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I N G R A D I O
1960S
W I N
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1960S
W I N
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1960S
THE WING STUDIOS ON FIRST STREET IN DAYTON OHIO CIRCA 1962
WING
RADIO WAS NAMED ONE OF THE
TOP TEN
RADIO
STATIONS IN THE NATION BY
BILLBOARD
MAGAZINE FOR MOST OF THE 1960S
THIS
WEB PAGE IS DEDICATED TO THOSE
EMPLOYEES OF WING
WHO
PROVIDED THE TALENT AND DRIVE
TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
THE MAN WHO HEADED THIS GROUP OF UNUSUAL AND GIFTED TALENT WAS..
DALE MOUDY
GENERAL MANAGER
THE
MAN WHO PROVIDED THE PROGRAMMING
LEADERSHIP WAS
JIM SMITH (left-shown here with contest winner and announcer Bob Holliday)
It
was Jim Smith who served as program
director, implementing the top 40 format
that
resulted in the highest rateings
ever recorded in the history of Dayton radio.
SMITH
ALSO WAS THE "M.C."
OF DAYTON'S MOST POPULAR DANCE
SHOW,
THE "COCA COLA HI FI
CLUB, BROADCAST EVERY SATURDAY
THE
BIG EVENT EVERY SUMMER IN THE
DAYTON
AREA WAS THE Le SOURDESVILLE LAKE
"W
I N G WING FLING"
JIM
SMITH
ROD
WILLIAMS
STAN SCOTT
SOME
OF THE WING FAMILY TAKING A
PHOTO "OP"
ROD WILLIAMS..."ON
THE AIR AND IN THE AIR"
MIKE
GAVIN AND LOU SWANSON
ON THE
DUNKING MACHINE
G
"GENTLEMEN...START YOUR ENGINES"
FANS
WITH ROD WILLIAMS,GENE BARRY AND STAN SCOTT
AND SPEAKING OF FAST CARS..........
JACK
WYMER INTERVIEWS JIM SMITH
AS DALE MOUDY GETS SET
TO
RETURN TO THE WING STUDIOS
AND SPEAKING OF
"GREAT WHEELS"
WING'S JUDY SEUBERT AT AN
AD CLUB CELBRATION WHEN
NOT WINNING BEAUTY CONTESTS
BOB
BARRON-ROD WILLIAMS-ROD WILLIAMS-BOB
BARRON
BOB BARRON"S SIGN OFF.'' the moving
finger writes
and having written, moves on''.
THE
RADIO INTERVIEW
THAT
SAVED
A
LIFE
Sewing
teacher Edythe Klumpp was
scheduled to be the first woman to die in
the
Ohio electric chair, charged
with first degree murder of a Cincinnati woman.
Newscaster
Rod Williams & sound
engineer Jake Yancy traveled to Klumpp's
death
row cell in Marysville Ohio
reformatory and Williams' exclusive inter-
view
was broadcast on radio stations
throughout Ohio and later broadcast on
all
three major networks; NBC-ABC-CBS
Following
the interview, Ohio Governor
Michael Disalle joined the condemed
woman
in her cell and as a result
commuted her sentence avoiding the death
penalty
and later resulting in
her release from prison
FRONT ROW
GENE BARRY-JACK MURRAY-STAN SCOTT
BACK ROW
BOB HOLLIDAY-LOU SWANSON-BOB
BARRON-ROD WILLIAMS
B
FAIR
STAFF AND ENGINEERS ALONG
WITH VOLUNTEERS
FFODURING
A "HALLOWEEN" PROMOTION
IN(IN
SUITS-LEFT TO RIGHT)
LOU
SWANSON, GENE BARRY, LES BODINE,
JAKE YANCEY,ROD WILLIAMS, JIM SMITH,
JOSIE
DYKSTRA AND BERNIE KOVAL.S
ENGINEER JAKE
YANCEY
KEPT IT "ON THE AIR"
STAN
SCOTT LEADING A WING PARADE
(BELOW)
LEFT TO RIGHT...ON
WATER SKI'S
lou
swanson-bobby harper-bob holliday-gene
barry-jim smith
A PARTY WITH SOME OF THE WING STARS OF THE 1 9 6 0 ' S
LINDA
MALLORY-JERRY
PERISI
LOU SWANSON BARBARA WILLIAMS DALE& ELLE
MOUDY
WILBUR
BOTTS &
WIFE
ROD
WILLIAMS
KEN WARREN
GRACEGRACE
WEISS
BOB
HARPER
WILBUR " ELVIS" BOTTS
JIM
SMITH
BOB
MELBERTH
JAKE
YANCEY
ROD
& BARB
WILLIAMS
JOHNNY
SAUER
STAN SCOTT
JACK
WYMER
"D.D."
SWANSON
GEORGE LENNING
AND A
FEW MORE PHOTOS TO GO....
(ABOVEABOVE.....LOU
SWANSON
"HALF BAKED AND ON HIS ASS
