WMEX Radio MUG

WMEX began broadcasting in 1934, where it is said to have broadcast remotely a live Billie Holiday Boston performance. In 1941 jazz scholar and critic Nat Hentoff launched a jazz program that lasted through the decade. Organist John Kiley, Red Sox organist for 35 years, would take listener requests and play the tunes live right there in the studio. In 1957, following an ownership change, WMEX changed  to a rock-and-roll format, one of the first in the US to do so, and began airing the legendary Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsburg, whose nightly rock-and-roll broadcasts on 1600 WBOS were already very popular. With other personalities such as Emperor Fenway, Melvin X Melvin and Dandy Dan Donovan, the station was the go-to for Boston youth. Ginsburg frequently ran record hops in Legion halls and community centers for local high-schoolers and famously created the "Ginsburger" for sponsor Adventure Car Hop. In 1967, the popular WRKO went Top-40, but in Dirty Old Boston, WMEX was the real deal. For