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Rob Frankel's restoration magic on a Sunday afternoon aircheck compiled from Bob Lewis' and Chuck Leonard's shows, Contributed by Mark Katz & Kimball Brandner, We're seeing some tracks that would also be played on WOR-FM, but some of them have been at the top of WABC's playlist for several months: Penny Lane, Happy Together, Dedicated to the One I Love, I've Been Lonely Too Long, Bernadette, Ruby Tuesday, Sweet Soul Music, I'm a Man, Strawberry Fields Forever, and (My) Back Pages. American Pie: did WABC play the long version? Mama told me to get ready to save the country. This was done for several reasons: pop albums in the U.S. tended to have 12 tracks while UK albums had 14 tracks. And they claim to be playing tracks from the Concert for Bangla Desh, the Stones' Hot Rocks, McCartney, Led Zeppelin and Carole King. On the 19th, "Satisfaction" starts to appear. fill in work during the week when the "regulars" were Charges against John DePetro have been dismissed as the radio host faced a trespassing charge related to an incident over the summer during a Monday court hearing. Oyster Bay Branch. JINGLE: "Movin' and Groovin' with Cousin Bruce", Here's an early Bruce Morrow theme. NY Times: August 11, 2020. The survey for the week of February 24, 1975. And by today's standards, "Chubby" Checker wasn't all that fat. But it was diverse: a bit each of soul, pop, british rock, psychedelia, doo wop (almost) and rock. 77WABC News. Four months past the Beatles invasion and we get to hear Ingram doing his usual brilliant thing and introducing such fantastic tracks as "My Boy Lollipop". Don't know if they were really playing all those albums, but Abraxas, Sly, Elton John, Joplin, Creedence, Chicago, George Harrison and Grank Funk Railroad would all be played on FM as well. TV and Radio Schedules Wikia is a FANDOM TV Community. Saturday 6-10PM MiniCast On Air Now The Other Side of Midnight with Frank Morano Overnight 1-5AM On Air Now The Other Side of Midnight with Frank Morano Overnight 1-5AM More 77 WABC News Former Wide Receiver Released from Prison After 10 Years Ukraine leader pledges push for victory on war anniversary Fire breaks out at midtown hotel Plus a lot of top-40 hits just two months after the Beatles invaded and Dan does start to play "From Me To You". Anyways, at a time of radical changes in society and on the radio, this was a campaign definitely designed to give traditional advertisers comfort while also providing a tiny bit of psychedelic appeal by virtue of the color solarized photo treatment. appreciation goes to Vince Santarelli of the "Apple There was some great music here that would become part of the pop rock canon, but also a lot of really annoying non-rock tracks. Here's a short restored aircheck as posted by Rob Frankel (RadioMaven77) on MixCloud of the great "Bob-A-Loo", Bob Lewis. memorabilia department, here is an actual schedule from By this time, WABC seems to have pulled away from most of the acts that could also be heard on FM. To many, it didn't and those people would switch to WOR-FM (and to WNEW-FM just three+ months later), but for many it did work and would continue to work until WABC's demise 15 years later. AIRCHECK: Cousin Brucie [mono-restored](20:49). 11 am - UpClose with Bill Rittner. This is just 22 days after WABC-AM officially became a Top-40 station, DJ's included Charlie Greer (in mornings), Farrell Smith, Jack Carney, Chuck Dunaway, Scott Muni, "Big Joe's Happiness Exchange" and "The All Night Satellite Show". Im watching oldDatelines. Summer of '63 surveys. Here's a bit of Dan Ingram sitting in for Roby Yonge doing the annual review of the best 100 songs of the year. January 1, 1968 when he was finally able to stop carrying it! Even a public radio station wouldn't be that daring today. Partisan observers, for example, most states have laws that partisan observers get to watch the vote count from start to finish. Symone coming on strong. WEATHER ALERT Coastal Flood Advisory. I Love You (Capitol of Canada 72076) on February 4, 1963. In spite of the fact that progressive rock was in all its glory and we had WBLS (Black), WPLJ (AOR), WXLO (Top-40), WCBS-FM (Oldies), WNBC(AM) (Top 40), WNEW-FM (AOR), WWRL(AM) (Black), WKTU (Mellow), WPIX-FM (Top-40) and WLIR (AOR), WABC remained #1 in the ratings with an 8.5 share of the audience in the general July-August 1977 ratings. Montauk Branch. Dan Ingram doing his usual thing with a lot of pop oriented R&B and some disco in the playlist. Mailing Address 77 WABC P.O. And Peter Jennings announced the news. I made the case about Pennsylvanias constitution being violated because the constitution in Pennsylvania, it specifies in great detail, the