Thank you whoever posted this. Detroit forever. If you werent here you would not understand. This man was light years ahead of his time. Thank you Mojo. Detroit Loves you.
Mojo was and still is the most underrated radio host in the country! This man took me from Abba to Zeppelin, with some Prince, M.J. Rick James, Detroit techno and Thomas Dolby "Get Out Of My Mix" all in one night! Detroit City stand up!
I feel young again!!! Detroit, mid-80's, late night!!! Mojo was the first to let me know that i could listen to more than R&B... Detroit made you feel that you weren't black enough if you liked anything other than "black music". Thank you Mojo for introducing me to the B-52's, Tom Tom Club, Thomas Dolby and Devo. And for opening the door to my life-long continuation of the exploration of all types of music.
Larhonda Royster Mojo was a pioneer to blend so many genre on one show. I found my love for music grow through him. I now will listen to Rolling stone, Jill Scott, BB King, Qunicy Jones and Kanye West all in one sitting or something totally equally odd.
this makes me emotional....you have NO idea how much this means to me...sniff..I think i'm gonna cry right now..tears of joy! THANK YOU for whomever got this on here! You rock!!!!!!!!!!
MOJO was things everything. He was modern day theatre of the mind, He was school for the musically immature, He was a vacation for those who would never make it across the seas, He was kept me company when i had the chicken pox and made me caller 9 to win prince's PARADE album a week before its release which made we the coolest on the block for seven days.. i moved from detroit and i still sing his praises to this day..
The EDM kids do not understand that we remixxed stuff with samples the analog hard way and made it sound so profound. Used to play Electrifying Mojo while cruising Gratiot in E. Detroit(now East Point) on the hot weekends and not go home until we hit 100 miles of back and forth cruising on the blvd.
Mr. Charles Johnson has been an inspiration in my life. Right now today I still have conversation with him when he drops by my shop Red Jazz Shoe Shine Parlor 8348 Oakland St. Detroit Michigan 48211 65 years of business.
+Red Jazz Shoe Shine So glad to know that he's still alive! I'm an Electrifying Mojo-fan and I'm from Germany. So, the next time he visits your shop, you can tell him he even has a huge fan in Germany. ;-) Cheers
+Red Jazz Shoe Shine I loved listening to Mojo on the radio. He introduced to music back then that I still love today. Please tell him thank you for being him and doing what he did. It's 30+ years and he's still having an impact on me.
Love this!! Thank you so much for posting. I used to record Mojo's shows off the radio when I was a kid and sadly lost all of my tapes over the years. Whenever someone asks me about my wildly eclectic taste in music, I always end up talking about Mojo!
OMG . . .my child hood is BACK ... didn't understand the significance and the history of my brother listening to this back in the day. Man I miss Detroit!
A sound of sounds to come, indeed... Kids, take note...as the grand poo bah of funk reveals to you the foundation of everything...funk... Consider yourselves privileged...to hear the genesis...of what made the tracks that you hold so dear today...even possible... ;)
Got a lotta damn homework done in my parents' basement listening to Mojo back in the mid 80's. Calculus, French, etc etc, all while jammin' out to Mojo and the MFA...still got my card somewhere....lol. Zip snap drop ain't nothin' like a fresh pair of baggies, baby! Thanks for sharing!
I was 10 years old AND My father was a U.S COAST GUARD OFFICER .WE LIVED IN TAYLOR, MICHIGAN his intros spooked me out ..i had to open gate for my dad to park in dark drive way
MAN!!!!.....I remember back in the mid to late 70's,I used stay up just to catch,and a lot of times to record ( 8-track & cassettes ) Mojo's shows. I used to do a lot of club DJ'n back in Detroit back then.I was the youngest dj doing clubs & bars.If anybody remembers "Jessie James Gang & Zilla" "Mr.Walefare.I was in that scene. 20 Grand, Millie's,"Thousand Island After Hours". Those were the days.You can't get like that no more.
