He owned a tiny shop, Coachman's Radio And Records, on East Charlevoix Avenue, that was stuffed with blues 45s and albums and autographed pictures, and tubes, and radios and TV sets in various states of repair. On "Blues After Hours," records skipped.
Scratchy records were played. Songs would be introduced, buttons pushed, and nothing would happen. The Coachman talked over instrumental breaks, and over whole records.
He'd sing along. The blues is all right! The show sounded like me and my friends did when, with an old turntable and Dixie cups for mikes, we pretended we were on the radio. Perfection often becomes dull. Actresses whose looks give the impression that God used one of the six days just on them can appear ho-hum when compared with a slightly flawed girl. Too thin, nose too big, a mole where the world can see it. Skinny legs. Superficial flaws. But they give the less-than-perfect actress whatever "it" is that endears her to the public, skinny legs and all.
The Coachman's "it" was his on-air sound. August, AM 2. For the next five hours there will be no need to change stations, insert eight track tapes, cassettes, video discs or other music or entertainment paraphernalia. Fittingly, its studios were in a building, on East Jefferson Avenue at Mt. Elliott, that had once housed an automobile dealership. Its broadcast day circa late s consisted primarily of old public domain movies played from video cassettes.
Wrinkles and dropouts would pass by on the screen. Come midnight, while "Reefer Madness" was on channel 62, the visitor to I flashed my headlights. In traffic coming the other way, I'd see blink-blink. No one called anything "awesome" in But this was; pure theater of the mind coming from a little room in the orphan radio station on the east side of town.
Mojo was deliberately secretive. He never allowed himself to be photographed. Few people knew his real name. Between radio jobs, he would hole up and listen to music, and radio, all day, for weeks.
As he explained -- over music from Star Wars soundtracks -- he came to Earth from a distant galaxy in his Mothership, with one purpose in mind: to play music for the inhabitants of our planet. He did, however, admit to, while a long record was on, standing at the plate glass window of the former auto showroom and watching traffic pass on East Jefferson, just to get a feel for the city whose rhythms and sounds and people he loved.
Elliott turned red, I'd roll up to it and look for a shadowy figure standing between the parted curtains. If there was none, I pretended he was there anyway.
The gap between black stations and white stations had virtually disappeared. The Coachman passed on Christmas Eve The Detroit Metro Times printed a tribute. Mojo is still in town, somewhere, possibly on The original Mothership, thanks to a donated collection of old airchecks, lands every Friday night at ten, Motor City time, on Detroit-based Internet broadcaster Emancipation Radio.
In the radio business, last month can seem nostalgic. Not that many calendar years have passed since Ernie D and the Coachman and Mojo ruled, but it can seems like forever. You have to search hard among the talk shows on WDET to find music. And having blues on any station that calls itself Kiss or The Mix would be asking way too much of an already overburdened world. Fortunately, there was tape. Airchecks allow the next generations to hear samples of what made this era of black radio history so great.
Tape does come with a curse, however. Regardless of how many airchecks you have, or hear, you'll always wish there were more. August, AM 3. Join Date May Posts August, AM 4. Join Date Apr Posts 5, I can recall a Dan Akroyd interview where he would listen to Famous while travelling between the Second City centers of Chicago and Toronto. This would take him through Detroit at odd hours. He would always listen to Famous and his briefcase of blues.
Famous was the inspiration for the Blues Brothers. August, AM 5. Join Date Mar Posts 1, Coachman, Mojo, and Frantic Ernie, what a treat!
Loved 'em all. Radio was once alive and well. Local stations, with local personalities. Sometimes, the best part of a road trip was searching for the right station with the right vibe.
In Detroit, we were fortunate to have these guys. Don't forget Lee Alan, with his fine tuned horn! August, AM 6.
Originally Posted by DetroitPlanner. August, AM 7. Join Date Mar Posts August, PM 8. Good Stuff HM Another extension of the Black experience The brilliance of something being born out of necessity! My favorite station growing up was They jammed me through many days of boredom. I remember meeting MOJO at the studio when me and my crew decided to stop by the studio as we were riding on bikes back from our trip to the Isle.
He gave us MFA [[Midnight Funk Association buttons, cards and T-shirts [[wish I still had the shirt , and promised to give us a shout out over the radio waves. Jeff Mills, aka ' The Wizard' , revolutionized Detroit radio with his unique style of mixing. He brought the Club to Detroit radio. If so, WHAT a pleasant surprise! The BJL , the color you love to hate! August, PM 9. Anyone know the title of the song that's playing at the beginning of Coachman's show at the wmfu link in the initial post?
August, PM Join Date Apr Posts A friend and I would sit in the car with a beer and maybe a doobie, listen to his show and practice on our harmonicas. The services we offer include We bring anything you can dream of to life online!
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