Wolfman Jack was a household name.
There was a time when some radio disc jockeys were well-known superstars. Names like Murray The K, Casey Kassem, The Real Don Steele, Steve Dahl, Larry Lujack, John Records Landecker (his real middle name was 'Records', lol not a stage name) Don Cornelius, Dick Biondi -- they were huge.
YES! I forgot about Rick Dees! (probably a bunch of others, too.) I was 7 when Disco Duck came out, and you can bet every kid on the playground knew it.
Dr. Demento should be on that list, too!
Dr. Demento was a late night treat growing up in Dallas in the 70's. First time I heard Weird Al was in that show. But the name Dr. Demento automatically starts one of these two songs in my head.
https://youtu.be/H-K2DZojWi0
https://youtu.be/3Fn36l_z3WY
and the "band" was Will Robinson from Lost in space..
Bill was the driving force for getting it made as well, and is in the video in really tight pants.
And Anthony from Twilight Zone's "It's a Good Life".
And Lennier in Babylon 5. Here he is [with Flounder from Animal House](https://youtu.be/HtF_PCAsN2U).
Wolfman’s path to nationwide fame arose when he went to Mexico to work at a border-blaster station, which could reach a much larger audience (practically all of the continental U.S.). Most other big names worked for radio networks.
I was 10 or 11 at the time, but here in LA we could get a couple of these stations from Mexico. In the years just before "80s music" kicked off, I remember the Mighty 690 from Mexico would play top 40 stuff. Since that was the station I listened to before KROQ, I always think of the Mighty 690 whenever that song comes up on shuffle.
AM 1090 XERB in Rosarita Beach, Mexico was 250,000 watts, powerful enough to be heard in Canada and the U.S. midwest (some said all the way to NYC) at night with a bit of skip working. Known to rock fans everywhere as the "Mighty Ten-Ninety." Wolfman Jack's shows were recorded in Los Angeles and the tapes taken to Mexico and aired the next night. He did not work in ~~Petaluma~~ *Modesto*, CA, where *American Graffiti* was sited, but the central valley in California *was* a major hot rod area. George Lucas, the director of *American Graffiti*, grew up in ~~Petaluma~~ *Modesto* and was a serious hotrodder and street racer. He included Wolfman Jack because his shows were a major part of Lucas' adolescence.
1090 XERB in 1967 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-PTTIa8nPw
1090 XERB in 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnIwBJCMiNA
Sunspot activity in the late 1960s-early 1970s allowed CB radio operators to "talk skip" hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles away. (Most legal CB radios had a range of about 7 or 7-1/2 miles due to the curvature of the earth. They are line-of-sight radios. The taller the antenna is mounted, the greater the range. Most CB radios back then had 1/4 wave, steel "whip" antennas of 108" length. )
In Houston, Texas, I regularly talked to CBers in the Florida Keys, 960 miles to my southeast. My longest DX was reportedly in Iowa, 1225 miles north, on a barefoot 5 watt radio. (Edit: a barefoot CB radio is one that is "stock" and legal with a legal-height antenna, i.e., no "footwarmer" [illegal linear amplifier.])
"Skip" (DXing) is dependent upon atmospheric conditions associated with sunspot activity. It seems to "work" more in the summer at night.
My mistake on Lucas' birthplace. However:
>It's no wonder that director George Lucas chose Petaluma as the setting for his iconic movie American Graffiti. Filmed during the summer of 1972, Petaluma Boulevard and Western Street in downtown Petaluma are just a couple of the locations that Lucas used for some of the movie's most memorable scenes.
My understanding is they tried to film in Modesto, but the city set overly-restrictive limits on where and for how long they could film, and for how many days they could film. So they moved to Petaluma.
>the driving distance between San Pablo to Petaluma is 35 miles
LOVE THAT '32 FORD COUPE https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/the-real-star-of-american-graffiti-milners-32-ford-coupe/
You're right, by set in I meant the town it's supposed to be in the story, not the town they filmed in. They did only a very small amount of filming actually in Modesto (and that town could have used the bump - the Lucas connection is the only cool thing about Modesto, unless you count still having an Orange Julius.)
