Editing Wolfman Jack

{{Short description|American DJ and music TV host (1938–1995)}}
{{About||the American blues artist|Howlin' Wolf|the Todd Rundgren song|Something/Anything?}}
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{{Infobox person
| name         = Wolfman Jack
| image        = Wolfman Jack in 1979.jpg
| image_size   = 
| caption      = Jack in 1979
| birth_name   = Robert Weston Smith
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1938|1|21|}}
| birth_place  = [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], U.S.
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1995|7|1|1938|1|21}}
| death_place  = [[Belvidere, North Carolina]], U.S.
| occupation   = {{hlist|Disc jockey|radio personality|musician|television presenter}}
| years_active = 1960–1995
| spouse       = Lucy "Lou" Lamb
| children     = 2
}}
'''Robert Weston Smith''' (January 21, 1938{{spnd}}July 1, 1995), known as '''Wolfman Jack''', was an American [[disc jockey]] active for over three decades.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Wolfman Jack, Raspy Voice Of the Radio, Is Dead at 57|first=David M.|last=Herszenhorn|date=July 2, 1995|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/02/obituaries/wolfman-jack-raspy-voice-of-the-radio-is-dead-at-57.html}}</ref> Famous for the gravelly voice which he credited for his success, saying, "It's kept meat and potatoes on the table for years for Wolfman and Wolfwoman. A couple of shots of whiskey helps it. I've got that nice raspy sound."<ref name="MRM">{{cite web |author=Bob Pinheiro |url=http://www.modestoradiomuseum.org/wolfman%20death.html |title=Wolfman Jack, pioneer disc jockey dies at 57 |publisher=Modestoradiomuseum.org |date=July 1, 1995 |access-date=August 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727091916/http://www.modestoradiomuseum.org/wolfman%20death.html |archive-date=July 27, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Early life==
{{One source section|date=February 2025}}
Smith was born in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], on January 21, 1938, the younger of two children of Anson Weston Smith, an Episcopal Sunday school teacher, writer, editor, and executive vice president of ''[[Financial World]]'', and his wife, Rosamond Small. He lived on 12th Street and 4th Avenue and went to Manual Training High School in the [[Park Slope, Brooklyn|Park Slope]] section. His parents divorced while he was a child. To help keep him out of trouble, his father bought him a large [[Trans-Oceanic]] radio, and Smith became an avid fan of R&B music and the disc jockeys who played it, including [[Jocko Henderson|Douglas "Jocko" Henderson]] of Philadelphia; New York's "Dr. Jive", [[Tommy Smalls]]; the "Moon Dog" from Cleveland, [[Alan Freed]]; and Nashville's "[[John R.]]" Richbourg, who later became his mentor. After selling [[encyclopedia]]s and [[Fuller Brush Company|Fuller brushes]] door-to-door, Smith attended the National Academy of Broadcasting in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Family tree of WOLFMAN JACK |url=https://en.geneastar.org/genealogy/smithrobert/robert-weston-smith |access-date=2023-03-12 |website=Geneanet |language=en}}</ref>

== Broadcasting career ==
After graduating from NAB in 1960, Smith began working as "Daddy Jules" at [[WPMH|WYOU]] in [[Newport News, Virginia]]. When the station format changed to "[[beautiful music]]", he became known as "Roger Gordon and Music in Good Taste". In 1962, Smith moved to country music station KCIJ/1050 in [[Shreveport, Louisiana]], as the station manager and morning disc jockey, "Big Smith with the Records". He married Lucy "Lou" Lamb in 1961, and they had two children.<ref>John A. Drobnicki, "Wolfman Jack (Robert Weston Smith)", in ''The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives'', Vol. 4 (Scribner's, 2001), p. 581.</ref>

Cleveland's Alan Freed had originally called himself the "Moon Dog" after New York City [[Busking|street musician]] [[Moondog]]. Freed both adopted this name and used a recorded howl to give his early broadcasts a unique character. Smith's adaptation of the Moondog theme was to call himself Wolfman Jack and add his own sound effects. The character was based in part on the manner and style of [[blues]]man [[Howlin' Wolf]]. At KCIJ, he first began to develop his famous alter ego, Wolfman Jack. According to author Philip A. Lieberman, Smith's "Wolfman" persona "derived from Smith's love of horror films and his shenanigans as a 'wolfman' with his two young nephews. The 'Jack' nickname was taken from the 'hipster' lingo of the 1950s, as in 'Take a page from my book, Jack', or the more popular, 'Hit the road, Jack.'"<ref>Philip A. Lieberman, ''Radio's Morning Show Personalities: Early Hour Broadcasters and Deejays from the 1920s to the 1990s'' (McFarland & Company, 1996), p. 58.</ref>

