QuickCheck: Margaret Jones, 97 WYNY New York | Autumn 1979

Contributor Ray Bozzanca was one of many fans of the late Margaret Jones, as evidenced by this letter sent by her in response to our contributor’s writing to her. Ray wrote:

Attached is the letter Margaret sent to me along with her signed photo from 1979.I spoke to Margaret on the phone while she was in the WYNY studio and was just as pleasant sounding on the phone as she was on the air.

Margaret Jones was one of those few unique (for 1979) women in radio who had both the perfect voice and an incredibly warm and inviting personality. In your webmaster’s humble opinion, she was a perfect fit for the gold-based AC format that WYNY featured at the time. She passed away on July 21, 2009. The Dover Post (Delaware) printed a beautiful obituary for her which you can read by clicking here.

You can also listen to a longer, 14 minute aircheck of Margaret Jones on WYNY, also from the Fall of 1979 and also contributed by Ray Bozzanca by clicking THIS LINK.

Margaret Jones on 97.1 WYNY New York | Autumn, 1979

Courtesy of new contributor Ray Bozzanca in Florida, here’s a high-quality 14 minute scope of WYNY in its “New York 97″ incarnation. Ray writes:

After hearing the Larry Kenny aircheck and hearing Margaret on that aircheck, I dug out some of my old reel to reel tapes.Back in those days of radio if you sent in a letter to the radio station to the DJ, if you were lucky you would get back a signed photo to see what the DJ looked like! I have such a photo of Margaret you can post with the aircheck

(See top left corner).

This ‘check starts out with Margaret Jones talking to Steve O’Brien (WABC, WCBS-FM, Sirius), who was apparently in the studio but off mic.

I was involved in a internet radio station as a sidekick in 1997. I am not involved with that anymore but have radio friends in the business in Long Island. I now live in Florida. One such friend was Mike Erickson who sent a aircheck on himself which I saw posted here on your site

You can hear Mike Erickson on WSHR Ronkonkoma NY HERE.