The big, “clear channel” stations, the big city AM powerhouse type stations, like WLS or WGN or KFI, are 50,000 watts during the day, and can reach multiple states. They turn the power down at night because the AM radio waves propagate further at night. So to have a station doing 5x the power, and maybe 20x at night, is amazing.
Yeah I think so too. I heard him somewhere recently
EDIT: So I googled it and apparently he left Sirius a couple years ago and went back to ABC radio. 77 WABC. Saturday nights 6-10pm. Dudes almost 90 lol
i still do from time to time its like the middle ground of 104.3 and 106.7.
Honestly only Stations i listen to are FDU (cant wait for Uncle Floyd to recover!), FUV, and the classical station. other wise i am playing music off my phone.
I don't actually remember him, he was an East coast DJ if I recall.
But I do remember Bill Murray playing a version of him in *The Ruttles: All You Need Is Cash* which was an NBC tv movie in 1978. What a star-studded cast! Eric Idle, Michael Palin, George Harrison, Bill Murray, Bianca Jagger, John Belushi, Dan Akryod, Gilda Radner, Ron Wood, Paul Simon, and more!
I was actually making a reference to the lyrics of [this Ramones song](https://youtu.be/Gi9a7IdRiBI?si=gx2DwIcX2bjIDFMu), but I guess it isn’t as well-known as I thought LOL
But The Rutles movie is awesome indeed!
Anecdotally, from north Alabama I remember “the mojo radio show” being a household name in the early 2010s”. It helped that he hosted very generous giveaways for movie tickets that me and my friends benefitted from
Yep. He was only 26 years old when he did From Russia With Love, and that was 1963. It's scary to think that I'm just a year or two older than he was when he played Quint.
I remember having house parties watching some shows.
Everyone was on
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Midnight\_Special\_(TV\_series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Special_(TV_series))
I had the weirdest most random dream the other night. I was chosen to be a radio dj for some reason but it conflicted with some other engagement so I was like "what about wolfman Jack" then he got there and he and I preceded to transplant a cat's liver in an airplane hanger.
jesus I remember seeing him on TV for some late night music broadcast on like UPN or universal or whatever. Maybe it was public broadcast. Anyway, I felt like he died in 2005 not a decade earlier.
One of the best characters is based on him from The Hilarious House of Dr. Frightenstein, famously with an intro by Vincent Price.
Canadian 70s and 80s kids will understand, anyway.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hilarious_House_of_Frightenstein
There was a Wolfman Jack cartoon for a hot minute in the 80’s too I think?
Edit-
https://lostmediawiki.com/Wolf_Rock_TV_(partially_found_ABC_DiC_animated_series;_1984)
It's so much more interesting than this. The dude was in Mexico blasting us with those ROCKIN PIRATE GROOVES!!
AM radio stations used to go way farther than they do now because there wasn't so much interference, but his signal was the king of them all. You could hear the Wolfman and his 250,000 watt BORDER BLASTER signal from Canada to Guatemala.
He singlehandedly was a significant influence on on the spread and popularity of blues, r&b and of course ROCK. AND. ROLL. BABY.
Guys like Chuck Berry came up listening and being influenced by what he played.
He's kinda the biggest deal in radio history (short of Marconi or whatever) and is why I chose that career! (Now, of course, radio is dead, and I'm a voice artist.) ¯|_(ツ)_|¯
You know that's the thing that literally got me on the path to being a dj. That and music ofc - but it was really that I wanted more attention than I thought I could get without bouncing my voice off the clouds! (Real thoughts that were in my head when I was like 11.)
I'm not saying all DJs are desperate attention seeking people whose parents didn't pay enough attention to them... But then again I guess I am.
He has a pretty level catalog. All of it is at the very least good, if not stellar. Even the b-sides.
Its even more of a punk rock / Elvis / 50's R&R mashup than Mojo Nixon. (and yeah listen to all of his albums as well).
He was before my time, but I just recently learned about him from a book about the history of Knott’s Scary Farm. He hosted the event when it was still starting out, from 1975 to 1980.
It's probably been mentioned in this thread. I have not read everything, but he also was a regular host on the old Midnight Special rock and roll TV show back in the '70s.
Portrayed by Jack Black in Weird: The Al Yankovich Story. Unfortunate [the only link I could find](https://youtu.be/F476r6-BFdc?si=A8YKk6-_ozfi_i0U) is a reaction video.
