On March 2, WDGY disk jockey Stanley Mack was “fired” for playing a “shock record” that management had banned.  The record was called “Dinner With Drac” by John Zacherle.  After he announced that he had been canned, the kids jammed the switchboard and called his house.  (The paper reported his St. Louis Park address the next day.)  General Manager Jack Thayer called it a “terrible record…  Mack went on the air at noon and he must have played that thing eight times in a row.  I heard it on my car radio and I just blew my stack.”  After Mack got the sack he continued to play it until Program Manager Bill Armstrong took over the program.  The March 2, 1958 Minneapolis Sunday Tribune put a good cap on the story:  “One Mack fan, a 15-year-old Sue Glad, complained to the Tribune, ‘This isn’t the first time WDGY has suppressed a song.  They never did play ‘Short Shorts.'”

WDGY jock Jim Ramsburg tells us that it was all a publicity stunt:  “If memory serves correctly, it happened on a Saturday.  I was working at the station that day – the GM, Jack Thayer, was also there and it was his idea.  Stanley Mack began playing the song repeatedly and Thayer somehow (not directly) got the word to a young reporter at the Tribune.  She came running over to the station and we all played it straight that Stan had ‘locked himself’ inside the studio.  (The studio door did have an electronic lock controlled by a switch inside the studio, but it could also be opened from the adjacent control room.)  The story wound up on the front page of Sunday’s Tribune.  On Monday a Tribune editor called Thayer and berated him for ‘taking advantage’ of the reporter and vowed that the paper would ban all mention of WDGY in its news section in the future.”