Johnny Williams

Johnny Williams (not to be confused with the KHJ jock of the same name) was a Michigan radio mainstay, having spent many years at CKLW and later at WNIC-FM where his nightly "Pillow Talk" show was the number-one rated nighttime show for six consecutive years.

Williams also jocked at WTRX-FM Flint, Michigan, WOHO-FM Toledo, Ohio, WYSL-FM Buffalo, New York, and WQXL-FM Cleveland.

Johnny is playing records at CKLW on October 22, 1968. [ LISTEN ] (49:54)

Johnny opens this high quality unscoped aircheck with the Super Supremes and Love Child followed by Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones. Up next is Come On React by the Fireballs and the soulful Take Another Little Piece of My Heart by Janis Joplin and Big Brother & the Holding Company. Listen for the Michigan Mobile Radio commercial selling an 8-track player with four speakers for $48.80! More music, commercials, when Top 40 ruled the radio.

CKLW, 1982: Here's Johnny Williams with Jack London, Joe Evans, Charlie O’Brien, Ted Richards, Scott Miller, Doug Rollins and sitting Dick Purtan and Tom Ryan.

He has also served as Program Director of "The Heart,", the love channel station on XM Satellite Radio, and has been an imaging voice for XM's 50's Channel, Kids Channel, Radio Classics and Vox Channels.

Here's a Johnny Williams CKLW Montage in 1972.
[ LISTEN ] (38:10)

According to his family, Johnny Williams passed away from complications related to the COVID-19 virus on April 16, 2020.