Wow! This was the fabulous 57, late 60s style. Now, by the time of this aircheck, crosstown WABC was firmly in control of the number one position – in fact, WMCA was way down in the ratings – but it still sounds better than any oldies station today.
We have two legendary jocks featured on this 9 minute scope. First, a New York City legend, Frankie Crocker. He was a fast-talking wizard, something not necessarilly seen often in the Big Apple (it was more of a west-coast thing). Then, it moves on to a scope of one Chuck Browning (The Chucker, for you west coast types who remember him on KFRC San Francisco).
WMCA airchecks are somewhat rare, so enjoy! It’s a World Premier aircheck!
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Although many look down on WMCA at the time of this aircheck because the Good Guys had been dropped temporarily, I think both Frankie Crocker and the Chucker sound great.
Of course I was a Frankie Crocker fan on WWRL before and WBLS after WMCA.
It’s to bad both jocks featured are not with us any more. They are truly missed.
i REMEMER CHUCK BROWNING WHEN HE WORKED AT WFIL IN PHILADELPHIA. IT’S A SHAME HE PASSED AWAY SO QUICKLY. I MISS HIM!
i love the chucker period. don’t matter what time it is. go there if you dare. chucker sounded better on the west coast!
Chuck Browning was a great radio talent. Anyone know how Chuck died? He is missed.
Frankie Crocker was the greatest disc jockey ever..
His opening was fantastic and his closing
. . May each of you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live . .
He ws indeed “tall, tan, young and fly’
Frankie Crocker was to New York as Herb Kent “The Cool Gent is to Chicago. He had a west coast delivery and was legendary. May he rest in peace in disc jockey heaven.
Don’t forget that Frankie Crocker was one of the first VH1 VJs
I thought bought jocks (Crocker and Browning) sounded great on this aircheck. . . worthy of their reputation.
I was a huge fan of WMCA. This is the post good guy period in early 1969. The Good Guys would return later that year after a six month period when the station went half talk and half music. Frankie would remain until their switch to full time talk in September of 1970. Chuck left the station in the summer of 69 when wWMCA brought back Jack Spector and Ed Baer who were let go when the talk music hybrid started in April. They both came back in September.
WMCA airchecks are few and far between. This was a gem.
Darn! Are those PAMS jingles I hear on WMCA? That jingle company was usually associated with WABC, as far as *New York City* was concerned. But then, this was during a period of change that was taking place at ‘MCA that eventually led to the 1970 format change from Top 40 to talk(it switched to its current Christian format nineteen years later). Shortly after this aircheck, it went to half talk, half Top 40–only to revert back to the latter full-time(and revive its 1963 “Good Guys” branding and its Johnny Mann-produced jingles from that era).
Ironically, the station revived the “Good Guys” imaging and its related 1963 and 1965 jingles in the fall of 2003. Only this time, the “Good Guys” were the announcers who transitioned the station from one program to another–usually nationally-syndicated (or regionally-syndicated or local) Christian-teaching and Christian-talk programs–and Kevin McCullough, who hosted a Christian-oriented, call-in news/talk show on the station from 2003 to 2008. That revival of the “Good Guys” on WMCA lasted from late 2003 to the spring of 2007, when it re-adopted the slogan “New York’s Christian Talk”.
Also in the fall of 2003, and on the heels of WMCA’S new Christian-radio version of the Good Guys, its sister station WWDJ revived its “Double-YOU, DOUBLE-you DEE-jay” jingles from its own Top 40 era (the early 1970s). Exactly one year later, WWDJ was “renamed” “WMCA 970″ (as a companion to the actual WMCA at 570 AM), with identification as WWDJ only during the top-of-the-hour legal ID. This also continued until the spring of 2007. In 2008, owner Salem Communications expanded its “Where Your Opinion Counts” conservative secular talk format to New York City by replacing its Christian talk/Christian teaching format therewith. It is now WNYM aka “970 The Apple”.