Yes, this was our studio phone.
I’m on the air in San Francisco, minding my own business, when someone calls on the request line.
“Hey, Dan, this is Dennis Wilson. I don’t have a request, but I really like your show and thought I’d just call to say hi.”
“Uh…Dennis Wilson of…?”
“(Laughing) Yeah.”
Pretty cool; at least one member of The Beach Boys was a fan.
How about you? The first celebrity to call you up in your DJ days?
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Paul Newman. Almost hung up on him. Bryan Adams, but it was before he was a star.
Nigel Planer, aka “Neil” from the British comedy series “The Young Ones”. I was playing his tune “Hurdy Gurdy Mushroom Man” every night on AM58 in Kapuskasing and the record rep got Nigel to give me a call in character, even though the series had ended years before. I got some great IDs and splitters out of it!
Not the first, but the most memorable for me. It was a Sunday night at WSPD in Toledo. We were in the midst of a blizzard. I answered the newsroom phone and a voice on the other end said, “Hi Ed, this is John Glenn.” He was calling to announce some sort of federal aid for storm victims.
It was jennifer lopez !
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Harry Chapin, in the winter of 1975 at KPAM-FM in Portland. I had just played “Cat’s In The Cradle” and he wanted to know what I thought of the song! He chatted for almost half an hour and was the nicest person I’d ever talked to.
Early 1980s. WFTL in Fort Lauderdale. It was a Saturday midday shift, and I mentioned that Liza Minnelli was appearing at the Diplomat in Hollywood, FL. A few minutes later the phone rings…
“Hi, it’s Liza. Wanna chat?”
I put her on the air, and we had a live spontaneous “chat”! Delightful woman.
It was odd, I had only been working for a year or so, and one shift was the Sunday morning shift, baby sitting The Weekly Top 40. Around 10 Rick Dees called, he was in town doing an infomercial for Time Life and wanted to come by and cut some custom promo and liner stuff.
Celebrities call DJs?
please define “Celebrity” lol
Jim Kerr from the SIMPLE MINDS…but it was to cancel an interview date. But I met him a week later after a gig 🙂
Mick Jagger because we had to meet in cologne
David Lee Roth
Country Music recording artist Mark Chesnett …his PR person was confused about what day he was to be interviewed
Unsolicited?? Dick Wagner (guitarist for Alice Cooper, Lou Reed etc) who at the time ran a recording studio in town. he called my request show to ask for a song by a new country artist at the time who happened to be a friend of his family.
Dwight Yoakum, whose publicist didn’t call ahead….so I thought he was bs-ing me.
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
Marcel Marceau, he didn’t say much
@Pete Brandtman: LMFAO!!!
Cher…day before the Bush/Kerry election