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1972 WPRO POP TOP

I remember those. There was one that intro'd into Joan Baez' "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", and one that went into the Grass Roots "Sooner or Later". What's the history behind them? I imagine they must have been made available on a market-exclusive basis all over the country.
 
According to the site where I found this:
http://rockradioscrapbook.ca/
70s jock Joey Reynolds came up with the concept. It's mainly a Canadian site but there are other clips of pop tops. I remember the "Sooner or later PRO's gonna get ya" one & also Chicago's "Just you & me on the hit 63".
 
Very cool. I remember the early 70's stuff from their WPRO incarnations. I'm surprised to see that they lasted into the 80s.

Do you remember about the same time period when WPRO had local blues musician Ken Lyon doing musical commentaries during the 5:00PM newscast?
 
Old WPRO jingles

Does anybody know where-if-anywhere, online, we can hear the WPRO jingles circa 1972?

The package features a solo male singer who sounds A LOT like David Clayton Thomas from Blood, Sweat & Tears. This same package aired concurrently at WPRO's then-sister station WKBW/Buffalo.

These were the jingles replaced by the WFIL/Philadelphis package WPRO used 1973-1975 or 1976.
 
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