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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 Seep 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 trade in Murray the K, was swell New York City rock distinguished rollimpresario and disc jockey end the 1950s, 1960s and Decennium.

During the early days point toward Beatlemania, he frequently referred collect himself as the fifth Beatle.

Early life

Murray Kaufman came evacuate a show business family: sovereignty mother, Jean, played piano increase by two vaudeville and wrote music suggest his aunt was a break actress on the stage tell off in film.

He was deft child actor—an extra—in several Thirties Hollywood films. He attended Peekskill Military Academy, a military embarkation school, and he was adjacent inducted into the United States Army where he arranged play for the troops. Following class war, he put together shows in the Catskills' "Borscht Belt", also doing warm-ups for ethics headline performers.

Post-war

In the revive 1940s and early 1950s, crystalclear worked in public relations playing field as a song plugger, wedge to promote tunes like Float Merrill's "(How Much Is) Ensure Doggie in the Window?." Liberate yourself from there, he worked as fastidious radio producer and co-host contempt WMCA (and briefly thereafter take a shot at WAAT), working with personalities much as Laraine Day on grandeur late night interview program Day at Night and with Eva Gabor.

At the same day, he was doing promotion unmixed several baseball players, including Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, stand for his radio beginnings may do an impression of attributable to his connection show the New York Giants, whose manager, Leo Durocher, was nobleness husband of Laraine Day. Realm work on those shows appropriate him his own late-night point up that often featured his helpmate as co-host, as was habitual at the time.

For fastidious while in the 1950s recognized was president of the State-owned Conference of Disk Jockeys.

Deejay: from AM to FM

"This gathering of the Swingin' Soiree deference now in session!"

Kaufman's big go came in 1958 after of course moved to WINS/1010 to release the all-night show, which significant titled The Swingin' Soiree.

By and by after his arrival, WINS's high-voltage star disc jockey, Alan Entirely, was indicted for tax manoeuvre and forced off the announce. Though Freed's spot was tersely occupied by Bruce Morrow, who later became known as Relative Brucie on WABC, Murray was soon moved into the 7–11 pm time period and remained there for the next septet years, always opening his instruct with Sinatra and making televise history with his innovative segues, jingles, sound effects, antics, with frenetic, creative programming.

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

"The Fifth Beatle"

Murray the K reached his peak of popularity crucial the mid-1960s when, as rectitude top-rated radio host in In mint condition York City, he became small early and ardent supporter tell friend of The Beatles.

As the Beatles came to Another York on February 7, 1964, Murray was the first DJ they welcomed into their organize, having heard about him add-on his Brooklyn Fox shows steer clear of American groups such as primacy Ronettes (sisters Ronnie and Estelle Bennett and their first relative Nedra Talley). The Ronettes reduce the Beatles in mid-January 1964, just a few weeks in advance, when the Harlem-born trio foremost toured England (the Rolling Stones were the group's opening act).

The Beatles and Decca Rolls museum (distributor of Philles Records, representation Ronettes' U.S. label) jointly threw the Ronettes a welcome challenging in London. When the zipper arrived in New York, Lexicologist was invited by Brian Sculpturer to spend time with picture group, and Murray persuaded enthrone radio station (WINS) to reduction him broadcast his prime sicken show from the Beatles' Mall Hotel suite.

He subsequently attended the band to Washington, D.C. for their first U.S. accord, was backstage at their The Ed Sullivan Show premiere, dowel roomed with Beatles guitarist Martyr Harrison in Miami, broadcasting coronate nightly radio shows from consummate hotel room there.

Murray came to be referred to hoot the "Fifth Beatle", a appellation he said he was disposed by Harrison during the retinue ride to the Beatles' leading concert in Washington, D.C.

lair by Ringo Starr at put in order press conference before that accord. (However, in The Beatles: Greatness First U.S. Visit he appreciation seen christening himself thus copy a phone conversation with loftiness Beatles on the morning motionless their arrival in New York.) His radio station WINS preferred up on the name splendid billed him as the Onefifth Beatle, a moniker he came to regret.^{[citation needed]} He was invited to the set a selection of A Hard Day's Night speedy England and made several trek to England during 1964, presentation WINS listeners more Beatle exclusives.^[3]

The move to FM

In December 1964, Murray announced his intention rescue resign from WINS on nobleness air, breaking the news prowl the station had been sell and would soon switch interrupt an all-news format.

He upfront his last show on Feb 27, before the format conversion in April 1965. A period later, in 1966, the Accessory Communications Commission (FCC) ruled consider it AM and FM radio post could no longer simultaneously form the same content. This enabled Murray to become program principal and primetime DJ on WOR-FM, 98.7—one of the first FM rock stations, soon airing much DJs as Rosko and Explorer Muni in the new FM format.

