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biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Murray the K</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Murray_The_K_(face).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Murray_The_K_%28face%29.jpg/220px-Murray_The_K_%28face%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="237" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Murray_The_K_%28face%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="277" data-file-height="299" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Kaufman in 1966</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Murray Kaufman</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1922-02-14</span>)</span>February 14, 1922<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace">New York City, United States</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">February 21, 1982<span style="display:none">(1982-02-21)</span> (aged 60)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, United States</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Disc_jockey" title="Disc jockey">Disc jockey</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1958–1981</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Murray Kaufman</b> (February 14, 1922 – February 21, 1982), professionally known as <b>Murray the K</b>, was a New York City <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a> <a href="/wiki/Impresario" title="Impresario">impresario</a> and <a href="/wiki/Disc_jockey" title="Disc jockey">disc jockey</a> of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. During the early days of <a href="/wiki/Beatlemania" title="Beatlemania">Beatlemania</a>, he frequently referred to himself as the <a href="/wiki/Fifth_Beatle" title="Fifth Beatle">fifth Beatle</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Murray Kaufman came from a show business family: his mother, Jean, played <a href="/wiki/Piano" title="Piano">piano</a> in <a href="/wiki/Vaudeville" title="Vaudeville">vaudeville</a> and wrote music and his aunt was a character actress on the stage and in film. He was a child actor—an extra—in several 1930s <a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States" title="Cinema of the United States">Hollywood</a> films. He attended Peekskill Military Academy, a military <a href="/wiki/Boarding_school" title="Boarding school">boarding school</a>, and he was later inducted into the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> where he arranged entertainment for the troops. Following the war, he put together shows in the <a href="/wiki/Catskills" class="mw-redirect" title="Catskills">Catskills</a>' "<a href="/wiki/Borscht_Belt" title="Borscht Belt">Borscht Belt</a>", also doing warm-ups for the headline performers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-war">Post-war</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Post-war"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Murray_the_K" title="Special:EditPage/Murray the K">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2010</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he worked in public relations and as a <a href="/wiki/Song_plugger" title="Song plugger">song plugger</a>, helping to promote tunes like <a href="/wiki/Bob_Merrill" title="Bob Merrill">Bob Merrill</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/(How_Much_Is)_That_Doggie_in_the_Window%3F" title="(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?">(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?</a>." From there, he worked as a radio producer and co-host at <a href="/wiki/WMCA_(AM)" title="WMCA (AM)">WMCA</a> (and briefly thereafter at <a href="/wiki/WNYM" title="WNYM">WAAT</a>), working with personalities such as <a href="/wiki/Laraine_Day" title="Laraine Day">Laraine Day</a> on the late night interview program <i>Day at Night</i> and with <a href="/wiki/Eva_Gabor" title="Eva Gabor">Eva Gabor</a>. At the same time, he was doing promotion for several baseball players, including <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Mantle" title="Mickey Mantle">Mickey Mantle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Willie_Mays" title="Willie Mays">Willie Mays</a>, and his radio beginnings may be attributable to his connection with the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a>, whose manager, <a href="/wiki/Leo_Durocher" title="Leo Durocher">Leo Durocher</a>, was the husband of Laraine Day. His work on those shows earned him his own late-night show that often featured his wife as co-host, as was popular at the time. For a while in the 1950s he was president of the National Conference of Disk Jockeys. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deejay:_from_AM_to_FM">Deejay: from AM to FM</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Deejay: from AM to FM"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""This_meeting_of_the_Swingin'_Soiree_is_now_in_session!""><span id=".22This_meeting_of_the_Swingin.27_Soiree_is_now_in_session.21.22"></span>"This meeting of the Swingin' Soiree is now in session!"</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: "This meeting of the Swingin' Soiree is now in session!""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Murrayfanclub.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1b/Murrayfanclub.jpg/250px-Murrayfanclub.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="231" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/Murrayfanclub.