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Category: 1450 WVON
Pervis Spann on 1450 WVON 1450 Chicago | 1965
WVON 1450 Chicago – Pervis Spann – 1965 This aircheck features Chicago R&B radio station, 1450 WVON. The station became a powerhouse, when in 1963, it started playing Soul records ignored by most of Chicago’s big radio stations. On this recording, you’ll hear Chicago radio legend, Pervis Spann. Spann was born and raised in…
Bill “Butterball” Crane on 1450 WVON Chicago | August 1967
WVON 1450 Chicago – Bill “Butterball” Crane – August 1967 This aircheck featured Chicago’s longtime R&B station, 1450 WVON. WVON was a “heritage” R&B station that Chicago’s black community, launching in 1963. WVON featured great air personalities like Moses “Lucky” Cordell, Herb Kent “The Cool Gent”, E. Rodney Jones, Joe “Youngblood” Cobb, Pervis…
Bill “Butterball” Crane on 1450 WVON Chicago | August 1967
WVON 1450 Chicago – Bill “Butterball” Crane – August 1967 This aircheck featured Chicago’s longtime R&B station, 1450 WVON. WVON was a “heritage” R&B station serving Chicago’s black community, launching in 1963. WVON featured great air personalities like Moses “Lucky” Cordell, Herb Kent “The Cool Gent”, E. Rodney Jones, Joe “Youngblood” Cobb, Pervis Spann,…
Herb Kent on 1450 WVON Chicago | April 1970
Herb Kent, “The Cool Gent,” spent decades on air, most of that time in Chicago. His radio career started in 1940s, and went right to the day he died in 2016. In the 1940s, Kent received his first paid radio job at WGRY in Gary, for $35 dollars a week. He went on to work at…
Herb Kent, WVON 1450 Chicago | February 1965
Herb Kent, “The Cool Gent,” spent decades on air, most of that time in Chicago. His radio career started in 1940s, and went right to the day he died in 2016. In the 1940s, Kent received his first paid radio job at WGRY in Gary, for $35 dollars a week. He went on to work…
Herb Kent, 1450 WVON Chicago | April 1970
Herb Kent, “The Cool Gent,” spent decades on air, most of that time in Chicago. His radio career started in 1940s, and went right to the day he died in 2016. In the 1940s, Kent received his first paid radio job at WGRY in Gary, for $35 dollars a week. He went on to work at…