This is a fond, fond memory for me. I got to Ann Arbor in 1983 for grad school and started listening to E. Mojo in 1984, at the time when Prince and his stable were radio royalty. As fine as his concept rap was, it was Mojo's play choices, mixes and extended jams that made those days for me. The other things on radio that made my life beautiful were the competing-cooperating reggae shows on WCVF and the EMU station, and I taped those because the record's "weren't domestic" while Mojo's were. What a dunce I was! How I wish I'd taped as much Mojo 1984-1985, because I could have dubbed it all to CD-R as I have done with my reggae cassettes. Would be lovely to go back with my Sony deck and a box of TDK chrome tapes and bag Mojo in those fruitful years before Techno and House. I feel sorry for any Village Voice type that didn't know these days in the greater Detroit airwave area. This ain't no Mudd Club, CBGB's, or Paradise Garage, I had no time for that once I'd left New York and found E. Mojo, and this is as good and true an epitaph for me as any.
When is there going to be a movie made on this man!!!??? I’ve been saying this for years!! Spike Lee needs to get this together in my opinion. His story HAS to be told for the world!! Countless artists owe him a debt of gratitude; he single handedly exposed us to way different music that we otherwise would’ve heard, therefore exposing artists to other markets, other fanbases. He totally needs a great movie done! FACTS!!!!
YOU GOT 2B SHITTING ME!!!! CLAWD HAVE MERCY!!! THE SCENE WITH NATE MORRIS... THE CANTEENS, SKATING RINKS ETC... I COULD GO ON 4EVER.. THANK YOU... DETROIT ELECTRO FLYING MOJO... MFA(MIDNIGHT FUNK ASSOCITION)
Now this is when RADIO was deep! This was the golden age!!! Radio NOW, SUCKS AZZ...everyone is playing the same 10 songs every hour on the hour on EVERY RADIO STATION! Thank you for the memories....Long live THE ELECTRIFYING MOJO and the M.F.A.
Reed this is a true story while I was in the Marines I would come home on leave and record cassette tapes of his show and take them back to my base and sell them...They went crazy for his music and his coooooolnessss!!!lol
In 87 I was in the USARMY stationed in Germany.I found out that a fellow soldier on my base had a box full of Electrifying Mojo mixes on cassette. I tracked him down and he let me dub a bunch them. I still have them. They are like gold to me now. I actually had this mix on tape. Graduated from high school in 84. Flint Beecher.
HOTRODDER50 hey man caring is sharing you need to post those tapes I'm from Muskegon and all I was up on was The Wizard so I need to get up on this Mojo guy a little more
You can create .mp3's of your cassette this way. 1 - Connect your tape deck to the microphone port of your sound card on your computer using an RCA to 3.5mm adapter. 2 - Download a program called Audacity. 3 - Use Audacity to capture the songs coming from your cassette. 4 - Use audacity to pick which parts of the captured sounds you want to make into an .mp3. You have to learn how to use the controls and adjust the volume. It was hard to figure out, but once I got it, I was rolling.
One word "MOJO". If you did not experience MOJO, there is certainly a VOID in your life. Those were the days when a............ Child was a Child, Man was a Man, Woman was Woman and a Party was a Party.............Look at My Country Now!
hahaha, this was the summer the crew bum-rushed the swimming pools at various apartment complexes and started midnight pool parties with MFA coming out the boombox. :D
Dude what is the name of that song. I've been waiting to hear this track for over 20 years! We use to listen to Mojo down in Toledo all the way back to WGPR days. Marvelous Marv in the afternoon.
I have lots of cassette tapes I made of Electrifying Mojo - I used to listen to him from Sarnia, Canada when he was on WGPR, Power 96, etc. - I have the B-52's doing Mesopotamia, etc. etc. - I will post them if I can figure out how to digitize them - maybe using my digital camcorder ...
