6/20/2023 0 Comments Rick by Stella Shaw![]() Rick Shaw holds the copy of The Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” he played on WQAM for the first time in Miami in early January 1964. ![]() Of course, within days, Miami was as besotted by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr as the rest of America. “Everybody’s like, ‘What? Who is that? What is that? What’s the name of it? Would you play it again?’” he said. Just BOOM!” Shaw told this reporter in an exclusive, previously unpublished interview conducted in August 1989. “I introduced it, did a little rap, ‘Hey, this is a new group from England…’ Probably 20 seconds into the record, the phone exploded. Shaw was the top-rated radio celebrity in South Florida in the 1960s, and among other accomplishments, was the first disc jockey to spin The Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in Miami in early 1964, on top-rated Top 40 station WQAM, “Tiger Radio” at 560 AM on your transistor radio dial. Miami radio legend Rick Shaw passed away at his home in Cooper City, Florida, on Friday, September 22, 2017. ![]()
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