Morning Madness: Larry Lujack on WLS AM & FM Chicago | January 1984
June 24, 2006 
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After numerous requests and several years waiting, here’s a great recording of ol’ Uncle Lar on the Rock of Chicago, WLS! This recording was made off the FM 94.7 side, so the audio is a clean as can be.
Listen for the WLS jingles, that AWESOME reverb, the incomperable Larry Lujack, AND…. a complete ANIMAL STORIES, with Li’l Tommy!
Another, from Robyn Watts, who so graciously donated a ton of material in 2004… and we’re not even a third of the way through that collection!
Excellent! Took me back. Gotta get back to the ’70s, though…the REAL Larry Lujack!
Would give a wounded polecat for an MP-3 of Uncle Lar’s recorded sign on the mid/late 70′s on WLS. Ended with something like.”And the light was Lujack!” Seemed like it was a couple of minutes long, maybe 60 seconds. Was great stuff!
Being a radio purist (whatever that means) this aircheck was excellent. . . a great example of Chicago radio at its best. What can you say—it’s Larry Lujack —superb.
Vintage Lujack. Wish he and Tommy were still on.
Sorry, I know I am a little behind – I just discovered this site recently.
I grew up near Chicago during this era and would visit the Enormous 89 as much as I could. When Uncle Lar and Snot Nosed Tommy would do the live Animal Stories at 9:45am, there would be anywhere from 30-50 people standing in the lobby watching them. Even though you only saw their backs, it was still Larry and Tommy. Occasionally Lar’ would turn towards the crowd and yell “Hello Young Americans!” into the lobby intercom.
It was the end of a great era of radio – I’m just glad I had the opportunity to see it.
I wish I could find a complete recording of Lar’s last show. The end was a highlight reel of his whole career and ended with the wolf howl from animal stories. Any body know where we could find it?
Could you make a CD available with the Animal Stories on it? It would make a great keepsake and hilarious listen to!!!!
I used to listen to Larry and Lil Tommy every morning. I would crap up along with them when they were doing Animal Stories. I was in High School at the time. You get to know their voices so well, and I really miss them. I used to sing “Larry Lujack Super Jock” at school. It’s amazing the huge following they had back then. That is and always will be my favorite radio station. The trashy report is awesome too. Thank-you! Anita
This brings me back to my car – it was the only place I could get WLS – since I was in Fargo ND at the time – Great Memories of freezing my butt off driving around trying to listen to WLS!
Larry got me going every day as a kid – - -thought of him many times through life – happy to listen to this!!