In 1963, Smith took his act to the border when Inter-American Radio Advertising's Ramon Bosquez hired him and sent him to the studio and transmitter site of [[XERF-AM]] at [[Ciudad Acuña]] in Mexico, a station across the U.S.-Mexico border from [[Del Rio, Texas]], whose high-powered [[border blaster]] signal could be picked up across much of the United States. In an interview with writer [[Tom Miller (travel writer)|Tom Miller]], Smith described the reach of the XERF signal: "We had the most powerful signal in North America. Birds dropped dead when they flew too close to the tower. A car driving from New York to L.A. would never lose the station."<ref>[[Tom Miller (travel writer)|Tom Miller]]. ''On the Border: Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier'', pp. 84–85.</ref>

Many of the Mexican border stations broadcast at 150,000 watts, three times the U.S. limit, meaning that their signals were picked up all over North America, and at night as far away as Europe and the Soviet Union. At XERF, Smith developed his signature style (with phrases such as, "Who's this on the Wolfman telephone?") and widespread fame. The border stations made money by renting time to [[Pentecostal]] preachers and psychics, and by taking 50% of the profit from anything sold by mail order. The Wolfman did pitches for dog food, weight-loss pills, weight-gain pills, rose bushes, and baby chicks. Even a pill called Florex, which was supposed to enhance one's sex drive, was sold. "Some zing for your [[Water caltrop|ling nuts]]", the Wolfman would say.<ref>Wes Smith, ''The Pied Pipers of Rock 'n' Roll'' (Longstreet Press, 1989), p. 272.</ref>

[[XEPRS-AM|XERB]] was the original call sign for the border blaster station in [[Rosarito Beach]], Mexico, which was branded as The Mighty 1090 in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], [[California]]. The station boasted "50,000 watts of Boss Soul Power". That station continues to broadcast under the call sign XEPRS-AM. XERB also had an office in the rear of a small [[strip mall]] on Third Avenue in [[Chula Vista, California]] just 10 minutes from the [[Tijuana]]–[[San Diego]] border crossing.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-08-11 |title=On Location: Cruising With 'American Graffiti' |url=https://www.npr.org/transcripts/139280283?ft=nprml&f=139280283 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=NPR |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Wolfman Jack –San Diego top 40 DJ immortalized in American Graffiti {{!}} San Diego Reader |url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1995/jul/06/ode-wolfman/ |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=www.sandiegoreader.com |language=en}}</ref> The Wolfman was rumored to actually broadcast from this location during the early to mid-1960s. Smith left Mexico after eight months and moved to [[Minneapolis]] to run station [[KDIZ (AM)|KUXL]]. Although Smith was managing a Minneapolis radio station, he was still broadcasting as Wolfman Jack on XERF via taped shows that he sent to the station.

Missing the excitement, however, Wolfman returned to border radio to run XERB, and opened an office on [[Sunset Boulevard]] in [[Los Angeles]] in January 1966. He recorded his shows in Los Angeles and shipped his tapes across the border into Mexico, where they would then be beamed across the U.S.<ref>Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford, ''Border Radio'' (Limelight Editions, 1990).</ref>

In 1971, the Mexican government, under pressure from the Roman Catholic church, banned the Pentecostal preachers from the radio, taking away 80% of XERB's revenue. Smith then moved to station [[KBLA|KDAY]] 1580 in Los Angeles, which could only pay him a fraction of his former XERB income. Smith capitalized on his fame, though, by editing his old XERB tapes and selling them to radio stations everywhere, becoming one of the first rock-and-roll [[broadcast syndication|syndicated]] programs (as the tapes began to age, they were eventually marketed to [[oldies]] stations). He also appeared on [[Armed Forces Radio]] from 1970 to 1986. At his peak, Wolfman Jack was heard on more than 2,000 radio stations in 53 countries.<ref>John A. Drobnicki, "Wolfman Jack (Robert Weston Smith)". in ''The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives'', Vol. 4 (Scribner's, 2001), p. 582.</ref> He was heard as far afield as the Wild Coast, [[Transkei]], on [[Capital Radio 604]] based there.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wildcoastradio.com/?p=647 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716045022/http://wildcoastradio.com/?p=647|url-status=dead|title=Wolfman Jack in Africa, 1980. Borderblasting in a Bantustan |date=July 16, 2012|archive-date=July 16, 2012 |access-date=September 11, 2017}}</ref>

