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▶️ Pete ‘Mad Daddy’ Myers, The Final WHK Broadcast June 25, 1959

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Mad Daddy - Myers, Mintz and the Moondog and How Cleveland, Ohio Changed Rock Radio

“Rick (Lux) would be upstairs in his bedroom at our house spinning his countless collection of early rock n roll records, reading Mad magazine, and listening to the Mad Daddy radio show fueling his fire for his love of rock n roll. I was his young toddler brother first witnessing all this and seeing for the first time who was to become the great rock n roll madman Lux Interior of the Cramps. It was a powerful sight that created my own fire for music. Lux would be the first in line to buy this book.”

- Michael Purkhiser, musician, writer and electronics designer

“The story of Pete Myers and his on-air persona, the Mad Daddy, is finally set straight in Janice and Mike Olszewski’s ultimate bio of this legendary Cleveland radio god. This long-anticipated tome is a bubbling brew of history and hysterics, filled with facts and foibles of the fast-talking disc jockey who unknowingly influenced generations of bop-infested no-counts, and reset the horizontal for all inspired radio to come. Essential reading and absolutely recommended!”

- Miriam Linna, Cramps / Norton Records / Kicksville Radio

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Also Can Be Played Here ▶ Halloween Spookshow Vol-1

🎃 Vincent Price - "House of Frightenstein" intro 🎃 Big Bee Kornegay - At the House of Frankenstein 🎃 Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages - 'Til the Following Night 🎃 "Mad Daddy" Pete Myers' Werewolf Poem 🎃 Ronald Stein - "Spider Baby" Theme ft. Lon Chaney, Jr. 🎃 Betty Grable - Halloween song from "My Blue Heaven" 🎃 "Lady Frankenstein" spot 🎃 The Mummies - The Fly 🎃 Robbie "The Werewolf" Robison - Rockin' Werewolf 🎃 Kay Starr & the Billy Butterfield Quintet - The Headless Horseman 🎃 "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" spot 🎃 Ronnie Dawson - Rockin' in the Graveyard 🎃 The Shaggs - It's Halloween 🎃 Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Swingin' at the Seance ft. Dorothy Claire 🎃 "Horror of Dracula" spot 🎃 Maury Laws - "Mad Monster Party?" Theme ft. Ethel Ennis 🎃 The Crewnecks - Rockin' Zombie 🎃 Sheldon Allman - Children's Day at the Morgue 🎃 "The House that Dripped Blood" spot 🎃 Hasil Adkins - Haunted House 🎃 Terry Teen - The Hearse 🎃 Frankie Stein & His Ghouls - Horror Staccato

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Happy Birthday ♎️ to and remembering Erick Lee Purkhiser a.k.a. Lux Interior (October 21, 1946 - February 4, 2009) R.I.P. 🖤🥀💔 The king of trash who was inspired by B-movies, cheapjack horror icons, 1950s radio personality and shock-jock Pete “Mad Daddy” Myers and 1960s horror host Ernie “Ghoulardi” Anderson fused together his own ghoulish and colorful persona. His name came from an old car commercial. 1950s rockabilly like Hasil Adkins, lascivious R&B and 1960s garage and surf played a big part of The Cramps’ musical influences. For obvious reasons they have widely been credited for being the progenitors of psychobilly and gothabilly and de-facto curators of bizarre American pop culture. Psychobilly was taken from a Johnny Cash song and The Cramps also described their music as “rockabilly voodoo” on their early concert flyers. They however did not want to be associated with the term psychobilly later and explained, “We weren’t even describing the music when we put ‘psychobilly’ on our old fliers; we were just using carny terms to drum up business. It wasn’t meant as a style of music.” I’ve had the opportunity to witness several performances. Always a consummate, rambunctious and dynamic showman, he never disappointed his audience. Often times performing scantily clad in a thong and high heels while howling. 🖤🔥🔪 
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It's A Mad, Mad Daddy

It’s A Mad, Mad Daddy

To know The Cramps is to know the namesake for one of their more popular songs and a huge influence on Lux & Ivy.  Pete “MAD DADDY” Myers first mesmerized listeners on January 1958 at WJW in Cleveland as the nighttime disc jockey.  There must have been something in the water in Northeast Ohio combined with the repression of blue collar monotony that spawn counter-cultural heroes Mad Daddy, Alan…

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Mad Daddy (Pete Myers) Last Show on WHK 1420 Cleveland | June 1959

Mad Daddy (Pete Myers) Last Show on WHK 1420 Cleveland | June 1959

    Pete “Mad Daddy” Myerswas one of the most unique radio personalities, from the golden age of Rock & Roll radio. He drove around Cleveland in a pink Pontiac wearing a Dracula cape, which helped to create the visual of the Mad Daddy image. On air, his style might be described as “Gothic beatnik.” Mad Daddy had a ghoulish sound, as he talked in rhyme, with a bubbling cauldron sound effect behind…

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Pete ‘Mad Daddy’ Myers Aircheck

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It's A Mad, Mad Daddy

It’s A Mad, Mad Daddy

To know The Cramps is to know the namesake for one of their more popular songs and a driving force on Lux’s childhood while growing up in northeast Ohio.  Pete “MAD DADDY” Myers first mesmerized listeners on January 1958 at WJW in Cleveland as the nighttime disc jockey.  There must have been something in the water in Northeast Ohio combined with the repression of blue collar monotony that spawn…

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▶ What Is A Pfisteris? - Pete Myers

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It’s A Mad, Mad Daddy

To know The Cramps is to know the namesake for one of their more popular songs and a huge influence on Lux & Ivy.  Pete “MAD DADDY” Myers first mesmerized listeners on January 1958 at WJW in Cleveland as the nighttime disc jockey.  There must have been something in the water in Northeast Ohio combined with the repression of blue collar monotony that spawn counter-cultural heroes Mad Daddy, Alan “Moondog” Freed and Ernie “Ghoulardi” Anderson (whom many claim was influenced by Mad Daddy).  On the radio Mad Daddy clearly drew upon his acting experience from the Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art In London to create his Mad Daddy character with a flowing black cape and signature phrases still used today like “mellow as Jell-O”, “Wavy Gravy” and “Hang Loose, Mother Goose.”

With the help of an extremely high IQ (174) and copious amounts of amphetamines his style was punctuated by rapid spontaneous rhyming through an entire four-and-a-half -hour show.  He even improvised the live bizarre advertisements for his show’s sponsors.  His broadcasts were often the first (& only) chance rock ‘n’ roll fans could hear hundreds of blues, rockabilly and R&B artists like Link Wray and Howlin’ Wolf.

His shows were clearly a huge influence on a then 12 year old Lux growing up in Akron.  He fondly remembers the Mad Daddy driving around in a pink Pontiac wearing a Dracula cape and his “Batty Bucks”) bat winged sneakers and other off-air antics like parachuting 2,200 feet into Lake Erie from an airplane on June 14th, 1958.

A ghoulishly brilliant Mad Daddy next appeared on Cleveland’s WHK in 1958 where he remained for about a year before moving to WNEW in New York in June 1959. There he was given one test evening in his “Mad Daddy” role.  The switchboards lit up like a Christmas tree and the adverse reaction forced him to play resume middle-of-the-road programming.  Frustrated in his efforts to recapture his Cleveland fame, Myers shot himself to death a decade later on October 4th, 1968.  His Genius has never been equaled and his influence upon the culture and music of The Cramps is undeniable.