HAPPY BIRTHDAY J.J. JOHNSON!! (here with Peaches & Herb.... & Billy Griffin @ the 1580 KDAY remote booth.. in downtown Los Angeles) An American Pioneering Disc Jockey. Helped to break the Motown and Philadelphia International sound on the 1970s airwaves of Los Angeles. The Original KDAY KDAY AM 1580. Those instrumental in bringing The Original AM Stereo 1580 KDAY R&B/Dance music format (during the 70s and early 80s) to a 4.0 Arbitron rating prominence, included early radio pioneers; Russ Parr, Steve Woods, JJ Johnson, Don Tracy, Dereke Clements (PR/Pub. Aff. Dir.), Roy Latimer (News), Doug Banks, Jack Patterson, Roger Aldi (News), and Jon Badeaux (Director of Production and Music Director). Community-based public affairs involvement and larger than life promotions including; 1580 KDAY Gold Give-A-Way, basketball games at the L.A. Lakers Forum with The Jacksons and Cameo, Bike-A-Thon with the Sylvers and Funkadelics, and the Annual KDAY Toys for Tots Drive, helped to make 1580 KDAY, the most popular music radio station in the Los Angeles market. Lee Marshall King News, The Brown Beauty On Duty Jesse Torrero, Lisa Canning, Mark Morganella, Tony G, The High Energy Mixers Hazze (aka Hamburgar Helper), and DJ Eddie (aka La Flavour), Rory Kaufman, Ed Kirby (General Manager), Andy Laird (chief Engineer), and so many others during this era, helped to make AM Stereo 1580 KDAY the power house of innovation, change, and musical leadership in the Hip-Hop, R&B, and Dance Music Worlds. With shows like the Traffic Jam, Friday Night Live, The High Energy Show, World On Wheels, Skateland USA, custom song mixes, interviews, heavy community service in schools, community centers, youth and church groups, community events, and the in street cutting edge programing, contests, and freshness many major players in the radio, and record business got their careers going on this odd 50,000 watt AM directional signal in Los Angeles. If an artist came to the West Coast, KDAY was their destination in Los Angeles. AM 1580 was sold in 1991 to realtor Fred Sands (who also owned iconic heavy metal station KNAC); it officially went off the air on March 29 of that year. Hours before that, phone calls were streaming into the station as the on-the-air DJs encouraged KDAY listeners to protest against the shutting down of the station. It was too late and KDAY turned into business-oriented radio station KBLA later that day. The final songs played that signaled the end of the original KDAY was Aint No Future in Yo Frontin by MC Breed and Turn Off the Lights by Teddy Pendergrass. After that, silence came to one of the AM bands last new music stations in the Los Angeles market
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 13:25:38 +0000
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