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Subject: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: hot_wax on 09/29/04 at 11:00 pm

AM Rock and Roll radio stations controlled the air waves until the late sixties, and they had their Disc-Jockey's, most where out of their minds and we loved them that way! Every station had one or two heavy hitters on prime time 7:00 to 10:00 PM...you know "Cruising the Block" time or " Submarine Race Watching" time.

Bob Lewis on WABC, NYC early sixties, I liked the best, "Bob BA Lew" and to this day, his tidbit sayings still bounce around in my head, like his weather reports that ended with him chanting " It will be Sunny in the Morning and Rainy in the Evening and a Ring a Ding a Cha Cha Cha" and his introduction song was a a parody of "Bob a Lou's Wedding Day"...he was my favorite.

Frankie Crocker on WNJR Union NJ was a close second with his " Cat's on the Back Fence" a Cool Jazz and Doo Wop station.

Yours?

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 09/30/04 at 4:17 am

WFIL-AM out of Philadelphia had some cool deejays:
Jim O'Brien
"Doctor" Don Rose

"Geator with the Heatah" Jerry Blavat is also out of Philly

and I also could pull in WABC.....anyone remember Dan Ingram?

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: bj26 on 09/30/04 at 7:03 am

I loved the djs and wanted to be one, we had WPLO in Atlanta with Bobby Dean, John Fox, and Hugh Baby Jarrett (sang in one of Elvis's groups). The djs in NYC at WMCA and WABC were the best, also Dusty Roads in Cincinnati and some dude in Chicago. 

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Tanya1976 on 09/30/04 at 7:05 pm


WFIL-AM out of Philadelphia had some cool deejays:
Jim O'Brien
"Doctor" Don Rose

"Geator with the Heatah" Jerry Blavat is also out of Philly

and I also could pull in WABC.....anyone remember Dan Ingram?


Tony, are you from Philly? I am! Yes, I remember them! Do you remember Butterball?

Tanya

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 09/30/04 at 7:36 pm




Tony, are you from Philly? I am! Yes, I remember them! Do you remember Butterball?

Tanya
Don't really remember Butterball.....I'm from Southern NJ.

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 09/30/04 at 7:49 pm

I also listened to a local NJ station-WMID AM out of my hometown-Atlantic City.  One DJ stood out coz he was really cool...Al Horner. WMID,as well as WFIL,WABC,WMMR-93.3 FM(when rock music on FM was the cool stuff not some format crap),as well as my older sister Pat,was my initiation into rock music fandom..

WMID did something kinda cool as a promo...whenever they played the Grassroots' hit 'SOONER OR LATER' they would change the intro to 'W-M-I-D,sooner or later',sounds corny to me now,but hey,I was eleven years old at the time!

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Tanya1976 on 09/30/04 at 9:15 pm



Don't really remember Butterball.....I'm from Southern NJ.


Close enough, Tony!  ;)
Tanya

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: CatwomanofV on 10/01/04 at 12:48 pm


WFIL-AM out of Philadelphia had some cool deejays:
Jim O'Brien
"Doctor" Don Rose

"Geator with the Heatah" Jerry Blavat is also out of Philly

and I also could pull in WABC.....anyone remember Dan Ingram?



Dan Ingram sounds so familar to me. I don't remember him per say but the name is ringing a bell like crazy. I'm sure I listened to him.

I too, listened to WABC and used to listen to Cousin Brucie in the morning.



Cat

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Howard on 10/01/04 at 7:10 pm

WPLJ 95.5 FM in New York was my favorite radio station during the 1980's.that station had Jim Kerr and Shelly Sonstein in the morning at 720am.



Howard

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Howard on 10/01/04 at 7:12 pm





Dan Ingram sounds so familar to me. I don't remember him per say but the name is ringing a bell like crazy. I'm sure I listened to him.

I too, listened to WABC and used to listen to Cousin Brucie in the morning.



Cat



Now,Cousin Brucie does the 70's at 7 on WCBS-FM 101.1 here in New York,Cat. :)


Howard

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 10/01/04 at 10:01 pm

My fave DJ's these days are:

Pat DeMarco on The SHARK 103.7..Atlantic City's first-ever classic-rock station...well actually the station is in Linwood...on NJ Route 9 South...