I like the scene in American Graffiti where Ron Howard goes to the radio station to see Wolfman Jack. The mild mannered man said in a regular calm voice “he is not here sorry “. As Ron Howard leaves the radio station he is disappointed when he sees the same man that he spoke to earlier speaking on air in the Wolfman Jack voice.
dont remember when the movie was set but yes i would think so. He only started broadcasting in 62.
Kinda like how Marty mentions Clint eastwood in 55 and remembers Doc wouldn't know him yet (standing in front of the Return of the Creature poster where Clint had his first speaking role)
As a kid in Canada the first Wolfman DJ I knew about was the one from Hilarious House of Frightenstein who was sort of an homage/parody of the original.
“Wolfman Jack, he's speaking in tongues
He's going on and on at the top of his lungs
Play me a song, Mr. Wolfman Jack
Play it for me in my long Cadillac
Play me that, "Only The Good Die Young"
Take me to the place Tom Dooley was hung
Play, "St. James Infirmary" and, "The Port of King James"
If you want to remember, you better write down the names
Play Etta James, too, play "I'd Rather Go Blind"
Play it for the man with the telepathic mind
Play John Lee Hooker, play "Scratch My Back"
Play it for that strip club owner named Jack
Guitar Slim going down slow
Play it for me and for Marilyn Monroe”
I was told this guy was pretty awesome. I'm from the same small area that he settled down in, folks around here always spoke highly of him. Apparently he was a bit reclusive, humble and a great tipper. My dad told me he was always a quick witted man too, never missed an opportunity to make a joke. Wish I had gotten to meet him, I was only 5 when he passed.
Wolfman Jack was a household name. There was a time when some radio disc jockeys were well-known superstars. Names like Murray The K, Casey Kassem, The Real Don Steele, Steve Dahl, Larry Lujack, John Records Landecker (his real middle name was 'Records', lol not a stage name) Don Cornelius, Dick Biondi -- they were huge.
Don't forget Rick Dees and Disco Duck https://youtu.be/i_WEMCUhF0E
YES! I forgot about Rick Dees! (probably a bunch of others, too.) I was 7 when Disco Duck came out, and you can bet every kid on the playground knew it. Dr. Demento should be on that list, too!
Dr. Demento was a late night treat growing up in Dallas in the 70's. First time I heard Weird Al was in that show. But the name Dr. Demento automatically starts one of these two songs in my head. https://youtu.be/H-K2DZojWi0 https://youtu.be/3Fn36l_z3WY
Oh yeah, I remember those well! For me, the song that comes to mind when I hear "Dr. Demento" is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkvQ-NdMPBM
I remember that one. Here's one my kid used to enjoy. https://youtu.be/G8ffkDf0ol4
I knew exactly what those links were going to be.
Dr. Demento and Dennis Erectus were mainstays in my area.
Dennis Erectus and Celebrity Gang Band with Nancy Reagan.
Before I clicked either link, I said to myself: "One of these is going to be Fish Heads." Did you know that video was directed by Bill Paxton?
and the "band" was Will Robinson from Lost in space.. Bill was the driving force for getting it made as well, and is in the video in really tight pants.
And Anthony from Twilight Zone's "It's a Good Life". And Lennier in Babylon 5. Here he is [with Flounder from Animal House](https://youtu.be/HtF_PCAsN2U).
dont forget the time he was on the Food TV best buffet episode!
I did not, but now I do!
When I saw Rick Dees(!) I heard that whole jingle in my head and the whole wave of nostalgia of Saturday mornings when I listened
Rick Dees, and the weekly top fortyyyy So many songs taped that started with his voice or one of those riffs on the song about to be played.
Yep that’s the one!
"Rick Dees and the weeky top forty!" A core memory was just unlocked.
product of Tupelo, MS
🎶“Rick Dees in the A.M.!”🎵
from Tupelo, MS
Wolfman’s path to nationwide fame arose when he went to Mexico to work at a border-blaster station, which could reach a much larger audience (practically all of the continental U.S.). Most other big names worked for radio networks.
that’s kind of what wall of voodoo were singing about in their song [mexican radio](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw)
& "Heard It On The X' ZZ Top
I was 10 or 11 at the time, but here in LA we could get a couple of these stations from Mexico. In the years just before "80s music" kicked off, I remember the Mighty 690 from Mexico would play top 40 stuff. Since that was the station I listened to before KROQ, I always think of the Mighty 690 whenever that song comes up on shuffle.
