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Big 89 Rewind
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What is skywave like tonight? My QTH is Owensboro, KY and 890 is trash. Occasionally it rises above the noise but mostly I've relied on the stream.
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smashedcd said:
SE Texas here.....they finally overrode the Cuban or Mexican I have been hearing long enough for me to hear Jeff Davis actually on the air.....Back in the 80s, WLS would BOOM in here at night all night long!! Damn, there goes the touchtones...and my modem is onlne with my PBX (having to change somethng before tomorrow!) Besides when I dial, I get "ALL circuits are busy" You just dont hear that in any other city or with any other radio station these days!!! Landecker was hillarious....I'll try to edit some of it and post....I didnt get a chance to hear him before 7:30 (even though I DID get him on hard drive...I was gone from the house) did he do Americana Panaroma???Boogie Check was good but last year's was the BLAST (I gonna spend the weekend with Rosie O Donnel; its gonna be warm and I want to be in the shade"!! GAWD and JRL's reaction last year was perfect "these are probably the same folks, they just have gotten better!!)....I too miss Tom Kent because HE was ROCKING on the air and when you see the video, you can tell he was REALLY into it....THATS a Top40 DJ right there......may have not been able to make it this year....wonder why Shebel wasnt on?? Maybe they want to shift things around a little every year....I JUST HOPE they do it again NEXT year and the NEXT and the NEXT...BTW since the IBUZ is off, is CQUAM on??? The stream is still mono...wish IT was stereo...
A former ABC engineer myself (long before Citadel!
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radiorob2.0 said:
My fave Boogie Check call this year, this coming after
Landecker had dismissed one too many "request calls"...
Caller: Will you play Hang On Sloopy?
JRL (snide): Yeah, we'll get that on right away. ;D
Landecker had dismissed one too many "request calls"...
Caller: Will you play Hang On Sloopy?
JRL (snide): Yeah, we'll get that on right away. ;D
Mine was: "Did you hear about the woman who shaved her legs and rectum?"
Laughed until my sides hurt!
I have a friend who works at WLS and he says it is really something to watch JRL do a show. He is on a par with the late Jack Armstrong as being a guy who is REALLY into what he does.
I have some 1972 tapes of him I made on a trip to Naperville. He was hot, as always.
Laughed until my sides hurt!
I have a friend who works at WLS and he says it is really something to watch JRL do a show. He is on a par with the late Jack Armstrong as being a guy who is REALLY into what he does.
I have some 1972 tapes of him I made on a trip to Naperville. He was hot, as always.
Ah, yes! "Boogie Check, Boogie Check, ooooh...... ahhhhh!" I was a regular participant of the "Boogie Check of Life", back in the Musicradio days while being a teen in Randolph, MA back in the mid 1970's. WLS was a nightly fixture on this rugrat's radio. My parent's phone bill told the tale. Many of my friends who were not big on radio were amazed on how well WLS, with its' 50,000 glorious watts came in so well some 900 miles from Chicagoland. I almost won a little prize package last night. But some local girl called in and won (damn!). The Internet delay makes it very hard to beat the local (Chicagoland) callers. But, I did put a preset on my cell phone (for next year). I especially enjoyed the call from Bernie Allen , one of the jocks from the Sam Holman days (Dex Card, Dick Biondi, Jim Dunbar, et.al.) during Jeff Davis' show. Bernie made a good point.... the early WLS jocks (1960-1968) should be recognized as well and the ones that are "still with us" should have a chance to join-in in some way as well. (Food for thought!)
I would not be surprised if WLS repeats the "WLS Rewind" on July 4th like last year (hope they do!). Great job WLS! You never cease to amaze me. Thanks for a great job, well done!
Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
(A WLS listener since 9/7/68)
I would not be surprised if WLS repeats the "WLS Rewind" on July 4th like last year (hope they do!). Great job WLS! You never cease to amaze me. Thanks for a great job, well done!
Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
(A WLS listener since 9/7/68)
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Life is a Rock, W-L-S Rolled Me!
As was the case last year, I spent most of this Memorial Day with the Big 89 Rewind. Great stuff, all of it! A few thoughts to share with the group:
America's "A Horse With No Name" was played during Chuck Knapp's shift. I could have swore I heard clicks, pops, and scratches. As in the kind we used to get from vinyl records. WLS doesn't still have a turntable in the air studio, DO they?