Pat DeMarco is beyond cool.....He always plays my requests even stuff like older King Crimson(DeMarco does a late-night show called "FM Underground Flashback" on weeknights)

Nicky G. from the SHARK

Brandon Maxwell from the SHARK

Sue Schilling who hosts 'Breakfast With The Beatles' on the aforementioned station....on Sunday mornings 9AM-12PM

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Howard on 10/02/04 at 9:17 am

My favorite DJ these days is:

http://www.joecausi.com/images/TequilaSunriseTues.jpg

Joe Causi


Howard

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: hot_wax on 10/02/04 at 11:18 pm


WFIL-AM out of Philadelphia had some cool deejays:
Jim O'Brien
"Doctor" Don Rose

"Geator with the Heatah" Jerry Blavat is also out of Philly

and I also could pull in WABC.....anyone remember Dan Ingram?


This is cool! I never heard "Geator with the Heatah" I get the impression that he was as"nut's" as the New York DJ's  I got to look him up on the internet, what Philly station was he on? was Doctor Don Rose on the same station?

Look up "musicradio77.com" for an in dept bio on Dan Ingram... you'll be like it.

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: hot_wax on 10/02/04 at 11:52 pm





Dan Ingram sounds so familar to me. I don't remember him per say but the name is ringing a bell like crazy. I'm sure I listened to him.

I too, listened to WABC and used to listen to Cousin Brucie in the morning.



Cat



Hi Cat!! Cousin Brucie still has a radio show on WCBS FM from NYC  on Wednesday and Saturday nights 7:00 to 11:00 PM and 10:30 PM on Sat. nights he features his ,as he says it, his" Love hour, half hour, hour, half hour Love hour show" segment of oldie love songs at. I think he's really the last of the Dinasours still working today as a wacky DJ from the sixties era.

If you want to, check out the  bio on Dan Ingram's web site.

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Howard on 10/03/04 at 9:29 am





Hi Cat!! Cousin Brucie still has a radio show on WCBS FM from NYC  on Wednesday and Saturday nights 7:00 to 11:00 PM and 10:30 PM on Sat. nights he features his ,as he says it, his" Love hour, half hour, hour, half hour Love hour show" segment of oldie love songs at. I think he's really the last of the Dinasours still working today as a wacky DJ from the sixties era.

If you want to, check out the  bio on Dan Ingram's web site.


http://www.wcbsfm.com/images/personalities/Morrow_Bruce.jpg


Hotwax,you ever listen to Cousin Bruice's 70's at 7pm where they choose a specific year in the 70's and play songs? :)



Howard

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: CatwomanofV on 10/03/04 at 1:26 pm


WPLJ 95.5 FM in New York was my favorite radio station during the 1980's.that station had Jim Kerr and Shelly Sonstein in the morning at 720am.



Howard



I used to listen to WPLJ, too in the 80s. Don't remember any of the djs though. At the same time, I also listened to WPDH out of Poughkeepsie.



Cat

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: hot_wax on 10/03/04 at 10:43 pm




http://www.wcbsfm.com/images/personalities/Morrow_Bruce.jpg


Hotwax,you ever listen to Cousin Bruice's 70's at 7pm where they choose a specific year in the 70's and play songs? :)



Howard


Hi again Howard! Yes, I think it's his "Yearbook"  segment he does on his Wednesday night show on WCBS-FM your asking about.

Hot Wax

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: hot_wax on 10/03/04 at 11:54 pm


I also listened to a local NJ station-WMID AM out of my hometown-Atlantic City.  One DJ stood out coz he was really cool...Al Horner. WMID,as well as WFIL,WABC,WMMR-93.3 FM(when rock music on FM was the cool stuff not some format crap),as well as my older sister Pat,was my initiation into rock music fandom..

WMID did something kinda cool as a promo...whenever they played the Grassroots' hit 'SOONER OR LATER' they would change the intro to 'W-M-I-D,sooner or later',sounds corny to me now,but hey,I was eleven years old at the time!