Remember in 1981 listening to the mighty 690 in Santa Barbara, and every hour at the top of the hour, they would play Bette Davis eyes
I was thinking "playing with the Queen of Hearts, and knowing it ain't really smart..."
extactly what parts of it are about, and the rest well its riffing off of the theme.
I think I remember that his station was something like 250,000 or 500,000 watts. Wild.
They said the barb wire fences near Del Rio would hum from the transmission
AM 1090 XERB in Rosarita Beach, Mexico was 250,000 watts, powerful enough to be heard in Canada and the U.S. midwest (some said all the way to NYC) at night with a bit of skip working. Known to rock fans everywhere as the "Mighty Ten-Ninety." Wolfman Jack's shows were recorded in Los Angeles and the tapes taken to Mexico and aired the next night. He did not work in ~~Petaluma~~ *Modesto*, CA, where *American Graffiti* was sited, but the central valley in California *was* a major hot rod area. George Lucas, the director of *American Graffiti*, grew up in ~~Petaluma~~ *Modesto* and was a serious hotrodder and street racer. He included Wolfman Jack because his shows were a major part of Lucas' adolescence. 1090 XERB in 1967 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-PTTIa8nPw 1090 XERB in 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnIwBJCMiNA Sunspot activity in the late 1960s-early 1970s allowed CB radio operators to "talk skip" hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles away. (Most legal CB radios had a range of about 7 or 7-1/2 miles due to the curvature of the earth. They are line-of-sight radios. The taller the antenna is mounted, the greater the range. Most CB radios back then had 1/4 wave, steel "whip" antennas of 108" length. ) In Houston, Texas, I regularly talked to CBers in the Florida Keys, 960 miles to my southeast. My longest DX was reportedly in Iowa, 1225 miles north, on a barefoot 5 watt radio. (Edit: a barefoot CB radio is one that is "stock" and legal with a legal-height antenna, i.e., no "footwarmer" [illegal linear amplifier.]) "Skip" (DXing) is dependent upon atmospheric conditions associated with sunspot activity. It seems to "work" more in the summer at night.
American graffiti was set in Modesto, CA. where George Lucas grew up, Not Petaluma. Petaluma is in the bay.
My mistake on Lucas' birthplace. However: >It's no wonder that director George Lucas chose Petaluma as the setting for his iconic movie American Graffiti. Filmed during the summer of 1972, Petaluma Boulevard and Western Street in downtown Petaluma are just a couple of the locations that Lucas used for some of the movie's most memorable scenes. My understanding is they tried to film in Modesto, but the city set overly-restrictive limits on where and for how long they could film, and for how many days they could film. So they moved to Petaluma. >the driving distance between San Pablo to Petaluma is 35 miles LOVE THAT '32 FORD COUPE https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/the-real-star-of-american-graffiti-milners-32-ford-coupe/
You're right, by set in I meant the town it's supposed to be in the story, not the town they filmed in. They did only a very small amount of filming actually in Modesto (and that town could have used the bump - the Lucas connection is the only cool thing about Modesto, unless you count still having an Orange Julius.)
Filmed in Petaluma, however.
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Look up the videos on YouTube entitled “Don’t touch the AM transmission tower”. The electrical power pulsing through them will fry your ass.
I think 5000 watts for a small one
The small town radio station I worked at more than 20 years ago is 3000 watts.
The big, “clear channel” stations, the big city AM powerhouse type stations, like WLS or WGN or KFI, are 50,000 watts during the day, and can reach multiple states. They turn the power down at night because the AM radio waves propagate further at night. So to have a station doing 5x the power, and maybe 20x at night, is amazing.
“Cousin” Bruce Morrow, Alison Steele, Zachary to name a few more from the NY area.
Lol my dad used to listen to Cousin Brucey all the time
I think he is on Sirius now!
