p.m.). Also Terry Steele (6-9 p.m.), Scott Carpenter (9 p.m.-midnight) and Mark Edwards - a.k.a. Bob Magee - (midnight-5 a.m.). As for the tunes, here's a [ LOOK ] at the CHUM Chart from July 15, 1972.

A few months earlier, there was Roger behind the mic, in March of 1972. [ LISTEN ] (45:37)

Just a few short years later, he was given the 11AM to 3PM air shift, replacing Johnny Mitchell who had moved into management at CHUM-FM. Roger was well prepared for any time slot they gave him at CHUM since he’d practiced being on-the-radio for many years growing up.

Bob Magee, Gord James and Roger.

Ashby, Rivers, Mitchell, McCoy, Rode, Wilson and Nelson in 1970.

"From the time I was a kid, I knew I wanted to be in radio. When I was 10, my father built me a small radio station in the basement. He hooked the microphone up to the radio upstairs so I could broadcast to my parents. I did that everyday for seven years.”

Roger is working at CHUM (where else?) some time in August, 1970. [ LISTEN ] (5:34)

Roger came off the air for awhile to go into programming. During that time, he was on the air only if someone was ill or on vacation. He quickly realized that he’d rather be on air than behind a desk and fortunately, he was allowed to make that transition. Roger did swing shifts for awhile, but when CHUM morning man Tom Rivers was fired in 1982, they put him in mornings for three years.

But being the morning man wasn't going to be permanent, at least not on 1050 CHUM. When CHUM management gave the AM morning show to John Majhor and Mike Holland, CHUM-FM Program Director Ross Davies invited Roger to come over to CHUM-FM.

1970s: Roger and Cher.

CHUM
August 10, 1976
[ LISTEN ] (56:49)

And that’s where Roger’s star really shone the brightest. Starting in early Fall of 1985 with Roger, Rick and Marilyn, then transitioning into Roger, Darren and Marilyn and lastly, Roger and Marilyn. Despite all of his successes, Roger remains the same humble man who first walked through the doors of 1331 Yonge Street in 1969. His quick wit and encyclopedic knowledge of music has taken Roger to the very top of Canada’s most competitive radio market.

Roger in recent times.

In January 2010, Ashby was inducted into the Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame, receiving the Waters Family Broadcast Lifetime Achievement Award. Roger retired after 50 years with CHUM, in October, 2018.

Some materials found on this page were originally published by the following: FWI Music News, Puget Sound Radio, Rock Radio Scrapbook.

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Jerry Goodwin

Jerry Goodwin began his 40-year span broadcasting in radio, beginning in 1959, as Sam Hill in Amarillo, Texas on KFDA-AM. By 1961, Jerry moved over to Dallas’ own KBOX doing evening-drive under a new name while there, as Danny Preston.

But by 1962, it was on to Florida. Jerry found his place in the Sunshine State with the legendary WQAM-AM, the Storer Broadcasting-owned affiliate in Miami. By February 2, 1963, Jerry Goodwin was doing noon to 3 on the famous AM-560 and within three weeks time, he became the new morning man (6-9 a.m. time), replacing Charlie Murdock for that spot on February 23, 1963.

During that time, Jerry Goodwin found himself in good company with some of the greatest 560 voices while there, some very familiar — Ted Clark, 9-12; Bob Green, 12-3; Charlie Murdock, 3-6; Tom Campbell, 6-10; Jim Dunlap; 1-6 a.m.

But by mid-November in 1963, Jerry was no longer at WQAM. By then, Goodwin, along with WQAM’s Bob Green, had made the switch going north to Detroit on “the new Keener 13.”

From late 1963 through the early part of ’68, Jerry Goodwin rode the entire radio success story that was WKNR while residing in Detroit.

Jerry on the air at WKNR on August 23, 1966. [ LISTEN ] (13:39)

"People who live in glass houses, shouldn't get stoned." This aircheck features loads of jingles, scoped news, commercials, and records by artists including The Four Seasons, Lee Dorsey, The Association, Love, Alvin Cash & The Registers, Nino Tempo & April Stevens, ? and the Mysterians, Johnny Rivers, Jimmy Ruffin, and more. Also includes a nice Danny Thomas public service announcement for the St. Jude's Children Hospital campaign.

