Announcing an aircheck which needs no introduction.
Essentially this is the quintessential Dan Ingram. Big Dan is at the very top of his game on this day. I swear this is the best aircheck of WABC I’ve ever heard. Dan’s got a one liner every time he opens the mic – and he’s so damn funny. Even his engineers are caught on mic laughing.
This aircheck shows why the best of the best top 40 station ever was so popular… it was so much more than the music. That’s why radio will never be able to capture the magic again, as your webmaster rails against everything from consolidation to degregulation – now in it’s 9th year.
Okay, now I feel old. LOL.
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After listening to the aircheck, it reminded me of many afternoons listening to Dan Ingram and loving his show.
By 1977, I was out of Brooklyn and in Philadelphia, but I could still listen to WABC all day in my dorm room, and I often rocked to the Dan Ingram show at college in Philadelphia.
Thank YOU! I can never get enough Dan Ingram. Especially on WABC
where he was better than anywhere else.
Check out the aircheck from Labor Day, 1968. He is pretty darn good on that.
I can send it to you, if you want to post it.
Also one from around January, 1972 is a great Ingram aircheck.
But when was he ever bad?
Steven Green
Sure Steve. I’d love a copy and of course I’ll post it. Shoot me an email and I’ll tell you how to get it to me.
I lived in PA. all my life, but listened to Dan Ingram on WABC almost every day in my teens. He put me in a good mood no matter what went wrong with my day. I miss the hey day of Dan & WABC! Philadelphia had good DJ’s, but there is only 1 Dan Ingram! To me he is the Vince Lombardi of DJ’s!
I only was in the listening area until the summer of 71. The family moved when I was about 14. I sort of missed hearing WABC at the time, but now after listening to many Dan Ingram airchecks, I realize how much great radio I really missed.
This aircheck is unbelievable. Of course being scoped, Dan’s lines come even faster, but even with the full songs it would stil be almost non-stop laughs.
There will never be another radio station like musicradio of the 60’s and 70’s or another DJ like Big Dan Ingram.
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I grew up in the Bronx, New York listening to WABC from 1962 at age ten. Big Dan inspired me to laugh and dream of being a radio DJ just like him. My dreams came true. After attending Announcer Training Studios, 1969 (in the old 1010 WINS music radio facilities) in NYC I entered the radio business and enjoyed a 20 year career. I owe it all to my two radio icons, Dan Ingram and Cousin Brucie. In 1970,I went up to the WABC studios to visit Brucie while he was on the air. It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. Mr. Morrow was so friendly and patient. He acted as if I were his best friend. What a terrific guy. I went back to my radio station in upstate New York and vowed to model myself after Cousin Brucie and be my listeners best friend.
Thanks to both Dan and Brucie for a life time of fun, laughs, great memories and fabulous a radio career.
This clip is fantastic! Born in 1964, my childhood on Staten Island consisted of playing baseball, rooting for the Mets and always walking around with my little portable radio w/ earplug, listening to WABC. Dan Ingram was my favorite DJ and I so much miss hearing “Come and Get Your Love” as the weekend national anthem every friday at 5pm. God bless Dan, Ron Lundy and the gang at the greatest station in the history of radio!
What a phenomal aircheck, but then again, when is there not a phenomal aircheck? especially when Dan Ingram is on it at his best, on the best station WABC. I really wish this was all a dream and Musicradio was coming back on tommorrow. I miss hearing Bruce, Dan, Chuck, Harry & Ron the best of the best all in a league of their own.
After hearing the air check on this site, it reminded me once again about made Dan Ingram so great on WABC. By the mid 1970s, I didn’t listen to WABC verry much (after all, fm was in stereo), but, I still tried to listen to Dan Ingram in the afternoons, especially when I was in a car. I wish that someone had some of the earlier air checks when Dan and Howard Cosell would banter back and forth before and sometimes after, Howard’s sports commentary.
Wonderful to hear Dan Ingram again… I forgot how engaging he was. I grew up in the country and he made New York City seem even closer… Hot summer days in the pool….with the speakers outside tuned to 77 WABC… Those were the days….Peace to all
Growing up on Long Island in the sixties, I had the good fortune to watch Big Dan do one of his afternoon shows at WABC. As great as he was on the air, when you combined that with his live antics behind the ‘mic’, you can only imagine the ’show’! His ability to produce a song intro, adlib and sense of timing were second to none. When they made personality DJ’s, after Big Dan Ingram, they broke the mold. Long live the Ingram Flingram!
It says “summer of 1977″ on the scroll, however, he says it’s 35 degrees out for the weather at one point? Can’t be summer….
Format Question:
At 12:24 WABC played It’s Impossible by Perry Como. Why did they do that? When it came out in late 1970, it was considered one of the worst records out (though some despised DOA by Bloodrock more).
That song is clearly MOR (not even A/C but MOR) and should not have been heard beyond 1130 AM (WNEW).
This aircheck is from December 17, 1976. It has a commercial saying “A Star Is Born” with Barbra Streisand comes out that night, and that was the release date of the film.
If ever there were magic slippers to take you back to your childhood it would be listening to dan Ingram. His voice, the jingles and the WABC chime remind me of growing up in Brooklyn in the 60s. Today the kids have no idea what we are talking about.
Ah yes…Daniel Trombley Ingram. The greatest comic on New York Radio.
A genius.