Day: July 14, 2020

A SALUTE TO AMERICA’S GREATEST DISC JOCKEY: 1951

A WJBK Radio 1500 trade ad. Commemorating Ed McKenzie’s 6th year at the station, 1951.

 

 

JACK THE BELLBOY

—ED McKENZIE—

 

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Ed McKenzie 1950

[Note: Industry ad for Jack the Bellboy, circa 1951, reprinted in the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors, (IAJRC; Summer 1995) spotlighting Detroit DJ Ed McKenzie].

 

Ed McKenzie had been with WJBK since 1937. During WWII, he began to take over announcement chores for the short-handed station at the time, and eventually he became both engineer and the station’s chief announcer.

McKenzie did his first stint as a disc jockey in 1945. The name Jack the Bellboy was adopted from a favorite recording from Lionel Hampton.

He left WJBK for WXYZ, and will start (4-6:00 p.m.) Monday, February 4, 1952. ABS, owner of the station, also expressed of their plans to syndicate his show on the American Broadcasting Systems.

A special studio will be built for him at the Michigan Mutual Building, where  WXYZ has its offices.

 

(Source: The Detroit Free Press; January 17, 1952)

 

 

— ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —

 

A special THANK YOU to ‘Radio Muze” (as he prefers to be only called) of Los Angeles, California, for having shared this WJBK Ed McKenzie spread with  Motor City Radio Flashbacks!

 

 

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