M.G. Kelly Career Archives

BOSS ANGELES
M.G.'S LOADED ON KHJ

In 1974, KHJ received an air check of M.G. Kelly. The tape was sent by KDWB, the radio station across the street from KSTP in Minneapolis. The note attached said, "Help us get this guy out of The Twin Cities!"

In the first year at KHJ, Kelly set two Guinness Book World Records.

M.G. Kelly recalls his enjoyable experience in floating for promotion:

"it was just fine for the first 10 hours while I had listeners riding with me. Then they closed the park and turned out the lights. I sat there in log full of water while the temperature dropped to 38 degrees. I remember thinking, 'Does anybody ever really read that Guinness Book?'"

Kelly presents a gold record to Elvin Bishop
the day after the log ride adventure

FROM THE PAGES OF SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

Kelly's next promotion, like the log ride stunt, was also on the water. But this time... a little faster. He became the world's first passenger in a "Blown-Fuel-Hydro." Two weeks later on Lake Tahoe the same boat Kelly road in exploded at 174 miles per hour.

The youngest D.J. to join the legendary KHJ.

Kelly recalls...
"The first day I opened the mic and screamed the call letters, is still to this day, the most exciting two seconds of my career."

Speaking of screaming, according to Kelly, this air check also contains the longest sustained scream in radio, prior to the announcement of consolidation.

KHJ - 1974
FOCUS ON THE HOCUS POCUS

This Air Check Presented by Bill Alexander