This memorial website was created in memory of R. Jim Miller.

Jim passed away in the summer of 2006 of cancer and is missed by all of us at wcrp. He was the host and brains behind the popular Music Mansion show that was broadcast locally on Wcrp-am and I92-fm from 1995-2006. Reruns are broadcast regularly as well as streamed on the internet.His shows were a mix of music,comedy,mystery sounds,mystery tunes and of course his take on what he was broadcasting.

Jim was one of the early pioneers of part15 radio as a teenager in th 60s with a transmitter in a friends garage. It went about 1 mile and that was on sunny days. When it rained he said the signal died and they didnt know why, so they waited for sunny days again to broadcast their show. He was always an avid fan of radio and spent many hours broadcasting to the neighborhood.

In the 1970s he was a DJ at WBUX in Bucks County Pennsylvania. WBUX is a sunup to sundown station by FCC law because it is on a busy frequency and was 1KW so they had to go off the air at night so they would not interfere with 24hr stations on 1570khz. He told us that one night he and some other BUX guys were bored so they, without the knowledge of the stations owner, turned on the transmitter and broadcast illegally for a few hours at night. He said they were able to "do their thing" without anyone knowing except a few friends. "It was the thrill of not getting caught" that they did it and it was only that one time because they didnt want to press their luck.

The year was 1994 and Jim and Rick Rodgers who at the time were working together,at what was the General Electric company, were talking about who knew more about oldies music. Every day they would quiz each other about who wrote or sang a particular song and what label was it on.Rick says "Jim came out on top because he knew just about every song and artist who ever recorded a song". "Jim was an encyclopedia of Rock music". Rick asked Jim if he would do some radio shows for him to use on the fledgling part15 radio station he had just started that needed to air "something different with content that wasnt heard on the big guys".

Enter---The Music Mansion....
The Music Mansion started out as Jims Oldies Kitchen but after one pilot show Jim and Rick didnt like the idea that would limit him to a kitchen. Then came the idea to go to every room in the house to dig up oldies from the past as though they were cast aside and stuck anywhere they could be fit and forgotten about. The two of them came up with the name "Music Mansion" because a mansion has a large attic and basement which was used to store old things such as the old vinyl 45s and 331/3 rpm records.

The first shows.
Jim went to work finding obscure and rarely played songs from the 1950s through the 1990s. He even found old comedy material as well as phoney phone calls and old commercials before other stations thought about it. The shows were taped at Jims studio which he called "studio B" and delivered to the radio station the next week. After the first few shows were broadcast the stations listeners went up in numbers and that was the beginning of success for the new am station WFXI-1620.

The Music Mansion continues...

With the success of the show, flagship WFXI was able to get sponsers to upgrade equipment and gain a wider audience.With that came a name change to WCRP which means We're community radio around Pottstown. Jim continued to produce 99 shows which were always new and unique, even with a set formula for a format that was the basic building block for the show.He was working on number 100 when he lost his battle with cancer.Rick says that he talked to Jim only weeks before he passed away and Jim said I will have show 100 finshed as soon as I feel a little better. Rick said "Hey Jim dont check out on me now I need at least 100 more shows so take it easy and gell well first". Jim laughed and said "dont worry I have no plans to go yet".Those were the last words Rick heard from Jim. Show 100 was never finished and unfortunately the tape was lost. Jim does live on...... on radio. Where might he be now?......at the great radio station in the sky.