WNEW 1130 New York - Gene Klavan - August 4 1975 - Radio Aircheck
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- WNEW 1130 New York - Gene Klavan - August 4 1975 - Radio Aircheck
From the Kevin Fennessy Collection.
Gene Klavan was part of the 1130 WNEW morning show from 1952, until 1977. In the 1950s & 1960s, he hosted with his partner Dee Finch. Klavan & Finch were wildly popular. They improvised the popular four-hour program, which featured wacky characters like Mrs. Wes Chester, Sy Kology, Trevor Traffic, Mr Nat and Victor Verse. After Dee Finch retired, Klavan hosted the show alone, from 1968, until 1977. This aircheck is from the final years of the Gene Klavan Program, before the show left WNEW, and moved to 710 WOR where Gene hosted afternoons, to compliment WOR’s longtime morning show, Rambling with Gambling.
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Tom Carvel at 12:39! From the pre-Fudgie The Whale era!
Love this Ellis ... Do you have William B Williams recorded?! ... I have a tape of Willie B. with Tony Randall guesting... from 1973!
I grew up with this station too. Gene Klaven was a riot! Dee Finch was hilarious too. The music appealed more to my parents. Let Klaven invest my money? It's sometimes hard to know when he smoothly slips a joke in!
One of the all time great radio stations! Grew up listening to WNEW 1130!
Gene Kalavn
Minor point: this was actually recorded on Tuesday, August 5th, 1975. The sports recap refers to a Met game the previous night, which was August 4th.
At 12:40, one of the most unforgettable voices of NYC radio in the 70s. Not exactly the most resonant voice but once you heard it you never forgot it.
Many folks tend to scoff at WNEW's MOR period. It was perfect for its time and still had certain elements which linked to the all standards format. Klavan was perfect in this format and didn't "worship" certain artists and music as did others on the station. Hearing Diana Ross and the Supremes and 10CC on 1130 may have been jarring to the old WNEW faithful, but it was the correct move by 1975. The "old" WNEW was being challenged by the beautiful music stations on FM. Unfortunately, not very long after, Klavan left for afternoons on WOR.
Gene Klavan, his many voices and his famous characters like Dr. Seymour Chology ( call me Sy) were an absolute laugh riot. Thanks for the memories.
You're welcome. I loved listening to Klavan in the 60s & 70s,
LOVE THE OLD "WNEW JINGLES"..THEY WERE CLASSIC RADIO JINGLES..IM SURE YOU HAVE HAD THEM ON UTUBE ALREADY..IF NOT PLEASE PLAY THEM AGAIN
The great Bob Hagen handling the news. He went on to do mornings on 1010 WINS after the demise of WNEW.
Very nice and really enjoy your posts as they are much appreciated, thank you.
Wow, I have many memories of listening to Klavan and WNEW. Gene was like Dan Ingram - he did everything and in his slower paced was just as funny. Gene’s next gig after WOR was morning movie host on AMC. WNEW was iconic from the thirties to the sixties. Glenn Miller, Charlie Barnet and Les Brown all had songs written for WNEW during the big band era during 1130’s golden age. Thank you again, Ellis, for making me remember and documenting rare air checks.
So glad you enjoy them!
The crazy thing about this aircheck was how the call letters were only mentioned once by Klavan in a 30 minute span, and that was only to give an address for a contest. There was one WNEW jingle between spots and one WNEW jingle into 10cc at the end of the aircheck. Otherwise the station’s name was never mentioned after the newscast. And PPM wasn’t even around yet, LOL! The whole thing sounded so sloppy. I guess I was used to the more regimented sound of Klavan’s competition: John Gambling and Harry Harrison…
Klavan was kind of sloppy, but it worked for him, and produced big ratings. The show was totally ad-libed. Clients would pay big money to have Klavan mangle their live spots. It definitely was a one of a kind sound, that many New Yorkers loved. Once William B Williams arrived at 10, he would make the station sound more professional & class up the joint.
@@EllisFeaster oh I know. It just sounds so strange after years of hearing stations sounding tight and mentioning the station name every time they open the mic, and talking over the intros to the songs. I know Howard Stern didn’t do any of that stuff either, but he ran 15 minute stop sets, which enabled him to do his “schtick” at a more relaxed pace. Klavan’s show sounded like it was mostly spots, while the music and comedy was thrown in when there were a few seconds to spare! And that was the 9:00 hour! I wonder what the 7:00 hour sounded like! 😁
My father's favorite station. WNEW and WPAT-930.
Father of Andrew Klavan... no relation. K-L-A-V-A-N. There are no E's in Klavan.
And of Ross Klavan, a former 1010 WINS writer, editor and reporter - and once married to one of that station's first female anchors, Kate Doordan. (You can hear Ross' reportage elsewhere on YT in the form of a set of airchecks of WINS' coverage of the capture of the "Son of Sam.")
Barely 3 songs the entire time of this video,most listeners would've switched stations for better programming
It was a different era back then. Listeners were not listening for 12 songs in a row. They wanted companionship. The personality on the air (if he was good) was just as important as the music. You have to think the NY listeners must have liked it, or Klavan would NOT have been a market leader for a quarter century!
@@EllisFeaster even back then Personalities weren't just men they were women depending upon the station
Who cares?
When and why did Kalgan leave the station?
He left in 1977, after 25 years at WNEW. He wen’t crosstown to do afternoons at WOR. I assumed WOR paid him a ton to help give Rambling With Gambling an edge over WNEW. And perhaps Klavan was tired decades of getting up at 3:30 AM.
@@EllisFeaster thanks. I was curious as to his exit and the hiring of dean tyler from wip to wnew. I think gene was replaced by jay something or another.
Cannot see why he was a big deal. Imus was way funnier. Even Ted Brown was funnier.
You obviously did not listen to Gene much. Many, many people agree . . . he was extremely humorous and sometimes knee-slapping hilarious.
@@1761Charlie - Evidently Mr. Klavan's humor was of a different plane than Imus' or even Mr. Brown's.