New York Radio — Scott Muni

Original card provided by Dennis Rogers.

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The audio player has two sound clips:  Muni’s theme song, an odd instrumental from 1961 called “Grasshopper Jump,” and Muni’s promo for the WABC Beatles Fan Club.

I don’t remember Scott Muni as well as some of the other WABC disk jockeys, because he left the station in 1965.  Muni is better known as a pioneer of Rock music on FM radio, but he was memorable on AM as a presence during the initial, wild rush of American Beatlemania.

Scott Muni on WABC
Scott Muni on WABC, 1965

New York Radio — A Go-Go!

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Before I post part 3 of the video on New York Rock and Roll radio, here’s a series of jingles for some of the WABC disk jockeys from the 1960’s. These are not air-check quality, but were instead taken from the original master tapes. Here, have some more!

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