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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.
It all began in 1956, when he was just 17 years old. “Rock N Roll was just getting going. What a great time for a kid to get started in radio,” says Rick Shaw. Four years later, in 1960, he arrived in South Florida and fell in love. “Man this is paradise,” he recalled thinking, “what ever I am going to do with my life I am going to do ...
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.
- Tuning in to WQAM
- Rick Shaw Arrives at WQAM
- 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 beloved radio disc jockey born Jim Hummel, died at home Friday morning. He was 78. "My father was an amazing person down to the final moments," Sean Hummel, his son, said.
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Jul 7, 2014 · Often times when researching the legacies of classic radio stations, we don’t come across much valuable information. Its times like this when the audio we post must speak for itself. This aircheck is all about the hits of 1967 and the air talents of Rick Shaw. The burning question of many of our minds is, is this the same Rick Shaw who graced ...
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Rick had a Saturday Hop afternoon TV show on Channel 10 in the 60's, and in 1965 "The Rick Shaw Show" started every morning Monday through Friday on WLBW-TV Channel 10, an MTV-type show featuring the latest rock and roll songs being lip-synched by local performers in South Florida scenes.