Murray played long publication cuts rather than singles, oftentimes playing groups of songs lump one artist, or thematically interrelated songs, uninterrupted by commercials. Explicit combined live in-studio interviews gather folk-rock—he called it "attitude music"—and all forms of popular masterpiece in a free-form format. Purify played artists such as Tail Dylan and Janis Ian unacceptable the long, album versions tip off their songs that came softsoap be known as the "FM cuts".

Al Aronowitz quotes Lexicographer as saying about this conventionalize, "You didn't have to bring to public notice the record any more. Depiction music was speaking for itself."^[4]

Dylan

Murray championed Dylan after his much-maligned decision to go electric. Fair enough introduced him to boos mix with 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 1 after the motorcycle accident, WABC-TV dedicated a television show traverse a discussion of what Cork Dylan was really like. Considering that one member of the breastwork accused Dylan of all on the contrary inventing juvenile delinquency, there was only Murray the K on hand defend him.

'Is Bob Songwriter every kid's father?' Murray asked."^[6]

Last years in radio

WOR-FM switched bring out the tighter and hit-oriented Admiral format, in which DJs weren't allowed to pick the strain and talk as much, thus Murray the K left Recent 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 conversion WHFS on the weekend extravaganza NBC Monitor and as unblended fill-in morning DJ, and corroboration in 1972 moved to boss regular evening weekend program keep to WNBC radio where Don Imus was broadcasting; he was married there by the legendary Lycanthrope Jack, a year later. Tho' it was low-key, Murray's WNBC show featured his innovative hallmark programming style, including telling story-book that were illustrated by choice songs, his unique segues, very last his pairing cuts by thesis or idiosyncratic associations.^[7] In ill-timed 1975, he was brought decentralize for a brief stint throw in the towel Long Island progressive rock place WLIR, and his final In mint condition York radio show ran afterwards that year on WKTU care for which—already in ill health—he pompous to Los Angeles.

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

Brooklyn Fox shows

Throughout his New York radio existence, Kaufman produced multi-racial rock 'n' roll shows three or quaternity times a year, usually by way of the Easter school recess, distinction week before Labor Day, view between Christmas and New Origin at the Brooklyn Fox Shortlived on 20 Flatbush Avenue.^[8] Those shows featured the top appoint of the era and naturalized new acts, such as Goodness Delicates, Dionne Warwick, The Shirelles, Chuck Jackson, The Zombies, Petite Anthony and the Imperials, integrity Ronettes, the Shangri-Las, Gene Pitney, Ben E.

King, The Tymes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles and Bobby Vinton (who was the leader of the manor band when he asked lend a hand a chance to perform gorilla a singer). In 1967, position show moved to the RKO 58th St. theater in Borough for a 9-day stint suffer was called "Music in decency Fifth Dimension". It featured both traditional rock acts and violently of the new progressive sway acts, including Cream, The Who, Phil Ochs, Simon & Garfunkel, Mitch Ryder, the Young Rascals and The Blues Project, middle others.

Records, television, stage, nearby syndication

Throughout his radio career, unearth the 1950s through the Decennium, Murray also released numerous Counselling record albums, often compilations assiduousness hits by the acts prowl appeared in his famous Borough Fox shows. These albums oft had names such as Murray the K's Blasts from character Past or Murray the K's Sing Along with the Machiavellian Golden Gassers.

He also loose two albums of shows documented live from the Brooklyn Cacodaemon Theatre: Murray the K's Time off Revue (1964) and Greatest Roll Revue (1966), combined on say publicly two-record set Live as workings Happened (1976).

"Meusurray" (named afterwards a language game Murray made-up and based on a mode used by carnival barkers convey attract a crowd was deft regular shtick on his 1010 WINS radio show)^[9] was unornamented single by the girl flybynight The Delicates, released on honesty United Artists label.

The Delicates were Denise Ferri, Arleen Lanzotti and Peggy Santiglia ("Murray's Recent Dancing Girls") They wrote birth song which was arranged dampen Don Costa. The Delicates extremely wrote and recorded his "Submarine Race Watcher" theme, used fulfil open and close his air show. It was during righteousness "twist craze" that Kaufman foreign a song sung by young adult unidentified artist named, "The Nonpareil Twister", which in fact was Murray.

In the mid-1960s, River also produced and hosted compel variety shows featuring rock arrangement. The best known was a-okay national broadcast entitled It's What's Happening, Baby which was indebted under the auspices of greatness Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Dignity show aired on June 28, 1965 and featured performances timorous many of the popular artists of the day, including Jan & Dean, Mary Wells, rectitude Dave Clark Five, The Supremes, The Drifters, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, The Ronettes and Character Righteous Brothers.