Hi Tony20fan4ever, Like your sister Pat, I have a brother that is 7 years older than me and I got all my learning about Rock and Roll pretty young because of him and the gang he used to hang out with. They would play their records and talk about the Rock and Roll revolution and all the stories told in the lingo of the day, " Hep Cat" talk, they were cool and I learned a lot of the weird sayings like " Hey Dadio" and "Cool man Cool" and all the other jive talk sayings of the time. I was way ahead of my my time because of him and them, I dressed like Elvis ( Early Elvis) talked like I was from other planet and kids my age just didn't get it! Hey, when I was eight years old I had one of the largest collections of Rock and Roll records that was possible for the time when most of kids where listening to Eddy Fisher records. A couple of times I got sent home from school to wash the grease  "Dixie Peach","Vaseline or "Crisco" out of my hair and take the metal taps off the heels of my motorcycle boots before they would let me back into school and this was the fifth grade. By the way, I had a "cool" mom too! I was acted and looked to old for my group and to young for the teenage babes I attracted but did score with a few of them anyway, thanks Elvis!

Was this sort of like what happened to you too while growing up with your older sister Pat?

Hot Wax 


Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: danootaandme on 10/04/04 at 6:24 am

I used to listen to Bruce(Juicy Brucie) Bradley-WBZ  Arnie(the Woo Woo) Ginsburg-WMEX
and D*ck Summer-WBZ .  D*ck Summer had a show called D*ck Summers Subway and he
got into the folk scene really early, which was cool.

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Howard on 10/04/04 at 4:54 pm





I used to listen to WPLJ, too in the 80s. Don't remember any of the djs though. At the same time, I also listened to WPDH out of Poughkeepsie.



Cat



Jim Kerr and Shelly Sonstein used to always have joke time at 7:20am in the morning and Howard The Cabdriver always helped out Shelly sometimes during the early 80's.I wish they could bring it back but now they are on 104.3 but I rarely listen to it.


Howard

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Howard on 10/04/04 at 4:59 pm




Hi again Howard! Yes, I think it's his "Yearbook"  segment he does on his Wednesday night show on WCBS-FM your asking about.

Hot Wax



yeah,Hotwax his "Yearbook" segment is great.Cousin Brucie also advertises on Channel 13 for the music collection CDs. :)


Howard

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Howard on 10/04/04 at 5:04 pm

Would you believe that WKTU 103.5 the radio station here in New York will be 9 years old next year on February the 13th?  :o


Howard

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: hot_wax on 10/04/04 at 8:49 pm


I used to listen to Bruce(Juicy Brucie) Bradley-WBZ   Arnie(the Woo Woo) Ginsburg-WMEX
and D*ck Summer-WBZ .  D*ck Summer had a show called D*ck Summers Subway and he
got into the folk scene really early, which was cool.



DanootaAndMe, This is cool! just what I wanted know, these guys sound like they were out of their minds too, I would have enjoyed their shows...what city did they broadcast from and what years?

Hot Wax

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: RockandRollFan on 10/04/04 at 9:22 pm

I grew up in Colorado Springs but in 1976 I became a "Resident" of Chicago. As darkness fell I was able to pick up AM 89 WLS and it was a habit I stayed in up until 1984. They then turned into talk radio and the glory days of AM ended for me. I also enjoyed a station that was able to escape the law of the FCC which limited U.S. stations to 50,000 watts of power. With a studio located in El Paso, TX and thier transmitter located just a few miles away over the border in Warez, Mexico, a station that had 150,000 watts could be heard in 44 states in the union and reach as far north as Canada....X-Rock 80 was a great station as well. The guys on WLS....Jeff Davis, John "Records" Landecker, Steve King and X-Rock with Cris "Music Michaels and Stan Mane were my on-air buddies. I once had a girlfriend who moved to Vrginia in 1981....I called Jeff Davis and dedicated a song to her "Waiting For A Girl Like You" by Foreigner...and he played it for me...she heard it from Virginia! I LOVED AM radio and that wonderful Ionosphere :)

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: bj26 on 10/05/04 at 7:08 am

I think there was some jock on WLS named Mad Daddy, but I never hear him, just heard of him 8)

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: danootaandme on 10/05/04 at 2:14 pm





DanootaAndMe, This is cool! just what I wanted know, these guys sound like they were out of their minds too, I would have enjoyed their shows...what city did they broadcast from and what years?

