Stan Turner sounded as smooth as a Sam Cooke single last week during a test run of his “All Request and Dedication Show” show in downtown St. Paul.

On Monday, after a two-year hiatus, the veteran TV and radio broadcaster will be back on air broadcasting from a second-floor studio at Heimie’s Haberdashery in the Hamm Building.

“Remember that song? Remember, maybe, this voice? Hey, we’re back!” Turner said as the show’s opening theme music ended. “So nice to be with you again. Stan Turner here and ‘The All-Request and Dedication Program.’ You listened to us, so many of you, thank you, God bless you all, when we were on KLBB. We just had a beautiful ride, all thanks to you.”

Turner’s popular show ended in March 2017 when KLBB-AM 1220 in downtown Stillwater went off the air.

Anthony Andler, the proprietor of Heimie’s, at Wabasha and St. Peter streets, was a longtime sponsor of Turner’s show on KLBB. When he decided last year to expand his high-end men’s clothing store, doubling in size, he created space for Turner and his show. The studio, dubbed WHEI, is located on the shop’s second floor.

“It’s a show that no one else is doing, and that’s kind of the essence of the store,” Andler said. “He knows music like I know fashion and clothes. Given the history of the building, the history of the haberdashery, my history, it all fits. It’s like hanging another product on the shelf, only now it’s sound. It matches Heimie’s perfectly.”

Turner’s show will be recorded noon to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. Listeners can stream it online or listen to the podcast via the Heimie’s website; song requests will be taken online or on a recorded phone line, Andler said.

Andler said he expects longtime Turner fans to embrace the new technology.

“It’s internet radio,” he said. “Either you go over to a radio and turn it on, or you go over to a computer and turn it on. You’re going to a listening device. Instead of going over to your FM radio and turning it on at home and listening, now you’re asking Siri to play it. That’s really the future.”

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The WHEI radio studio, decorated with vintage vinyl records, a manual typewriter and a clock, feels like “an old-fashioned broadcast radio station,” Andler said. “But we’re using new technology to send the signal out to our listeners on different devices. Everybody is carrying a cellphone, everybody has a computer. If you go into Best Buy, the only radio you can find is an alarm clock.”

Shows on cooking, fishing, hunting, poetry, fashion and health and healing also are planned for broadcast on WHEI. “We’re going to build our content based on what our listeners want,” Andler said. “How we do that is we ask them what they want because they come through our door every single day.”

The message lately has been: When is Stan’s show going to be back on the air?

Turner, a former news anchor and news director at KSTP-TV and former news director for the Minnesota News Network, said he is grateful for loyal listeners who have regularly called and emailed to ask about the status of the show. “The fact that it hasn’t faded from memory is so, so gratifying,” he said.

He hopes the “All Request and Dedication Show” will eventually be syndicated and broadcast on an AM station in the metro area.

Turner, a dedicated student of pop music, meticulously researches every show. His music library is filled with reference materials such as: “Billboard’s Hottest 100 Hits,” “The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock and Soul” and “American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950.”

“My job is not only to play what people want to hear, but to give some background information, do some storytelling about the songs, the artists, maybe some interesting little factoids about how a particular little song was written, why it was written, the recording session itself,” he said.

During his test run Friday, as soundboard operator Brent Mercado worked in the adjacent room, Turner gave an on-air history lesson on Diana Ross & The Supremes’ song “In and Out of Love.”

“That’s from 1967. A big hit — No. 5 on the charts — for the three ladies from Motown,” he said.

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“We are all about the music, and we feel so, so, so warm about you coming back to us now,” he said. “We’re going to be with you, and you’re going to be with us, just like we were before. You know what, Brent? I think Bobby Darin kind of captures our feelings about how nice it is to be back with you wonderful folks. You know what? You, ladies and gentlemen, are irresistible. That’s right.”

As “Irresistible You,” Darin’s hit song, which peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard chart in 1962, played in the background, Turner said Darin’s “happy, up-tempo” music is “really the signature of what we’re going to do here.”

“We’re going to work hard and have fun. We really are,” he said. “Anthony has given us this wonderful facility where we can carry on where we left off. I said when we signed off during last show on KLBB, ‘We’re not really going away, we’re just hitting the pause button,’ so we take it off pause on Monday.”

Former Pioneer Press columnist Rick Shefchik, the author of “Everybody’s Heard About the Bird: The True Story of 1960s Rock ‘n’ Roll in Minnesota,” will be his first guest.