But by early 1967, the market was beginning to see some drastic changes across the Detroit radio landscape. The advent of FM radio was on the rise, coupled with the fact there was a new radio station, CKLW, which was starting to dominate the Detroit airways with its massive 50,000-watts of transmitted-power located

By the end of 1967 WKNR dropped in ratings at No. 2 radio for the very first time. Along with it’s deficient night-time signal, it was by then the station was beginning to lose of their appeal, no longer retainer of the largest audience share WKNR once had embraced in the market the year prior when the station was still hot on top at No. 1. By April 1968 more changes became evident at WKNR-AM, both in staff and the management level. By that time ‘The Miami Four’ Bob Green, Ted Clark, Scott Regen (from WFUN in Miami) and Jerry Goodwin were no longer on board on AM Keener 13.

As WKNR-FM began experimenting with an album-rock format in 1968, Jerry Goodwin would instead take to the new “underground” movement in radio by crossing over to the WKNR FM side. At the time, WKNR-FM music director Paul Cannon decided they would compete going against WABX-FM. But the station’s “free-form” run would be entirely short-lived. As changes were on-going at WKNR both on the AM and FM sides, the “album-rock” format was soon dropped on 100.3 FM. It was replaced with an “easy-listening,” MOR music format the station dubbed as “Stereo Island.”

Jerry Goodwin at WABX in Detroit on March 28, 1969. [ LISTEN ] (14:25)

By year’s end 1969, and no longer at WKNR-FM, Jerry found himself with a new home with “album rocker” WABX-FM in Detroit. He was given the 7-11 a.m. time slot and, immediately found his niche there with the station both in popularity and with management personnel. In May 1971, Tim Powell, music director at WABX, had left the station for KLOS in Los Angeles. With that move, Jerry Goodwin, who was chief of creative productions for the station, became the new music director at ‘ABX up until 1972, when thereafter he would leave WABX for his next venture in radio, this time it was on to Toledo’s WIOT-FM. Historically, WIOT became Toledo’s first FM rock station. According to various sources, it went on the air on December 25, 1972.

By early 1973, and having left WABX the previous year, Jerry had moved his family to Onsted, MI., a small township located just outside of Adrian. At the time, WCAR-AM in Detroit was still doing top 40 radio. Jerry Goodwin was hired at WCAR, though briefly, by Paul Christy as a ‘filler’ deejay for the station — a relief man. WCAR luminaries Dave Prince and Dave Shafer were also there, as well as Jim Harper, Kevin Sanderson and Tom Ingram. While at WIOT and while briefly at WCAR, Jerry went on to complete his academics by enrolling at Siena Heights College (today it is a university), where he graduated cum laude in 1974.

In the WKNR studio.

Later that same year, in late 1974, Goodwin was back in the Motor City. He was hired by station program director Paul Christy once again, but this time on WWWW-FM.

WWWW was a progressive rock station with a unique format, with program emphasis on rock-oriented LP stop-sets they would play (albums in their entirety) during the evenings — well into the all-night hours. All during the time he was at WWWW, Jerry attended the University of Detroit. By 1975, within a year’s time there, he would graduate from the university with honors earning his Masters.

After a brief stay on W4 in Detroit, it was back east in 1976 to his hometown in Boston, where he would do PhD. work at Boston University. It was also during this time Jerry Goodwin would find himself back in radio, one more time, on WCOZ. He would remain in broadcasting in the Boston area for the remainder of his illustrious radio career while there. Stops would include Boston’s WBCN (as the Duke of Madness) from 1979-1982, WCGY (as the Duke of Madness) in 1985, and then it was off to Boston’s WROL from 1994 through 1999, thus capping off a very successful 40-year span in the radio business.

While doing radio in Boston, Jerry Goodwin was teaching radio courses and television performances at the Northeast School of Broadcasting where he taught for 20 years, until 2008. Today, the very same institution where Jerry had taught courses in the arts, the school has since evolved into an accredited four-year college course as the New England Institute of Arts.

At WQAM in 1963.

Retired from radio since 1999, Jerry Goodwin today invests quality time in the art of theater, film and television. He is an award-winning actor in the New England area, and is a registered member of the New England Actors Guild.

Demand for his professional “voice over” production work has earned him such clients as Perrier, American Airlines and Goodyear, to name a few, and he also “characterized” his voice-talents with multiple commercial CD-ROM game productions as well.

