A MCRFB NEWS brief:
Billboard Magazine; March 2, 1963
DETROIT — Deejays are competitive, but they can also be cooperative.
While recuperating from a knee twist which had him away from the WJR studio turntables for about a week, midnight record-spinner Jay Roberts received a note from station owner Jon Holiday, of WAIR (Winston-Salem) asking permission to use the basic format of Roberts’ “Nightflight 760.”
Roberts simulates a jet flight to a different city every night, beginning with a whooshing takeoff sound effect and a (pre-recorded) airline hostesses’ voice issuing a welcome and instructions just as though it was a real flight. During the flight, “Captain” Roberts describes the city of the night in detail.
Roberts told Holiday, a former top jazz deejay from Little Rock, Arkansas to go ahead. END
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(Information and news source: Billboard; March 2, 1963)
