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Edition
#1213 |
Talent:
MELVIN
Station: WMEX
Boston
Date: September
30, 1964
Time: 30:27 (unscoped)
16:37 (scoped)
It was once common practice for stations to use "house names" for their jocks.
Several different announcers did the night-time shift as "Jack The Bellboy" at Detroit's WXYZ. Buffalo station WNIA had house names such as "Mike Melody", "Tom Thomas" and "Jerry Jack" (it saved the cost of getting a new DJ jingle if anyone left).
This
practice was also used at WMEX.
There was "Fenway"
and "Melvin" or "Melvin
X. Melvin" to name a couple.
At least four different jocks used the "Melvin" name - Tom
Shovan, Mel Miller,
Jim McKrell and
J.J. Jeffrey.
Hear the 1964 version of
WMEX's Melvin
(UNSCOPED)
here.
Hear the 1964 version of
WMEX's Melvin
(SCOPED) here.
(The Doug Thompson Collection)
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