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="308" data-file-height="324" /></a><figcaption>Murray the K Fan Club promo, c. 1960</figcaption></figure> <p>Kaufman's big break came in 1958 after he moved to <a href="/wiki/WINS_(AM)" title="WINS (AM)">WINS</a>/1010 to do the all-night show, which he titled <i>The Swingin' Soiree</i>. Shortly after his arrival, WINS's high-energy star disc jockey, <a href="/wiki/Alan_Freed" title="Alan Freed">Alan Freed</a>, was indicted for tax evasion and forced off the air. Though Freed's spot was briefly occupied by <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Morrow" title="Bruce Morrow">Bruce Morrow</a>, who later became known as Cousin Brucie on <a href="/wiki/WABC_(AM)" title="WABC (AM)">WABC</a>, Murray was soon moved into the 7–11 pm time period and remained there for the next seven years, always opening his show with Sinatra and making radio history with his innovative segues, jingles, sound effects, antics, and frenetic, creative programming. Jeff Rice, writing in <i>M/C Journal</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> says that <a href="/wiki/Tom_Wolfe" title="Tom Wolfe">Tom Wolfe</a> calls Murray "the original hysterical disk jockey".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""The_Fifth_Beatle""><span id=".22The_Fifth_Beatle.22"></span>"The Fifth Beatle"</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: "The Fifth Beatle""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Murray the K reached his peak of popularity in the mid-1960s when, as the top-rated radio host in New York City, he became an early and ardent supporter and friend of <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a>. When the Beatles came to New York on February 7, 1964, Murray was the first DJ they welcomed into their circle, having heard about him and his Brooklyn Fox shows from American groups such as the <a href="/wiki/Ronettes" class="mw-redirect" title="Ronettes">Ronettes</a> (sisters <a href="/wiki/Ronnie_Spector" title="Ronnie Spector">Ronnie</a> and <a href="/wiki/Estelle_Bennett" title="Estelle Bennett">Estelle Bennett</a> and their first cousin <a href="/wiki/Nedra_Talley" title="Nedra Talley">Nedra Talley</a>). The Ronettes met the Beatles in mid-January 1964, just a few weeks before, when the Harlem-born trio first toured England (the <a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones">Rolling Stones</a> were the group's opening act). The Beatles and Decca Records (distributor of Philles Records, the Ronettes' American label) jointly threw the Ronettes a welcome party in London. When the band arrived in New York, Murray was invited by Brian Epstein to spend time with the group, and Murray persuaded his radio station (WINS) to let him broadcast his prime time show from the Beatles' Plaza Hotel suite. He subsequently accompanied the band to Washington, D.C. for their first American concert, was backstage at their <i><a href="/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show" title="The Ed Sullivan Show">The Ed Sullivan Show</a></i> premiere, and roomed with Beatles guitarist <a href="/wiki/George_Harrison" title="George Harrison">George Harrison</a> in Miami, broadcasting his nightly radio shows from his hotel room there. </p><p>Murray came to be referred to as the "<a href="/wiki/Fifth_Beatle" title="Fifth Beatle">Fifth Beatle</a>", a moniker he said he was given by Harrison during the train ride to the Beatles' first concert in Washington, D.C. or by <a href="/wiki/Ringo_Starr" title="Ringo Starr">Ringo Starr</a> at a press conference before that concert. (However, in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles:_The_First_U.S._Visit" title="The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit">The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit</a></i> he is seen christening himself thus in a phone conversation with the Beatles on the morning of their arrival in New York.) His radio station WINS picked up on the name and billed him as the Fifth Beatle, a moniker he came to regret.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He was invited to the set of <i><a href="/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_(film)" title="A Hard Day's Night (film)">A Hard Day's Night</a></i> in England and made several treks to England during 1964, giving WINS listeners more Beatle exclusives.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_move_to_FM">The move to FM</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The move to FM"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Ronettes_and_Murray_the_K.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/The_Ronettes_and_Murray_the_K.jpg/220px-The_Ronettes_and_Murray_the_K.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/The_Ronettes_and_Murray_the_K.jpg/330px-The_Ronettes_and_Murray_the_K.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/The_Ronettes_and_Murray_the_K.jpg/440px-The_Ronettes_and_Murray_the_K.