Let’s clap for the Wolfman!!! “Wolfman Jack” was one of radio’s most distinctive voices. Thanks to XERF and later XERB, the Wolfman reached most of the southwestern United States while selling everything from soft drinks to coffins. In 1969, the Wolfman returned to America and KDAY in Los Angeles. The following year, he…
Courtesy of Thom Whetston, we have an excellent quality ‘check of Wolfman Jack, serving his country on the airwaves of Armed Forces Radio. One would never realize how good radio was for the troops overseas as produced by the voices of the men and women in uniform, and the great air talent that donated their…
Station: 102.3 WLKQ Buford GA (Wikipedia) Format: Oldies (Today: Spanish, as “Le Raza 102.3/100.1) Branded: “Lake 102” Ownership: (Then) The Joseph Family (Now) Davis Broadcasting of Atlanta, L.L.C. Featured Air Personality: Karl Phillips (AFRTS/WRAI/WLKQ) Contributor: Karl Phillips Airchexx #1608 Here’s Carly Simon. And Don Knotts… no, I mean haha, Mick Jaggar… Curator’s…
Date of Recording: 11.23.1958 Station: 980 KFWB Los Angeles (Slogans: “Color Channel 98”, “All News 980”, “The Beast 980”, “Desi 980”, “Mera 980”) Format (at time of recording): Top 40 Featured Air Personality: Gene Weed b 1935 d 1999 (WQAM/KFWB/AFRTS/Dick Clark Productions) Contributor: Anonymous (per request) Airchexx Entry: 1,484 Sixty-five degrees in the land of…
Date of Recording: 12.12.1966 Station: 1090 XERB (XERB/XEPRS) Rosarito Beach, Baja California, Mexico (Studios in Chula Vista, California) Format at time of recording: Leased Time Brokered (Pre-Recorded material) Featured Air Personality: Wolfman Jack (Robert Weston Smith) b. 1938 d. 1995 (WYOU/KCIJ/XERF/XERB/KDAY/AFRTS/WNBC/WXTR) Contributor: Anonymous (Per request) Airchexx Entry: 1,485 …Tobacco Road on the Wolfman Jack Show…
This aircheck actually comes to us from Thom Whetston himself, via Big Apple Airchecks. Interesting, from your webmaster’s perspective, as Thom Whetston and I were sort-of competitors (I was at WFGL-AM and WFMP-FM), and we’ve been in touch recently. They call the twin cities of Fitchburg and Leominster (along with Gardner) the Montachusett region. WEIM…
Contributor Karl Phillips has sent in some wonderful goodies, including most of the WQXI airchecks here on the site. Its only appropriate, then, that we take the time to feature one of his own airchecks. Our contributor describes this aircheck: I was in line to be drafted when I worked at Quixie in 1969 so…
