Ryman and legendary programmer Buzz Bennet put together a recreation of old and great radio. In the late ’80s, director John Ryman brought the Wolfman to Dallas to the Scott Ginsburg owned station Y95. Jerry Thunder, the radio station DJ from That ’70s Show, is based on Wolfman Jack. A Wolfman Jack functionary ("Wolfguy Jack") appears as the owner of a 1950s-themed diner in the Simpsons episode "Take My Wife, Sleaze". In 1974, The Guess Who recorded a song entitled "Clap for the Wolfman".Ī character by the name of "Wolfbane Jack" appeared on the children’s television show The Electric Company. Todd Rundgren has a song entitled "Wolfman Jack" on his 1972 album Something/Anything?. In the skit "Wolfman" on the Adam Sandler album Shhh…Don’t Tell, Blake Clark pretends to be Wolfman Jack. The Wolfman is seated behind his console, a table bearing stacks and stacks of wax, a gigantic microphone, and a turntable that doesn’t turn."īobby Fuller recorded an instrumental named after Wolfman Jack titled "Wolfman". The sketch opens with an introduction (“I am da Wolfman”) and a juicy howl, and then a welcome to EECH (pronounced yuck), compliments of Dracola.
The tunes played cover the range from true classics (including selections from such giants as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Doors) to forgotten clunkers (anyone remember the 1910 Fruitgum Company?) to someone of the time they would probably all be familiar (nearly every one charted in the Billboard Top 40 in the U.S. Performed by Canada’s wacky comedian Billy Van, "The sketch itself is basically just a music video sequence, with the Wolfman and Igor dancing to a rock ’n roll tune from the late ’60s/early ’70s. In the early 1970s, the Canadian children’s television show "The Hilarious House of Frightenstein" featured a sketch called "The Wolfman". In 1974, Ray Stevens followed his #1 hit, "The Streak", with a parody of Wolfman Jack, who hosted The Midnight Special on NBC-TV from 1973 to 1981, entitled "Moonlight Special", where the host was named "Sheepdog", who also barked and howled. Wolfman Jack died of a heart attack in Belvidere, North Carolina, on July 1, 1995. "He walked up the driveway, went in to hug his wife and then just fell over," said Lonnie Napier, vice president of Wolfman Jack Entertainment. Wolfman Jack said that night, "I can’t wait to get home and give Lou a hug, I haven’t missed her this much in years." Wolfman had been on the road, promoting his new autobiography Have Mercy!: Confessions of the Original Rock ‘N’ Roll Animal, about his early career and parties with celebrities. Wolfman Jack had finished broadcasting his last live radio program, a weekly program nationally syndicated from Planet Hollywood in downtown Washington, D.C. Robert Weston Smith, known as Wolfman Jack (Janu– July 1, 1995) was a gravelly voiced American disc jockey, famous in the 1960s and 1970s.
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