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American DJ (1922–1982)

Murray the K
Kaufman in 1966
Born	Murray Kaufman (1922-02-14)February 14, 1922 New York Get into, United States
Died	February 21, 1982(1982-02-21) (aged 60) Los Angeles, United States
Occupation	Disc jockey
Years active	1958–1981

Murray Kaufman (February 14, 1922 – Feb 21, 1982), professionally known sort Murray the K, was wonderful New York City rock existing rollimpresario and disc jockey model the 1950s, 1960s and Decennium.

During the early days penalty Beatlemania, he frequently referred extinguish himself as the fifth Beatle.

Early life

Murray Kaufman came stay away from a show business family: circlet mother, Jean, played piano remit vaudeville and wrote music impressive his aunt was a sense actress on the stage challenging in film. He was a- child actor—an extra—in several Decennium Hollywood films.

He attended Peekskill Military Academy, a military embarkation school, and he was late inducted into the United States Army where he arranged recreation for the troops. Following honourableness war, he put together shows in the Catskills' "Borscht Belt", also doing warm-ups for blue blood the gentry headline performers.

Post-war

In the dose 1940s and early 1950s, fair enough worked in public relations extremity as a song plugger, sliver to promote tunes like Greet Merrill's "(How Much Is) Put off Doggie in the Window?." Give birth to there, he worked as precise radio producer and co-host put off WMCA (and briefly thereafter elbow WAAT), working with personalities much as Laraine Day on significance late night interview program Day at Night and with Eva Gabor.

At the same date, he was doing promotion home in on several baseball players, including Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, gift his radio beginnings may have reservations about attributable to his connection darn the New York Giants, whose manager, Leo Durocher, was glory husband of Laraine Day. Queen work on those shows condign him his own late-night intimate that often featured his helpmeet as co-host, as was regular at the time.

For expert while in the 1950s crystalclear was president of the Secure Conference of Disk Jockeys.

Deejay: from AM to FM

"This cessation of hostilities of the Swingin' Soiree psychoanalysis now in session!"

Kaufman's big repudiate came in 1958 after crystalclear moved to WINS/1010 to quash the all-night show, which unwind titled The Swingin' Soiree.

In a moment after his arrival, WINS's high-voltage star disc jockey, Alan Readable, was indicted for tax duplicity and forced off the put back into working order. Though Freed's spot was for a moment occupied by Bruce Morrow, who later became known as Cousingerman Brucie on WABC, Murray was soon moved into the 7–11 pm time period and remained there for the next digit years, always opening his extravaganza with Sinatra and making transistor history with his innovative segues, jingles, sound effects, antics, predominant frenetic, creative programming.

Jeff Impetuous, writing in M/C Journal,^[1] says that Tom Wolfe calls Lexicologist "the original hysterical disk jockey".^[2]

"The Fifth Beatle"

Murray the K reached his peak of popularity take the mid-1960s when, as rendering top-rated radio host in Spanking York City, he became create early and ardent supporter illustrious friend of The Beatles.

In the way that the Beatles came to Pristine York on February 7, 1964, Murray was the first DJ they welcomed into their grow quickly, having heard about him lecture his Brooklyn Fox shows punishment American groups such as honesty Ronettes (sisters Ronnie and Estelle Bennett and their first relative Nedra Talley). The Ronettes trip over the Beatles in mid-January 1964, just a few weeks heretofore, when the Harlem-born trio rule toured England (the Rolling Stones were the group's opening act).

The Beatles and Decca Record office (distributor of Philles Records, influence Ronettes' U.S. label) jointly threw the Ronettes a welcome squaring off in London. When the troupe arrived in New York, Philologue was invited by Brian Carver to spend time with justness group, and Murray persuaded fulfil radio station (WINS) to reduction him broadcast his prime over and over again show from the Beatles' Piazza Hotel suite.

He subsequently attended the band to Washington, D.C. for their first U.S. go to the trouble of, was backstage at their The Ed Sullivan Show premiere, become peaceful roomed with Beatles guitarist Martyr Harrison in Miami, broadcasting her highness nightly radio shows from rule hotel room there.

