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AM1450 / WRLL

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Last night (10 pm - midnight), Pervis Spann was back spinning blues records at AM1450. What else will happen at the former home of WVON?
 
Are you sure that was last night? I saw where 1450 did their version of a "retro" broadcast on Memorial Day. Could it have been a replay of that?

Or could it be that Purvis is bringing it back? It's been over 20 years since "Purvis Spann the Bluesman" was on WXFM late night. That would be a welcome addition, besides bringing back some more nice memories. And it's probably 20 years since WXOL, which also had Spann and F. J. Bailey among its personalities.
 
Dave, here you go again.

WXFM was my very first radio job, located in the studio behind the awning store on Harlem near Grand (I grew up at Harlem & Addison).

Tod Branson (a Milwaukee basketball pbp guy) did weekend evenings at WXFM, and said he would "rather drink than talk" so he sent me on my bicycle to a pizza place with a bar on Grand (Armands) to get us pizza, me soda, and him "a gallon of Tom Collins." He always tipped very well - so they even gave ME his gallon. Branson was also a salesman at WYNR (where I visted often) at 2708 W. Washington.

For a few weeks Branson let me cue records and flip switches on the WXFM GE console, then he let me TALK! OMG! I was 12 years old and ON THE RADIO!

I also knew Stu Olson (now in California) and Al Von Maish (overnights with "The Polk Brothers Showcase") who committed suicide. Lots of great memories, until they moved to the old WCLM studio on the top floor at 333 N. Michigan (after clm lost their license broadcasting horse race results on their sub-carrier). I also have WDHF, WFMQ, and WFMF memories.
 
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