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“Smokin’” Joe Dawson on WBBM-FM Chicago | February 4, 1986

Courtesy of Big Apple Airchecks - Thanks!Dawson’s pace is perfect for this high-energy taste of FM Top 40!. Remember, WLS was STILL a Rock station, so there was a lot riding on the success of WBBM-FM.

And, as one of our visitors pointed out, this isn’t actually the Hot Hits!(tm) era, but quite ‘hot’ nonetheless.









WBBM-FM B96

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February 11th, 2007 Chicago • Smokin' Joe Dawson | 8 comments

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8 Responses to ““Smokin’” Joe Dawson on WBBM-FM Chicago | February 4, 1986”

  1. java on February 13th, 2007 1:45 am

    The WBBM-FM Joe Dawson ‘check is most definitely from jan-feb 1986 since “Conga”, “Stages”, “Kyire”, “The Sun Always Shines On TV” were all chart hits in early ‘86.

    Great tape!

  2. Ken on February 13th, 2007 7:55 am

    Hi

    This aircheck is from Feb 1986. You can tell from the currents..I’m sure 1984 is a typo..

    Great…Winter of Senior year memories….

    Thanks

  3. Steve West on February 13th, 2007 8:54 am

    You guys are absolutely right. The person who sent this to me wrote the date as 1984 and I should have caught it based upon the music. I’m gonna stick with February 4, I just think he got his wires crossed when printing the year. I have fixed the title.

    Good catch!

  4. Keith on February 13th, 2007 7:34 pm

    Isn’t this post “HOT HITS” - in this aircheck they seem to have gone away from saying HOT HITS. Somehow I remember the real HOT HITS was on WBBM closer to 81/82. I believe this aircheck from 86 features a much wider playlist and a much looser on-air presentation.

  5. Larry on February 15th, 2007 10:47 am

    Even though Hot Hits as a format ended before 1986, WBBM FM is still doing a high energy approach and it sounds good.

    Joe Dawson is cookin with the hits and this is a great aircheck.

  6. Manny on March 7th, 2008 1:03 pm

    Where is Joe Dawson now? Last I heard him was on WWKX FM (Kix 106) in the early 90’s out of Providence, RI.

  7. Bill on April 14th, 2008 9:22 pm

    I hear Joe on a county station in Philadelphia a couple of years ago, he was still cookin’ Don’t know where he is now, but they don’t make dj’s like that anymore.

  8. Kmac on May 16th, 2008 6:36 pm

    Joe Dawson is in Atlanta now.

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