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Month: November 2019
Dick Lamb, 101.3 2WD WWDE Norfolk | July 1999
It was 1955 when Dick Lamb broke into radio broadcasting at a station in Baltimore while he was still in school and working part-time as a grocery store bag boy. Little did Lamb know, at the time, he would spend the next 54 years behind a microphone, most of that time on wake up duty.…
Jerry Williams, 78 WBBM Chicago| August 12 1967
Something a bit different. An unscoped hour of a legendary talk show host, on a legendary station, 78 WBBM Chicago. Jerry Williams was one of the originators of the 2-way talk radio format. His radio career spanned more than 50 years, starting in 1946 as a small station in Bristol, VA. His…
Ed Baer, 57 WMCA New York | 1964
Ed Baer spent more than a 50 years on New York area stations, including as a “Good Guy” on WMCA, (Dan Ingram helped Ed land the WMCA gig!) followed by stops at 101 WCBS-FM, New York 97 WYNY, 1050 WHN, and he was on air at WHUD Peekskill, New York, for 14 years, working as…
Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode, BBC Radio One FM | July 1994
Since 1967, BBC Radio One has been the BBC’s Top 40 offering, for England, Scotland, Wales, & Northern Island. The station started on AM (or Medium Wave as the Brits refer to it) and eventually was broadcast on FM. It broadcasts on different frequencies around the UK. Those signals are all between 97 & 99…
Gary Hamilton, 1280 KTLK Denver| October 1971
In 1968, Denver’s KTLN dropped it’s News Talk format, and flipped to Top 40. It was actually it’s second go round as a Top 40 station, as it had the format years earlier. The KTLK announcers became known as “The Mod Jocks.” In addition to cranking the hits, KTLK featured many talk shows dealing with…
Ken Gilbert, 102.1 WAQY “Wacky 102” Springfield MA | Summer, 1981
This was the Summer of 1981. “Wacky 102”, although branded at this time as “The Wack” was red hot!
Ken Gilbert and Joel Williams, New Year’s Eve Morning – 97.1 WZRT Rutland VT | December 31, 1996
Here’s another from a couple of boxes given to us from Ken Gilbert himself!
Frankie Crocker, 107.5 WBLS New York |1974
Frankie Crocker, “The Chief Rocker,” began his radio career at WUFO Buffalo, while studying pre-law at the University of Buffalo. His smooth, on air style soon had New York City calling. Frankie took a job at New York’s R&B station, 1600 WWRL. After a few years, WMCA came calling, and Crocker did evenings there until…