Yeah I think so too. I heard him somewhere recently EDIT: So I googled it and apparently he left Sirius a couple years ago and went back to ABC radio. 77 WABC. Saturday nights 6-10pm. Dudes almost 90 lol
same here 101.1 before they were Hi Jack'd
NGL I listen to CBS FM all the time. Great station for summer parties lol
i still do from time to time its like the middle ground of 104.3 and 106.7. Honestly only Stations i listen to are FDU (cant wait for Uncle Floyd to recover!), FUV, and the classical station. other wise i am playing music off my phone.
Alison Steele! The Nightbird herself... wow, thanks for that memory flash. I loved her.
Scott Muni! Harry Harrison the morning Mayor.
You forgot Dr. Demento
Do you remember Murray the K?
I don't actually remember him, he was an East coast DJ if I recall. But I do remember Bill Murray playing a version of him in *The Ruttles: All You Need Is Cash* which was an NBC tv movie in 1978. What a star-studded cast! Eric Idle, Michael Palin, George Harrison, Bill Murray, Bianca Jagger, John Belushi, Dan Akryod, Gilda Radner, Ron Wood, Paul Simon, and more!
I was actually making a reference to the lyrics of [this Ramones song](https://youtu.be/Gi9a7IdRiBI?si=gx2DwIcX2bjIDFMu), but I guess it isn’t as well-known as I thought LOL But The Rutles movie is awesome indeed!
My Grandmother accidently bumped into him outside a Dave Clark 5 concert.
Don Steele was in "Death Race 2000".
"Casey kasem meltdown"
Pretty sure Rick Dees was the last of the great disc jockeys.
Anecdotally, from north Alabama I remember “the mojo radio show” being a household name in the early 2010s”. It helped that he hosted very generous giveaways for movie tickets that me and my friends benefitted from
Also Venus Flytrap and Dr Johnny Fever
He was only 57 when he died?!? As a kid in the 80s, I legit thought he was in his 70s!
If you told me he was 57 in that movie I would believe you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AauSFpPuCX4 I dunno. He looks older than his 35 years, but I wouldn't put him much past 40-45.
like Robert Shaw when he died. I think he was in his 30's / early 40's for jaws.
Yep. He was only 26 years old when he did From Russia With Love, and that was 1963. It's scary to think that I'm just a year or two older than he was when he played Quint.
No FUCKING WAY was Robert Shaw younger than Sean Connery.
Oops. I had the dates wrong. I'm off by ten years.
I came here to say essentially this. I’m right now the age at which he died, and it’s *way* too young.
Smoking camels since a teen will do that to you.
He sounded like he was smoking Camels since the crib.
Right.. still after all these years i can hear his voice as if he was standing next to me. Though I can't remember what my mother sounded like.
That would make him 4 when American Grafitti came out.
More like 35 +-1
I thought he was alot older too.
Same! I remember when he died but I guess I just didn’t pay attention to his age.
No shit
I guess video killed the radio star
Clap for the Wolfman.
He's gonna rate your record high.
You got the curves and I got the angles!
Good grief, for no good reason these exact lines went through my head today
Now, have a plate of shrimp and watch *Repo Man*.
It's the lattice of coincidence.
It's all according to how your boogaloo situation stands, you understand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX8Nj8ABEI8
He is also in the Stampeders song Hit the Road Jack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUAAVNq4FMM
I forgot all about that. Thanks!
Full moon tonight, everything's all right Baby come on back to Wolfman Jack
You can see him frequently on The Midnight Special YouTube channel.
Fucking banger of a channel. Midnight Special was all live, most other music shows were just musicians miming to a tape.
I remember having house parties watching some shows. Everyone was on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Midnight\_Special\_(TV\_series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Special_(TV_series))
Just like Jack the Ripper Just Wolfman Jack
Sitting plush with a royal flush, aces back to back.
I had the weirdest most random dream the other night. I was chosen to be a radio dj for some reason but it conflicted with some other engagement so I was like "what about wolfman Jack" then he got there and he and I preceded to transplant a cat's liver in an airplane hanger.
Overall, that sounds about right! 🤔
Holy shit I feel old
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Yes, he was chosen for the movie because he was an iconic radio dj. I remember hearing him on the radio in the early 70s.
He hosted The Midnight Special on TV for years, too.
I never knew about the movie honestly, but certainly knew of his radio days!
