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Tag: 1981
Chuck Ingersoll, 1370 WSAY, Rochester, NY | February 14, 1981
Description by Contributor Chuck Ingersoll: In 1980, Lew Dickey, Sr. purchased WSAY/1370 in Rochester, NY. For many years it had been one of two stations owned by Gordon Brown (the other in the Buffalo suburb of Cheektowaga) that were notable for naming every jock that came to the station Tom Thomas, Jerry Jack, and Mike…
Dan Ingram’s 20th Anniversary Broadcast, 77 WABC New York | July 3, 1981
This aircheck is probably out there somewhere else on the web, but we did receive a perfect copy on cassette, which was obviously the first generation edit due to the typewritten date on the label (using an old cart label, at that!) Officially, Dan Ingram did his first show on WABC on July 3, 1961,…
Bill Lee on 610 KFRC San Francisco | 1981
Credit for this classic aircheck goes to several sources. Robyn Watts, who donated a number of East Coast Airchecks (in this case, ECA 41/San Francisco/San Jose) and California Aircheck. Somehow, there’s two ‘master’ copies floating around, and I don’t know which service was the one that got the original recording. An all-too-short aircheck from Bill…
Liz Kiley, 92.5 WIFI Philadelphia | November 24, 1981
Big Apple Airchecks sent the original of this mono, but high-fidelity (and we refuse to say ‘HD’) recording of the Adult Contemporary version of WIFI 92! By this time, WIFI had morphed into a more Adult station, but was by no means a sleepy AC. You’ll even hear Eddie Money’s “Baby Hold On” about halfway…
Joe Burnett, KBIX 1490 AM “Disco E” Muskogee, OK | 1981
Gone long enough so that there are no official logos anywhere to post with this, “Disco-E” means virtually nothing to us now, but perhaps back in 1981 when this was recorded, the Disco format this station obviously had at one point was still evident, although the playlist, while including such stiffs as Cher’s “Take Me…
Remembering Brian Bierne “Mr. Rock & Roll”, KRTH K-Earth 101 Los Angeles | August 1981 and December 4, 2004
Courtesy of New Contributor Jeffrey James, here’s a quick scope of “Mr. Rock & Roll himself, Brian Bierne. We first heard of Brian on this website on this clip of his show from August 1981 – from your webmaster’s collection. Here, we’re treated to exactly ONE break from Bierne, who deserves a whole lot more…
Frank Kingston Smith; Norm Nathan & Jordan Rich “Morning Magazine”, 68 WRKO Boston | May 28,1981
By 1981, music on AM Radio across the U.S. was well in decline. Stations at RKO General were typical of many ownership groups of the time and most of their AM stations had either already abandoned their highly successful Top 40 formats of the previous two decades or were in the process of doing so.…
Jim Kaye “The Big Tuna”, Last Show on WAQY Wacky 102 Springfield | August, 1981 (52:36) Scoped
Courtesy of Webmaster Steve West. Here’s the only known recording of the final show, 7-12 Midnight, on the old CHR formatted “Wacky 102” WAQY Springfield Massachusetts. My good friend Jim Kaye was known as the “Big Tuna“, and says on this recording that he had been with the station for seven years, which would place…
