Traine on the legendary Big Ape! WAPE-FM, that is! 95.1 picked up the CHR, er, Top 40 format where 690 left off two decades earlier. This particular weekend, it’s “Big Ape’s 80s Backtracks Weekend”! Similar to what some stations were doing with ‘Whatever Weekends” in the middle 2000s to counter-program the emerging “Jack-FM”(tm) stations, WAPE-FM is doing a flashback of all 80s tunes. Good ones, too!
No jingles on this particular aircheck, but the imaging is good, and Trane has a great set of pipes!
ahhhh… that would be 1996 Wink…errr Pat…ummmI mean Alex
aside from being heavy on radio ads, I enjoyed this aircheck….the auto commercial indicates that this came from the Fall of 1996
Hard to believe this was almost 15 years ago!
Trane Was one of the smoothest talking, excellent transitional radio personality, who left a great mark on the Big Ape in the late 80s. i looked forward to hearing him every time he was on. trane had a listener friendly voice, and would fit radio-banter into impossible seconds, between songs impeccable timing….which made him a master of his craft. he is sadly missed by real radio professionals who had the chance to hear him or know him. thank you TRAINE for inspiring me in my future doing voice overs.you were one of the greatest. and i have never forgotten you.i found my voice because of you… GOD-BLESS.