Murray the K

I was grew up in the Bronx.

The first rock 'n' roll show I ever saw was in 1961 when I was 10, Murray the K Show, uh, with Dion and, uh, Del Shannon-

Right

... and The Little Anthony and the Imperials-

Right

... and people like that, music was made for the adults and the grandparents.

But here, not only with Murray the K and Alan Freed on radio, and not only with Dick Clark on television, but you also mention someone whose name is not talked about a lot, and that's Gloria Stavers.

And Gloria Stavers-

So already you can see it's a different, different point in time.

And they were going to fi- they found this disc jockey called Murray the K, another famous disc jockey from I don't know which city.

And they were trying to decide, "Should we produce this show?" So they hire me as, I think it was like a six-week internship.

Said, "Can you come in?" And o- I'd taken one corporate finance class- So I said, "I can do this." It's cash flows, discount rate, net present value.

The song became the first single to achieve the number one position on the Billboard chart by an African-American girl group.

But the newfound success, The Shirelles Frequently, appeared on the all-star rock shows hosted by Murray the K on radio station WINS in New York.

The next single was a reissued Dedicated to the One I Love, which peaked at number three.

Here is the number three hit, Dedicated to the One I Love.

I worked at WINS.

I pulled, uh, records for Murray the K when he was at Palisades Park, and I worked in a news department primarily.

After that, I went to Monitor Radio at NBC for a number of years.

And you know what the tragedy-

I've looked at their rundowns.

You know what the tragedy was about Monitor? And then I, I won't bore-

Yeah, they went to Murray the K in the '70s.

No. Yeah, and they went to Jim-

C- can you talk about that? Like, it's, um, it became a bit of a chosen family of all these sort of families touring together as part of her, her, her tour.

I fell in love with Dionne Warwick when she had Don't Make Me Over, and Bobby Sox and the Blue Jeans, the group that I was part of, too, because of Phil Spector, at Christmastime went to the Fox Theater in New York City, uh, and did a Christmas show with Murray the K, the dicks, big disc jockey of the day, and Dionne was on that show.

And we became friends then.

And, um, at Christmas time she said, "You guys need to- we- I'm gonna have a dinner for everybody." And we all went to her house.

Sure, why not? That's an interesting little subplot.

in 1956 capitalizing on elvis mania rca records who they just signed away from sun studios and sun records and sam phillips announced that their newly acquired star had sold 10 million copies in his first year with the record label it also was the day that love me tender came out that's why they announced it on that date we'll get to the song later In 1963, legendary disc jockey Murray the K played the Beatles song She Loves You on New York City's WINS AM, W-I-N-S radio, which is now an all-news network.

It was widely believed to be the first time that a Beatles song was broadcast on American radio.

At first, it didn't really do all that much, but then as time went on, and especially after a Walter Cronkite interview that happened to use that song in it, that's when it kicked in and suddenly Beatlemania started gaining some steam in America.