page_title: Jimmy Staggs
section_title: WCFL career
hierarchical_section_title: Jimmy Staggs / WCFL career
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of WCFL, Chicago's Jim Stagg as he interviews Dave Clark, leader of the music group, The Dave Clark Five.
context_page_description: Jimmy Pearson Staggs was an American disc jockey and record store owner in Chicago, Illinois.
context_section_description: At WCFL, the "Voice of Labor", Staggs did the "afternoon drive" (the station's high-profile 3 to 6 pm slot) shift. He referred to the studio call-in line as the "Stagg Line" and produced a feature titled "Stagg's Starbeat" – in-depth, provocative, and insightful interviews with local, national and international music celebrities.  Staggs interviewed nearly every major rock star of the 1960s, including Neil Diamond, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, The Rolling Stones, the Supremes, The Monkees, and Simon & Garfunkel.
  There was also a weekly column on music and the entertainment industry, the "Stagg Line", which appeared in Sunday editions of the Chicago Sun-Times.
  Jim became the Chicago chairman of Let Us Vote (LUV), a youth campaign which began in late 1968 to establish the minimum voting age as 18 in all states. Joey Bishop was honorary national chairman and songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart contributed a campaign song.  Everyone's efforts resulted in the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution being ratified in 1971.
  While serving as WCFL's music director, Staggs authorized the station to play the controversial Ballad of John and Yoko; he later became the station's program director.
  Staggs eschewed the flashy theatrics of other Top-40 radio hosts in favor a straightforward rock and roll show that kept the focus on the music. His close-of-program line echos that: "Music is my business.  I hope my business was your pleasure."
caption: Stagg interviewing Dave Clark of The Dave Clark Five in 1966.
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