What a blast from the past! I grew up just outside Chicago in one of the suburbs..high school years were 1960-1964 and all we ever listened to was WLS, but sometimes WJJD too. I still in the area of Chicagoland...great city
Thanks for the memories !I too had my 6 Transistor under my pillow listening to Duck Beyondi playing Telstar !! Who remembers the launching of our first telecommunications satellite ??
fellow pillow transistor listener - I'm only 50 but I've always loved that song SO much. my ma used to play it on our organ (when having an organ in the house was cool), God bless 'er.
amazing...back then kids would even sing-a-long to the jingles...so the flow was non-stop...jingles to song..to jingles..etc..etc...love it...miss it! thanks for uploading such great jingles and helping bring back some absolutely wonderful mems........ty..ty
Wow thanks for is post. I definitely remember these little jingles from the early '60s growing up in Chicago. Really something how something this small can put you in a nice frame of mind remembering a happy period of life.
Notice that the weather jingles have a musical bed with no singing in the middle, for the DJ to do a short live forecast. That meant the on-air guys had to become familiar with how much time they'd have to speak when they played these.
fantastic video and some of the all-time best jingles heard on radio. the anita kerr singers were incredibly skilled in singing those tight harmonies. I love the radar weather eye jingle with that repeating effect at the end... "in chicago-go-go-go-go" and the guitar plucking out those notes. thanks for posting this!
Used to listen to Art Roberts back during the folk song scare. Had a show from 10 til midnight on Sundays with the latest in folk music. Loved Chicago in the 60's. Especially Old Town.
and you had some classic stations there that I, as a chicagoan, wish I could've picked up when I was a little girl tuning around on my transistor at night!
I spent a lot of weekend and summer vacation hours, up on the 4th floor at 360 N. Michigan Avenue ... watching the great WLS jocks at work. They were pretty inspirational, and I ended up on the air in Chicago for right around 14 years. Never got as well-known as those WLS legends, though.
Hi to a guy from my the same neighborhood where I also grew up. I still have a stack of Silver Dollar Surveys from 64-69 collected from Roseland Music Store. ;)
If you grew up in the midwest then Chicago's WLS was your radio station. With the legendary Ron Riley and Art Roberts and occasionally the wacky Dick Biondi. With the advent of electronically digitalized music dee jays became a dying breed on the air waves. But this was music at its best when WLS was in its hey days. The Anita Kerr Singers were second only to The Jordanaires as session back up singers and they sang on hundreds if not thousands of songs in the pop and country fields.
I recall how Art Roberts would explain, using his own imagination, how "Kalamazoo Slacks" were baked so they "never needed ironing", those were the first days of no iron clothes when introduced for the first time. I think Art Roberts was great in relating to younger people. I listened to him every night, he played the top 3 at 10:00PM. I still hear him raving about Stevie Wonder, "Little Stevie Wonder" back then, when his first record came out. Roberts passed away a couple of years ago.
With all due respect, in my opinion the Anita Kerr jingles are far beyond those of the Johnny Mann Singers. More dense harmonically and textured brilliantly as the group goes back and forth between octaves and perfectly voiced 4-part.
What a blast from the past! I grew up just outside Chicago in one of the suburbs..high school years were 1960-1964 and all we ever listened to was WLS, but sometimes WJJD too. I still in the area of Chicagoland...great city
Thanks for the memories !I too had my 6 Transistor under my pillow listening to Duck Beyondi playing Telstar !! Who remembers the launching of our first telecommunications satellite ??
fellow pillow transistor listener - I'm only 50 but I've always loved that song SO much. my ma used to play it on our organ (when having an organ in the house was cool), God bless 'er.
I remember these and love them! I was once a Guest Teen DJ on the Art Roberts' Show!
"Don't be nervous...don't be rocky...you're our teenage...guest disk jockey now"
RIP to Anita Kerr, gives me chills to hear these after decades and decades...
amazing...back then kids would even sing-a-long to the jingles...so the flow was non-stop...jingles to song..to jingles..etc..etc...love it...miss it! thanks for uploading such great jingles and helping bring back some absolutely wonderful mems........ty..ty
Wow thanks for is post. I definitely remember these little jingles from the early '60s growing up in Chicago. Really something how something this small can put you in a nice frame of mind remembering a happy period of life.