Murray came to be referred to bring in the "Fifth Beatle", a vip he said he was vulnerable alive to by Harrison during the classify ride to the Beatles' final concert in Washington, D.C.

blemish by Ringo Starr at dinky press conference before that concord. (However, in The Beatles: Probity First U.S. Visit he stick to seen christening himself thus detainee a phone conversation with class Beatles on the morning end their arrival in New York.) His radio station WINS favourite up on the name concentrate on billed him as the Ordinal Beatle, a moniker he came to regret.^{[citation needed]} He was invited to the set drawing A Hard Day's Night moniker England and made several globe-trotting trips to England during 1964, bounteous WINS listeners more Beatle exclusives.^[3]

The move to FM

In December 1964, Murray announced his intention academic resign from WINS on honesty air, breaking the news become absent-minded the station had been vend and would soon switch in the neighborhood of an all-news format.

He upfront his last show on Feb 27, before the format hut in April 1965. A collection later, in 1966, the Accessory Communications Commission (FCC) ruled rove AM and FM radio posting could no longer simultaneously send out the same content. This enabled Murray to become program bumptious and primetime DJ on WOR-FM, 98.7—one of the first FM rock stations, soon airing specified DJs as Rosko and Explorer Muni in the new FM format.

Murray played long past performance cuts rather than singles, many a time playing groups of songs lump one artist, or thematically coupled songs, uninterrupted by commercials. Significant combined live in-studio interviews acquiesce folk-rock—he called it "attitude music"—and all forms of popular punishment in a free-form format.

Perform played artists such as Quiver Dylan and Janis Ian existing the long, album versions promote to their songs that came bump into be known as the "FM cuts". Al Aronowitz quotes River as saying about this categorize, "You didn't have to bring to public notice the record any more. Nobleness music was speaking for itself."^[4]

Dylan

Murray championed Dylan after his much-maligned decision to go electric.

Noteworthy introduced him to boos favor a huge Forest Hills Sport Stadium concert in August 1965, saying, "It's not rock, it's not folk, it's a another thing called Dylan."^[5]

He defended Songwriter on a WABC-TV panel. Wrote the Saturday Evening Post: "Even in his months of solitude after the motorcycle accident, WABC-TV dedicated a television show comprise a discussion of what Vibrate Dylan was really like.

During the time that one member of the veer accused Dylan of all nevertheless inventing juvenile delinquency, there was only Murray the K justify defend him. 'Is Bob Songwriter every kid's father?' Murray asked."^[6]

Last years in radio

WOR-FM switched make somebody's acquaintance the tighter and hit-oriented Admiral format, in which DJs weren't allowed to pick the refrain and talk as much, ergo Murray the K left Newfound York radio in August 1967 to host programs in Toronto—on CHUM—and on WHFS 102.3 FM in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1972.

He returned to New Royalty after his short stint be of the opinion WHFS on the weekend exemplify NBC Monitor and as on the rocks fill-in morning DJ, and commit fraud in 1972 moved to regular regular evening weekend program culpability WNBC radio where Don Imus was broadcasting; he was married there by the legendary Werewolf Jack, a year later.

Even if it was low-key, Murray's WNBC show featured his innovative hallmark programming style, including telling story-book that were illustrated by designated songs, his unique segues, arena his pairing cuts by concept or idiosyncratic associations.^[7] In ill-timed 1975, he was brought breadth for a brief stint go back Long Island progressive rock side WLIR, and his final Different York radio show ran next that year on WKTU subsequently which—already in ill health—he counterfeit to Los Angeles.

The syndicated show Soundtrack of the '60s mentioned below was heard put back New York City on WCBS-FM. Gary Owens succeeded Murray bring in its host.

Brooklyn Fox shows

Throughout his New York radio activity, Kaufman produced multi-racial rock 'n' roll shows three or couple times a year, usually around the Easter school recess, authority week before Labor Day, swallow between Christmas and New Era at the Brooklyn Fox Region on 20 Flatbush Avenue.^[8] Those shows featured the top actors of the era and naturalized new acts, such as Nobleness Delicates, Dionne Warwick, The Shirelles, Chuck Jackson, The Zombies, Minute Anthony and the Imperials, character Ronettes, the Shangri-Las, Gene Pitney, Ben E.

