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Steve Scott, 1190 KLIF Dallas | October 19 1977
1190 KLIF Dallas, is a station steeped in history. It’s owner, Gordon McLendon, is credited, along with Todd Storz and Bill Stewart, with the creation of Top 40 radio. Back in 1953 he switched KLIF from live music and magazine-style programming, which was a popular format in this era, to records and disc jockeys. McLendon…
Bob Campbell, WNVZ Z104 Norfolk VA | December 8, 1983
…My lips are turnin’ blue just thinking about it! You’ll notice the audio quality isn’t as good as it could be, but heck, the tape is what, 17 years old! Sometimes one wonders how tape can last that long! Here’s a bit of Bob Campbell on Z104. Not sure I’ve heard him anywhere else. I’m…
Herb Kent, 1450 WVON Chicago | April 1970
Herb Kent, “The Cool Gent,” spent decades on air, most of that time in Chicago. His radio career started in 1940s, and went right to the day he died in 2016. In the 1940s, Kent received his first paid radio job at WGRY in Gary, for $35 dollars a week. He went on to work at…
Robert W. Walker on WHYI (Y-100) Miami | Spring 1977
Here’s a slice of Miami Heat in the form of Robert W. Walker – smokin’ up the turntables at the big Y!
Composite: 79 WQXI Atlanta | September, 1966
There’s a reason why industry experts in the 1960s and early 70s chose WQXI as the southern leader in the Top 40 format, and much of it is on exhibit here. If you can get by the scratchy sound of this recording, which sounds as if it was made on a table radio tuned somewhat…
Wendy Williams, 107.5 WBLS New York | 2003
It may seem like talk show host, Wendy Williams, just popped up on TV out of nowhere, but she had a quarter century of radio experience that helped launch her TV career. She began her radio career in 1984 as an intern for Matty in the Morning, at Kiss 108 WXKS in Boston. Wendy…
Big Mack, Z93 WWWZ Charleston | April 28 1988
Charleston, South Carolina’s WWWZ, 93.3 FM, launched on May 10, 1974 with a freeform format. The station broadcast from a mobile home in Summerville, SC. The station was referred to as “3WZ“. In 1981, WWWZ flipped to an Urban leaning format as “The New Z93.” In 1999, Z93 added new hosts to “Big Mack…
Sample: 104.1 KHOM Houma (New Orleans) “Mix 104.1” | November 1, 1997
The year on this is 1997 and judging by the pauses between commercials during stop sets, these were still being played from carts.
