i met the wolfman in jerzery about 10 years ago he was at a funds rasier in livingston nj my sister was there and told him i look like him show him a picture and he said he wanted to meet me i went and he was a really great we talked he told me his real name was bob smith and he was born in brooklyn it was funny a lady was looking at us and he said don,t i look like him he was a great icon and i,m so glad that i met him before he p***ed RIP THE WOLFMAN JUST REALIZE IT WAS OVER 20 YEARS AGO NOT 10
I remember seeing him on some talk show once, and he was talking about the radio station in Mexico. He said about the transmitter, "It was 250,000 watts, bird that would fly by it would drop from the sky!" then he went on to talk about how they would run to Louisiana to buy records to play. He got a call from someone at the station saying it was under attack. The pistolaro's were riding horseback around the station shooting pistols. He said that one guy would shoot and he nailed one of the other guys on the horses and dropped him! His version was so much better in his voice "One guy was riding and BOOM he shot his pistol and nailed the other guy!" He said later that the Federalies showed up and clean up the banditos. Funny as hell.
I met him in the 70's at a world of wheels show..cant remeber where though...Hell it was the 70's I dont remember alot from back then..
hmmm....wasn't Buffalo Bob from the Howdy Doody show ALSO named Bob Smith? Curiouser and curiouser.....
GREAT POST guys and Hotrodon you are CORRECT!!! I know you guys are not gonna believe me when I tell you that I grew up in Springfield, Mo. and late at nite on certain nights I got to listen to that quiet voice telling about things happening all over the world and in the field of music before he would intro a song. He also use to talk slow and low to the evening romantics listening to Ol' Wolfman and play a slow one to cuddle with!!!! We also could get WLS in Chi-town the **** Beyonde show. He too was another of the Golden DJ's of the 60's. Thanks for the memories!!! (Hope).
I have managed to find some old promos and radio show clips of his here and there on the net . One of my favorites is a promo he did for freemont raceway . if i can dig it up ill try to find away to post it to youtube .
wait , ive already had it uploaded , i made a little video a couple years back when i did the interior on my 55 and i used that promo and another wolfman skit as an intro to the vid ...... Love the Wolfman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YawhG5lRfLc&list=UUffqSM60vuA8y-vOM5kCECg&index=7&feature=plcp
Sorry to keep posting but this is one of my favorites as well . Its the Wolfman signing out and singing nothing takes the place of you . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2EqS6u8e8o
Holy **** I thought it said ****o, not promo..I was thinkin I liked him, but I didnt know anyone would want to see him havin wolf ***...what a relief....
The Wolfman sayin' Good Bye... <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/H2EqS6u8e8o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
everyone ***ociates the wolfman with A.G. but who remembers him hosting the Midnight Special? Loved that show.
I've heard about Wolfman Jack as a kid. I heard the song "Clap for the Wolfman" back in the day, but didn't know anything about him. He seemed so elusive that; as far as I've known back then, he could of been a DJ in Milwaukee. We have had our own set of characters now and then, like the "Crusher", "Downstairs Dan", "Larry the Legend" and "Albert the Alley Cat", so he would fit right in. Nice thread, shed some light on many mysteries for me. I kind of forgot about him.
Bingo! Maybe not my first exposure to him since I surfed late-nite AM in the late '60s-early '70s on the Sears Silvertone that was on my headboard and caught WLS, WHB (or whatever the high-powered top 40 station out of Kansas City was), KOMA out of Oklahoma City, XERB and some others when the 'skip' was right, but M-S was a great choice if you didn't care for Don Kirschner's Rock Concert. The syndicated version came to Omaha on WOW after AG made him big, and I still remember the voice-over cut-ins the radio station had for the Guess Who song that gave it a local spin, like "there're having a get-naked party over in Council Bluffs" - then again, I was in my early teens.
I never missed the Midnight Special shows until they went disco. Then I don't recall ever watching it again.
1964-66, cruising a little poatato farming town in central Oregon at night in my buddy, Jim's 50 ford..around and around town we'd go listening to "XERB in Chula Vista California, baby!!!" scarfing off 2nd gear scratch while da Wolfman did requests and kept all of us cracked up with his banter. Man, that was a fun time and our old car AM radios picked up his show over a thousand miles away just fine..
I met wolfman at a Toys for Tots car show in Rialto Ca back in the 70s.He came in helicopter which i thought was cool.Had him sign my American Graffitti 8-track tape we use to play cruisen E street in San Bernardino.Still have that tape along with other cast's autographs.Ah-the memories......
#17,.... Yes he was originally "Bobby Smith"....and lived in New York. He told that to an interviewer, and also mentioned listening to Geo. "Hound Dog" Lorenz, who broadcast out of Buffalo Ny,...a 50,000 watt am station. He said he developed a lot of his "Wolfman" style, from Lorenz. 4TTRUK
A lot of great info can be found on "Rock radio S****book" website......Endless bits of info about alll the radio greats we grew up with !!!!!!!!!! 4TTRUK
Actually, I believe the Wolfman persona was 'born' in Shreveport at KCIJ around 1961. About 1962, "Wolfman Jack" moved to Del Rio, Texas, broadcasting at Ciudad Acuna's 250,000 watt flamethrower XERF. The Wolfman moved to SoCal around 1964.
There is a connection in between Dr. John Brinkley and the station in Mexico. There used to be a website that was real good but I couldn't find it. It's been 10 years since I visited it. If you research this, you will find that it is claimed that he was a partner in a station in Pratt Ks.
was in the airport in Cincinnati, and on the moving sidewalk going the other way was the Wolfman, hat and all...wasn't sure if it was him, until the guy behind me just said "yep, that was him" Everyone knew who the Wolfman was.
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