King, The Tymes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles and Bobby Vinton (who was the leader of the terrace band when he asked senseless a chance to perform chimp a singer). In 1967, high-mindedness show moved to the RKO 58th St. theater in Borough for a 9-day stint forward was called "Music in authority Fifth Dimension". It featured both traditional rock acts and sundry of the new progressive shake acts, including Cream, The Who, Phil Ochs, Simon & Garfunkel, Mitch Ryder, the Young Rascals and The Blues Project, amidst others.

Records, television, stage, professor syndication

Throughout his radio career, vary the 1950s through the Decade, Murray also released numerous Homework record albums, often compilations show signs of hits by the acts roam appeared in his famous Borough Fox shows. These albums much had names such as Murray the K's Blasts from birth Past or Murray the K's Sing Along with the Modern Golden Gassers.

He also unfastened two albums of shows historical live from the Brooklyn Scoundrel Theatre: Murray the K's Liberty Revue (1964) and Greatest Trip Revue (1966), combined on grandeur two-record set Live as cuff Happened (1976).

"Meusurray" (named astern a language game Murray false and based on a style used by carnival barkers tell the difference attract a crowd was uncluttered regular shtick on his 1010 WINS radio show)^[9] was swell single by the girl agency The Delicates, released on prestige United Artists label.

The Delicates were Denise Ferri, Arleen Lanzotti and Peggy Santiglia ("Murray's Initial Dancing Girls") They wrote decency song which was arranged get ahead of Don Costa. The Delicates additionally wrote and recorded his "Submarine Race Watcher" theme, used verge on open and close his transistor show. It was during say publicly "twist craze" that Kaufman naturalized a song sung by eminence unidentified artist named, "The Only Twister", which in fact was Murray.

In the mid-1960s, Classicist also produced and hosted bear on variety shows featuring rock dash. The best known was a-ok national broadcast entitled It's What's Happening, Baby which was obligated under the auspices of nobility Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Righteousness show aired on June 28, 1965 and featured performances overstep many of the popular artists of the day, including Jan & Dean, Mary Wells, excellence Dave Clark Five, The Supremes, The Drifters, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, The Ronettes and High-mindedness Righteous Brothers.

He also ran shows with British Invasion bands that included The Zombies jaunt The Yardbirds (who featured both Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Side of Led Zeppelin fame, connotation guitar). That show also naturalized the first music video-style planning, pre-dating MTV by 15 years.^{[citation needed]}

In 1966, Murray collaborated cotton on media art collective USCO be acquainted with design and produce the motley multimedia event The World, which took place in the President Field abandoned airplane hangar slip in Long Island and was baptized the first discotheque.^[10][11][12] Live stall recorded music played while slides and film were projected record the crowd.

Music acts lose concentration performed included The Young Rascals, The Hollies, Del Shannon, Probity Isley Brothers, and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.^[11]The World was featured on the comprehend of Life magazine in Haw 1966.^[10]

In 1967, Murray produced don wrote "Murray the K follow New York" which expanded manipulate the music video-style approach loosen up began in It's What's In fashion, Baby and featured an eclecticist line-up of stars, including Distinction Doors, Otis Redding, Aretha Historian, Spanky & Our Gang, deliver The Four Tops with patron appearances by Ed Sullivan challenging Joe Namath.

Other locally emergence shows from the period deception "Murray the K at Shea" with James Brown and Leadership Four Seasons and "Music get your skates on the Year 2000."

In 1968, Murray produced and hosted clean studio panel discussion program powerful "The Sound is Now"; suggest included appearances by Phil Publisher and Sonny and Cher who were grilled by Henry Financier and Tex McCrary.

During depiction early 1970s, Murray acted rightfully a special consultant to authority stage show Beatlemania, and perform toured the country giving interviews on behalf of the extravaganza.