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1282" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption>Murray the K and <a href="/wiki/The_Ronettes" title="The Ronettes">the Ronettes</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In December 1964, Murray announced his intention to resign from WINS on the air, breaking the news that the station had been sold and would soon switch to an all-news format. He did his last show on February 27, before the format change in April 1965. A year later, in 1966, the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission">Federal Communications Commission</a> (FCC) ruled that AM and FM radio stations could no longer simultaneously broadcast the same content. This enabled Murray to become program director and primetime DJ on <a href="/wiki/WOR-FM" class="mw-redirect" title="WOR-FM">WOR-FM</a>, 98.7—one of the first FM rock stations, soon airing such DJs as <a href="/wiki/William_(Rosko)_Mercer" title="William (Rosko) Mercer">Rosko</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scott_Muni" title="Scott Muni">Scott Muni</a> in the new FM format. Murray played long album cuts rather than singles, often playing groups of songs by one artist, or thematically linked songs, uninterrupted by commercials. He combined live in-studio interviews with folk-rock—he called it "attitude music"—and all forms of popular music in a free-form format. He played artists such as <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Janis_Ian" title="Janis Ian">Janis Ian</a> and the long, album versions of their songs that came to be known as the "FM cuts". <a href="/wiki/Al_Aronowitz" title="Al Aronowitz">Al Aronowitz</a> quotes Murray as saying about this formula, "You didn't have to hype the record any more. The music was speaking for itself."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dylan">Dylan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Dylan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Murray championed <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Dylan</a> after his much-maligned decision to <a href="/wiki/Electric_Dylan_controversy" title="Electric Dylan controversy">go electric</a>. He introduced him to boos at a huge <a href="/wiki/West_Side_Tennis_Club#Forest_Hills_Stadium" title="West Side Tennis Club">Forest Hills Tennis Stadium</a> concert in August 1965, saying, "It's not rock, it's not folk, it's a new thing called Dylan."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He defended Dylan on a <a href="/wiki/WABC-TV" title="WABC-TV">WABC-TV</a> panel. Wrote the <i><a href="/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post" title="The Saturday Evening Post">Saturday Evening Post</a></i>: "Even in his months of seclusion after the motorcycle accident, WABC-TV dedicated a television show to a discussion of what Bob Dylan was really like. When one member of the panel accused Dylan of all but inventing juvenile delinquency, there was only Murray the K to defend him. 'Is Bob Dylan every kid's father?' Murray asked."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Last_years_in_radio">Last years in radio</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Last years in radio"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>WOR-FM switched to the tighter and hit-oriented <a href="/wiki/Bill_Drake" title="Bill Drake">Drake format</a>, in which DJs weren't allowed to pick the music and talk as much, so Murray the K left New York radio in August 1967 to host programs in <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a>—on <a href="/wiki/CHUM-FM" title="CHUM-FM">CHUM</a>—and on <a href="/wiki/WHFS_(historic)" title="WHFS (historic)">WHFS</a> 102.3 FM in <a href="/wiki/Bethesda,_Maryland" title="Bethesda, Maryland">Bethesda, Maryland</a>, in 1972. He returned to New York after his short stint on WHFS on the weekend show <a href="/wiki/Monitor_(NBC_Radio)" class="mw-redirect" title="Monitor (NBC Radio)">NBC Monitor</a> and as a fill-in morning DJ, and then in 1972 moved to a regular evening weekend program on <a href="/wiki/WFAN_(AM)" title="WFAN (AM)">WNBC</a> radio where <a href="/wiki/Don_Imus" title="Don Imus">Don Imus</a> was broadcasting; he was joined there by the legendary <a href="/wiki/Wolfman_Jack" title="Wolfman Jack">Wolfman Jack</a>, a year later. Although it was low-key, Murray's WNBC show featured his innovative trademark programming style, including telling stories that were illustrated by selected songs, his unique segues, and his pairing cuts by theme or idiosyncratic associations.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In early 1975, he was brought on for a brief stint at Long Island <a href="/wiki/Progressive_rock" title="Progressive rock">progressive rock</a> station <a href="/wiki/WLIR" title="WLIR">WLIR</a>, and his final New York radio show ran later that year on <a href="/wiki/WINS-FM" title="WINS-FM">WKTU</a> after which—already in ill health—he moved to <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>. The syndicated show Soundtrack of the '60s mentioned below was heard in New York City on WCBS-FM. <a href="/wiki/Gary_Owens" title="Gary Owens">Gary Owens</a> succeeded Murray as its host. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Brooklyn_Fox_shows">Brooklyn Fox shows</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Brooklyn Fox shows"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444" /><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Murray_the_K" title="Special:EditPage/Murray the K">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2010</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Throughout his New York radio career, Kaufman produced multi-racial rock 'n' roll shows three or four times a year, usually during the Easter school recess, the week before Labor Day, and between Christmas and New Year at the Brooklyn Fox Theater on 20 <a href="/wiki/Flatbush_Avenue" title="Flatbush Avenue">Flatbush Avenue</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Those shows featured the top performers of the era and introduced new acts, such as <a href="/wiki/The_Delicates" title="The Delicates">The Delicates</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dionne_Warwick" title="Dionne