Hot Wax


Boston.. There were also the WMEX Good Guys.  Arnie(the woo woo) was late 50's &60's.
He was one of the Good Guys.  The others were 60's.

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: CatwomanofV on 10/06/04 at 12:56 pm


I used to listen to Bruce(Juicy Brucie) Bradley-WBZ   Arnie(the Woo Woo) Ginsburg-WMEX
and D*ck Summer-WBZ .  D*ck Summer had a show called D*ck Summers Subway and he
got into the folk scene really early, which was cool.



Wow, D!ck Summers. Another name that is ringing a bell with me. At one time, did he have a show where he played a lot of love songs?


For you people who are in Mass. do you remember an oldies station out of Springfield (or around there) that had a dj name "Big" John Little?



Cat

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Howard on 10/06/04 at 7:26 pm

I grew up in New York City,Queens and I listened to stations such as WPLJ,WKTU,WYNY,WBLS,WCBS and Z-100 .


Howard

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: danootaandme on 10/07/04 at 6:51 am



Wow, D!ck Summers. Another name that is ringing a bell with me. At one time, did he have a show where he played a lot of love songs?

For you people who are in Mass. do you remember an oldies station out of Springfield (or around there) that had a dj name "Big" John Little?

Cat


D!ck Summers left Boston for NYC.  I remember that his sister married John Sebastion of the Lovin' Spoonful
but I don't know anything after that. 

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: hot_wax on 10/07/04 at 10:07 pm


I grew up in Colorado Springs but in 1976 I became a "Resident" of Chicago. As darkness fell I was able to pick up AM 89 WLS and it was a habit I stayed in up until 1984. They then turned into talk radio and the glory days of AM ended for me. I also enjoyed a station that was able to escape the law of the FCC which limited U.S. stations to 50,000 watts of power. With a studio located in El Paso, TX and their transmitter located just a few miles away over the border in Warez, Mexico, a station that had 150,000 watts could be heard in 44 states in the union and reach as far north as Canada....X-Rock 80 was a great station as well. The guys on WLS....Jeff Davis, John "Records" Landecker, Steve King and X-Rock with Cris "Music Michaels and Stan Mane were my on-air buddies. I once had a girlfriend who moved to Vrginia in 1981....I called Jeff Davis and dedicated a song to her "Waiting For A Girl Like You" by Foreigner...and he played it for me...she heard it from Virginia! I LOVED AM radio and that wonderful Ionosphere :)



Hi R&Rfan, isn't that something cool! I used to listen to Chicago station on a clear night from Jersey back in the early sixties on a new fanangle invention called a transistor radio the size of a cigarette pack! I thought it was amazing back then to listen to a station and it's DJ from Chicago and the different songs that kids were listening to there that we didn't even get on our local AM stations here...I heard the Four Season's "Sherry" weeks before it was played here in NYC and others too. I thought that Chicago was the coolest place on Earth to be at for a rock and roll fan...WAY TO GO CHICAGO!

I forgot what station it was and who was the that DJ on Sunday nights about 11:00 pm to 1:00 AM on that station back in 1961/62' does anyone remember? was any of you alive then?....how about your grandparents???  let me know I'm curious, Thanks!!

Hot Wax 

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: RockandRollFan on 10/09/04 at 3:15 am





Hi R&Rfan, isn't that something cool! I used to listen to Chicago station on a clear night from Jersey back in the early sixties on a new fanangle invention called a transistor radio the size of a cigarette pack! I thought it was amazing back then to listen to a station and it's DJ from Chicago and the different songs that kids were listening to there that we didn't even get on our local AM stations here...I heard the Four Season's "Sherry" weeks before it was played here in NYC and others too. I thought that Chicago was the coolest place on Earth to be at for a rock and roll fan...WAY TO GO CHICAGO!


Hot Wax 

I know what you mean....I felt like I grew up there! I had a neighbor in 1987 who was from Chicago and we talked about it like we both grew up there....he did. I have onldy had the frozen store bought White Castle Hamburgers but would like to have one AT a White Castle just to see what they're really like.....ever had one?

