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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.” […]
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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!
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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!
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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. […]
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Composite: 1510 WMEX Boston | October 4-5, 1972
- 1510 WMEX
- Boston
- Harry Baum
- J. Michael Wilson
- Larry Krueger
- Neil Grant
- Rick Williams
- Russ Oasis
- Sherwood King
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!
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Robert W Morgan FINAL SHOW, 93 KHJ Los Angeles | October 22 1970
Robert W. Morgan was a legendary broadcaster, who was an early-morning fixture on Southern California drive-time radio for more than three decades. Morgan was known to a generation of Southern Californians as the original morning man on trend-setting “Boss Radio” 93KHJ, beginning […]
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Wendy & Bill Show, 97.9 The Loop WLUP-FM Chicago | April 15 1996
The Wendy & Bill Show, has become kind of an institution in Chicago. Wendy had worked on air at The Loop on & off since 1986. Bill is a Chicago-born actor, writer, comic, studied improvisation at Chicago’s Second City Theatre. He performed there […]
Here’s a short overview of the Dallas/Ft. Worth market in the Fall of 1992.
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