Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Cleveland Radio Tales: Stories from the Local Radio Scene of the 1960s, '70s, '80s, and '90s

Cleveland Radio Tales: Stories from the Local Radio Scene of the 1960s, '70s, '80s, and '90s

Olszewski, Mike
Olszewski, Janice

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing ArtsRadioRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 1938441907
ISBN13: 9781938441905
Publisher: Gray & Company Publishers
Published: Oct 24 2017
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Remember when Cleveland radio was filled with larger-than-life characters?

Let's go behind the microphone to meet dozens of intriguing and innovative local radio personalities, including ...

  • Count John Manolesco, the talk show host, astrologer, and former vampire who performed an exorcism live on-air
  • A daytime host who raised eyebrows and gained headlines when he did his entire show in the nude
  • Inventive Wayne Mack, whose make-believe big band concerts seemed so real that listeners drove around for hours in search of his fictional Waltz Palace ballroom
  • Loudmouth Gary Dee, who scored big ratings interviewing strippers and once knocked a fellow DJ out cold
  • Media mogul Milton Maltz, a square who teamed up with hippies to transform WMMS into a rock and roll giant
  • Young Jack Paar, who nearly lost his first radio job while saving Cleveland from a Martian invasion
  • The undaunted DJs of WABQ who broke FCC rules to stay on the air during the Glenville riots in 1968
  • Teenage amateurs whose pirate radio stations drew loyal local listeners--and angry visits from the Feds!

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