He followed that with gigs in Omaha, Denver and then WCKR in Miami in 1960, when he got his professional name as Rick Shaw, and where he spent most of his career spinning vinyl and playing oldies, goldies, and Rock and Roll.
[2] By 1963, he was working at WQAM doing a daily 7pm-11pm shift, when in 1964, he recorded a record-shattering 54 share — more than all the other local stations combined.
[2] In 1964, at WQAM, Shaw was the first radio disc jockey in South Florida to play The Beatles songs.
[2] During a 47-year career in Miami, Shaw finished each program with the 1959 Ray Peterson classic, Goodnight My Love.
In the 1970's and early 1980s, he was a commercial spokesman in national campaigns for products such as NuVinyl furniture cleaner and NuFinish car wax.