QuickCheck: Artie “the One Man Party on 94.5 WZOU Boston | May 1992
The date on this aircheck is unkown (we suspect ‘91 or so), but Matt over at Big Apple Airchecks dug it up special for us…
Sunny Joe White was what this was labelled but … hey, we don’t hear him, except perhaps a cameo in the beginning.
Lots of high energy packed into about 4 minutes.
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That’s Sean Valentine (afternoons on KIIS-FM/LA for the past ten years. He went to ZOU from WWKX in Providence, prior to that small town Eastern CT…Dude Walker liners and those jingles were a Sunny Joe era deal…Valentine did 6-10pm Artie was on 10p-2a…a fella I worked with in Providence Mike Murphy was doing 2-6am…JR in the morning at that time..
The company that owned WZOU at the time would fire Sunny Joe White that summer. Based on the music and the “movie loft” ad, this had to have been recorded in May of 92. WZOU had two great years in its almost 9-year legacy. The first was the year Harry Nelson was program director and the station was called “z-94″. This was the second great year. Funny thing is, when Steve Rivers took Sunny’s old job at kiss-108, kiss went to a more main-stream CHR/pop approach while Sunny Joe White stopped just short of transforming ZOU into an urban station. When Sunny left, Tom Jefferies came back for his 2nd stint as PD, and brought ZOU back to a main-stream CHR station before it became rithmic/urban as “jam’n”.
WOW this was a trip down memory lane. Yes WZOU was VERY dance/rhythmic/urban leaning during this point. I remember it very clearly as it was my favorite station to listen to during that time as a 10 year old!
Also I believe this is 1992. The songs played during the course weren’t out yet in May 1991.