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Coyote Calhoun on 79 WAKY Louisville | January 5, 1979

Steve West — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:47:43 +0000

Courtesy of current WMC-FM Memphis afternoon driver and former WAKY alumn Tom Prestigiacomo, here’s Coyote Calhoun on Wacky!

This is a relatively short aircheck, but good nonetheless. 1979 was a great year for AM top 40, albeit the last year many AM stations played music. WAKY was to be around well into the 80s (check out the 79 WAKY Tribute Site for all the details), but 1979 was probably their last really great year!

Total Time: 6:48 | Format: Real Audio G2 | Monaural

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Tom Prestigiacomo on 79 WAKY | 1979

Steve West — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:08:17 +0000

Picking up where we left off last week is a cool aircheck made by our latest contributor, Tom Prestigiacomo. Tom informs us that after WAKY, he and a couple of WACKY DJ’s including Ron Olsen were hired at WMC-FM Memphis – by the former PD of WAKY. In Tom’s words: …”so FM 100 is really just a continuation of WAKY back then”. True enough since Tom P., Ron Olsen and his partner in the morning show, Steve Conley are STILL with FM 100 today!

Anyway, here’s Tom doing his thing on Wacky from sometime in 1979 – yeah check out all the disco tunes!

Total time: 18:11 | Real Audio | Monaural

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Bill Bailey on 79 WAKY Louisville | June 1979

Steve West — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:28:13 +0000

And now, ladies and gentlemen, courtesy of the all-new Tom Prestigiacomo collection, Here’s our first aircheck from the “Duke of Louisville”, Bill Bailey. Presented in positively STUNNING, off-the-board audio quality, here’s a real legend, hard at work on this warm Summer morning in 1979!

Total time: Appx 43:00 | Real Audio | Monaural

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Louisville Composite: Chuck Brady on WKLO & Gary Burbank on WAKY | 197x (10:02) Scoped

Steve West — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 05:01:46 +0000

Introducing our first airchecks from Louisville, KY.

This aircheck DOES work now – Apologies to all who tried to listen over the weekend. Technical difficulties.

The WKLO portion of this aircheck lasts about two minutes. It features Chuck Brady, (not Browning)… so anyone who was hoping to hear the ORIGINAL Chucker, hope you weren’t too disappointed. But, he DOES call himself “The Chucker”. Close, but no cigar. The rest of this moves into the Gary Burbank show on WAKY, then Christopher Lundy and a bit more of Burbank. Last I knew, he was still holding down afternoons on 700 WLW Cincinnati.

And, no, Earl Pitts isn’t heard here. Must have been a few years before the American Redneck made his debute.

The audio quality of this aircheck is superb. Note that I can’t determine an exact date for this aircheck. Perhaps one of you listeners knows – we’d all appreciate it if you’d post a comment about this one. I’ll just guess sometime in the mid-1970’s.

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Louisville Composite: Chuck Brady on WKLO & Gary Burbank on WAKY | 197x (10:02) Scoped is a post from: Airchexx.com