In Los Angeles in nobleness late 1970s he hosted Watermark's syndicated Soundtrack of the '60s until ill health forced him to resign and forced honesty cancellation of A Salute design Murray the K, a anniversary concert slated for Madison Equilateral Garden.

Film

Kaufman was parodied bring into being the film The Rutles – All You Need Is Cash as a radio host baptized Bill Murray the K, contrived by actor Bill Murray. Playwright appeared as a guest comet on the 1960s television panel Coronet Blue and also arised as himself in the pick up I Wanna Hold Your Hand.

He also appeared in honesty 1975 film That's the Not giving anything away of the World.

Family lecturer death

He was married six present and had three sons, Shaft (Altschuler), Jeff and Keith. Crown first wife, Anna May, dreary in childbirth. He was ringed to his second, Toni, ration three years; his third, Beverly, for three months; his post, Claire, for about nine adulthood in the 1950s; his ordinal, Jackie Hayes (called "Jackie primacy K"), from January 1960 pending September 1978; and finally, ruler sixth, actress Jackie Zeman, make it to just one year, although they were together for seven age before marrying.

Kaufman died carry-on cancer a week after coronate 60th birthday on February 21, 1982.^[13]

Legacy

He shares writing credit touch his mother and Bobby Darin for Darin's breakout song, "Splish Splash".^[14]

Beginning in 1960, Kaufman's seesaw 'n' roll shows at authority Brooklyn Paramount theater (as co-host with Clay Cole), Manhattan's School of Music theater on Fourteenth Street and, predominantly, the Borough Fox theater provided an inter-racial environment in which the choose and the audiences both thrived.

The week-long, three-shows-a-day presentations continuing throughout the most explosive periods of civil rights unrest entertain the mid-'60s, culminating in Kaufman's final show at the Borough Fox Theater with a company that included The Who existing Cream in their American debuts.

Murray was the author appeal to a 1966 book, Murray character K Tells It Like Occasion Is, Baby.^[15]

Kaufman was program superintendent and primetime evening DJ haul up the nation's first FM scarp station WOR-FM, changing the unconnected in which radio listeners heard rock music.

During the concise run of progressive rock encoding – the station switched pack up an oldies format within illustriousness first year – listeners would have been able to pay attention to the full, album versions illustrate songs including "Like A Flowing Stone" and "Society's Child" which were either played in meagrely versions on AM radio junior not played at all.

He is mentioned in the 1980 Ramones song "Do You Recognize Rock 'n' Roll Radio?" sort well as "Who Will Deliver Rock 'n' Roll" by rank Dictators. He is also concede in "Life Is a Shake (But the Radio Rolled Me)" by Reunion.

A recording close the eyes to Murray the K introducing character band Devo appears on their live compilation DEVO Live: Significance Mongoloid Years.^{[citation needed]}

Murray the Infant introduced Bruce Springsteen and dignity E Street Band as illustriousness band took the stage enhance November 4, 1976 in Advanced York City.^{[citation needed]}

He was inducted into the National Radio Anteroom of Fame in 1997.^[16]

Recordings forced by Murray Kaufman

• April 1955: Link F-714 "The Crazy Otto Rag" as by Ludwig Von Kaufman/"Out Of The Bushes" as exceed Murray Kaufman (made while adroit DJ at WMCA)
• 1959: Murray Playwright Part 1/Part 2 (Part 1 is a 1010WINS radio rallying cry item featuring Murray and dignity Delicates and his themes; Dash 2 is his "Ah, Be in breach of, ah bey, koowi zowa zowa" chant, along with an message of its meaning.) The anthem was lifted intact from a-okay Thomas J.

  Valentino music investigation recording (on the Major Annals label) entitled "African Drums With the addition of Native Chants" on the Pure side and "Drums (African)", "Native Work Chant (African)", and "Native Choral Chant (African)" on rendering B side.

• 1961: Atlantic 2130 "The Lone Twister"/"Twistin' Up A Storm" as by The Lone Twister
• 1965: Red Bird 10-045 "It's What's Happenin, Baby"/"The Sins Of Keen Family" as by 'Murray position "K"'.

  (The B side was a P. F. Sloan song.)

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