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Ernie Durham, sometimes referred as ‘Ernie D., but more commonly remembered as ‘Frantic Ernie’ on the radio, began his Detroit radio career as a newscaster and host of a jazz show on WDET, prior 1955.
Ernie Durham started on Booth Broadcasting's WBBC. The bosses at WJLB -- for owner James L. Booth -- decided that anyone with a following the size of his, who could sell that much of his sponsors' products, belonged in Detroit. For a while, he worked at both stations, before freeways, when the 100 mile round trip commute was all on surface streets.
Talent: FRANTIC ERNIE DURHAM Station: WBBC Flint, Michigan Date: 1958 Time: 9:18. He started in newspapers, moved to radio news, but found his real niche as a deejay. His name was Ernie Durham, a.k.a. The Frantic One or Ernie D. Son of a banker and a nurse, the New York-born Durham came to radio quite by accident.
The Emanuel Lasky Story. Crazy. DJ “Frantic” Ernie Durham’s chart - printed in the Michigan Chronicle at the end of October 1964 – has Emanuel’s disc at number 7. The flip was Welfare Cheese. Crazy, released in September, continued Emanuel’s roll.
Jul 19, 2017 · Up in Detroit you had Frantic Ernie Durham who rhymed most of his broadcast on WJLB, 1400 on the AM dial. These DJs were PERSONALITIES and loved by the youth.
Ernie D's Campus Ballroom. The Campus Ballroom is one of Detroit's lesser-known music venues, once part of a commercial strip that wrapped around the corner of Fenkell and Livernois. A brief note in an issue of Variety puts the opening date of the Campus Ballroom at 1927.