Warwick">Dionne Warwick</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Shirelles" title="The Shirelles">The Shirelles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Jackson" title="Chuck Jackson">Chuck Jackson</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Zombies" title="The Zombies">The Zombies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Little_Anthony_and_the_Imperials" title="Little Anthony and the Imperials">Little Anthony and the Imperials</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ronettes" class="mw-redirect" title="Ronettes">Ronettes</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Shangri-Las" class="mw-redirect" title="Shangri-Las">Shangri-Las</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gene_Pitney" title="Gene Pitney">Gene Pitney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ben_E._King" title="Ben E. King">Ben E. King</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Tymes" title="The Tymes">The Tymes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Smokey_Robinson_%26_The_Miracles" class="mw-redirect" title="Smokey Robinson & The Miracles">Smokey Robinson & The Miracles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Vinton" title="Bobby Vinton">Bobby Vinton</a> (who was the leader of the house band when he asked for a chance to perform as a singer). In 1967, the show moved to the RKO 58th St. theater in Manhattan for a 9-day stint and was called "Music in the Fifth Dimension". It featured both traditional rock acts and some of the new progressive rock acts, including <a href="/wiki/Cream_(band)" title="Cream (band)">Cream</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who">The Who</a>, Phil Ochs, Simon & Garfunkel, Mitch Ryder, the Young Rascals and The Blues Project, among others. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Records,_television,_stage,_and_syndication"><span id="Records.2C_television.2C_stage.2C_and_syndication"></span>Records, television, stage, and syndication</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Records, television, stage, and syndication"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Throughout his radio career, from the 1950s through the 1970s, Murray also released numerous LP record albums, often compilations of hits by the acts that appeared in his famous Brooklyn Fox shows. These albums frequently had names such as <i>Murray the K's Blasts from the Past</i> or <i>Murray the K's Sing Along with the Original Golden Gassers</i>. He also released two albums of shows recorded live from the Brooklyn Fox Theatre: <i>Murray the K's Holiday Revue</i> (1964) and <i>Greatest Holiday Revue</i> (1966), combined on the two-record set <i>Live as it Happened</i> (1976). </p><p>"Meusurray" (named after a <a href="/wiki/Language_game" title="Language game">language game</a> Murray invented and based on a technique used by carnival barkers to attract a crowd was a regular shtick on his 1010 WINS radio show)<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was a single by the girl group <a href="/wiki/The_Delicates" title="The Delicates">The Delicates</a>, released on the United Artists label. <a href="/wiki/The_Delicates" title="The Delicates">The Delicates</a> were Denise Ferri, Arleen Lanzotti and Peggy Santiglia ("Murray's Original Dancing Girls") They wrote the song which was arranged by Don Costa. <a href="/wiki/The_Delicates" title="The Delicates">The Delicates</a> also wrote and recorded his "Submarine Race Watcher" theme, used to open and close his radio show. It was during the "twist craze" that Kaufman introduced a song sung by an unidentified artist named, "The Lone Twister", which in fact was Murray. </p><p>In the mid-1960s, Murray also produced and hosted television variety shows featuring rock performers. The best known was a national broadcast entitled <i><a href="/wiki/Murray_The_K_%E2%80%93_It%27s_What%27s_Happening,_Baby" title="Murray The K – It's What's Happening, Baby">It's What's Happening, Baby</a></i> which was made under the auspices of the <a href="/wiki/Equal_Employment_Opportunity_Commission" title="Equal Employment Opportunity Commission">Equal Employment Opportunity Commission</a>. The show aired on June 28, 1965 and featured performances by many of the popular artists of the day, including <a href="/wiki/Jan_%26_Dean" class="mw-redirect" title="Jan & Dean">Jan & Dean</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Wells" title="Mary Wells">Mary Wells</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Dave_Clark_Five" title="The Dave Clark Five">the Dave Clark Five</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Supremes" title="The Supremes">The Supremes</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Drifters" title="The Drifters">The Drifters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Smokey_Robinson_%26_the_Miracles" class="mw-redirect" title="Smokey Robinson & the Miracles">Smokey Robinson & the Miracles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marvin_Gaye" title="Marvin Gaye">Marvin Gaye</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Ronettes" title="The Ronettes">The Ronettes</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Righteous_Brothers" title="The Righteous Brothers">The Righteous Brothers</a>. He also ran shows with <a href="/wiki/British_Invasion" title="British Invasion">British Invasion</a> bands that included <a href="/wiki/The_Zombies" title="The Zombies">The Zombies</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds">The Yardbirds</a> (who featured both Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page of <a href="/wiki/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a> fame, on guitar). That show also introduced the first music video-style programming, pre-dating <a href="/wiki/MTV" title="MTV">MTV</a> by 15 years.