. He had come a long way to a dead end; the Big Break was a big mistake. Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers. Mad mad mad Mad Mad Daddy! Show Opening (WHK 3/25/59) 2. It was 1959 in Cleveland,"once upon a time, in the land of Oobladi". Writer(s): Ivy Rorschach, Lux Interior. I am the Mad Mad Daddy Let's rock! Listen to Mad Daddy on the air in Cleveland and New York (requires Real Audio Player) THE MAD DADDY WAVY GRAVY! Using the air name the Mad Daddy, Myers attracted a huge audience of teenagers with his crazed, over the top, stream-of-consciousness patter, interspersed with nonsensical catch phrases like "mello jello" and "wavy gravy." Interestingly, Myers must have convinced management to let him do his "Mad Daddy" character late at night (later in 1962) - so for a time, both personalities were heard on the station. The "Mad Daddy" Pete Myers Biography. The San Francisco–born Myers gained his first broadcasting experience in psychological warfare for the Army during the Korean War. Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers was overshadowed by big names such as Alan Freed and Dick Biondi and unfortunately has been overlooked by most rock and roll history. boppin' and blastin' funny-farm broadcastin' . Pete Myers boasted an IQ of 172. His "Mad Daddy" persona later was adapted by Ernie Anderson for his "Ghoulardi" character on sister station WJW-TV in 1963. Pete Myers' first New York City appearance as Mad Daddy lasted one night on WNEW in 1959, after which "Mad Daddy" was asked to go undercover as mild-manned Myers, a straight-laced WNEW MOR jock. Born in San Francisco, CA., to Pierre and Gayle Myers, he trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and moved into the field of radio announcing in San Diego, Cal. Myers played all 82 regular season games for the first time in his NBA career and started 81. Disbanded in 2006. Let's go baby! Pete Myers (aka “The Mad Daddy”) was the wildest Disc Jockey from America’s golden age of Rock & Roll radio – a cat who drove around in a pink Pontiac wearing a Dracula cape and ‘Batty Bucks’ (bat-winged sneakers). FOR SALE! Myers returned to the NBA in 1993 by signing with the Chicago Bulls and replaced the retiring Michael Jordan as starting shooting guard. Oct 24, 2015 - The Mad Daddy Pete Myers 1950's Cleveland OH DJ and TV horror host I am the Mad Mad Daddy Mad mad mad Mad Mad Daddy! He was on the air in the late fifties and sixties. Profile: The Mad Daddys were a punk rock n' roll band out of New Jersey. It was 1959 in Cleveland,"once upon a time, in the land of Oobladi". Myers' show was heard nightly from 8 pm to 12:30 am. ATOM SMASHIN' ZOOMERATIN' MELLO JELLO RADIO BROADCASTS 1958-1964 (includes 24 page booklet with photos) (Norton Records, released May 2003, reissued Aug 2003) 1. MYERS, PIERRE ELLIS (PETE, "MAD DADDY") (7 Apr.1928-4 Oct. 1968) served a brief but trend-setting stint as a Cleveland radio disc jockey at the beginning of the rock and roll era in the late 1950s. Young Erik Purkhiser of Stowe, Ohio was part of that generation, touched so much by the mania of the Mad Daddy he became president of his region’s Mad Daddy Fan Club. Once an actor who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, Pete was one of my favorite WNEW people. The Mad Daddy Pete Myers personified cool for an entire generation of Midwesterners. album: "Songs The Lord Taught Us" (1980) TV Set. EarthStation1.com: Pete Mad Daddy Myers Classic Rock 'N' Roll Disc Jockey Radio Shows: Radio MP3s On CDs, DVDs And USB Flash Drives, And As MP3 Downloads C'mon roll! Pete Myers, The Mad, Mad Daddy of Cleveland Radio An aspiring actor before he landed a job in Ohio as a broadcaster, Myers used his thespian skills in a stunning run of unscripted jive patter and sound-effects.