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Dan "Danny" Neaverth (born c. 1938) is an American disc jockey and television personality from Buffalo, New York. He is best known for a run of over 40 years as a morning disc jockey in Buffalo, including 25 years at heritage top-40 and oldies station WKBW/WWKB and another 15 years at oldies/classic hits WHTT-FM. ==Radio career== Neaverth began his career at WFRM in Coudersport, Pennsylvania in 1957, where he served as afternoon jock.〔(Neaverth traces radio career from Coudersport to Hall of Fame ). Olean Times Herald. 21 July 2007.〕 In 1959, he went to WDOE and then on to WBNY in Buffalo, the city's first rock and roll station. By 1961, WKBW had lured him to host the afternoon drive time slot, but very shortly he would become the station's morning host. Becoming known for the tagline "Danny moves your fanny in the morning!" and the catch phrase "I got up early so I could be the first kid on the block to say good morning to you" among many others, Neaverth spent 26 years at WKBW through top 40, adult contemporary and oldies formats before an ownership change and a format change to talk radio led to his termination in the late 1980s. During his time in Buffalo, he co-recorded a comedy record, "Rats in my Room" (an expanded and rearranged cover of a Leona Anderson song) along with fellow WKBW jock Joey Reynolds, that was a regional hit, in 1963. Neaverth, on behalf of WKBW, was offered the chance to bring The Beatles to Buffalo Memorial Auditorium on February 10, 1964, the day after the band had appeared on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. It would have been the Beatles' first concert in North America. Neaverth, not willing to risk the $3500 appearance fee for a Monday night concert, in the poor February weather, for an unproven band he did not expect to sell out the auditorium, declined the offer. It was not until after Beatlemania swept the nation that Neaverth acknowledged that his move was a mistake, as the city would never again have the opportunity to bring the Beatles to Buffalo and it would be over five decades before Beatles co-founder Paul McCartney would perform in the city.〔Brown, Scott (February 8, 2012). (The Beatles in Buffalo? It almost happened! ). ''WGRZ''. Retrieved February 9, 2012.〕 His absence from radio in the late 1980s was short-lived, as he would quickly find his way to WHTT-FM, which was launching an oldies format of its own. Neaverth spent another decade at WHTT, again as morning jock, until being dismissed in a cost-cutting move in 2002. Shortly thereafter, he came out of retirement for another three year stretch at a revived "WKBW," where he (along with the oldies format in general) quadrupled the station's Arbitron ratings.〔Violanti, Anthony. ''War coverage gives WBEN a boost.'' The Buffalo News. 30 January 2003. "WWKB-AM 1520 had a positive response for its return to an oldies format. The station tripled its overall rating to a 1.5 from a .5. Dan Neaverth was the big reason for KB's rise. The veteran local broadcaster, who had been off the air for almost a year, posted a 2.0 morning rating, up from KB's .5 in the last book. Although those numbers are low, they are the best for KB in recent memory."〕 After three years, WWKB's owner decided to pull the plug on oldies again, and Neaverth is once again in retirement. Neaverth is a member of the Buffalo Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame and the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Danny Neaverth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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