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: alwayssearching on 10/09/04 at 11:52 pm

I listened to WDGY out of Beautiful Bloomington, Minnesota.  When I think about it, I remember hearing Tin Man by America, Rock Me Gently by Andy Kim and having "Wacky Pack" stickers on my bedroom door.  Oh, and Angie Baby by Helen Reddy..it always creeped me out.  Scary little song.

Laurel

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: hot_wax on 10/10/04 at 1:21 am



I know what you mean....I felt like I grew up there! I had a neighbor in 1987 who was from Chicago and we talked about it like we both grew up there....he did. I have only had the frozen store bought White Castle Hamburgers but would like to have one AT a White Castle just to see what they're really like.....ever had one?


Yo!!R&RFAN, White Castle "Sliders" are eaten by the dozen...you can't eat just one! I've had frozen sliders and they are not quite the same as when they come right off the grill and out of the steamer, but close enough and if I got bitten by the " must have a Whitie" bug and frozen ones were only available I would  drive 50 miles to that frozen store to down a dozen or so because I wouldn't sleep until I got my belly full of those 30 cent worlds best hamburgers.

They're like a narcotic and you eat them in binges maybe 2 or 3 times in that month or until your cravings are satisfied... you can't do a steady diet of them because you'll crap the life out of yourself...that's why they're called sliders! their in and out in a couple of hours, and after you eat them that day they'll repeat on you for about 2 days later and everything you eat for the next day or so tastes like White Castle hamburgers. Even with all this self torturing to yourself you don't care! you must have more and more of those Whities no matter what the consequences are and with all of the after effects they have been in business since, I think, 1928 and getting stronger. We have had a White Castle here in our town forever...maybe it's one of the original Castles, I not sure, but I know when it was at the Five Point section of town there was pictures on their walls of their burger stand with cars that had rumble seats in their parking lot!...that's old!

They recently moved from there to highway location in town and double the size of their store, but the burgers haven't changed, they still taste as good today as they did 50 years ago when I ate my first "sack", that's how they refer for you to buy them, and even those frozen ones in a pinch...they are just good!

I wish I can help you, but maybe you'll get lucky and come across White Castle somewhere in your journeys and get to down a dozen of sliders...but don't say I didn't warn you!!

HOT WAX

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: hot_wax on 10/10/04 at 1:35 am


I listened to WDGY out of Beautiful Bloomington, Minnesota.  When I think about it, I remember hearing Tin Man by America, Rock Me Gently by Andy Kim and having "Wacky Pack" stickers on my bedroom door.   Oh, and Angie Baby by Helen Reddy..it always creeped me out.  Scary little song.

Laurel


Wow Minnesota!! ..."Wacky Pack", I like them already, do they still have a show?

Hot Wax

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: RockandRollFan on 10/10/04 at 10:52 am




Yo!!R&RFAN, White Castle "Sliders" are eaten by the dozen...you can't eat just one! I've had frozen sliders and they are not quite the same as when they come right off the grill and out of the steamer, but close enough and if I got bitten by the " must have a Whitie" bug and frozen ones were only available I would  drive 50 miles to that frozen store to down a dozen or so because I wouldn't sleep until I got my belly full of those 30 cent worlds best hamburgers.

They're like a narcotic and you eat them in binges maybe 2 or 3 times in that month or until your cravings are satisfied... you can't do a steady diet of them because you'll crap the life out of yourself...that's why they're called sliders! their in and out in a couple of hours, and after you eat them that day they'll repeat on you for about 2 days later and everything you eat for the next day or so tastes like White Castle hamburgers. Even with all this self torturing to yourself you don't care! you must have more and more of those Whities no matter what the consequences are and with all of the after effects they have been in business since, I think, 1928 and getting stronger. We have had a White Castle here in our town forever...maybe it's one of the original Castles, I not sure, but I know when it was at the Five Point section of town there was pictures on their walls of their burger stand with cars that had rumble seats in their parking lot!...that's old!

They recently moved from there to highway location in town and double the size of their store, but the burgers haven't changed, they still taste as good today as they did 50 years ago when I ate my first "sack", that's how they refer for you to buy them, and even those frozen ones in a pinch...they are just good!