… In January 1958, Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers joined the station from WHKK 640 AM in Akron. He drove around Cleveland in a pink Pontiac wearing a Dracula cape, which helped to create the visual of the Mad Daddy image. Sites: MySpace. ~ 3 AIRCHECKS on 2 CDS ~[NOT SCOPED]THE MAD DADDY … THE MAD DADDY Pete Myers ~ 1959 Whk 1420 Am & Wins 1010 Am Radio ~ 2 Cd Aircheck - $18.36. Frustrated but helpless, he spent the next four years introducing Sinatra Records. ART LABOE 1951 pre KRLA - KXLA AM & MAD DADDY PETE MYERS 1958 WJW AM 2 CD RADIO - $15.23. Pete Myers was an actor and radio announcer who landed a job as a disc jockey on Cleveland's WJW-AM in 1958 and soon became a sensation in the Buckeye State. Every night after every day, On 1420…Color Radio…WHK. Myers averaged 16.1 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 2.1 assists per game. The mad daddy of Cleveland horror movie hosts, Pete Myers, in action here in a commercial spot on his hugely popular radio show back in the late 1950's. He did much better in 1963 when he began a two-year run on rival WINS. . WINS eventually went back to top-40 and the "Mad Daddy" character stuck around while Pete Myers did his final afternoon show around early summer 1963. After Mad Daddy's first show in New York, the phones at WNEW rang off the hooks, but Myers' elation upon hearing that the switchboard was jammed soon shattered. The station received hundreds of calls with letters to follow, asking who had lost his mind. Submit Corrections. C. The Cramps Lyrics . His evening show has a brief run (he leaves WJW in May). 500 likes. Myers' contribution to the story of rock and roll has been overshadowed by other better known DJs such as Alan Freed. Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers. Pete “Mad Daddy” Myers was one of the most unique radio personalities, from the golden age of Rock & Roll radio. Listen to this clip I made, I took out the songs so you can hear this master at work. Mad mad mad Mad Mad Daddy! Mad mad mad Mad Mad Daddy! As Mad Daddy he had a frenetic, rapid-fire patter delivered entirely in rhyme. C'mon roll! . . What came in was a resounding all-night put-down, something Myers had never encountered, even in his days with WJW. Come July 5 then, Mad Daddy was gone. The regular series premiered July 21, 1989 on HBO, and September 14 on CBC. Mad Daddy Pete Myers, WINS New York, 1964 (44:26). In his place, 8 to midnight, was Pete Myers, radio announcer. 1 talking about this. Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers - In my opinion the best radio personality in history. Clappin’ and flappin’ to make it happen . Wavy Gravy itself throws itself too far in the opposite direction. He began his career in 1957 at WHKK, and he developed into one of the most distinctive DJs in the northeast. In 1967 when he was no longer “Mad Daddy,” Pete Myers, was one of WNEW’s smoothest deejays. January – Pete Myers, with his frenetic, rapid-fire "Mad Daddy" persona, delivered entirely in rhyme, debuts on WJW (AM) in Cleveland (today WKNR). Thirteen-year-old Erik called WHK the day Myers left for New York in 1959 to tell his hero what he’d meant to him. The greatest scientist of the 20th Century, Albert Einstein, was estimated to have had an IQ of 160. Mad Daddy debuted on July 4, and response was immediate. Pete “Mad Daddy” Myers was in fact the DJ that took the place of Alan Freed's time slot when he left WJW in Cleveland for WINS and the big time in New York. I said rock! FOR SALE! … Moving to New York, his Mad … Mad Daddy giggles with all the glee. Rock On The … AZLyrics. As Mad Daddy, he had a frenetic, rapid-fire patter delivered entirely in rhyme. Mad Daddy was a no-go in New York. He was an unmistakable influence on Ernie "Ghoulardi" Anderson (who had worked with Myers) when Ernie began hosting horror movies himself in 1963. He was one of the strangest DJs in the north-east during his time at WHKK Akron in 1957 and WJW and WHK Cleveland 1958-9. After a 90-day non-compete clause is enforced, Myers joins cross-town Home Oobladi New York Airchecks . Robert Quine, one of many moonlit fans of Pierre Myers (aka Pete Myers, aka The Mad Daddy), writes in Wavy Gravy's booklet that he tried to record all the music from Daddy's Dadaistic radio shows, turning the recorder off when the mad one took the microphone. Mad Daddys. Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers - Zoomeratin Alphabet "Mad Daddy" Pete Myers. The series The Kids in the Hall debuted as a one-hour pilot special which aired on HBO and CBC Television in 1988, and began airing as a regular weekly series on both services in 1989. 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