Does anyone have hookups for extended mixes of his online for download? Just started a radio show in Sydney, Australia and would love to ve able to channel this extraterrestrial being!
Hey anybody know a slow jam he use to play all the time? I can hear it but cant remember a name or artist I wanna say it was a duet and I thought he said Porgy & bess? sounds like Donna Summer "there will always be a you"
Thank you whoever posted this. Detroit forever. If you werent here you would not understand. This man was light years ahead of his time. Thank you Mojo. Detroit Loves you.
7 years later, this is still true
Mojo was and still is the most underrated radio host in the country! This man took me from Abba to Zeppelin, with some Prince, M.J. Rick James, Detroit techno and Thomas Dolby "Get Out Of My Mix" all in one night! Detroit City stand up!
Get Out of My Mix should be far more popular than She Blinded Me With Science! ❤❤❤❤❤
I feel young again!!! Detroit, mid-80's, late night!!! Mojo was the first to let me know that i could listen to more than R&B... Detroit made you feel that you weren't black enough if you liked anything other than "black music". Thank you Mojo for introducing me to the B-52's, Tom Tom Club, Thomas Dolby and Devo. And for opening the door to my life-long continuation of the exploration of all types of music.
Larhonda Royster Mojo was a pioneer to blend so many genre on one show. I found my love for music grow through him. I now will listen to Rolling stone, Jill Scott, BB King, Qunicy Jones and Kanye West all in one sitting or something totally equally odd.
KRAFTWERK AND PET SHOP BOYS AND MANY MANY MORE
Rhonda R. Dam I am three years late but the word's you spoke are real mojo introduce me do different music to. Long live mojo.
Those were good times. Keep hangin', keep rememberin' there ain't nobody bad like you!
Mojo was the greatest dj that ever lived.
IS. He isn't dead.
this makes me emotional....you have NO idea how much this means to me...sniff..I think i'm gonna cry right now..tears of joy! THANK YOU for whomever got this on here! You rock!!!!!!!!!!
I feel ya! Takes me back to the best times of my life listening to Mojo! People have no idea how great an era it was!
Heyyy I graduated in 84 and I was in Love with The Best Ever on this Planet DJ Mojo I love the memories and music and the Genius Mojo
Nice Music Mojo!!!!!
Mojo was the man still is
MOJO was things everything. He was modern day theatre of the mind, He was school for the musically immature, He was a vacation for those who would never make it across the seas, He was kept me company when i had the chicken pox and made me caller 9 to win prince's PARADE album a week before its release which made we the coolest on the block for seven days..
i moved from detroit and i still sing his praises to this day..
The EDM kids do not understand that we remixxed stuff with samples the analog hard way and made it sound so profound. Used to play Electrifying Mojo while cruising Gratiot in E. Detroit(now East Point) on the hot weekends and not go home until we hit 100 miles of back and forth cruising on the blvd.
Facts
Mr. Charles Johnson has been an inspiration in my life. Right now today I still have conversation with him when he drops by my shop Red Jazz Shoe Shine Parlor 8348 Oakland St. Detroit Michigan 48211 65 years of business.
+Red Jazz Shoe Shine
So glad to know that he's still alive!
I'm an Electrifying Mojo-fan and I'm from Germany.
So, the next time he visits your shop, you can tell him he even has a huge fan in Germany. ;-)
Cheers
+Red Jazz Shoe Shine I loved listening to Mojo on the radio. He introduced to music back then that I still love today. Please tell him thank you for being him and doing what he did. It's 30+ years and he's still having an impact on me.
A dj as incredible as the Electrifying Mojo helped in saving my life during perilous times. Thank you Mr. Johnson!
MOJO was the man. I haven't heard this since '84 or '85. The days of King H.S.
Love this!! Thank you so much for posting. I used to record Mojo's shows off the radio when I was a kid and sadly lost all of my tapes over the years. Whenever someone asks me about my wildly eclectic taste in music, I always end up talking about Mojo!
