The Jim Hampton Collection
A young Jim Hampton
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Jim Hampton has had a significant career in Radio Broadcasting, including on-air stints in Detroit, Chicago, Tokyo, and China. His expertise includes Network Programming and Syndication, Integrated Marketing and Promotion, and the design and launch of major web portals.
Hampton is respected as an idea man. He creates out-of-the-box marketing concepts and brings them to reality. The combination of these big ideas with his innovative approach to marketing and implementation has equaled success for many clients. As a teenager, Hampton was the youngest radio DJ hired by ABC at WXYZ/Detroit. From 1969 to 1970, Jim served as Production Manager at WCAR in the Motor City, and he also worked at WABX and WJBK. From 1970 to 1972, Jim was Production Manager at WLS in Chicago. Jim produced over 1000 radio specials which aired around the world, and has interviewed almost every major music star of the 60's, 70's & 80's. Specials produced by Hampton for ABC include The Elton John Story, The Beach Boys, The Bob Seger Story, The Eagles, The John Lennon Story, Michael Jackson, ELO, Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons, and Super 70's. Jim Hampton has also produced radio specials for CBS, RKO, FM TOKYO, RADIO SHANGHAI and the BBC. He created the first 24-hour voice-tracked format, "Big Country", co-hosted American Top 40 with Casey Kasem in Japan, and developed MasterCard's most successful College/youth program. A winner of Aegis and Telly Awards, and CEO of Greenhouse Marketing Group, Jim resides in the Los Angeles area. Greenhouse is a marketing and sponsorship sales company that represents The City of Beverly Hills, The Museum of Latin American Art, the LA Art Show and the LA Latin Film Festival, among other organizations, events and broadcast properties. About this Collection, Jim writes, "I hope you enjoy this as much as I have enjoyed putting it together." |
Scoped
Talk about memorable moments!
I was very young (19) in 1965 and just starting out as a disc jockey. Stevie Wonder, who was still “Little Stevie Wonder,” came to Flint and together we co-DJ’d this show.
You will hear him being a great DJ, playing his harmonica with all the hits, singing, plus guests Diana Ross, Mary and Flo of The Supremes call in.
[Description by Jim Hampton]
In the late 80’s, I flew to Big Sur and met Paul Anka in his home.
He took me into his music room, where he had the most beautiful Kawasaki Grand Piano. He sat at the piano, I turned on my Nagra tape recorder and we began one of the most memorable interviews I had ever done.
As I asked him questions about his songs, he proceeded to underscore his comments by playing on the piano, then singing, in what for me was a private concert. Wow! So I produced this special for the ABC Radio Network, featuring Don Bleu as the announcer.
[Description by contributor Jim Hampton]
My first big radio job in 1966. I was 20 years old and got the chance of a lifetime. This is a scoped aircheck of one of the Solid Gold shows from 1967. You will hear a great Anita Kerr jingle package, some cigarette commercials, Howard Cosell, and some Chickenman.
[Description by Uncle Ricky]
This is a wonderful Detroit Jingle Symphony from Jim Hampton’s Memorial Day 2009 Radio Recall show. It features a lot of many well-known jingles of the Top 40 era, produced and syndicated by the best jingle people.
You will hear PAMS. Lots of GREAT PAMS, performed by the original groups with the original mix, this is very classic material for WXYZ, WJBK, WKMH and WKNR,. There are also amazing Futursonic jingles, with only minimal tape skew for pre-acapella CKLW, and the sparse Johnny Mann CKLW jings are clean.
And who did those WCAR jingles? WCAR is getting it said..! Sounds like an early incarnation of the WCBS-FM material by Chuck Blore. Overall, an inclusive and AMAZING symphony for sure!
[Description by Uncle Ricky]
Thanks to Jim Hampton for proving that there really was viable ABC sponsored Top 40 radio in Detroit, even as WKNR was overtaking the market. From Jim’s Radio Recall, we learned quite a bit more about Lee Alan. We had one aircheck from Bob Green of Mr. Alan, but apparently, Lee Alan had a long history with WXYZ and held forth nightly in the Motor City, in addition to recording a record about his horn with major Motown artists. I guess if you don’t ask, you might never know.
The opening to this Lee Alan Show and the generous distribution of PAMS jingles demonstrates that, in fact, the guys on the air at WXYZ were encouraged to think of the time they spent on the air as SHOWTIME. Radio was a show, you see, there were these guys called “disc jockeys” and…
Nevermind. You’ll figure it out. Thanks, Jim!
Unscoped
Talk about memorable moments!
I was very young (19) in 1965 and just starting out as a disc jockey. Stevie Wonder, who was still “Little Stevie Wonder,†came to Flint and together we co-DJ’d this show.
You will hear him being a great DJ, playing his harmonica with all the hits, singing, plus guests Diana Ross, Mary and Flo of The Supremes call in.