(As of this writing), Jerry Goodwin enjoys the comforts of home in Boston with his family. He is the proud grandfather, “of two amazingly beautiful grand-daughters, Jesse and Mimi Goodwin,” daughters of his son Jason Goodwin.

WHERE DID JERRY WORK? Here is the list: KFDA as Sam Hill, KBOX as Danny Preston, WQAM, WKNR, WKNR-FM, WABX, WIOT, WWWW, WCOZ, WBCN and WCGY as The Duke of Madness, and WROL.

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Dan Daniel

Dan Daniel was born Vergil Glynn Daniel in Buffalo, Texas on December 18, 1934. "Dandy Dan" started as a disc jockey at age seventeen on Armed Forces Radio with the US Navy. His first commercial job was at KXYZ in Houston in 1955 and he then worked at WDGY in Minneapolis before making his big move to New York's WMCA in 1961.

Daniel came to WMCA just as The Good Guys were launching a decade-long duel with the Goliath of 1960s rock ‘n’ roll radio, WABC.

WMCA

It was a daunting challenge, according to Daniel. WABC had more money and a much stronger signal. So WMCA needed all the promotion it could get. DJs worked 14, 18-hour days. It was tough, but they supported each other. All who worked at the station, did so like a team.

Daniel's first broadcast at WMCA was on August 18, 1961. He started on the graveyard shift overnight but from 1962 to 1968 he played the top 40 hits from 4 pm to 7 pm — the evening drive home slot. The station produced a survey of the current sales in New York record stores and Dandy Dan gave the countdown of the week's best sellers every Wednesday.

Mr. Daniel at WMCA on April 22, 1963. [ LISTEN ] (16:42)

"Dandy Dan" moved to afternoon drive in 1963 as part of a stellar lineup that included Joe O'Brien, Harry Harrison, Jack Spector and B. Mitchel Reed. This aircheck begins with a WMCA news report.

WMCA July 19 1965.

In 1966, he participated in a tour of Africa to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Peace Corps. Then, from 1968 to 1970, he did the early morning drive-to-work slot before leaving WMCA after nine years. Dan's first show was August 18, 1961 and his last WMCA show was July 11, 1970.

Daniel was heard coast-to-coast on NBC Radio's Monitor in the summer of 1973 and was the announcer on the 1974–1975 game show The Big Showdown.

Dan was one of the personalities promoted as the "Good Guys" while working for the New York Top 40 radio station WMCA in the 1960s, when bands like The Beatles were transforming the music scene. He performed too and was the first to record the song "Is That All There Is?" He was tall (6 feet 5 inches), and his theme tune was "Big Boss Man", by Charlie Rich. Often used, was one of his catchphrases "I love you, and especially you, size 9." "Size 9" was once revealed to be his wife, Rosemary.

One technique used by Daniel was to research his audience. He felt that it was important to communicate in a personal way with them: "A deejay can be excited, use sound effects, voices, whatever. But when you talk to people, you've got to relate to them ... I make it a point to spend time with the average type of people to learn more about them ... to improve myself."

Daniel didn’t have the sharp-edged personality of a Dan Ingram, the bravado of a Murray the K, or the gimmick of a Mad Daddy.

He had an easy, relaxed tone that felt just a touch Southern. He identified himself as “Dandy Dan Daniel” or “Triple-D.”

He made listeners feel like they were in his living room, chatting and enjoying his records. It sounds easy. It’s hard. It’s a style that had been around for a while with announcers like William B. Williams, but was polished and honed in the early rock ‘n’ roll era, when fast talkers like Alan Freed, Jocko or Cousin Bruce Morrow were balanced with the smoothness of a Daniel, a Harry Harrison or a Chuck Leonard.

A WMCA montage with on air personalities heard from 1963 until 1970.
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Dan Daniel is among the featured deejays, along with Joe O'Brien, B. Mitchel Reed, Ed Baer, Jack Spector, Gary Stevens, Dean Anthony, Lee Gray, Harry Harrison, Murray "The K" Kaufman, Frankie Crocker, Alex Bennett, and Johnny Michaels.

After WMCA turned off the music, the tall-and-handsome Daniel spent some time in television. In 1972 he hosted AM New York, a two-hour local morning television show on WABC-TV that became one of the prototypes on which Good Morning America was eventually built.