OMG . . .my child hood is BACK ... didn't understand the significance and the history of my brother listening to this back in the day.
Man I miss Detroit!
A sound of sounds to come, indeed... Kids, take note...as the grand poo bah of funk reveals to you the foundation of everything...funk... Consider yourselves privileged...to hear the genesis...of what made the tracks that you hold so dear today...even possible... ;)
Got a lotta damn homework done in my parents' basement listening to Mojo back in the mid 80's. Calculus, French, etc etc, all while jammin' out to Mojo and the MFA...still got my card somewhere....lol. Zip snap drop ain't nothin' like a fresh pair of baggies, baby! Thanks for sharing!
i miss you, Mojo!! thanks for the memories...
I was 10 years old AND My father was a U.S COAST GUARD OFFICER .WE LIVED IN TAYLOR, MICHIGAN his intros spooked me out ..i had to open gate for my dad to park in dark drive way
Bless you for posting these. I remember trancing out to Mojo in the 80s. Awesome stuff. Thanks again.
MAN!!!!.....I remember back in the mid to late 70's,I used stay up just to catch,and a lot of times to record ( 8-track & cassettes ) Mojo's shows.
I used to do a lot of club DJ'n back in Detroit back then.I was the youngest dj doing clubs & bars.If anybody remembers "Jessie James Gang & Zilla" "Mr.Walefare.I was in that scene. 20 Grand, Millie's,"Thousand Island After Hours".
Those were the days.You can't get like that no more.
This is a fond, fond memory for me. I got to Ann Arbor in 1983 for grad school and started listening to E. Mojo in 1984, at the time when Prince and his stable were radio royalty. As fine as his concept rap was, it was Mojo's play choices, mixes and extended jams that made those days for me. The other things on radio that made my life beautiful were the competing-cooperating reggae shows on WCVF and the EMU station, and I taped those because the record's "weren't domestic" while Mojo's were. What a dunce I was! How I wish I'd taped as much Mojo 1984-1985, because I could have dubbed it all to CD-R as I have done with my reggae cassettes. Would be lovely to go back with my Sony deck and a box of TDK chrome tapes and bag Mojo in those fruitful years before Techno and House. I feel sorry for any Village Voice type that didn't know these days in the greater Detroit airwave area. This ain't no Mudd Club, CBGB's, or Paradise Garage, I had no time for that once I'd left New York and found E. Mojo, and this is as good and true an epitaph for me as any.
Haven't heard that voice in over 20 years! From the D. WGPR was the bomb! Mojo, Marvelous Marv (the midday dj) T-Square and Tiger DAN!!!!
remember when Mojo would play"its like that" 4 a hold fuckin hour? by RUN-DMC. I loved that shit!
Now..THIS is what MoJo was ALL ABOUT!!!! Damn...the fact that you have all of this is fucking AWESOME!!!!
Reminds me of my days at U of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Coming home from a night of studying at the library and blasting this at Midnight!
When is there going to be a movie made on this man!!!??? I’ve been saying this for years!! Spike Lee needs to get this together in my opinion. His story HAS to be told for the world!! Countless artists owe him a debt of gratitude; he single handedly exposed us to way different music that we otherwise would’ve heard, therefore exposing artists to other markets, other fanbases. He totally needs a great movie done! FACTS!!!!
Love this ❤❤❤Mojo You, You,
i ve looking this song for years
Dam, I recorded this show back in '84' WOW, thats so crazy!!!!!!
YOU GOT 2B SHITTING ME!!!! CLAWD HAVE MERCY!!! THE SCENE WITH NATE MORRIS... THE CANTEENS, SKATING RINKS ETC... I COULD GO ON 4EVER.. THANK YOU... DETROIT ELECTRO FLYING MOJO... MFA(MIDNIGHT FUNK ASSOCITION)
Man this gave me chills listening...Use ta sit by the Radio Jamming
Now this is when RADIO was deep! This was the golden age!!! Radio NOW, SUCKS AZZ...everyone is playing the same 10 songs every hour on the hour on EVERY RADIO STATION! Thank you for the memories....Long live THE ELECTRIFYING MOJO and the M.F.A.