I wish I can help you, but maybe you'll get lucky and come across White Castle somewhere in your journeys and get to down a dozen of sliders...but don't say I didn't warn you!!

HOT WAX
Thanks, hot_wax...I plan to visit Chicago soon, hopefully!

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Howard on 04/26/13 at 5:46 am

When you had deejays you also had the jingles such as WCBS-FM playing your favorite oldies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUOpOQx9Dms

Remember those days?  :)

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: warped on 04/26/13 at 6:52 am

Favorite stations?

CKGM and CHOM-FM in Montreal (1970s)
CHUM-AM, CHUM-FM, CFTR and Q107 in Torontp (late 70s and 1980s)
Rock 102 (Buffalo) in the late 1970s, and 1980s

DJ's I remember? Marc Denis in MTL, Scruff Connors on Q107, Tom Rivers on CHUM-AM. Roger Ashby too.

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Howard on 04/26/13 at 7:09 pm

I remember Harry Harrison, Norm N.Nite and the late great Ron Lundy all from WCBS FM 101.1

http://www.musicradio77.com/pix13/Harry%20Harrison%20WCBS-FMs.jpg

http://www.97wwdj.com/nnn.gif

http://www.musicradio77.com/lundypic.jpg

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: whistledog on 04/26/13 at 8:29 pm

The BIG one in Ontario was 1050 CHUM, which produced the first Top 40 weekly chart in Canada, which ran from May 1957 - June 1986.  In the early 2000s, the station switched to sports talk radio, and is now known as TSN Radio 1050

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: warped on 04/27/13 at 7:57 am


The BIG one in Ontario was 1050 CHUM, which produced the first Top 40 weekly chart in Canada, which ran from May 1957 - June 1986.  In the early 2000s, the station switched to sports talk radio, and is now known as TSN Radio 1050


I listened to that for years. After 1986 it became an oldies station, as so many stations did.

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: warped on 05/01/13 at 5:59 pm


The BIG one in Ontario was 1050 CHUM, which produced the first Top 40 weekly chart in Canada, which ran from May 1957 - June 1986.  In the early 2000s, the station switched to sports talk radio, and is now known as TSN Radio 1050


Way back in the 1970s, 1050 Chum produced "Chum Charts". You probably heard of them. I can't remember what year they stopped doing that. But here's one I found on the net.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_h3ZYuX1m0CE/TE3kwtWk2PI/AAAAAAAARhA/DPYzjMke7Gw/s400/c10.gif

which you could pick up at the Chum office on Yonge Street. I had a few, I've kept one (not the photo above) for nostalgia reasons.

In 1979, CFTR came up with a list of the top 300 or 500 songs of the 1970s. I still have a copy of that from the Toronto Sun.

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: whistledog on 05/01/13 at 8:37 pm


Way back in the 1970s, 1050 Chum produced "Chum Charts". You probably heard of them. I can't remember what year they stopped doing that. But here's one I found on the net.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_h3ZYuX1m0CE/TE3kwtWk2PI/AAAAAAAARhA/DPYzjMke7Gw/s400/c10.gif

which you could pick up at the Chum office on Yonge Street. I had a few, I've kept one (not the photo above) for nostalgia reasons.

In 1979, CFTR came up with a list of the top 300 or 500 songs of the 1970s. I still have a copy of that from the Toronto Sun.



I often reference the CHUM charts for chart placings in Canada prior to 1965.  1050chum.com used to have the complete CHUM chart archived, but they removed it a few years ago

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: warped on 05/01/13 at 8:55 pm


I often reference the CHUM charts for chart placings in Canada prior to 1965.  1050chum.com used to have the complete CHUM chart archived, but they removed it a few years ago


Yah I know, bummer. I used to visit that site often. I wish it would come back.

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Howard on 05/02/13 at 6:27 am


Yah I know, bummer. I used to visit that site often. I wish it would come back.


Now what's playing on your stations?  ???

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: warped on 05/02/13 at 7:48 am


Now what's playing on your stations?  ???


