Here’s another from Contributor Russ Oasis which is in excellent condition.
Despite this station’s heritage, there really are very few recordings available. Contributor Russ Oasis dug up this very short piece of audio.
Despite a signal which radiated mostly out over the Atlantic Ocean, the format and 50,000 watts of hit music power is memorable to many from the classic era of Top 40 radio!
Here’s an amazing composite of the lineup on WRKO Boston. The year was 1972 and some of the music in rotation that year was truly great!
Wharfield made a name for himself at Top 40 WVBF.
Here’s a jock who really deserves more attention as one of perhaps Boston’s most legendary Rock Jocks.
Among the Rock DeeJays of Boston radio, Mark Parenteau, Harvey Wharfield (WVBF, WCOZ, WAAF) and others took to the WROR microphones, telling stories of what it was like to be an album rock jock in the 60s, 70s and 1980s.
These two segments feature Freddie Cannon, Joe Martelle and Dan Donovan
This is one of a small handful of tapes that survived my youth.
Larry Glick was a legendary talk show host on Boston radio stations from the 1960s, through the 1990s. He was on WMEX, & WRKO, but he is best known for being on WBZ from the late 60s, until […]
Magic Christian on WVBF… yes, this was a long time ago indeed! Listen below to this partially restored aircheck just for fun. WVBF was using a TON of reverb here. One must wonder, if we had a better recording would it make […]
From the late 1970s, until today, Kiss 108 WXKS-FM Boston has been a Pop music powerhouse. Starting as a Disco formatted station in the late 70’s, the station evolved into an Urban Contemporary format, then by 1982 to continued to […]
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