only people that can vote by mail. We mostly remember Charlie Greer doing overnights, but he did mornings from late 1965 before returning to overnights around 1968. who had an "official" reason for needing the complete kind of worthless in an age when FM was taking over and the market for high-fidelity systems was enormous? Watch Now. The survey for August 31st includes many tracks (with the exception of the Vogues) that a progressive rock station would be playing including some that would become part of the rock canon, such as tracks by the Rascals, the Doors, Cream, Donovan, etc. This was another It reflects the maturity and integrity of the station (although it was broadcast on a Sunday night when relatively few people listened.) The article includes photos of Herb Oscar Anderson, Dan Ingram, Scott Muni, Charlie Greer, Bruce Morrow and P.D. Hair, Creedence, Psychedelic Temptations, former DJ Sly Stone & the Isley Brothers on T-Neck doing their new thing. Despite Stigalls defense, numerous newspapers, including The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, declared they would no longer publish Adams creations. Radio Message Board! Note the new format for the survey which has the most professional design in decades. I talked about laws being violated.. there was a lot of maneuvering of the midday shift at WABC. Let me remind you. There's only a few tracks that wouldn't fit on a progressive rock station, but the question remains: would the same listener who wanted to hear Little Green Apples and Chewy Chewy also want to hear Janis Joplin sing Piece of My Heart and Fire by Arthur Brown? Tollie Records (owned by Vee-Jay) re-released it as a single on April 27, 1964. There was no shortage of great music in those days. To connect with Ryan, find him on Twitter @SureToCover. Also interesting is that about half way through the aircheck, Bruce plays a track from a local high school band as part of a contest. WABC-AM 770: Tuesday, December 31, 1968 (16:20). Police Athletic League & WABC Radio . Schedules Mileage to Penn Station 27.9 miles Driving Directions Map Long Island Expressway or Northern State Parkway to Route 107 North Exit. Cousin' Brucie from the end of November, 1967 with WABC completely ignoring what was starting to happen on FM. Then, after Ron was there for a number of years both He expressed that this did not sit well with him.. Contributed by Rob Frankel via his RadioMaven77 posts on Mixcloud. John Catsimatidis, CEO of Red Apple Group, and subsidiaries Red Apple Media and 77 WABC Radio, has announced that Greg Kelly has joined the station's daytime lineup beginning March 9th from the 1-3 p.m. Kelly is an experienced broadcaster and a veteran of the United States Marine Corps. He'll be heard over-the-air on WABC-AM 770 and WLIR-FM 107.1 in Hampton Bays and streaming on the WABC app and at www.wabcradio.com. DePetro wasarrested in mid-Augustoutside a home on Staples Avenue in Warwick. The question was, with an increasingly fractured society and music starting to reflect that, did it still work? Powell also told Hannity in an additional interview that Dominion voting machines were implanted with software that would change votes from Trump to Biden. A quote from an AAAA executive claims Bruce Morrow is "thought provoking." A message from Fox News Chairman Rupert Murdoch to Fox Corp. board member and former Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan claimed Hannity had been privately disgusted by Trump for weeks, but was scared to lose viewers after the January 6th Insurrection. Contributed by Rob Frankel via his RadioMaven77 postings on Mixcloud as originally recorded by Mark Yurko. We hope to locate some more. Muni would leave WABC at the end of January 1965 and join WOR-FM in October of 1966 and WNEW-FM in December of 1967 and stay 31 years. This was a month after Rosko had joined WNEW-FM, just about two weeks after Jonathan Schwartz had joined and still 19 days before Muni would join. of interesting things to notice as you go through the schedules: In the early years Two months later and much of the music is the same. There are typos everywhere: That group the BeGees, Creedance Clearwater and I didn't know that Sly Stone was on Solumbia Records. Of course there was also pop and bubble gum. And then there was that Touchables novelty record by Dickie Goodman which I thought was very funny when I was ten years old. The honky tonk woman gave peace a chance and Bubble Gum starts its dreaded climb up the charts. The surveys for the week of April 7, 14, 21, 1968. Limbaugh, who died in February, launched his national show in 1988 with WABC as the flagship station of a network that grew to 650 stations before he moved across town to rival