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Chuck Morgan on 650 WSM Nashville | 1981
WSM 650 Nashville – Chuck Morgan – 1981 Chuck Morgan has had a brodcasting career in Nashville one can only dream of. He was a part of the TV show Hee Haw, where he was one of the guys out in the corn field every week. He had a radio show on the nation’s…
Terry Young on Hot Hits 98 WCAU-FM Philadelphia | September 25 1981
WCAU-FM Hot Hits 98 Philadelphia – Terry Young – September 25 1981 In 1981, Many radio programmers thought Top 40 radio was dying, or already dead. Many Top 40 stations, who were primarily on AM radio, were sounding more like Adult Contemporary stations. They were kind of soft, low energy, and, kind of…
Chuck Morgan on WSM 650 Nashville | 1981
WSM 650 Nashville – Chuck Morgan – 1981 Courtesy: Robert Nicholson For almost a century, 650 AM WSM has been a leader in Country music Radio. WSM debuted on Oct. 5, 1925, and less than two months later, the station would birth its most famous show (and the show that would make country music…
Ken Gilbert, WAQY “Wacky 102” Springfield MA | July 4, 1981
Ken Gilbert has had a long career in radio, all of it in the New England region. Ken is best known for doing middays at WAQY Springfield in it’s top 40 incarnation as “Wacky 102” and at WDRC AM-FM Hartford in its top 40 and Oldies iterations.
Joe Martelle, Saturday Night Live At The Oldies on 98.5 WROR Boston | October, 1981
“Saturday Night Live At The Oldies” was arguably the most popular show on the old WROR on 98.5 and ran from 1977 when the station first started playing some contemporary music until 1991, when WROR became WBMX “Mix 98.5”
Ron Lundy, 77 WABC New York | January 7, 1981
Fans of Ron Lundy will really enjoy this! The quality of this recording is excellent and Lundy sounds just as good as he ever did.
Smokin’ Willie Bee Goode, WKCI Hamden “KC-101” New Haven | April, 1981
Another radio great has left the planet, and with him, many sad friends. As reported by his daughter, Alton Irwin, better known as Gnarly Charly and Smokin’ Willie Bee Goode passed away on February 5, 2022. His daughter said he went painlessly, so we can only assume it was sudden – we can all only…
Dan Ingram, 77 WABC New York | April 28, 1981
What follows is probably the most depressing, eye opening piece of audio which goes far towards explaining part of the reason why WABC needed to change formats to talk little more than a year after this aircheck was recorded. Description Truly, this is as boring as radio ever got in the world of pop music,…