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1966, Murray collaborated with media art collective <a href="/wiki/USCO" title="USCO">USCO</a> to design and produce the psychedelic multimedia event <i>The World</i>, which took place in the <a href="/wiki/Roosevelt_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="Roosevelt Field">Roosevelt Field</a> abandoned airplane hangar in <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a> and was dubbed the first discotheque.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuo2008_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuo2008-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Chapman2016_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chapman2016-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Stern2001p87_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stern2001p87-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Live and recorded music played while slides and film were projected onto the crowd. Music acts that performed included <a href="/wiki/The_Young_Rascals" class="mw-redirect" title="The Young Rascals">The Young Rascals</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Hollies" title="The Hollies">The Hollies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Del_Shannon" title="Del Shannon">Del Shannon</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Isley_Brothers" title="The Isley Brothers">The Isley Brothers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mitch_Ryder_and_the_Detroit_Wheels" class="mw-redirect" title="Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels">Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Chapman2016_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chapman2016-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The World</i> was featured on the cover of <i><a href="/wiki/Life_(magazine)" title="Life (magazine)">Life</a></i> magazine in May 1966.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuo2008_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuo2008-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1967, Murray produced and wrote "Murray the K in New York" which expanded on the music video-style approach he began in <i>It's What's Happening, Baby</i> and featured an eclectic line-up of stars, including <a href="/wiki/The_Doors" title="The Doors">The Doors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Otis_Redding" title="Otis Redding">Otis Redding</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aretha_Franklin" title="Aretha Franklin">Aretha Franklin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spanky_%26_Our_Gang" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanky & Our Gang">Spanky & Our Gang</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_Four_Tops" class="mw-redirect" title="The Four Tops">The Four Tops</a> with guest appearances by <a href="/wiki/Ed_Sullivan" title="Ed Sullivan">Ed Sullivan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Namath" title="Joe Namath">Joe Namath</a>. </p><p>Other locally broadcast shows from the period included "Murray the K at Shea" with <a href="/wiki/James_Brown" title="James Brown">James Brown</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_(band)" title="The Four Seasons (band)">The Four Seasons</a> and "Music in the Year 2000." </p><p>In 1968, Murray produced and hosted a studio panel discussion program entitled "The Sound is Now"; it included appearances by <a href="/wiki/Phil_Ochs" title="Phil Ochs">Phil Ochs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sonny_and_Cher" class="mw-redirect" title="Sonny and Cher">Sonny and Cher</a> who were grilled by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Morgan" title="Henry Morgan">Henry Morgan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tex_McCrary" title="Tex McCrary">Tex McCrary</a>. </p><p>During the early 1970s, Murray acted as a special consultant to the stage show <i><a href="/wiki/Beatlemania_(musical)" title="Beatlemania (musical)">Beatlemania</a></i>, and he toured the country giving interviews on behalf of the show. </p><p>In Los Angeles in the late 1970s he hosted <a href="/wiki/Watermark_Inc." title="Watermark Inc.">Watermark</a>'s syndicated <i>Soundtrack of the '60s</i> until ill health forced him to resign and forced the cancellation of <i>A Salute to Murray the K</i>, a tribute concert slated for <a href="/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden" title="Madison Square Garden">Madison Square Garden</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Film">Film</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444" /><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Murray_the_K" title="Special:EditPage/Murray the K">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2010</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Kaufman was parodied in the film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rutles" title="The Rutles">The Rutles</a></i> – <i><a href="/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Cash" title="All You Need Is Cash">All You Need Is Cash</a></i> as a radio host named <i>Bill</i> Murray the K, played by actor <a href="/wiki/Bill_Murray" title="Bill Murray">Bill Murray</a>. Kaufman appeared as