At this point in the evolution of MusicRadio 77 WABC, Dan Ingram had been doing mornings for about a year. He’s quite comfortable here in June, 1980, although not quite as good as his former afternoon show was.
Here at this point in the year, the format is still straight up Top 40. Lots of disco music was still being played and the station is still very upbeat. A few months later… boring AC would arrive, along with the ultimate demise of the station just under two years from this recording.
First appearing on this website in 2010, it's time for a flashback. Audio has been gently re-mastered. The contributor for this is Paul Ford. This is this brief composite of a day on the air at MusicRadio 77 starting with Harry Harrison in the morning, then moving on to…
From Contributor Frank Davis comes this unique 'almost disco' recording of MusicRadio 77 from April 10, 1979. Legend has it that WABC went Disco for one week. Well, first off, we're not entirely sure of which week in '79 that was, or if it was exactly one week or longer.…
Curator's Original Notes: Dan Ingram is up to his typical antics here on an early 70s Summer day in the Big Apple. Listen for lots of full-length commercials with their own theme songs, like Coca-Cola, Canada Dry Ginger Ale "Tastes Like Us", in fact, this must have been the height…
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Did it with such ease. ” I haven’t got one I’m gonna call in myself and get one”