He hosted other TV shows as well, and appeared in commercials for the likes of Colgate toothpaste, Korvette’s and Chase Manhattan Bank. In his last TV ad, he drew Xs and Os on a chalkboard for a coffee-sipping Joe Montana.

Daniel liked television, but he was also glad to get back to radio. And in 1979 he resurfaced at New York’s WYNY. He played country and adult contemporary music there and at WHN until February 1996, when WYNY switched to rhythmic dance.

WYNY management let the country staff have one final weekend on the air, and Daniel served as the conductor and godfather, with other DJs talking about how much his professional style and personal friendship had meant to them.

Shortly thereafter, Daniel joined oldies WCBS-FM, playing much of the music he had played on WMCA three decades earlier. “It was a thrill for me to add him to the staff,” said former WCBS-FM program director Joe McCoy. “He was the perfect fit. I’ll always remember that infectious laugh and big smile.”

Daniel left full-time radio on Dec. 31, 2002, and made his final WCBS-FM appearance on a Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Greats Reunion weekend in 2012.

On his last 2002 show, he played “It’s All Over Now” by the Rolling Stones and finished up by saying, “The reason I show up for work every day isn’t me. It’s you. I’m Dan Daniel and I love you a bunch, especially you, Size Nine.” He closed with Sonny and Cher’s “All I Ever Need Is You.”

WCBS-FM
40th Anniversary

Asked a while later if there was anything he never got a chance to do in radio, he said just one thing came to mind.

“I like so many kinds of music,” he said, “that I always wanted to do one freeform show, where I could play it all, anything I wanted. Radio just doesn’t work that way.”

No, it doesn’t. But what Dan Daniel did play and say left him well-remembered.

Dan passed away on June 21, 2016 in Larchmont, New York, after a fall the previous day. He was 81. He was survived by two sons, Chris and Paul, a daughter, Jennifer, and Size Nine.

WHERE DID DAN WORK? Here is this list: KXYZ, WDGY, WMCA, WYNY, WHN, WYNY and WCBS-FM.

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Mike Phillips

Mike was one of the original 610 men at KFRC-San Francisco in 1966. He started his broadcast career at KISN-Portland in 1960, then went to KJR-Seattle for three years beginning in 1962.

His first pd'ship was KNBR-San Francisco in the mid-1960s. Mike did mornings at KFRC-San Francisco from 1966 to 1972 and then went to RKO sister station WXLO-New York. After a half decade as pd and air talent at KGW-Portland, Mike was in San Francisco during most of the 1980s.

Mike at KAYO in Seattle on March 30, 1962. [ LISTEN ] (4:26)

AM 1150 Seattle was known as “Country KO” for much of the 1960s into the 70s. This nearly 5 minute scope of Phillips showcases the early Top 40 format that this station had in the first part of the decade.

Mike behind the mic at KJR in Seattle on January 11, 1964. [ LISTEN ] (12:09)

From 1962 to 1965, Phillips entertained at the legendary KJR Seattle, part of a remarkable lineup that included Lan Roberts, Pat O'Day and Larry Lujack.

Mike's working on a Tuesday morning on the original Top 40 610 AM in May of 1966. [ LISTEN ] (4:03)

It’s always KFRC “Parade of Hits Time” when it’s not Para Camaro, or some other sponsor-time.

He worked at KYUU and was vp of programming for the NBC/FM division before moving on to K101, KFRC and KOIT.After a two-year stint at the Research Group in Seattle in 1987, Mike became vp of programming for WTMX-Chicago. His successful strategy at KRTH was to drop hundreds of songs from the play list, tighten up the format with consultant Bill Drake's help, and hire former "Boss" jocks Robert W. Morgan and The Real Don Steele. Mike retired in late 2001.

Mike at WXLO in August of 1973. [ LISTEN ] (8:46) And again later that year in October. [ LISTEN ] (4:39)

The first of the two airchecks features WXLO after it switched from WOR-FM, but before it became 99X. The second of the two airchecks finds the station still using "WXLO" call letters, but has changed jingles to PAMS "Energy One" series.

Mike Phillips passed away on October 16, 2006, following a two and a half year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 64.

Some materials found on this page were originally published by the following: Airchexx, Rock Radio Scrapbook.

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