Another great aircheck. Thanks Ellis Feaster! At 4:39 Larry Lujack says "I got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line." That's the tag line of Buck Owen's big country hit from 1966. "Waiting In Your Welfare Line" was #1 on the Country charts for 7 weeks in the winter of '66.
My Dad taught me about distant AM signals bouncing off the ionosphere, and WLS was one of the stations I discovered (we lived near Nashville TN). I was a regular listener during the time of these airchecks.
@brenttravis4665 some thing you may want to look into. There has been talk of car manufacturers phasing out AM in the car stereos. I heard this on WBAP Rick Roberts Show out of Dallas. At this point l believe Ford will not do this. Politics involved. AM talk radio as you know is a big conservative platform. All politics aside, as far as WBAP, it is where you can tune in for constant weather coverage when it gets bad. When satellite TV or FM radio fails, AM radio still stands.
Robin McNamara right out the gate! I think I recall as a little kid seeing the add for Susan, "Everybody Needs Milk" and I only just now got the double meaning behind it! Hey, I was 5yrs old or so, gimme a break man! That letter from "TM" @ 5:45 was good! Programming for, "...sophisticated, intelligent high school and college students and mature 2nd graders"!😀 Dig that K-Tel commercial @21:51 followed by a rocker by The Osmonds! Man, ALL the songs were good...and PAUL HARVEY, how classic is that?!?!
hey! great stuff! is there a way i could somehow get a listen to one of the raw footage/recordings? it'd be very neat to just hear an unedited 30mins-1hr of what the radio used to sound like. Thanks!~ :-)
AN stereo is still used by small fry radio stations,,sony made am stereo receivers so.. make more music,,jazz old stuff 80s stuff 90s,big band jazz brazilian jazz
![WLS AM89 NEW YEAR'S MONTAGE [1960-1989] ■ OffTheCharts365](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/e-UmPZNAiSw/mqdefault.jpg)
What radio used to be, and will never be again. Never was good enough to work at the Big 89, but always wanted to. Damn good stuff.
The greatest time in chicago radio!
Listened to WLS from 1970 - 1974. Good times.
The absolute best time in AM TOP 40 radio and I am proud to say I was part of it! Thanks for this Ellis!
You’re welcome. It was an amazing station.
Larry Lujack was unique in that he could keep his listeners enthralled so they wouldn't change stations.
Another great aircheck. Thanks Ellis Feaster! At 4:39 Larry Lujack says "I got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line." That's the tag line of Buck Owen's big country hit from 1966. "Waiting In Your Welfare Line" was #1 on the Country charts for 7 weeks in the winter of '66.
Is THAT where he got that from?! Wow!✌🙂
Love this ❤
Cool to hear that the George Harrison Bangladesh live album got radio airplay back then!
Yes, I didn't realize it was played!
Ah the memories. I used to pick up WLS in Waco TX. Something about that AM radio sound.
My Dad taught me about distant AM signals bouncing off the ionosphere, and WLS was one of the stations I discovered (we lived near Nashville TN). I was a regular listener during the time of these airchecks.
@brenttravis4665 some thing you may want to look into. There has been talk of car manufacturers phasing out AM in the car stereos. I heard this on WBAP Rick Roberts Show out of Dallas. At this point l believe Ford will not do this. Politics involved. AM talk radio as you know is a big conservative platform. All politics aside, as far as WBAP, it is where you can tune in for constant weather coverage when it gets bad. When satellite TV or FM radio fails, AM radio still stands.
The best
This is radio before the consultants took over
Robin McNamara right out the gate! I think I recall as a little kid seeing the add for Susan, "Everybody Needs Milk" and I only just now got the double meaning behind it! Hey, I was 5yrs old or so, gimme a break man! That letter from "TM" @ 5:45 was good! Programming for, "...sophisticated, intelligent high school and college students and mature 2nd graders"!😀 Dig that K-Tel commercial @21:51 followed by a rocker by The Osmonds! Man, ALL the songs were good...and PAUL HARVEY, how classic is that?!?!
Memories of rural Iowa when I was a kid.
Susan the milk queen 😂 I wonder how many adolescent boys had that in their room! 🤣
Would love to have that logo on a t-shirt. The Musicradio one.
hey! great stuff! is there a way i could somehow get a listen to one of the raw footage/recordings? it'd be very neat to just hear an unedited 30mins-1hr of what the radio used to sound like.
Thanks!~ :-)
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AN stereo is still used by small fry radio stations,,sony made am stereo receivers
so.. make more music,,jazz old stuff 80s stuff 90s,big band jazz brazilian jazz
The over-editing is terrible.