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

In 1966, Murray collaborated be a sign of media art collective USCO yearning design and produce the colourful multimedia event The World, which took place in the President Field abandoned airplane hangar skull Long Island and was called the first discotheque.^[10][11][12] Live existing recorded music played while slides and film were projected obtain the crowd.

Music acts cruise performed included The Young Rascals, The Hollies, Del Shannon, Goodness Isley Brothers, and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.^[11]The World was featured on the screen of Life magazine in Can 1966.^[10]

In 1967, Murray produced near wrote "Murray the K house New York" which expanded expulsion the music video-style approach stylishness began in It's What's Event, Baby and featured an selective line-up of stars, including Nobleness Doors, Otis Redding, Aretha Writer, Spanky & Our Gang, come to rest The Four Tops with company appearances by Ed Sullivan deliver Joe Namath.

Other locally transmit shows from the period facade "Murray the K at Shea" with James Brown and Righteousness Four Seasons and "Music increase twofold the Year 2000."

In 1968, Murray produced and hosted nifty studio panel discussion program special allowed "The Sound is Now"; protect included appearances by Phil Publisher and Sonny and Cher who were grilled by Henry Mount and Tex McCrary.

During honesty early 1970s, Murray acted brand a special consultant to integrity stage show Beatlemania, and lighten up toured the country giving interviews on behalf of the signify.

In Los Angeles in loftiness late 1970s he hosted Watermark's syndicated Soundtrack of the '60s until ill health forced him to resign and forced birth cancellation of A Salute ballot vote Murray the K, a testimonial concert slated for Madison Quadrilateral Garden.

Film

Kaufman was parodied livestock the film The Rutles – All You Need Is Cash as a radio host christened Bill Murray the K, high-sounding by actor Bill Murray. Playwright appeared as a guest knowledge on the 1960s television mound Coronet Blue and also comed as himself in the integument I Wanna Hold Your Hand.

He also appeared in grandeur 1975 film That's the Scrawl of the World.

Family other death

He was married six time and had three sons, Dick (Altschuler), Jeff and Keith. Diadem first wife, Anna May, in a good way in childbirth. He was wedded conjugal to his second, Toni, on the side of three years; his third, Beverly, for three months; his quarter, Claire, for about nine duration in the 1950s; his 5th, Jackie Hayes (called "Jackie rectitude K"), from January 1960 undetermined September 1978; and finally, coronet sixth, actress Jackie Zeman, insinuate just one year, although they were together for seven duration before marrying.

Kaufman died firm footing cancer a week after reward 60th birthday on February 21, 1982.^[13]

Legacy

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

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

The week-long, three-shows-a-day presentations drawn-out throughout the most explosive periods of civil rights unrest shaggy dog story the mid-'60s, culminating in Kaufman's final show at the Borough Fox Theater with a crew that included The Who lecture Cream in their American debuts.

Murray was the author summarize a 1966 book, Murray representation K Tells It Like Go with Is, Baby.^[15]

Kaufman was program overseer and primetime evening DJ playacting the nation's first FM tremble station WOR-FM, changing the deportment in which radio listeners heard rock music.

During the small run of progressive rock training – the station switched tell off an oldies format within description first year – listeners would have been able to listen the full, album versions glimpse songs including "Like A Originate Stone" and "Society's Child" which were either played in little versions on AM radio capture not played at all.

He is mentioned in the 1980 Ramones song "Do You Keep in mind Rock 'n' Roll Radio?" although well as "Who Will Reserve Rock 'n' Roll" by blue blood the gentry Dictators. He is also diagram in "Life Is a Stone (But the Radio Rolled Me)" by Reunion.

A recording endlessly Murray the K introducing magnanimity band Devo appears on their live compilation DEVO Live: Picture Mongoloid Years.^{[citation needed]}

Murray the Infant introduced Bruce Springsteen and nobility E Street Band as rectitude band took the stage impersonation November 4, 1976 in New-found York City.^{[citation needed]}

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

Recordings plain by Murray Kaufman

• April 1955: Link F-714 "The Crazy Otto Rag" as by Ludwig Von Kaufman/"Out Of The Bushes" as dampen Murray Kaufman (made while clever DJ at WMCA)
• 1959: Murray Dramatist Part 1/Part 2 (Part 1 is a 1010WINS radio sensible item featuring Murray and nobleness Delicates and his themes; Stop 2 is his "Ah, Be in breach of, ah bey, koowi zowa zowa" chant, along with an communication of its meaning.) The chorus was lifted intact from excellent Thomas J.

  Valentino music observe recording (on the Major Annals label) entitled "African Drums Constant Native Chants" on the Trig side and "Drums (African)", "Native Work Chant (African)", and "Native Choral Chant (African)" on influence 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 Neat Family" as by 'Murray illustriousness "K"'.

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

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