In a deal promoted by Don Kelley, the Wolfman was paid handsomely to join [[WNBC (AM)|WNBC]] in New York in August 1973, the same month that ''[[American Graffiti]]'' premiered, and the station did a huge advertising campaign in local newspapers predicting the Wolfman would propel their ratings over those of their main competitor, [[WABC (AM)|WABC]]'s [[Cousin Brucie]] (Bruce Morrow). The advertisements proclaimed, "Cousin Brucie's Days Are Numbered / Wolfman Jack Is on the Prowl", and thousands of small, tombstone-shaped paperweights were distributed that said, "Cousin Brucie is going to be buried by Wolfman Jack".<ref>Ben Fong-Torres, ''The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio'' (Miller Freeman Books, 1998), p. 142.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/30244852 |author=Paul Levinson |author-link=Paul Levinson |title=Wolfman Hits the Road, Jack |work=The Village Voice |date=July 4, 1976 |page=34}}</ref>

After less than a year, WNBC hired Cousin Brucie, and Wolfman Jack went back to California to concentrate on his syndicated radio show, which was carried on [[KRLA]]-Pasadena (Los Angeles) from 1984 to 1987. He moved to [[Belvidere, North Carolina]], in 1989, to be closer to his extended family.<ref>James F. Mills, "Wolfman Turns into Country Gentleman: N.C. Mansion Home to Rock 'n' Roll DJ", ''Charlotte Observer'' (February 27, 1994), p. 8B.</ref> In the 1980s, he did a brief stint at [[XEROK-AM|XEROK 80]], another border-blaster station that was leased by Dallas investors Robert Hanna, Grady Sanders, and John Ryman. He also hosted a TV show at Little Darlin's Rock n' Roll Palace, which was eventually renamed Wolfman Jack's Rock'n'Roll Palace.<ref>{{Cite web|date=1988-05-21|title=Wolfman and 'Midnight': Nostalgia but No Regrets|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-21-ca-3228-story.html|access-date=2021-06-30|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref> Ryman then moved Smith to [[Scott Ginsburg]]-owned Y95 in Dallas, Texas.

Recordings of Wolfman Jack's old shows were reintroduced to syndication a decade after his death and remain available to local stations, through Talent Farm as of mid-2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/189860/the-talent-farm-adds-the-wolfman-jack-show/ | title=The Talent Farm Adds the Wolfman Jack Show|website=radioinsight.com |accessdate=December 30, 2022}}</ref> In 2024, as part of an [[oldies]] format marking its 85th anniversary, XEPRS began to carry the remastered recordings.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-11-05 |title=Wolfman Jack Is Back On A Baja California Border Blaster |url=https://radioink.com/2024/11/05/wolfman-jack-is-back-on-a-baja-california-border-blaster/ |access-date=2024-11-07 |website=Radio Ink |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2024-09-23 |title=There’s a radio station bringing ‘50s through ‘70s oldies to Southern California |url=https://www.dailynews.com/2024/09/23/theres-a-radio-station-bringing-back-oldies-to-southern-california/ |access-date=2024-11-07 |website=Daily News |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Film, television, and music career==
In his early days, Wolfman Jack made sporadic public appearances, usually as a master of ceremonies for rock bands at Los Angeles clubs. At each appearance, he looked a little different because he had not decided what the Wolfman should look like. Early pictures show him with a goatee, but sometimes he combed his straight hair forward and added dark makeup to look somewhat "ethnic." Other times he had a big [[afro]] wig and large sunglasses. The ambiguity of his race contributed to the controversy of his program. His audience finally got a good look at him when he appeared in the 1969 film ''A Session with the Committee'', a montage of skits by the comedy troupe [[The Committee (improv group)|The Committee]].

