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Elaine Hummel. . . (m. 1973; died 2001) . Children. 2. Rick Shaw (born James Harold Hummel; October 24, 1938 – September 22, 2017) was an American disc jockey, radio and television personality, who remains best known for hosting his radio shows on WQAM (1963–1975), WAXY (1975–1990), and Majic (1990–2007).
Shaw was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. [1] He started in radio as a high school senior. In 1956, he got his first job in St. Louis.He followed that with gigs in Omaha, Denver and then WCKR in Miami in 1960, when he got his professional name as Rick Shaw, and where he spent most of his career spinning vinyl and playing oldies, goldies, and Rock and Roll.
In 1963 Shaw moved to WQAM, a Top 40 rock-'n'-roll station with a teenage following so fanatic that at times more than half the radios in South Florida were tuned to it. And no WQAM DJ was more popular than Shaw, the first one in Florida to play a Beatles record. From there he joined WINZ in 1970, and WAXY (now WBBG) in 1976.
- Tuning in to WQAM
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- Rick Shaw’s Nightly Top 10
- The Rick Shaw TV Shows
- Rick Shaw Brings The Spirit to The World
- Westwood One, The Letter, and The Lost Rick Shaw Interview
Like most WQAM listeners, my sister Ruth and I were just a couple of regular school kids, Baby Boomers born in October 1951 and January 1955, respectively. We lived in North Miami, a working- and middle-class suburb about 12 miles north of downtown and just a half-hour bike ride away from the Atlantic Ocean. Hooked on rock ‘n’ roll the first time I...
Rick Shaw – real name James Hummel – landed in Miami in 1960 after stints at stations in East St. Louis, Omaha and Denver. He started to build a following on Miami stations WCKR/WIOD, where the station manager tagged him with a new on-air name and he became famous for wacky DJ promotional stunts. Rick Shaw segued to Top 40 WQAM in 1963, by which ti...
Shaw had a bunch of high school kids, mostly hot girls, from all over Dade (Miami) and Broward (Ft. Lauderdale) counties, interning with him at WQAM. They’d answer phones for the nightly Top 10 survey and screen callers with special requests from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. In the last hour, we’d hear Shaw count down the Top 10 requests, which usually reflec...
Shaw’s brand soon extended beyond radio to print; he wrote columns in local teen-targeted music papers and hawked Stridex acne cream in print and on the radio. By the mid-’60s he was also on local TV, hosting “The Rick Shaw Show”weekday mornings and “Saturday Hop” weekends on Miami’s WLBW Channel 10. Partly inspired by Dick Clark’s “American Bandst...
In 1967, Shaw and a few partners opened The World, a teen nightclub hidden away in a light industrial area of North Miami (just blocks from the famed Criteria Studios, where the Allman Brothers and Eric/Derek Clapton recorded a couple of years later, with a couple of North Miami kids named Ron and Howard Albertengineering). Wednesday, Friday, and S...
Fast-forwarding to 1989, I was in my seventh year as a staff writer/producer for the Westwood One Radio Network, and the second year producing “The Lost Lennon Tapes” series, syndicated worldwide. That February, celebrating 25 years after The Beatles’ first trip to America, I’d written and produced a three-hour special edition of “The Lost Lennon T...
Sep 23, 2017 · Rick Shaw, a radio veteran of more than 50 years and the first disc jockey in South Florida to play the Beatles, has died at age 78. Shaw, a Cooper City resident who spent 46 years as a DJ in Miami…
- Jim Hayward
Late 80s or early 90s - Rick Shaw after a ride with the U. S. Navy Blue Angels: 2006 - Rick Shaw and morning co-host Donna Davis - retirement announced November 28, 2006: May 2007 - Rick Shaw's Retirement Party Photo Gallery: Rick Shaw Productions business card with telephone and e-mail address
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Aug 26, 2020 · The Beatles, who broke up 50 years ago in 1970, played Sullivan from New York a week earlier. But South Florida, in part because of music DJs like Rick Shaw, is a bright spot in Beatles’ history ...