Notice that the weather jingles have a musical bed with no singing in the middle, for the DJ to do a short live forecast. That meant the on-air guys had to become familiar with how much time they'd have to speak when they played these.
fantastic video and some of the all-time best jingles heard on radio. the anita kerr singers were incredibly skilled in singing those tight harmonies. I love the radar weather eye jingle with that repeating effect at the end... "in chicago-go-go-go-go" and the guitar plucking out those notes. thanks for posting this!
Anita Kerr... la Reine de l'harmonisation vocale, merci ! thank you !
As a retro head, I love these old jingles....just Magic !!!!!!!
Used to listen to Art Roberts back during the folk song scare. Had a show from 10 til midnight on Sundays with the latest in folk music. Loved Chicago in the 60's. Especially Old Town.
WLS WAS MY STATION AS I GREW UP. I LOVED THE MUSIC. I NEVER FOUND A STATION TO REPLACE IT.
I still have some of my Surveys ranging from '63-74. So glad i kept them.
For those who lost their WLS Silver Dollar Surveys somewhere through the years, take heart, and go to oldiesloon.com
I grew up northwest of Philly and could pick up WLS for about an hour early in the evening ( instead of homework) and remember some of these jingles .
and you had some classic stations there that I, as a chicagoan, wish I could've picked up when I was a little girl tuning around on my transistor at night!
WFIL!
I remember these great jingles on WLS radio that I received from Pittsburgh,Pa at night!
I grew up in Watertown, South Dakota.And we would listen to WLS late at night in the mid to early sixties.
wls brings back memories for mr ..I grew up with this soothing jingle and grae dj's
the guitar after the Radar Weather Eye jingle totally sounds like Les Paul.
Could have very well been. Sounds like him to a tee. This was at about the time she (Anita Kerr) left RCA Nashville for California.
I always loved the radar weather eye music
I listen to these great old long jingles, and sometimes I wonder how they wedged in any songs.
I do remember these jingles
I spent a lot of weekend and summer vacation hours, up on the 4th floor at 360 N. Michigan Avenue ... watching the great WLS jocks at work. They were pretty inspirational, and I ended up on the air in Chicago for right around 14 years. Never got as well-known as those WLS legends, though.
Like buried treasure, deep in my subconscious...Class of '64, St. Joseph, Michigan
Hi to a guy from my the same neighborhood where I also grew up.
I still have a stack of Silver Dollar Surveys from 64-69 collected from Roseland Music Store.
;)
If you grew up in the midwest then Chicago's WLS was your radio station. With the
legendary Ron Riley and Art Roberts and occasionally the wacky Dick Biondi. With the
advent of electronically digitalized music dee jays became a dying breed on the air
waves. But this was music at its best when WLS was in its hey days. The Anita Kerr
Singers were second only to The Jordanaires as session back up singers and they sang on hundreds if not thousands of songs in the pop and country fields.
I recall how Art Roberts would explain, using his own imagination, how "Kalamazoo Slacks" were baked so they "never needed ironing", those were the first days of no iron clothes when introduced for the first time. I think Art Roberts was great in relating to younger people.
I listened to him every night, he played the top 3 at 10:00PM. I still hear him raving about Stevie Wonder, "Little Stevie Wonder" back then, when his first record came out. Roberts passed away a couple of years ago.
January 28th, 1966. I happen to remember that day. Not yesterday or the day before mind ya......... but January 28th, 1966........
75 NOW 2023 GREW UP WITH WLS 89 60s🤔
Wow they were great!!!!!.
i would listen to wls more than i do now if they did stuff like this
WONDERFUL!
I think that jingle was: "keep your radio on, keep your radio on, stay up with us for a while" or something like that.
Great days!
quite enjoyable indeed
Wow!
With all due respect, in my opinion the Anita Kerr jingles are far beyond those of the Johnny Mann Singers. More dense harmonically and textured brilliantly as the group goes back and forth between octaves and perfectly voiced 4-part.
WLS used to be the station to listen to in the sixtys. It realy sucks now. All right wing talk .What a shame.
Better than left-wing crap.