Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson (a.k.a. Frank Coxe and Jungle Jay Nelson) (Born July 12, 1936, died February 18, 1994) spent most of his career in radio, although he did a brief stint on television in the early 1960s. He was married twice and had four children.

He started in radio at WRIT in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1955. He then moved on to WARM in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1956; WHLO in Akron, Ohio in 1957; and WBNY in Buffalo, New York in 1960. He switched briefly to television, appearing on WKBW-TV, also in Buffalo, where he hosted an afternoon children's show in 1963.

On this show he appeared wearing a pith helmet and a "faux" leopard-skin costume, often working with a chimpanzee. It was at this time that he took the professional name Jungle Jay Nelson, a name that stuck for the rest of his career.

In the fall of 1963, CHUM radio was looking for a new morning host. It has been reported that Irene Ryan also auditioned for this position. However, CHUM selected Jay Nelson for the job.

From May 27, 1957 until June 6, 1986, CHUM printed a weekly list of top songs and distributed it through local record stores. Jay Nelson's picture first appeared on the cover of a CHUM Chart in issue Number 351 on Monday, December 2, 1963. By coincidence, the first Beatles song ever to appear on a CHUM Chart, "She Loves You", was listed at position 42 in that very same issue. However, Jay Nelson did not actually start working at CHUM until the following Monday, December 9 and the Beatles did not appear on the Ed Sullivan Show that made them famous until February 9, 1964.

Jay Nelson remained at CHUM for the next 17 years, leaving in 1980. He briefly worked as a weatherman at CITY-TV, a television station owned by CHUM Ltd.

He returned to radio at CKFM-FM from 1982 to 1985; became CHFI morning man on August 1, 1985; switched to CHUM's old rival CKEY in May, 1986; and then moved to rival CJEZ as morning host from May, 1987 until August, 1990.

Other odd jobs he held were as:

* Weatherman City-TV - Toronto
* Maître d' at The Daily Planet - Toronto
* Operations manager at CKAN in Newmarket, Ontario
* Teacher at Toronto's National Institute of Broadcasting

External links

* [http://www.factbites.com/topics/CJEZ Factbites: CJEZ and Jay Nelson]
* [http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~rockwood/airchexo.html The Rockwood Aircheck Files: Jay Nelson]
* [http://rockradioscrapbook.ca/air1973.html Rock Radio Scrapbook: Airchecks: 1973]
* [http://rockradioscrapbook.ca/air86-90.html Rock Radio Scrapbook: Airchecks: 1986-1990]
* [http://rockradioscrapbook.ca/stations.html Toronto radio: A look back]
* [http://www.reelradio.com/haber/chum.html The Dan Haber Collection]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Club/7400/chum1050.html CHUM 1050]
* [http://www.cruisinthe60s.com/chum.htm CHUM Music Charts]
* [http://www.1050chum.com/index_chumcharts.aspx CHUM Music Charts Archive]
* [http://www.440.com/namesn.html#_jaynel Radio People by Name]


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