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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RIP Dan Ingram
Date: Saturday, July 14, 2018
Time: 12:40:31 AM
Remote Address: 97.107.69.29
Message ID: 316693
Parent ID: 316691
Thread ID: 316679
One great thing about New York radio back then was that we always had great DJs.
Yes indeed, NYC back then had the biggest radio market in the entire nation (it may still be that way today?), and they had the best deejays in return. Dan was of course on in the afternoon. I would come home from school and put Dan on, since back in those days we didn't have video games to play, or home computers to check out, or of course no cell phones to text on.... or any type of mobile phones period... or a internet for that matter or any music videos on TV. Hell the greater NYC area didn't even have cable TV yet, just 6 stations including PBS (on channel 13) when that went on the air around 1970 or so. I recall watching it on the very first day it went on... just think, a commercial free TV station! But in the mid '60s you could either turn on the TV and watch reruns of the old Superman TV show (there wasn't even any Batman on TV yet), or turn on your radio instead and listen to The Dan Ingram Show on WABC, and I always picked Dan's show over Superman.
Even though I was a WMCA guy, I always said Ingram is the BEST of the best.
He was the best of the bunch and he always had a bit of comedy he would throw in with certain songs. It was something, but the 2 biggest NYC DJs (Murray the K and Cousin Brucie, were both on at the same time after dark) weren't anywhere as good as Dan was at being deejays.... BTW, I looked it up and Murray the K was on WINS, not WMCA. He was on there until around 1970 or so when WINS became the first ever 24 hour news station on radio, and that was the start for AM stations - where they were becoming all talk radio for the most part, since FM could play their music in stereo while AM couldn't, and all the music stations went on over to the FM side once FM got big in the early '70s and the AM stations no longer played any music after that.
But those were interesting days for radio stations indeed, Ronnie!
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