Pat St. John got together, by telephone conference call, with two other CKLW Alumni last night, and one story came up that is worth repeating.
In 1969, the all-night DJ at WKNR in Detroit would regularly do a conference call with other all-night DJs at Detroit radio stations. Including CKLW, of course, where Pat was doing all-nights at the time.
One night, the DJs from 9 stations got together and all played Richard Harris' "MacArthur Park" beginning at 2:52:39 a.m. so that it would finish right at 3:00 a.m. when most stations, but not CKLW, did their News.
Although the song was a year old, it was picked because it fit into the formats of all 9 stations.
As Pat put it, "The phones went nuts."