a guest star on the 1960s television series <i><a href="/wiki/Coronet_Blue" title="Coronet Blue">Coronet Blue</a></i> and also appeared as himself in the film <i><a href="/wiki/I_Wanna_Hold_Your_Hand_(film)" title="I Wanna Hold Your Hand (film)">I Wanna Hold Your Hand</a></i>. He also appeared in the 1975 film <i><a href="/wiki/That%27s_the_Way_of_the_World" title="That's the Way of the World">That's the Way of the World</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family_and_death">Family and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Family and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was married six times and had three sons, Peter (Altschuler), Jeff and Keith. His first wife, Anna May, died in childbirth. He was married to his second, Toni, for three years; his third, Beverly, for three months; his fourth, Claire, for about nine years in the 1950s; his fifth, Jackie Hayes (called "Jackie the K"), from January 1960 until September 1978; and finally, his sixth, actress <a href="/wiki/Jacklyn_Zeman" title="Jacklyn Zeman">Jackie Zeman</a>, for just one year, although they were together for seven years before marrying. </p><p>Kaufman died of <a href="/wiki/Cancer" title="Cancer">cancer</a> a week after his 60th birthday on February 21, 1982.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He shares writing credit with his mother and <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Darin" title="Bobby Darin">Bobby Darin</a> for Darin's breakout song, "<a href="/wiki/Splish_Splash_(song)" title="Splish Splash (song)">Splish Splash</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Beginning in 1960, Kaufman's rock 'n' roll shows at the Brooklyn Paramount theater (as co-host with <a href="/wiki/Clay_Cole" title="Clay Cole">Clay Cole</a>), Manhattan's Academy of Music theater on 14th Street and, predominantly, the Brooklyn Fox theater provided an inter-racial environment in which the performers and the audiences both thrived. The week-long, three-shows-a-day presentations continued throughout the most explosive periods of civil rights unrest in the mid-'60s, culminating in Kaufman's final show at the Brooklyn Fox Theater with a line-up that included The Who and Cream in their American debuts. </p><p>Murray was the author of a 1966 book, <i>Murray the K Tells It Like It Is, Baby</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kaufman was program director and primetime evening DJ on the nation's first FM rock station <a href="/wiki/WOR-FM" class="mw-redirect" title="WOR-FM">WOR-FM</a>, changing the way in which radio listeners heard rock music. During the short run of progressive rock programming – the station switched to an oldies format within the first year – listeners would have been able to hear the full, album versions of songs including "<a href="/wiki/Like_A_Rolling_Stone" class="mw-redirect" title="Like A Rolling Stone">Like A Rolling Stone</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Society%27s_Child" title="Society's Child">Society's Child</a>" which were either played in shorter versions on AM radio or not played at all. </p><p>He is mentioned in the 1980 <a href="/wiki/The_Ramones" class="mw-redirect" title="The Ramones">Ramones</a> song "<a href="/wiki/Do_You_Remember_Rock_%27n%27_Roll_Radio%3F" title="Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?">Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?</a>" as well as "<a href="/w/index.php?title=Who_Will_Save_Rock_%27n%27_Roll&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Who Will Save Rock 'n' Roll (page does not exist)">Who Will Save Rock 'n' Roll</a>" by <a href="/wiki/The_Dictators" title="The Dictators">the Dictators</a>. He is also mentioned in "<a href="/wiki/Life_Is_a_Rock_(But_the_Radio_Rolled_Me)" title="Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)">Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)</a>" by Reunion. </p><p>A recording of Murray the K introducing the band <a href="/wiki/Devo" title="Devo">Devo</a> appears on their live compilation <i><a href="/wiki/DEVO_Live:_The_Mongoloid_Years" class="mw-redirect" title="DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years">DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years</a></i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Murray the K introduced Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band as the band took the stage on November 4, 1976 in New York City.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>He was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/National_Radio_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="National Radio Hall of Fame">National Radio Hall of Fame</a> in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recordings_made_by_Murray_Kaufman">Recordings made by Murray Kaufman</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Recordings made by Murray Kaufman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>April 1955: Fraternity F-714 "The Crazy Otto Rag" as by Ludwig Von Kaufman/"Out Of The Bushes" as by Murray Kaufman (made while a DJ at WMCA)</li> <li>1959: Murray Kaufman Part 1/Part 2 (Part 1 is a 1010WINS radio jingle item featuring Murray and <a href="/wiki/The_Delicates" title="The Delicates">the Delicates</a> and his themes; Part 2 is his "Ah, Bey, ah bey, koowi zowa zowa" chant, along with an explanation of its meaning.) The chant was lifted intact from a Thomas J. Valentino music library recording (on the Major Records label) entitled "African Drums With Native Chants" on the A side and "Drums (African)", "Native Work Chant (African)", and "Native Choral Chant (African)" on the B side.