41 Years ago, WOR-fm got jocks

[LinoNYC]

I found these on one of the machines here. The first purports to be from the first day of live hosts on Oct 8 1966

http://www.sendspace.com/file/gceypm 46mb MP3

Hosted by Scott Muni, it sounds like "mechanical coupling" was used but the quality is still good.

Although I remember that period well (just turned 10) this early sound seems at odds with the image of WOR-fm as the first east-coast progressive.

When you consider who management hired, Roscoe, Kaufman, and Muni, promoted a Saturday "top 40 countdown" and then that jingle package:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/pnkvu7 6mb mp3 -you begin to wonder if they got what they had expected. BTW: The last cut @ 06:35 is one of the best top-40 jingles ever.

Personally, during this period I went between two different worlds, my kid friends who were all about AM, the adults I met while modeling and doing tv and commercials, also the artists in my Father's gallery, these "turned me on" to WOR-fm.

Listening to this early aircheck you can draw a comparison to what came-on as FM listenership grew, more compression, tighter playlist, lack of dj input (Drake era) and finally the 99X "kid" era.

Lino

 

[Barry45RPM]

What a stiff Jingle package. Ick. Big Band sounding Jingle Package fo rock. what a clash of generation.

 

[BACKnUSSR]

Great package!! WOR-FM was really one of the stations that broke FM open for everyone.

 

[steve63]

I had never heard that jingle package before, and it ROCKS! The horns would have fit right in with the soul and R&B that would have been a big component of a late 60's top 40 station. I always thought that using the word "Rocks" as an adjective was something relatively new, not 40 years old. Who knew?