MADLAD | Radio DJs
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>>>>>>>>THIS FOR ME BEING A DJ IS AN “OH..NO”…MOMENT!!!
(CLICK HERE) FOR HARRIET WILLIAMS, WJJS DJ IN THE LATE 70’S! WE REMEMBER HER FROM THE DANCES AT THE HUNTON BRANCH YMCA IN LYNCHBURG! SHE PASSED AWAY AUGUST 2019, HER WEB-PAGE MAY STILL BE UP? (CLICK HERE) FOR QQUINCY, MICHAEL E. TAYLOR FROM THE “QUIET STORM!” QQUINCY CAN DO COMMECIALS/VOICE OVERS FOR YOUR RADIO STATION! (CLICK HERE) DELLA JACKSON, fmr. NIGHT DJ FOR WJJS IN THE MID 70’S. IN THE MOTION PICTURES SHE PLAYED THE TV REPORTER IN THE MOVIE “ASSASSINATION FILES” AND “MONEY FOR NOTHING!” SHE WAS MARRIED TO BERNARD CREWS, BROTHER OF WILLIE CREWS DHS–1969. note: Della Crews courtesy “you tube.” (CLICK HERE) ANOTHER DELLA JACKSON CREWS NEWSCAST, THIS ONE A BLOOPER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr1NHoM2_LY (CLICK HERE) DAVID LEE MICHAELS, FMR. DJ AT K-92, Q-94 IN RICHMOND, AND WJJS, IS NOW A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER! HIRE HIM FOR YOUR NEXT EVENT, WEDDING, SOCIAL….ECT! DAVID LEE IS NOW ON STAR COUNTRY, 94.9 IN ROANOKE! (CLICK HERE) NAT MORRIS, fmr. DJ AT WTOY IN ROANOKE IN THE 70’S, AND THE “SCENE” DANCE SHOW! (CLICK HERE) RICH MINOR, fmr. WJJS DJ, NOW AT WDAQ IN DANBURY, CONN! (CLICKHERE) STEVE STROUD FROM THE OLDIES STATION AND WYYD, NOW MORNINGS AT WXBQ, BRISTOL, VA./TENN! CLICK “ON AIR” (CLICK HERE) DENNIS “DENNY DEE” ROYER. FORMER WJJS GM FROM 1986-1989! NOW THE OWNER OF WBBC IN BLACKSTONE, VA! (CLICK HERE) ALL MY ANDY GRIFFITH FANS. IF MAYBERRY HAD A RADIO STATION THIS WOULD BE IT! HERE IS THE RADIO STATION IN ANDY’S HOMETOWN OF MT. AIRY, N.C, WPAQ! IF YOU TUNE IN DURING THE DAY ON 740-AM, YOU CAN PICK IT UP A LITTLE HERE IN LYNCHBURG! (CLICK HERE) YOU HAVE SEEN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD RADIO STATION ON THE CNN EPISODE “CHICAGOLAND!” INTERESTING TALK AND MUSIC, WKKC!
 This is "Long John" Miller, the mid-day dj on WJJS when I first started working there in 1968! John is Gus Millers brother!  Mad Lad's Last day on WJJS! Sketch by "Big" Walt Ford from Vibe-100!  Zee got me a digital multiband shortwave radio for Christmas 2022!  christmas 2022, I got the rare book "Super jock" by Larry Lujack! I also got Whitburn's book of Top R&B Singles listed from 1942 to 1999!  WJJS remote broadcast at auto Xtras....the girls from Hooters dropped by!  Here is Henry Fulcher, retiring after 65 years at WFLO in Farmville, Va.  Here is the WFLO transmitter being dismantled after they were sold to k-Love! This unit the Raytheon RA-1000 was installed is 1947!  Cle Everette's Farmville radio station WPAK! His dream still sits silent just outside of Farmville!
BELOW IS THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE STORY ON RON LEE’S TRAGIC FALL DOWN THE ALLIED ARTS BUILDING ELEVATOR SHAFT!!!
