Al Gates is featured in this excellent copy of then-new Bill Drake WRKO. Interesting items on this recording are reverb, which sounds fantastic and not overdone and a simulcast with its FM sister station on 98.5. Historic mentions (Bostonians will especially remember) Curt Gowdy doing sports… although he’s not heard, just announced during news. Gates announces song positions in the Now 30.
WRKO is a HOT station at this point in it’s history, having launched earlier that year and you can feel the excitement in the air.
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Clean ‘verb, for sure… Oldies radio lost it’s ‘fun’ with overplay of the top 100 to 200 hits packaged in a ‘cardboard cereal box’.. Put these elements and formatics into classic hits/oldies radio, and the ‘fun’ and loyalty returns…. Kemosabe Joe still puts his ’shtick’ into it on the Maryland Atlantic Coast…