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.
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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!
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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
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!
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.
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.
Where is Joe Dawson now? Last I heard him was on WWKX FM (Kix 106) in the early 90’s out of Providence, RI.
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.
Joe Dawson is in Atlanta now.
Joe Dawson is in Atlanta and is going to marry a lovely Missouri girl, hopefully before the year is out. (I am that lucky girl)
Nevermind, no nuptials in our future…
PMS strikes again…everything is still on, assuming I can behave