WNEW 1130 New York - Gene Klavan - News Ray Rice - July 25 1973 - Radio Aircheck
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- WNEW 1130 New York - Gene Klavan - News Ray Rice - July 25 1973 - 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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Thank you very very much for posting this air track. There are not a lot of air checks of radio station WNEWAM out there and this is great. I hope that you’ll be able to find an air check of Cleavon and finch eventually. Those are even more rare again thank you very very much for posting this. Brings back memories of my childhood when my parents used to listen to this radio station and I was not allowed to even touch the radio dial.❤
I am always on the lookout for Klavan & Finch audio. That is extremely hard to find.
I remember this station like it was yesterday! My father loved 1130 WNEW. Loved the cast of "characters!" That for the memories Ellis.
Alison Steele in the ShopRite commercial??😊
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Mishter Naat's official job title was: "Coordinator of Inter-Relations"
Banks: Manufacturer's Hanover was taken over by Chemical Bank. Then Chemical Bank was taken over by Citibank (Citicorp). Then Citicorp became bankrupt, but still operates. Dog eat dog in banking.
Gino's (Hamburgers) was taken over by Roy Rogers (Roast Beef) . Roy Rogers is no longer around .
I always wonder how people are able to find these kind of old broadcasts.
I recorded a lot of them myself when I was a kid, and many others have been passed along to me by others who recorded them when they were kids or teenagers.
Mr Feaster, thank you for 20 minutes or so of great entertainment and a reminder of how good radio used to be.
Glad you enjoyed it. You don't hear radio like this anymore.
Ellis, you promised to post this - and you delivered!! wonderful quality, commercials as well, and i had forgotten that they did newscasts on the half hour! ( NEW-FM only carried the newscasts on the hour.) THANK YOU! ...eleven-three-oh-in-new-york - eleven-three-oh-in-new-yooooork...
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'll get some more Klavan soon.
MORE OF A NEW 102 FM WHEN IN NYC/NJ BUT WOULD LISTEN TO TALK⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
When did WNEW AM start playing American Popular Standards, in stead of this lineup?
I'm a little fuzzy on this, but I think it was around 1982-ish.
1982 is a about right. Jack Thayer was running WNEW and moved it back to its former format on standards, vocalists, lots of Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Bennett, etc. From the mid 1930’s to the early1950’s WNEW was synonymous with big bands,swing and vocalists. Bernice Judis, one of the few radio station managers who started there in the late 2930’s (lovingly nicknamed ‘La Mama’ by the air staff) nurtured the format and later was co-owner. She brought together Dee Finch and Gene Rayburn as a comedy morning team. Later Gene Klavan replaced Rayburn when he started becoming successful in television as the Steve Allen Tonight Show announcer and comic foil. Judis was a true programming innovator.
WNEW’s format in the 1950’s to early 1970’s was close to the later AmericanStandards format in the 1980’s until it’s demise. But back in the 50’s/60’s they would air hour long specials with artists singing live in their studios such as Tony Bennett, Lena Horne and others and occasionally live remote specials aside from their great lineup of jocks. WNEW was one of the few all-night radio stations in the 50’s/early60’s and I listened to ‘The Milkman’s Matinee on my transistor radio.
In the late 1950’s WNEW flirted with rock n’ roll adding doo-wop records to their playlist. I remember the first time I heard ‘Get A Job’ by The Silhouettes was on WNEW around 1958 (my dad had WNEW playing on a loudspeaker in his business for a couple of decades). Rock didn’t last long.
In 1971 many of the jocks were gone including Ted Brown. Children’s TV host Sandy Becker became a jock, so did singer Jim Lowe. The station’s ratings had eroded by then (in the 40’s/50’s it was a top rated station - a real forerunner to WABC) and began adding pop tunes and MOR songs. That format never jelled. Klavan left for WOR afternoons around 1977 or so after Bob and Ray left there.
I hope Ellis doesn’t mind this, Google - The Melody Lingers On book World Radio History - it will take you to a PDF copy of the long out of print book ‘The Melody Lingers On’ a 50th anniversary book about WNEW that will give you a great history of the station from its beginning until it’s move to standards. An interesting great read with lots of pictures, and station artifacts.
@@draff1662 Thanks for the info!