1. Robert Weston Smith, known as Wolfman Jack, was an American disc jockey active for over three decades.
26 Facts About Wolfman Jack
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Wolfman Jack lived on 12th Street and 4th Avenue and went to Manual Training High School in the Park Slope section.
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Wolfman Jack married Lucy "Lou" Lamb in 1961, and they had two children.
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Smith's adaptation of the Moondog theme was to call himself Wolfman Jack and add his own sound effects.
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The Wolfman Jack did pitches for dog food, weight-loss pills, weight-gain pills, rose bushes, and baby chicks.
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The Wolfman Jack was rumored to actually broadcast from this location during the early to mid-1960s.
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Missing the excitement Wolfman Jack returned to border radio to run XERB, and opened an office on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles in January 1966.
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Wolfman Jack recorded his shows in Los Angeles and shipped his tapes across the border into Mexico, where they would then be beamed across the US.
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Wolfman Jack appeared on Armed Forces Radio from 1970 to 1986.
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At his peak, Wolfman Jack was heard on more than 2,000 radio stations in 53 countries.
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Wolfman Jack was heard as far afield as the Wild Coast, Transkei, on Capital Radio 604 based there.
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Wolfman Jack moved to Belvidere, North Carolina, in 1989, to be closer to his extended family.
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Wolfman Jack hosted a TV show at Little Darlin's Rock n' Roll Palace, which was eventually renamed Wolfman Jack's Rock'n'Roll Palace.
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At each appearance, he looked a little different because he had not decided what the Wolfman Jack should look like.
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Wolfman Jack started his recording career in Minneapolis while working at KUXL Radio in 1965 with George Garrett, who helped record the album Boogie with the Wolfman by Wolfman Jack and the Wolfpack on the Bread Label.
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Wolfman Jack was responsible for engineering, producing, and assembling the band.
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Wolfman Jack released Wolfman Jack and Through the Ages on the Wooden Nickel label.
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In 1973, Wolfman Jack appeared as himself in George Lucas's second feature film American Graffiti.
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Wolfman Jack appeared in the film's 1979 sequel More American Graffiti, though only through voice-overs.
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Wolfman Jack was the regular announcer and occasional host for The Midnight Special on NBC from 1973 to 1981.
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Wolfman Jack voiced the chief of the Rama Lama tribe on the TV special Garfield in Paradise in 1986.
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Wolfman Jack furnished his voice in The Guess Who's top-10 hit single "Clap for the Wolfman".
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Wolfman Jack was regularly parodied on The Hilarious House of Frightenstein as "The Wolfman," an actual werewolf disc jockey with a look inspired by the original The Wolf Man movies.
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From 1975 to 1980, Wolfman Jack hosted Halloween Haunt at Knott's Berry Farm, which transforms itself into Knott's Scary Farm each year for Halloween.
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In 2012, the estate of Wolfman Jack released a hip-hop single featuring Wolfman Jack clips as the vocals.
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Wolfman Jack is buried at a family cemetery in Belvidere.