Wolfman Jack started his recording career in Minneapolis while working at KUXL Radio in 1965 with George Garrett, who helped record the album ''Boogie with the Wolfman'' by Wolfman Jack and the Wolfpack on the Bread Label. He was also responsible for engineering, producing, and assembling the band.<ref>''Minnesota Rocked'', Tom Tourville, 2nd Edition, 1983, {{LCCN|82074566}}</ref> Wolfman Jack also released ''Wolfman Jack'' (1972) and ''Through the Ages'' (1973) on the [[Wooden Nickel Records|Wooden Nickel]] label.<ref>{{cite web| last1 = Callahan| first1 = Mike| last2 = Edwards| first2 = David| last3 = Eyries| first3 = Patrice| title = Wooden Nickel Album Discography| date = October 26, 2005| url = http://www.bsnpubs.com/rca/woodennickel.html| access-date = October 3, 2009| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100113140243/http://bsnpubs.com/rca/woodennickel.html| archive-date = January 13, 2010| url-status = dead| df = mdy-all}}</ref>

In 1973, Wolfman Jack appeared as himself in [[George Lucas]]'s second feature film ''[[American Graffiti]]''. Lucas gave him a fraction of a "point", the division of the profits from a film, and the extreme financial success of ''American Graffiti'' provided him with a regular income for life. He also appeared in the film's 1979 sequel ''[[More American Graffiti]]'', though only through voice-overs. In 1978, he appeared as Bob "The Jackal" Smith in a made-for-TV movie ''[[Deadman's Curve]]'' based on the musical careers of Jan Berry and Dean Torrence of [[Jan and Dean]]. Smith appeared in several television shows as Wolfman Jack, including ''[[The Odd Couple (1970 TV series)|The Odd Couple]]'', ''[[What's Happening!!]]'', ''[[Vega$]]'', ''[[Hollywood Squares]]'', ''[[Married... with Children]]'' (his final public performance), ''[[Emergency!]]'', ''[[Wonder Woman (TV series)|The New Adventures of Wonder Woman]]'', and ''[[Galactica 1980]]''. He was the regular announcer and occasional host for ''[[The Midnight Special (TV series)|The Midnight Special]]'' on [[NBC]] from 1973 to 1981. He was the host of his variety series ''[[The Wolfman Jack Show]]'', which was produced in Canada by [[CBC Television]] in 1976 and syndicated to stations in the U.S. In 1984, Wolfman Jack starred as himself on the short-lived [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] animated series ''[[Wolf Rock TV]]''. He also voiced the chief of the Rama Lama tribe on the TV special ''[[Garfield in Paradise]]'' in 1986.

[[Jim Morrison]]'s lyrics for "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)" were influenced by Wolfman Jack's broadcasting.  His characteristic voice is imitated  by disc jockey Ken Griffin  on [[Sugarloaf (band)|Sugarloaf]]'s 1974 hit single "[[Don't Call Us, We'll Call You]]" and he is mentioned on the [[Grateful Dead]] song "Ramble On Rose".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/ramble2.html |title=The Annotated "Ramble On Rose" |publisher=Artsites.ucsc.edu |access-date=August 18, 2014}}</ref> He furnished his voice in [[The Guess Who]]'s top-10 hit single "[[Clap for the Wolfman]]". In 1976, he furnished his voice on "Did You Boogie (With Your Baby)" by [[Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids]].  Wolfman Jack was regularly parodied on ''[[The Hilarious House of Frightenstein]]'' as "The Wolfman," an actual werewolf disc jockey with a look inspired by the original ''[[The Wolf Man (1941 film)|The Wolf Man]]'' movies. A few years earlier, [[Todd Rundgren]] recorded the tribute "Wolfman Jack" on the album ''[[Something/Anything?]]''; the single version of the track includes a shouted talk-over introduction by the Wolfman, but on the album version, Rundgren performs that part himself. Canadian band [[The Stampeders]] also released a cover of "[[Hit the Road Jack]]" in 1975 featuring Wolfman Jack. From 1975 to 1980, Wolfman Jack hosted Halloween Haunt at [[Knott's Berry Farm]], which transforms itself into [[Knott's Scary Farm]] each year for Halloween. It was the most successful special event of any theme park in the country, and often sold out.<ref>Merritt, Christopher, and Lynxwiler, J. Eric. ''Knott's Preserved: From Boysenberry to Theme Park, the History of Knott's Berry Farm,'' pp. 126–29, Angel City Press, Santa Monica, CA, 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-883318-97-0}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ultimatehaunt.com/history2/legacy/unclemike/interview.htm |title=Scary Farm |publisher=Ultimatehaunt.com |access-date=August 18, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://knottsinprint.blogspot.com/2011/10/halloween-haunt-in-beginning.html |title=Knott's In Print: Halloween Haunt in the Beginning |publisher=Knottsinprint.blogspot.com |date=October 24, 2011 |access-date=August 18, 2014}}</ref>