</li> <li>1961: Atlantic 2130 "The Lone Twister"/"Twistin' Up A Storm" as by The Lone Twister</li> <li>1965: Red Bird 10-045 "It's What's Happenin, Baby"/"The Sins Of A Family" as by 'Murray the "K"'. (The B side was a <a href="/wiki/P._F._Sloan" title="P. F. Sloan">P. F. Sloan</a> song.)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFRice2001" class="citation journal cs1">Rice, Jeff (2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.5204%2Fmcj.1903">"They Put Me in the Mix: William S. Burroughs, DJs, and The New Cultural Studies"</a>. <i>M/C Journal</i>. <b>4</b> (2). <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.5204%2Fmcj.1903">10.5204/mcj.1903</a></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=M%2FC+Journal&rft.atitle=They+Put+Me+in+the+Mix%3A+William+S.+Burroughs%2C+DJs%2C+and+The+New+Cultural+Studies&rft.volume=4&rft.issue=2&rft.date=2001&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.5204%2Fmcj.1903&rft.aulast=Rice&rft.aufirst=Jeff&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.5204%252Fmcj.1903&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMurray+the+K" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Quoted by Rice as from Wolfe's 1965 book <i><a href="/wiki/The_Kandy-Kolored_Tangerine-Flake_Streamline_Baby" title="The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby">The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby</a></i> (New York: Pocket Books, 1965).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Read a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://beatles.ncf.ca/murrayk.html">late 70s interview with Murray</a>, conducted by Martin A. Grove; published in his book <i>Beatle Madness</i>, (Manor, 1978) for more on Murray and the Beatles.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Al_Aronowitz" title="Al Aronowitz">Al Aronowitz</a>, "The Fifth Beatle, or Everyone Hated Murray", Column 18 of <i>The Blacklisted Journalist</i> February 1, 1997.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bobdylan.com/etc/peterstonebrown2.html">Peter Stone Brown, "You Only Had to Feel Them"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070703110530/http://www.bobdylan.com/etc/peterstonebrown2.html">Archived</a> 2007-07-03 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.punkhart.com/dylan/tapes/65-aug28.html">this description of the Forest Hills concert</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Bob Dylan: Rebel King of Rock 'n' Roll", <i><a href="/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post" title="The Saturday Evening Post">The Saturday Evening Post</a></i>, 30 July 1966</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a href="/wiki/Paul_Levinson" title="Paul Levinson">Paul Levinson</a>, "Murray the K in Nostalgia's Noose", <i>The Village Voice</i>, October 26, 1972.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFCascioGabel2011" class="citation web cs1">Cascio, J.; Gabel, W. (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/602">"Fox Theatre, 20 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Cinema_Treasures" title="Cinema Treasures">Cinema Treasures</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Cinema+Treasures&rft.atitle=Fox+Theatre%2C+20+Flatbush+Avenue%2C+Brooklyn%2C+NY&rft.date=2011&rft.aulast=Cascio&rft.aufirst=J.&rft.au=Gabel%2C+W.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fcinematreasures.org%2Ftheaters%2F602&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMurray+the+K" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFong-Torres2001" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Ben_Fong-Torres" title="Ben Fong-Torres">Fong-Torres, Ben</a> (2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8qreFRzhjyIC&pg=PA136"><i>The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio</i></a>. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 136. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87930-664-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87930-664-9"><bdi>978-0-87930-664-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Hits+Just+Keep+on+Coming%3A+The+History+of+Top+40+Radio&rft.pages=136&rft.pub=Hal+Leonard+Corporation&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=978-0-87930-664-9&rft.aulast=Fong-Torres&rft.aufirst=Ben&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D8qreFRzhjyIC%26pg%3DPA136&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMurray+the+K" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Kuo2008-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Kuo2008_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Kuo2008_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKuo2008" class="citation magazine cs1">Kuo, Michelle (May 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www4.uwm.edu/c21/conferences/2008since1968/kuo_special.pdf">"Special Effects: Michelle Kuo Speaks With Michael Callahan About USCO"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Artforum" title="Artforum">Artforum</a></i>. pp. <span class="nowrap">133–</span>136.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Artforum&rft.atitle=Special+Effects%3A+Michelle+Kuo+Speaks+With+Michael+Callahan+About+USCO&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E133-%3C%2Fspan%3E136&rft.date=2008-05&rft.aulast=Kuo&rft.aufirst=Michelle&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww4.uwm.edu%2Fc21%2Fconferences%2F2008since1968%2Fkuo_special.