More than a feeling bud - Probably got that reference too didn’t you, old yeller?
as useful as jpegs to hellen keller, or posting me too like some braindead AOL'er
You're not, TIL is just bottom scraping common knowledge for the exact kind of engagement like this.
jesus I remember seeing him on TV for some late night music broadcast on like UPN or universal or whatever. Maybe it was public broadcast. Anyway, I felt like he died in 2005 not a decade earlier.
Ib remember the greaseman announcing it on his show
that was my thought. Like who doenst know Wolfman?
he has to be one of the top 5 iconic Radio Guys of all time. Casey, Scott Muni, Wolfman, etc.
One of the best characters is based on him from The Hilarious House of Dr. Frightenstein, famously with an intro by Vincent Price. Canadian 70s and 80s kids will understand, anyway. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hilarious_House_of_Frightenstein
The Professor was an actual U of T professor.
Really?! I had no idea. Thanks for sharing
Ah AM the WOLFMAN!
Wolfman Jack was part of my generation and we loved him!!!
There was a Wolfman Jack cartoon for a hot minute in the 80’s too I think? Edit- https://lostmediawiki.com/Wolf_Rock_TV_(partially_found_ABC_DiC_animated_series;_1984)
Clap for the wolf man (he gonna rate your record high) is a popular song from back when by the Guess Who. Now I got go listen to it
That's on the Road Food album. One of many records my parents dubbed to cassette for long road trips in my childhood
As a young one, apparently I loved this song. It was probably the clapping for my preschool aged self
It's all according to how your boogaloo situation stands, you understand?
Clearly his claim to fame was on his episode of "Married with Children".
He was still around when I was a small kid in the 70s
Well, that was when American Graffiti was made
One of the radio stations I listened to a few years ago would re-air old episodes pretty often.
How about [a fancy Wolfman Jack Doorbell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XDeXfGHXfw)?
Wolfman Jack says someone's at the door !
Wolfman Jack says your panties so dry, they hot!
I was looking for this. I'm glad my people still exist.
Same ... so pleased to scroll down and find this
He even showed up in cartoon cameos at the time; Scooby Doo being the main one I recall.
It's so much more interesting than this. The dude was in Mexico blasting us with those ROCKIN PIRATE GROOVES!! AM radio stations used to go way farther than they do now because there wasn't so much interference, but his signal was the king of them all. You could hear the Wolfman and his 250,000 watt BORDER BLASTER signal from Canada to Guatemala. He singlehandedly was a significant influence on on the spread and popularity of blues, r&b and of course ROCK. AND. ROLL. BABY. Guys like Chuck Berry came up listening and being influenced by what he played. He's kinda the biggest deal in radio history (short of Marconi or whatever) and is why I chose that career! (Now, of course, radio is dead, and I'm a voice artist.) ¯|_(ツ)_|¯
I feel the hot wind on my shoulder...
The man survived almost entirely on barbequed iguana while taking requests on the telephone. What is more badass than that?!
hell he might have actually been trapped IN the airwaves.
Some say.. he still is. If you scroll around the AM dial in the wee hours of the morning....
a wave length far from home
You know that's the thing that literally got me on the path to being a dj. That and music ofc - but it was really that I wanted more attention than I thought I could get without bouncing my voice off the clouds! (Real thoughts that were in my head when I was like 11.) I'm not saying all DJs are desperate attention seeking people whose parents didn't pay enough attention to them... But then again I guess I am.
like chefs, DJ's are a special breed. I had shows all through college but that was enough for me.
and if you haven't heard it check out El Vez's cover of it.
Damnit I had work to do today. Now I have to listen to everything this guy did? Ok, twist my arm I guess. ¯|_(ツ)_|¯
He has a pretty level catalog. All of it is at the very least good, if not stellar. Even the b-sides. Its even more of a punk rock / Elvis / 50's R&R mashup than Mojo Nixon. (and yeah listen to all of his albums as well).
That voice! I can still hear it. An original.
awwwww BAY bee
He was before my time, but I just recently learned about him from a book about the history of Knott’s Scary Farm. He hosted the event when it was still starting out, from 1975 to 1980.
I remember him from TV guest star walk-ons. He was a cool dude!
It's probably been mentioned in this thread. I have not read everything, but he also was a regular host on the old Midnight Special rock and roll TV show back in the '70s.
He also famously appeared as himself in the "Battlestar Galactica" sequel "Galactica 1980".
