Joe Pinner on 1230 WNOK Columbia SC | November 26, 1959
From somewhere deep in the bowels of the airchexx archives (which consists of three crates with hundreds of loose cassettes) comes this excellent recording of one Joe Pinner with a DEEP announcer voice playing top 40 hits - if you can call this all standards presentation ‘top 40′. Perhaps it was, considering the time and place. This is the deep south back at a time most people would probably like to forget about, when segregation was alive and well. There’s even a commercial for an all-white dance! Fortunately, that is but only one instance, a quick :30 second commercial in this 30 minute Thanksgiving day broadcast which includes news, weather and those overly orchestrated jingles from the time period.
For you jingle freaks- From what company and package are the jingle sings in this aircheck? We’re guessing either CRC or Heller.
We can’t even find an old station logo. But for you wondering, yes this IS the former AM side to the current CHR 104.7 WNOK. Now you know its roots, this station has been top 40, like… forever.
(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)
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Wow…from out of the blue, for sure! Was stationed at Fort Jackson at the time and working parttime for WNOK AM-FM-TV(WLTX TV NOW) while managing the WFJX the Armed Forces Radio station on the fort. Returned to WMBR TV (WJXT NOW) in Jacksonville, Fla and then joined WIS TV in Columbia, SC in 1963, semi-retired in 2000 but still put in a full day on Fridays doing weather and live shots. Full story, which I’m sticking to, is at http://www.joepinner.com or from “staff” at WISTV.COM. Joy and agape’…Joe
Wow! Great aircheck. The quality is very good. I only vaguely remember those jingles because I was living in Va at the time.I don’t recall coming across those jingles when I worked at WNOK