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Courtesy of Matt @ BigAppleAirchecks, here’s Ron Lundy at a very sold out WABC! While this is scoped, the unscoped version still has more commercials than music. You’ll need patience to listen to this, as the source audio as we received it is choppy and a bit muddy, otherwise its a great representation of America at the height of the Vietnam war. Listen for a full newscast including stories about fish with mercury, extreme pollution, a heatwave causing reductions of electricity, and more.

And of course, our memories of Ron Lundy. I tell ya, Heaven’s got one hell of a radio station!

From the good ol’ days when the reverb was still on and 50s/60s were the station’s mainstay, here’s a grainy, but great window back to 1987 – when Gotham’s radio landscape was so very much different than today..

Voiceguy Charlie Van Dyke says CBS-FM is celebrating it’s 15th anniversary as “New York’s Oldies Station”… heck, they don’t even say “Oldies” anymore, but ironically, CBS-FM is currently running promos for their 35th anniversary concert this Summer. Its as if they never got ‘Jacked’…

Most remember Ron Lundy as the midday personality for most of the top 40 era at New York’s 77 WABC. As the story goes, Dan Ingram worked with Lundy in St. Louis at this very radio station prior to going to WABC, and convinced his program director to hire Lundy.

If you’ve never heard Ron Lundy before, here’s a YOUNG Lundy doing what he does best at WIL. Who ever woulda thought you’d hear callers ON THE AIR in 1983 – WABC almost never aired callers, until the late 70s, and in the early days of Top 40 radio it was literally unheard of to air a phone conversation with a listener. But that’s what you’ll hear on this recording.