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Zeke's cheerful— even at down. And his telephone poll— What record would you like to buy?— is a direct line to future hits.
Zeke Manners wakes 'em up over
SOMEBODY once described Zeke Manners as "a fast Godfrey." New Yorkers may remember him as the man who presented "the first Steve Allen-type show on television." Zeke, who is nobody's carbon copy, departed New York for his native West Coast, when he found big-time TV "too much work." He's in our midst again, ^ but still keeping farmer's rather than bankers hours. Monday through Saturday, he's up m time to reach the WINS studios for The Zeke ^ Manners Show, heard from 6 to 9:30 A.M. "I dont sleep anyway," Zeke shrugs. ... To help New Yorkers out of bed and off to work or school, Zeke provides music, chatter, news, and weathercasts. His auto audience belongs to the Bumper to Bumper Club. Members blink their lights when Zeke plays the Bumper to Bumper Mambo, Samba, Polka, etc. Zeke is a pioneer of electronic devices, explains today's music as "Crosby with more oomph and more electrification." He also credits the young performers "who put things in a song that a great songwriter wouldn't dare." Zeke polls his listeners to determine tomorrow's hits, by asking his hsteners what records they would like to buy. . . . Born in San Francisco, Zeke found his first success with "Zeke Manners and His Hollywood Hillbillies." He's worked his way through the broadcasting alphabet, local and network, has sold twenty milHon records, and written a dozen hit songs. His biggest hit was "Pennsylvania ^^ Polka," which he wrote for "Winged Victory, in which he also was starred. When the successful show was being transferred to film, Zeke went to Hollywood. There, in 20th Century-Fox s commissary, he met his wife Bea. "In the Army, you had to live in a tent if you weren't married, he recalls. "So I got married so I could live oft base— and I've been off base ever since." . . His son Charlie, at eleven, builds his own radios. Daughter Susie, seven, is "a great little hopper. She's a natural, as is her dad. "I don't want to entertain Madison Avenue," says Zeke. ^^1 want to entertain the people in Greenpoint.
His career has kept Zeke shuttling between coasts. On this move, he brings Bea and "cowboys" Charlie and Susie east.