In 2012, the estate of Wolfman Jack released a hip-hop single featuring Wolfman Jack clips as the vocals.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/HTxsSFv4S5E Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200213004619/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTxsSFv4S5E&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTxsSFv4S5E|title=Lay Your Hand On the Radio|last=Wolfman Jack – Topic|date=October 11, 2015|access-date=September 11, 2017|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 2016, clips from the Wolfman Jack Radio Program were used in the [[Rob Zombie]] film ''[[31 (film)|31]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.monkeysfightingrobots.com/horror-review-31-rob-zombie/|title='31' Review: Rob Zombie Makes Sickest Film Yet, Also His Most Fun|date=September 2, 2016|access-date=September 11, 2017}}</ref>

==Radio Caroline==
When the one surviving ship in what had originally been a [[pirate radio]] network of [[Radio Caroline|Radio Caroline North and Radio Caroline South]] sank in 1980, a search began to find a replacement. Because of new laws passed in the UK in 1967 ([[Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967]]), the sales operation needed to be situated outside of the UK. For a time, Don Kelley, Wolfman Jack's business partner and personal manager, acted as the West Coast agent for the planned new Radio Caroline, but the deal eventually fell apart.

As a part of this process, Wolfman Jack was set to deliver the morning shows on the new station. To that end, he recorded a number of programs that never aired, because the station did not come on air according to schedule. (It eventually returned in 1983 from a new ship, which remained at sea until 1990.) Today, those tapes are traded among collectors of his work.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

==Death==
On July 1, 1995, Smith died from a heart attack at his house in [[Belvidere, North Carolina]], shortly after finishing a weekly broadcast. He was 57 years old.<ref name="MRM"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wolfmanjack.org/wolfhistory.htm |title=A short synapses about Wolfman Jack, his accomplishments, and his life |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727105619/http://www.wolfmanjack.org/wolfhistory.htm |archive-date=July 27, 2013 }}</ref> He is buried at a family cemetery in Belvidere.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kin Plan Park, Museum in Honor of Wolfman Jack |website=Deseret News |url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/450232/KIN-PLAN-PARK-MUSEUM-IN-HONOR-OF-WOLFMAN-JACK.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224023906/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/450232/KIN-PLAN-PARK-MUSEUM-IN-HONOR-OF-WOLFMAN-JACK.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 24, 2018 |date=November 12, 1995 |access-date=December 23, 2018}}</ref>

==Legacy and portrayals==
[[Clap for the Wolfman]] is a song written by Burton Cummings, Bill Wallace, and Kurt Winter performed by their band, the Guess Who. The song appeared on their 1974 album, Road Food. The song was ranked #84 on Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1974.[3]{{Unreferenced section|date=April 2023}}

