Dan Ingram

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Daniel Trombley Ingram (born September 7, 1934 in Oceanside, New York) is an American Top 40 disk jockey with a forty-year career on radio stations such as WABC (AM) and WCBS-FM in New York. Dan started broadcasting at WNRC, New Rochelle, New York, and WALK, Patchogue, New York. Ingram is regarded by many as the best Top-40 DJ of all time. He's noted for his quick wit and ability to convey a humorous or satiric idea with quick pacing and an economy of words--a talent which has made him uniquely suited to, and successful within, modern personality-driven music radio. He may be among the most frequently emulated radio personalities, cited as an influence or inspiration by numerous current broadcasters.

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[edit] History

[edit] Quotes

  • I just got some terrible news. I read the ratings, and WABC is only the 13th ranked station…in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! — On WABC in 1971
  • "Hi Kemosabe"
  • "Roll your bod"
  • "The word of the day is…"
  • "You're in the honor group of the day"
  • "The boys in blue are looking for you, with radar."
  • About Cass Elliot: "I love the chunky Mama."
  • "on the Ingram Flingram"*
  • "on the Ingram Travesty"
  • " zay gezunt" — a Yiddish expression, meaning "be well." Upon hearing this, many listeners believed Ingram to be Jewish.
  • Sometimes preceding a weather forecast: "Peter the Meter Reader & his Weather Machine, aided by his lovely wife, Fats Pontoon, her mustache, beard and orchestra…"
  • Sometimes during a weather forecast: "Chance of brief showers… watch out for those briefs…"
  • Introducing Howard Cosell's Speaking of Sports segment: "And now it's time to broach the coach."

[edit] Transcripts from last WABC shows before the 1982 format change

  • "So basically I'm taking seven weeks off. With pay heh heh." — at the end of Dan Ingram's final Friday afternoon on the air.
  • "But the honor group of the day, my friend, is you. Because if you hadn't listened, I would've never have been here. Thank you." — Dan Ingram at the end of his final afternoon show Friday before the format change
  • "There is one thing that I want to say that will be probably the last time that I will ever be able to say this, on WABC, and the last thing I am going to say is…This is WABC, New York. I can't say that anymore, can I?" — Near the end of the final broadcast on May 10, 1982
  • "We would like to play a couple of things to nail it down. Let's have that." (Three chimes ring, from John Lennon's "(Just Like) Starting Over," then Lennon's "Imagine" plays. After the song, the familiar WABC "chime" jingle is heard, then a moment of silence before the first Talkradio jingle. This marked the end of WABC's 22 years as a Top-40 station.)

[edit] Awards

  • Edward R. Murrow Award for an anti-smoking campaign
  • Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews for public service announcements
  • National Radio Hall of Fame nominee in 2004 (although not inducted)

[edit] Trivia

  • Dan was interviewed about his career by Mark Simone and Allan Sniffen on WABC Post-Rewound show on May 29, 2006. While discussing a lawsuit filed against him by another person who used his name, Ingram said "shit". While the dump button managed to erase that profanity from the air, the second profanity ("fuck"), accidentally went on the air, due to a delay problem.[1]
  • It should be noted that Dan is not related to Clarke Ingram, another top 40 radio personality in New York City who worked at Z-100 during the early 1990s. Clarke has said that he was reluctant to use "Ingram" (his real name) because of Dan's prominence, but that Z-100 encouraged him to do so because at the time Dan was not on the air at any station. About six months later, Dan returned to the air, doing weekends at WCBS-FM, and the two occasionally competed in the same time slots. Some listeners mistakenly assumed that Clarke was Dan's son, or another relative. (A photo of Dan and Clarke meeting each other for the first time appeared in the radio trade publication FMQB in 1997.)
  • Dan's closing theme song was "Tri-Fi Drums" by Billy May. An edited version of the song was used for broadcast.
  • One of the bumpers that would be used during Dan's show would have an accentuation on the pronunciation of his name, so it would sound like "Dannnnnnn In-gram". As a tribute to Dan in later years, ESPN's Chris Berman would do the same when saying the name of Miami Dolphins wide receiver Mark Ingram, pronouncing it "Marrrrrk In-gram".
  • Dan commented occasionally about the pronunciation of his name: jingles often are heard pronouncing his last name as "Ing-ram," but Dan has said it is correctly pronounced "In-gram."

[edit] References

  1. ^ Fybush, Scott (2006-06-05). NorthEast Radio Watch by Scott Fybush (HTML). FybuishMedia.com. Retrieved on 2006-07-09.

[edit] External links

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