Perfect speech for area 51
Thats Thomas Dolby, "Get Out Of My Mix"
I got my a#@ wooped for staying up late to land the Mothership and it was worth it!!!
it was mojo party in the Simpson household remember the years the funkateers yeah great memories
you said the Funkateers.... you said the Funkateers.... c'mon now... this is the closest comment i've ever heard thaat alludes to my childhood!!
Reed this is a true story while I was in the Marines I would come home on leave and record cassette tapes of his show and take them back to my base and sell them...They went crazy for his music and his coooooolnessss!!!lol
I did the same thing....!love MoJo
In 87 I was in the USARMY stationed in Germany.I found out that a fellow soldier on my base had a box full of Electrifying Mojo mixes on cassette. I tracked him down and he let me dub a bunch them. I still have them. They are like gold to me now. I actually had this mix on tape. Graduated from high school in 84. Flint Beecher.
HOTRODDER50 hey man caring is sharing you need to post those tapes I'm from Muskegon and all I was up on was The Wizard so I need to get up on this Mojo guy a little more
Just amazing
The best ever
I agree with everyone in here, Mojo was so cool. Man I miss thos early to mid 1980s. THose were the days.
You can create .mp3's of your cassette this way. 1 - Connect your tape deck to the microphone port of your sound card on your computer using an RCA to 3.5mm adapter. 2 - Download a program called Audacity. 3 - Use Audacity to capture the songs coming from your cassette. 4 - Use audacity to pick which parts of the captured sounds you want to make into an .mp3. You have to learn how to use the controls and adjust the volume. It was hard to figure out, but once I got it, I was rolling.
More Mojo Memories, and New videos on UA-cam!!! MoJoy!!!!!
One word "MOJO". If you did not experience MOJO, there is certainly a VOID in your life. Those were the days when a............
Child was a Child, Man was a Man, Woman was Woman and a Party was a Party.............Look at My Country Now!
Thomas Dolby Europa remix is as off the chains today as ever.
hailllllllll fuck yeah....finally got this shit on here
hahaha, this was the summer the crew bum-rushed the swimming pools at various apartment complexes and started midnight pool parties with MFA coming out the boombox.
:D
This one's special to me because it was the first episode I remember.
MFA baby...flash them lights and surf the hoods...Gratiot is a party tonight...
It's your mid day d j Marvelous Marv.... Only trumped by the electrifying one, Electrifying Mojo.... MFA I still got my card....
hey all
anyone know the tune at 2:39?????
I got mojos book in the mail for my birthday not too long ago, so so so gooood
Dude what is the name of that song. I've been waiting to hear this track for over 20 years! We use to listen to Mojo down in Toledo all the way back to WGPR days. Marvelous Marv in the afternoon.
wow!
Does anyone have the track ids?
I have lots of cassette tapes I made of Electrifying Mojo - I used to listen to him from Sarnia, Canada when he was on WGPR, Power 96, etc. - I have the B-52's doing Mesopotamia, etc. etc. - I will post them if I can figure out how to digitize them - maybe using my digital camcorder ...
Randy Scott, how is that digitalizing project going? Very interested here... :)
This is such a big part of my history....GRIM.
Does anyone have hookups for extended mixes of his online for download? Just started a radio show in Sydney, Australia and would love to ve able to channel this extraterrestrial being!
mcmorris are you kin to Nat Morris from the Scene?
Hey anybody know a slow jam he use to play all the time? I can hear it but cant remember a name or artist I wanna say it was a duet and I thought he said Porgy & bess? sounds like Donna Summer "there will always be a you"
Looks like the future went off track...
@jeffcfe Indeed. now it is terrible.
naw bro, i live n memphis now.
Get out of my mix by Thomas Dolby...