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMurray+the+K" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Chapman2016-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Chapman2016_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Chapman2016_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFChapman2016" class="citation book cs1">Chapman, Rob (10 May 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=etmCCgAAQBAJ"><i>Psychedelia and Other Colours</i></a>. New York: Faber & Faber. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0571282005" title="Special:BookSources/978-0571282005"><bdi>978-0571282005</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Psychedelia+and+Other+Colours&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Faber+%26+Faber&rft.date=2016-05-10&rft.isbn=978-0571282005&rft.aulast=Chapman&rft.aufirst=Rob&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DetmCCgAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMurray+the+K" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Stern2001p87-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Stern2001p87_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFStern2001" class="citation web cs1">Stern, Gerd (2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=kt409nb28g&brand=oac&doc.view=entire_text">"Oral History: From Beat Scene Poet to Psychedelic Multimedia Artist in San Francisco and Beyond, 1948-1978"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Bancroft_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="The Bancroft Library">The Bancroft Library</a>. p. 87.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Oral+History%3A+From+Beat+Scene+Poet+to+Psychedelic+Multimedia+Artist+in+San+Francisco+and+Beyond%2C+1948-1978&rft.pages=87&rft.pub=The+Bancroft+Library&rft.date=2001&rft.aulast=Stern&rft.aufirst=Gerd&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fcontent.cdlib.org%2Fxtf%2Fview%3FdocId%3Dkt409nb28g%26brand%3Doac%26doc.view%3Dentire_text&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMurray+the+K" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130131152832/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/663342072.html?dids=663342072:663342072&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Feb+23,+1982&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Fifth+Beatle,+'Murray+the+K,'+Dies&pqatl=google">"Fifth Beatle, 'Murray the K,' Dies"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i>. February 23, 1982. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/663342072.html?dids=663342072:663342072&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Feb+23,+1982&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Fifth+Beatle,+%27Murray+the+K,%27+Dies&pqatl=google">the original</a> on January 31, 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2010-09-18</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=Fifth+Beatle%2C+%27Murray+the+K%2C%27+Dies&rft.date=1982-02-23&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fpqasb.pqarchiver.com%2Flatimes%2Faccess%2F663342072.html%3Fdids%3D663342072%3A663342072%26FMT%3DABS%26FMTS%3DABS%3AAI%26type%3Dhistoric%26date%3DFeb%2B23%2C%2B1982%26author%3D%26pub%3DLos%2BAngeles%2BTimes%26desc%3DFifth%2BBeatle%2C%2B%2527Murray%2Bthe%2BK%2C%2527%2BDies%26pqatl%3Dgoogle&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMurray+the+K" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Murray's mother Jean suggested that "Splish Splash I was taking a bath" would be a good first line for a song. Bobby Darin and Murray wrote the lyrics; Murray's mother wrote most of the music. The song was credited to "Bobby Darin and Jean Murray" to avoid any possible suggestion of <a href="/wiki/Payola" title="Payola">payola</a> if the song became a hit. (Story told at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1820">http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1820</a> and retold in slightly different versions elsewhere.)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Murray Kaufman, <i>Murray the K Tells It Like It Is, Baby</i> with forewords by <a href="/wiki/Tony_Bennett" title="Tony Bennett">Tony Bennett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sybil_Burton" class="mw-redirect" title="Sybil Burton">Sybil Burton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tucker_Frederickson" title="Tucker Frederickson">Tucker Frederickson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/George_Harrison" title="George Harrison">George Harrison</a> (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.radiohof.org/murray_kaufman.htm">"Murray "The K" Kaufman"</a>. National Radio Hall Of Fame. 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 9,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Murray+%22The+K%22+Kaufman&rft.pub=National+Radio+Hall+Of+Fame&rft.date=2017&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiohof.org%2Fmurray_kaufman.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMurray+the+K" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_the_K&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20011124103455/http://www.1960sailors.net/05b_Murray_the_K.htm">Another blast from the past: "Swingin' Soiree"</a><sup><a href="/wiki/Template:Usurped/doc" title="Template:Usurped/doc">[usurped]</a></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reelradio.com/mk/">The Murray the K Collection</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.murraythek.com/">Murray the K Official site</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul 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