WOR in 2014. In the above 1965 aircheck, Cousin Brucie tries to get Ringo to read the inscription of a "medal" created by WABC for the Beatles. Nothing very wrong with the songs they were playing, but at a time when there was so much great music and so many great album tracks, there just wasn't enough. Its true. An incredibly upbeat and great sounding restored aircheck of the great Bob-A-Loo, Bob Lewis on the day the Beatles arrived in the U.S. Nine singles had been released in the U.S. by the time the show aired: He left in 1977 and became an owner of numerous radio stations with Robert F.X. Weekdays 6-9PM On Air Now Mark Levin Weekdays 6-9PM Show Schedule WABC WLIR Tuesday, Feb 28 Show Earlier Listing ON AIR NOW 06:00PM to 09:00PM Mark Levin Weekdays 6-9PM 09:00PM to 10:00PM Common Sense with Bill O'Reilly Weeknights 9-10PM 10:00PM to 11:59PM The Rita Cosby Show Weeknights 10PM-12AM Share on Facebook Share on Twitter WABC-AM 770: Friday, December 27, 1968 (240:00). It was still pure. shows. Brought to you by Dennison's Mens Clothiers. "Love Me Do" was originally released by Capitol of Canada in February of 1963 and was included on the original version of the Introducing the Beatles LP on Vee Jay Records in January of '64. An interesting marketing campaign to advertisers from around 1969. And the Ohio Express lost that argument. Furthermore, with the rebrand possibly comes a new addition. WABC is also dropping a program from its lineup. That's a lotta' carts. It could have been as early as September, 1968. But also a lot of junk. 12 nn - Here and Now (shortened to 30 minutes if sports are starting at 12:30pm) 1 pm - ESPN on ABC. Bruce left WABC on August 7, 1974. 5 pm - Channel 7 Eyewitness News at 5. This is right around the time I started collecting singles, Blue Moon and Runaway being among the first singles I purchased. The President and Vice Presidents recent comments on the economy alone are stunning examples of blatant falsehoods. Wow. These TV spots for WABC were created in 1980 by Chuck Blore & Don Richman Inc. Also included are similar spots for other stations. PROMO: The WABC "Order of the All-Americans". Bruce frantically responds, "It's not a promo!" And the Concert for Bangla Desh. The Queen of Soul is the Pick Hit on the 24th! not there. The survey wasn't circular, but this particular one had been cut down for display purposes, so this is partial There's pretty good music on this survey and it's actually more rock and R&B oriented than the one just three months earlier: Gary U.S. Bonds, Ben E. King, the Cleftones, Del Shannon, Rob Orbison, Bobby Lewis, Ernie K. Doe, early Gladys Knight, the Everly Brothers, the Drifters, the Marcels, etc. Note when Bruce asks Ringo to read the inscription on a listener-designed medallion, Ringo thinks it's a promo for the station and won't mention the call-letters. Not bad music, but it didn't change much over the month. Surely, there is a deceit limit. Not having an Amazon was not a hardship - you could buy your favorite music everywhere and it was a lot of fun making those pilgrimages to one's favorite record store to buy what was new, to pick up a survey, to peruse Billboard or Cashbox or Record World and just hang out. Unfortnately, I was about 30 miles out of NYC at the time, the radio wasn't that great and there is a fair amount of static and whine. In one of the great marketing pranks of all time, WNBC planted a "tombstone" outside of the WABC office building on 6th Avenue. Port Washington Branch. WABC-AM 770: Saturday, December 28, 1968 (17:23). Beatles back on the chart with "I Feel Fine" and "She's a Woman" and former Pick Hit "She's Not There" is #1. The surveys for the week of September 1st and 29th 1975. And the first track played is an oldie and then we hear more spots. We've got Sam Cooke, Chubby Checker and The Four Season each on there twice, rounded out with Carla Thomas, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Joey Dee, Brook Benton, Johnny Mathis, and Stan Getz with Charlie Byrd, among others. The Tin Man has been Kung-Fu fighting, but I can help. Amazing. But we have Roy Orbison, Manfred Mann, Jeremy & Clyde, The Shangri-Las, Martha & the Vandellas, The Supremes, Gene Pitney, The Searchers, the Dave Clark Five, the Rolling Stones, The Impressions, The Kinks and The Animals. In 2013, with WOR in a holding pattern, WABC's audience share has doubled and almost tripled WOR's. WOR is optimistic that will change with a mostly new lineup that also includes Elliot Segal,. Treat her like a lady in hot pants, friend. The video shows a man get out of another car, get into the victim's vehicle, and drive off with her holding on. Those same teeny-boppers are now 62 to 65 years old (as of 2014).