 Ron Lee Part I  Ron Lee Part II  Ron Lee Part III  Ron Lee Image  Maybe if I hadn't called that staff meeting, this might not have happened! Then again, it was payday and you would have come by the station anyway?? Miss you man!!
REMEMBER THESE SONGS ON THE RADIO? THERE ARE MORE ACROSS THE PAGE! –PUT AN EXTRA PLUS-SYMTEC & WYLIE -PEOPLE MAKE THE WORLD- -GIRLS CAN’T DO WHAT THE GUYS DO-BETTY WRIGHT –NOBODY BUT YOU BABE-CLARENCE “BLOWFLY” REID –GIVE IT UP, TURN IT LOOSE-JAMES BROWN -HERE I GO AGAIN-ARCHIE BELL & THE DRELLS –KEEP THE BALL ROLLIN’-JAY AND THE TECHNIQUE
In case you didn’t know, it is illegal for a radio station to charge churches or any Public Service group to place their announcements on the air! It is also illegal to talk up and plug a show coming to the area between songs and play the songs by the artist next to the advertisement for the show!! Below is an example of what could happen!
 FCC Fine!  (cont.) FCC Fine! TED OVER AT THE LYNCHBURG MUSEUM SENT ME THIS 1923 ARTICLE ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA (VIRGINIA SEMINARY) STUDENTS AND A RADIO STATION THEY BUILT! READING THE ARTICLE, IT LOOKS LIKE THEY BUILT A RADIO RECEIVER AND NOT A RADIO TRANSMITTER (STATION) AS FIRST WAS THOUGHT? THEY WERE PICKING UP BROADCASTING STATIONS FROM FAR AWAY WHEN RADIO WAS IN IT’S EARLY STAGES OF LIFE!
LOCAL SINGER DELEESA CARR CAME BY WKKD FOR A VISIT AND AN INTERVIEW WHILE SHE WAS IN TOWN FEBRUARY 2024!
WE REMEMBER THE RADIO DJ’S WE ALL GREW UP LISTENING TO IN THE LYNCHBURG AREA…..WE LOST ANOTHER ONE ON JANUARY 6TH, 2024! WE SALUTE DAVID LEE GLASS, NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE DAVIS LEE FROM K-92 AND STAR-COUNTRY. DAVID GLASS WAS ON WLLL “well radio,” BACK IN THE 60’S WHEN THEY WERE ON 930AM. REMEMBER DAVE FREER, STAN JAYSON, DAN MARKS, AND JERRY ROGERS! DAVID AND DAN USED TO LET MY COME BY THEIR THEN CHURCH STREET STUDIOS AND LET ME WATCH THEM BROADCAST! I WAS TAKING IT ALL IN AS THEY HELPED ME BECOME A DJ! [ BEFORE GOSPEL, WLLL WAS A ROCK AND ROLL STATION! (CLICK HERE) http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wlllamlynchburg.html REMEMBER BACK IN THE DAY LISTENING TO WWOD-1390 ON YOUR DIAL, AND LISTENING TO “NIGHT TRAIN, 7-MIDNIGHT?” WHAT HAPPENED TO IT?? (CLICK HERE) http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wwod.html BE SURE AND CLICK ON THE PICTURES I TOOK ON THIS LINK! JUST AS SOON AS I POSTED ONE, ANOTHER DJ FRIEND PASSED AWAY! THIS WAS ROBIN COKER, BETTER KNOWN AS DAVE LEWIS ON WYYD RADIO!
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BELOW IS A SHOT OF LYNCHBURG’S FIRST RADIO STATION….WLVA-590AM!
LYNCHBURG’S NEWEST OLDIE BUT GOODIE RADIO STATION “THE GROOVE, 102.3!”
WALT FORD CAME BY BY HOUSE TO DELIVER MY STAFF T-SHIRT! I’LL BE THERE AT 3:00PM WITH THE 5’O CLOCK CAR-TUNES!
