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In 1964, at WQAM, Shaw was the first radio disc jockey in South Florida to play The Beatles songs. He met them later that year in Jacksonville. During a 47-year career in Miami, Shaw finished each program with the 1959 Ray Peterson classic, Goodnight My Love.
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- 1956–2007
- Radio/television personality
- James Harold Hummel, October 24, 1938, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Sep 24, 2017 · He was 78. Shaw was the top-rated radio celebrity in South Florida in the 1960s, and among other accomplishments, was the first disc jockey to spin The Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in Miami in early 1964, on top-rated Top 40 station WQAM, “Tiger Radio” at 560 AM on your transistor radio dial.
Sep 23, 2017 · MIAMI – Before Spotify and iTunes, when vinyl ruled, Rick Shaw introduced South Florida to the Beatles.. It was a Saturday afternoon in 1964. He played "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and about a ...
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Sep 22, 2017 · September 22, 2017. MIAMI (WSVN) - Legendary disc jockey Rick Shaw, who introduced South Florida to the the music of the Beatles and spent most of his radio career in Miami, has died....
Aug 26, 2020 · Take the late Rick Shaw. He was the 25-year-old DJ on Miami’s hippest station, WQAM-560, and Shaw is credited with spinning the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” on South Florida’s...
Sep 22, 2017 · During a 46-year career in Miami, Shaw finished each program with the 1959 Ray Peterson classic Goodnight My Love. Friday, just over a decade into his retirement, Shaw died. He was 78.
At that moment Rick Shaw could never have known that he would become as much a legend in South Florida as the Beatles would become to the world. 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 ...
