Talent: PAT ST. JOHN
Station: CKLW Windsor, Ont.
Date: November, 1969
Time: 27:57 (unscoped)
8:00 (scoped)

Only two disc jockeys - Alan Freed and Tom Donahue - have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. However, a number of other Hall of Fame-worthy jocks have airchecks on permanent display at the Hall but are not Hall of Fame members in the sense that Freed and Donahue are. One of them is Pat St. John.

A native of Detroit, St. John started in Top 40 radio literally at the top, at the Big 8 CKLW in 1969. He fills us on on what came before that...

"Jan '68 I worked at WSHJ (Southfield High School) until graduating in June. That same month I started at WWWW (W4) in Detroit (where I spent half my time making audition tapes & sending them to CKLW. W4 was automated beautiful music at the time so I had the extra time in the middle of the night). CKLW therefore was really the first Top 40 I ever worked at."

St. John left CKLW in 1971 for a one-year stint at Detroit rival WKNR, then moved on to Motown FM rocker WRIF for another year. He began a 14-year stay at New York's WPLJ in 1973, before moving over to WNEW-FM for 11 years ending in 1998. From there it was on to Sirius satellite radio and a couple of stints at WCBS-FM in New York. He left WCBS-FM for the last time in 2015, moving to San Diego where he broadcasts his live '60s on 6 show weekdays on Sirius.

Enjoy Pat St. John on CKLW (UNSCOPED) here.

Enjoy Pat St. John on CKLW (UNSCOPED) here.
 

Enjoy Pat St. John on CKLW (SCOPED) here.

Enjoy Pat St. John on CKLW (SCOPED) here.
 

(The Mark Yurko Collection)

 

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