I’ve always played a radio or TV when I went to bed which served as “white noise” to help me sleep. My older brother gave me a Hallicrafters tube radio in the late 1960s, and I ran a length ...

Robert Weston Smith, better known as radio disc jockey Wolfman Jack, goes on air during his short-lived stint at WNBC/660 AM in 1973. Credit: AP / Richard Drew ...

The daddy of them all is Wolfman Jack, the most outlandish, most thrilling and most elliptical disc jockey of the American 1960s. Immortalised in George Lucas' breakthrough movie American Graffiti, ...

Wolfman Jack was born Robert Weston Smith, in Brooklyn, New York, on January 21, 1938. As a young teenager, he would listen to the radio in his home’s basement, where he pretended to be the DJ. His ...

The Wolfman created his on-air persona at 1090, then XERB, in the early 1960s. This time around, Wolfman Jack won’t be howling at the moon late at night – he’ll be covering afternoons.