That particular station which used to play top 40, and then oldies, has now become a sports station. We still have some oldies stations, sports stations, news, new music, classic rock stations, just like in NY, Howard.

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: hot_wax on 05/13/13 at 9:59 pm


When you had deejays you also had the jingles such as WCBS-FM playing your favorite oldies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUOpOQx9Dms

Remember those days?  :)


You know, I remember them all, good find!

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Howard on 05/14/13 at 6:14 am


You know, I remember them all, good find!


Thanks. Today's disc jockeys don't pay attention to the "real" oldies they used to play from back in the days anymore. It's a shame. :(

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: hot_wax on 05/16/13 at 9:02 pm


Thanks today's disc jockeys don't pay attention to the "real" oldies they used to play from back in the days anymore. It's a shame. :(


I e-mailed the " New" WCBS a couple of times on how they SUCK today, they say they play 60's 70's and 80's music, oh they do, they play the loop of of bubblegum music everyday that sucked when they first came out years ago. EVERYDAY! for 4 years since they re-vamped their "Oldies" station and fired Cousin Brucie. They would play WCBS in work and after 1 year I knew every song that was going to be played that day because of the loop. I only listen to WMTR 1250 AM radio, they are the real deal in oldies from the 50's 60's and 70's only, real blasts from the past type disc jockey's too.

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 05/16/13 at 10:35 pm


I e-mailed the " New" WCBS a couple of times on how they SUCK today, they say they play 60's 70's and 80's music, oh they do, they play the loop of of bubblegum music everyday that sucked when they first came out years ago. EVERYDAY! for 4 years since they re-vamped their "Oldies" station and fired Cousin Brucie. They would play WCBS in work and after 1 year I knew every song that was going to be played that day because of the loop. I only listen to WMTR 1250 AM radio, they are the real deal in oldies from the 50's 60's and 70's only, real blasts from the past type disc jockey's too.


Summertime Blues Blues
???

My friend Reid did a program called "Blue Vinyl Stew" for years on my station.  He had just about every doo-wop, soul, bubblegum, folk, and old-time rock 'n' roll 45 ever pressed.  He'd been collecting records since the sixties.  Just say the A side and he'd know the B side!  Great DJ.  No "oldies" station was interested, and he sure as hell wasn't interested in them.  Like I said in an earlier post (maybe on a different thread), management is interested in market shares, not music.  The sad fact is the short and repetitive playlists draw more listeners.  The Cellos "Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am the Japanese Sandman), Andre Williams "Jailbait," 13th Floor Elevators "You're Gonna Miss Me," they don't want to hear that strange junk, they want "Be My Baby" for the umpty-umpth time!  Anyway, we're not gonna pay some guy to sit in a booth and play records!  Jesus, what do you think this is, a radio station?

SUCKS!
>:(

Anyway, it was a sad day when Reid retired and moved back to Oregon.  I sure miss shooting the breeze about music with him!
:(

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Howard on 05/17/13 at 6:21 am


I e-mailed the " New" WCBS a couple of times on how they SUCK today, they say they play 60's 70's and 80's music, oh they do, they play the loop of of bubblegum music everyday that sucked when they first came out years ago. EVERYDAY! for 4 years since they re-vamped their "Oldies" station and fired Cousin Brucie. They would play WCBS in work and after 1 year I knew every song that was going to be played that day because of the loop. I only listen to WMTR 1250 AM radio, they are the real deal in oldies from the 50's 60's and 70's only, real blasts from the past type disc jockey's too.


you know you're not get a real answer from them. They just want to add The 1980's for their list because they think The 80's are considered "oldies" now.

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: warped on 07/01/13 at 2:14 pm

What I listen to now (over the net)  is http://hoganddawg.com/

Good classic rock and some modern rock too.  greenjello  is a DJ there too.

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: Howard on 07/01/13 at 3:10 pm


What I listen to now (over the net)  is http://hoganddawg.com/

Good classic rock and some modern rock too.  greenjello  is a DJ there too.


Is it commercial free radio? ???

Subject: Re: When Disc-Jockey's ruled the air waves...your favorite was on what station?

Written By: warped on 07/01/13 at 3:17 pm


Is it commercial free radio? ???


Yes, commercial free.

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