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(ABOVE) WE SALUTE AND REMEMBER GREG HARRINGTON! GREG HAD THE MOST DANGEROUS JOB IN RADIO! YES….THERE WAS A DANGERIOUS JOB IN RADIO, AND I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP MY JOB BEHIND THE MIC EVERYTIME I THINK ABOUT IT! GREG’S JOB WAS TO CLIMB RADIO TOWERS AND DO MAINTENANCE ON THEM! HE IS MOST REMEMBERED AS THE GUY THAT CHANGED THE RED LIGHT BLUBS THAT BLINKED ON AND OFF, ON THE RADIO/TV TOWERS ALL UP AND DOWN THE EAST COAST! GREG DIED WHEN HIS SAFETY HARNESS BROKE WHILE CLIMBING THE WMVA TOWER IN MARTINSVILLE, VA, MARCH 27TH, 2006! I MISS GREG! HE WOULD ALWAYS SAY TO ME BEFORE A CLIMB… “MADLAD, ARE YOU SURE THE POWER IS OFF??” (CLICK HERE) HEAR YOUR FAVORITE OLDIES FROM THE PAST! YOU CAN PLAY THE SONGS THAT HAVE THE BLUE ARROWS BESIDE THEM! (CLICK HERE) LISTEN TO WHOV, HAMPTON UNIVERSITY’S CAMPUS RADIO STATION!
(CLICK HERE) TRIBUTE SITE FOR LYNCHBURG’S WWOD RADIO! HOME OF “NIGHT-TRAIN!” KERVINI DAVIS ALEXANDER DHS-’69 USED TO WORK AT WWOD! HER PICTURE IS ON THIS SITE! CHECK OUT TOO THE PICTURES I TOOK AND GAVE TO RICK TO BE POSTED ON HIS SITE OF THE WWOD/WKZZ BUILDING DEMOLITION ON JULY 26TH, 2011!
(CLICK HERE) WAS JOHN R, THE HOSSMAN WHO WE USED TO LISTEN TO AT NIGHT BACK IN THE DAY, BLACK OR WHITE? >>>>>SONG FEATURE!! (CLICK HERE) AND LISTEN TO A SONG BY MIKE SCHERMER CALLED, MY BIG SISTERS RADIO! LISTEN TO THE WORDS AS IT TELLS ABOUT A WHITE GUY LISTENING TO WLAC, AND OTHER STATIONS AT NIGHT ON HIS BIG SISTERS RADIO, LEFT BEHIND WHEN SHE MOVED OUT….
(CLICK HERE) REMEMBER LISTENING TO JOHN R, WLAC, NASHVILLE, TENN? THIS SITE HAS THE HISTORY OF THE STATION AND ERNIES AND RANDYS RECORD SHOPS!! HEAR JOHN R. AND THE WLAC STAFF AGAIN!
(CLICK HERE) FOR A TRIBUTE TO JOHN R. ON YOU TUBE!
(CLICK HERE) THE STORY OF WLAC IS FACINATING TO ME BECAUSE THIS ALL THROUGH THE60’S, WAS THE ONLY RADIO STATION PLAYING SOUL/BLACK MUSIC AT THE TIME! HERE IS ANOTHER ARTICLE ABOUT LISTENING LATE AT NIGHT TO ERNIE’S/RANDY’S RECORD MART PROGRAMS ON THE RADIO…BE SURE AND CLICK ON THE PORTION OF THE ARTICLE THAT IS UNDERLINED FOR ANOTHER ADDED ARTICLE!
LISTEN TO MUSIC PLAYED ON WJJS IN THE YEARS WHEN THE STATION FIRST STARTED FROM “YOU TUBE!” JJS WAS BOUGHT AND SOLD AND CONVERTED TO WHAT YOU HEAR NOW!!!
note: all songs here courtesy of “you tube,” and might be removed at any time! Let me know when this happens, and it will be replaced with another memory!
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David Glass
Robin Coker/Dave Lewis- WYYD!
BELOW, HOW I SOUNDED BACK THEN!
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