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Old Legal IDs from 1981 – Sample 1
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Some time ago, Contributor Bill Nollman sent in a couple of hours of station legal IDs. Here’s a sample.
Ken Gilbert, WAQY “Wacky 102” Springfield MA | July 4, 1981
Ken Gilbert has had a long career in radio, all of it in the New England region. Ken is best known for doing middays at WAQY Springfield in it’s top 40 incarnation as “Wacky 102” and at WDRC AM-FM Hartford in its top 40 and Oldies iterations.
Joe Martelle, Saturday Night Live At The Oldies on 98.5 WROR Boston | October, 1981
“Saturday Night Live At The Oldies” was arguably the most popular show on the old WROR on 98.5 and ran from 1977 when the station first started playing some contemporary music until 1991, when WROR became WBMX “Mix 98.5”
Ron Lundy, 77 WABC New York | January 7, 1981
Fans of Ron Lundy will really enjoy this! The quality of this recording is excellent and Lundy sounds just as good as he ever did.
Smokin’ Willie Bee Goode, WKCI Hamden “KC-101” New Haven | April, 1981
Another radio great has left the planet, and with him, many sad friends. As reported by his daughter, Alton Irwin, better known as Gnarly Charly and Smokin’ Willie Bee Goode passed away on February 5, 2022. His daughter said he went painlessly, so we can only assume it was sudden – we can all only…
Dan Ingram, 77 WABC New York | April 28, 1981
What follows is probably the most depressing, eye opening piece of audio which goes far towards explaining part of the reason why WABC needed to change formats to talk little more than a year after this aircheck was recorded. Description Truly, this is as boring as radio ever got in the world of pop music,…
Don Bombard, 97.1 WYNY New York | 1981
It’s a pretty safe bet that this is a rare aircheck. Don Bombard began his career in New York City at 97.1 WYNY in the Fall of 1981. By 1982, Bombard had moved to WCBS-FM, doing the evening show. According to former CBS-FM PD Joe McCoy, who was happy to tell me the story at…
Brad Michaud & the JB105 Top 35 Countdown, 105.1 WPJB Providence | 1981
JB105 is a HOT rocking station at this point. The first thing you’ll notice is that most of the music is uptempo. The second thing is the station’s processing was juiced so that it was loud.