* Wolfman Jack made a guest vocal appearance on 2 songs (" Tighten Up " & " Nice Age ") from [[Yellow Magic Orchestra]]: [[X00 Multiplies]] 1980 album.
* Wolfman Jack is portrayed by [[Jack Black]] in the 2022 satirical biopic ''[[Weird: The Al Yankovic Story]]''. He is portrayed as a rival of [[Dr. Demento]] (played in the film by [[Rainn Wilson]]).
* From 1978 to 1980, an [[Animatronics|animatronic]] band called the ''Wolf Pack 5'' appeared twice at the [[International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions|IAAPA]] and at the first [[ShowBiz Pizza Place|ShowBiz Pizza]] in [[Kansas City, Missouri]]. The leader of the band was an [[Anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] [[wolf]] who was modeled after Jack. He's voiced by [[Aaron Fechter]].{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}
* In the 1991 album [[D-Rok|Oblivion]] by British hard rock band [[D-Rok|D-ROK]], Wolfman Jack is mentioned multiple times on the track "King Hibited". 
* On [[Diamond D]]'s 1992 album ''[[Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop]]'', a parody of Wolfman Jack is done on the skit "Wuffman Stressed Out".
* Wolfman Jack's voice was used in the 1989 beat 'em up arcade video game ''[[DJ Boy]]'' as the announcer [[Demon Kogure]] in the American version.
* Wolfman Jack is sampled on [[J-Dilla]]'s 2006 album, [[Donuts (album)|Donuts]], on the track "Anti-American Graffiti". The sample comes from the 1973 album, [[How Time Flys]] by [[David Ossman]].
* In his 2020 song "[[Murder Most Foul (song)|Murder Most Foul]]," [[Bob Dylan]] invokes Wolfman Jack many times.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Murder Most Foul {{!}} The Official Bob Dylan Site |url=https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/murder-most-foul/ |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=www.bobdylan.com}}</ref>
* Wolfman Jack appeared at the [[Modesto American Graffiti Festival]] several times, for the first time in 1988. The film ''American Graffiti'', which portrays Wolfman Jack, takes place in Modesto, California.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Test Your Knowledge of Graffiti History |url=https://www.modbee.com/news/article21977220.html |access-date=2024-09-12 |work=The Modesto Bee}}</ref>


==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
| 1971
| ''[[The Seven Minutes (film)|The Seven Minutes]]'' 
| Himself 
| 
|-
| 1973
| ''[[American Graffiti]]'' 
| Disc Jockey / Himself 
|
|-
|1973
|''[[The Odd Couple (1970 TV series)|The Odd Couple]]''
|Himself
|"The Songwriter"
|-
| 1975
| ''[[Emergency!]]'' 
| Disc Jockey 
| "The Inspection"
|-
| 1978
| ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' 
| Our Guests At Heartland 
|
|-
| 1978
| ''Hanging on a Star'' 
| Gordon Shep 
|
|-
| 1978
| ''Deadman's Curve'' 
| Bob "The Jackal" Smith 
|
|-
| 1978
| ''[[Wonder Woman (TV series)|The New Adventures of Wonder Woman]]'' 
| Infra Red 
| "Disco Devil"
|-
| 1978
| ''[[What's Happening!!]]''
| Himself 
| "Going, Going, Gong"
|-
| 1979
| ''[[More American Graffiti]]'' 
| Himself 
|
|-
| 1980
| ''[[Motel Hell]]'' 
| Reverend Billy 
|
|-
|1980
|''[[The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang]]''
|Narrator
|Animated
|-
| 1980
| ''[[Galactica 1980]]'' 
| Himself 
| "The Night the Cylons Landed"
|-
| 1984
| ''[[Wolf Rock TV]]''
| Himself
|
|-
| 1985
| ''[[The Midnight Hour]]'' 
| Radio DJ 
| Made-for-television movie
|-
| 1986
| ''[[Garfield in Paradise]]''
| Rama Lama Tribe Chief (voice)
| Animated TV special
|-
| 1988
| ''[[Mortuary Academy]]'' 
| Bernie Berkowitz 
|
|-
| 1989
| ''[[Midnight (1989 film)|Midnight]]'' 
| Himself 
|
|-
| 1992
| ''[[Swamp Thing (1990 TV series)|Swamp Thing]]'' 
| Hurly 
| [[List of Swamp Thing (1990 TV series) episodes|"Children of the Fool"]]
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Married... with Children]]''
| Himself 
| [[Married... with Children (season 9)|"Ship Happens: Part 1"]] (Final appearance)
|}

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.legends.thewwbc.net/gpage25.html "New Year's Eve, 1993, With Wolfman Jack !"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180606173339/http://www.legends.thewwbc.net/gpage25.html |date=June 6, 2018 }}
*[https://byjeffburger.com/1976/06/07/wolfman-jack-the-mouth-heard-round-the-world/ Wolfman Jack: The Mouth Heard 'Round the World (interview)]
*[http://kipsamericangraffiti.blogspot.com/2010/10/wolfman-jack-part-i-en-el-aire.html Kip Pullman's American Graffiti Blog]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110526093257/http://www.freeenterpriseland.com/BOOK/WOLFMAN.html Wolfman Jack and the gun battle in the Mexican desert]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7307738.stm What made Wolfman Jack great?]
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* {{discogs artist|Wolfman Jack}}
* {{Find a Grave|11176976}}

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