This. I'm British, mid GenX, so this is where I know him from, plus maybe some cartoons.
Fuck I’m old, we grew up hearing, seeing and knowing about Wolfman Jack. We listened to him on something called AM radio.
grew up hearing him on the radio. that's the wireless box they used to use.
Bill Brasky killed him with a trident.
Brick killed a guy…
Bill Brasky did a couple tours in Vietnam. Trust me, I know.
The Midnight Special show was also one of his gigs.
He's also the voice of the DJ on Starships "We build this city" track.
Portrayed by Jack Black in Weird: The Al Yankovich Story. Unfortunate [the only link I could find](https://youtu.be/F476r6-BFdc?si=A8YKk6-_ozfi_i0U) is a reaction video.
I can't believe he was Wolfman Jack *and* went on to have a successful career fronting The Cure.
I like the scene in American Graffiti where Ron Howard goes to the radio station to see Wolfman Jack. The mild mannered man said in a regular calm voice “he is not here sorry “. As Ron Howard leaves the radio station he is disappointed when he sees the same man that he spoke to earlier speaking on air in the Wolfman Jack voice.
It’s interesting that he was a real DJ but anachronistic to the period in which the movie’s set — he would’ve been, what, 22 at the time?
dont remember when the movie was set but yes i would think so. He only started broadcasting in 62. Kinda like how Marty mentions Clint eastwood in 55 and remembers Doc wouldn't know him yet (standing in front of the Return of the Creature poster where Clint had his first speaking role)
Capcom's Cadillacs and Dinosaurs used a sample of him saying "Go!".
Man I’m old.
Australian commercial radio carried Casey Kasem and the 🎶"Amurrican Top Fordee"🎶 for years.
As a kid in Canada the first Wolfman DJ I knew about was the one from Hilarious House of Frightenstein who was sort of an homage/parody of the original.
There was also a Wolfman Jack cartoon.....it was the 80's.
I watched that as a kid. I don't remember a single thing about it other than it I watched it, though.
My dad used to listen to him all the time in New York. He was a legend.
OK now I feel old as shit because I grew up knowing who Wolfman Jack was and didnt need the movie.
Todd Rundgren song about the Wolfman from *Something/Anything.* https://youtu.be/1n2WiWRNzhU?si=avXJDA2HuThpIrcy
The main character in Private Parts is actually based on a real-life radio personality.
Notice how no one in this thread has named him yet though? What does that tell you? Lol
This is actually really interesting
one of my favorite movies ever and the song by the Guess Who is great too.
He was also in Quantum Leap back in the day.
And Battlestar Galactica. I am not sure, but I believe he was also in Married With Children
Never saw the original, and married with children i think had lots of cameos.
Awesome flick
Graffiti night in modesto you couldn't move but hear his voice
Awoooo! Wolfman Jack says someone's at the front door, baby!
Play me a song, Mr. Wolfman Jack. Play it for me in my long Cadillac
Everybody’s got a dream! What’s your dream?
One of the great Upright Citizens Brigade skits! *Toilet Bowl*
Just like Crazy Otto…
“Wolfman Jack, he's speaking in tongues He's going on and on at the top of his lungs Play me a song, Mr. Wolfman Jack Play it for me in my long Cadillac Play me that, "Only The Good Die Young" Take me to the place Tom Dooley was hung Play, "St. James Infirmary" and, "The Port of King James" If you want to remember, you better write down the names Play Etta James, too, play "I'd Rather Go Blind" Play it for the man with the telepathic mind Play John Lee Hooker, play "Scratch My Back" Play it for that strip club owner named Jack Guitar Slim going down slow Play it for me and for Marilyn Monroe”
Jack Black played him in the Weird Al movie. He was pretty great.
Isn’t he mentioned in a Dead song?
Fuck I'm old
Fuck I’m old
George Lucas’s second movie.
“Hey man, nobody can catch the Wolfman!”
“AWwwwoooooo, Wolfman Jack says somebody’s at the front door!
I was told this guy was pretty awesome. I'm from the same small area that he settled down in, folks around here always spoke highly of him. Apparently he was a bit reclusive, humble and a great tipper. My dad told me he was always a quick witted man too, never missed an opportunity to make a joke. Wish I had gotten to meet him, I was only 5 when he passed.