The musical highlight of the day was "Stay In Time" by Chicago's own Off Broadway. At the end of the tune, Lujack and Tommy Edwards both commented they didn't remember that song and asked "who's doing the music this year?" I know for certain that WLS *did* play "Stay In Time" as a current because I have tape of Tom Kent talking up the intro in April, 1980. Was this dayparted as nights only, perhaps (?)
John "Records" Landecker: Truly amazing, as always. He still has it after all these years. I did feel "Boogie Check" was better last year, but I think it's because the *callers* were better the last time. As John said, "They get older, but they don't get any smarter!"
It was great to hear Jeff Davis this year. They should have let him do "The WLS Final Exam" and give away a 10-speed bike. Anyone else remember that? "Hey, I saw him, he cheated, man. He had notes in his shoe!"
Thanks to Kipper McGee and everyone else who put this together. As a middle-school kid in Minnesota who listened religiously to The Big 89 after sunset, it was great to hear these guys again after 30 years!
As was the case last year, I spent most of this Memorial Day with the Big 89 Rewind. Great stuff, all of it! A few thoughts to share with the group:
America's "A Horse With No Name" was played during Chuck Knapp's shift. I could have swore I heard clicks, pops, and scratches. As in the kind we used to get from vinyl records. WLS doesn't still have a turntable in the air studio, DO they?
The musical highlight of the day was "Stay In Time" by Chicago's own Off Broadway. At the end of the tune, Lujack and Tommy Edwards both commented they didn't remember that song and asked "who's doing the music this year?" I know for certain that WLS *did* play "Stay In Time" as a current because I have tape of Tom Kent talking up the intro in April, 1980. Was this dayparted as nights only, perhaps (?)
John "Records" Landecker: Truly amazing, as always. He still has it after all these years. I did feel "Boogie Check" was better last year, but I think it's because the *callers* were better the last time. As John said, "They get older, but they don't get any smarter!"
It was great to hear Jeff Davis this year. They should have let him do "The WLS Final Exam" and give away a 10-speed bike. Anyone else remember that? "Hey, I saw him, he cheated, man. He had notes in his shoe!"
Thanks to Kipper McGee and everyone else who put this together. As a middle-school kid in Minnesota who listened religiously to The Big 89 after sunset, it was great to hear these guys again after 30 years!
"Stay In Time" was a decent-sized hit at the time -- I can't imagine that on the rockin' WLS of that era, it wouldn't at least have made it to middays. But it's the kind of song that didn't spread east of South Bend and probably never made it to recurrent. So not entirely surprising that not everybody would remember it.
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Peter Q. George (K1XRB) said:
Jeff Davis alluded to an idea of maybe doing the rewind ALL THREE days instead of just one through Memorial Day...I COULD go for that!!! WLS, XROCK 80, WLAC, and other BIG TOP40 AMs were on my presets as a teen growing up in SETX in the 70s.....LOVED every minute of them and when I got a chance to walk THROUGH the 500KW transmitter of WLW a few years, I thought I had finally reached nirvana
BUT to either be heard on or help engineer a Rewind on WLS would be the topper!!!--... ...--
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Neil Millman said:
Just thinking about who could be part of a WCFL Rewind: I'd like to hear Ron Britain and Bob Dearborn. Of course, Lujack could be part of it (without Tommy). Maybe Doug Dahlgren, Dick Biondi, Scotty Brink, and Dick Orkin. Fred Winston and Dean Richards could be there, too, if you want to include CFL's early-80's oldies/AC incarnation. I'm sure there are many that I've missed.
I'd love to hear one of their classic newscasts again...
Am I the only one who couldn't hear some of the songs? It sounded like a cd machine or other audio source wasn't patched through to the web stream. On about every 3rd or 4th song I would hear a jingle at regular volume and then 3 minutes of virtual silence. The song was there but barely audible. I could hear JRL open the mic and tap his fingers waiting for the end of the song to talk. Was this just my connection? I only noticed it on Landecker's shift.
Otherwise, it sounded great to hear Music Radio again this Memorial Day.
Otherwise, it sounded great to hear Music Radio again this Memorial Day.
RadioMahn said:
Noticed the same thing too with Landecker. It was stunning to those in my family who walked into the house during the silence, and then he began drumming his fingers toward the end of the song. It seemed like this occurred usually at the top of the hour after the news. Not sure what happened with the audio unless we were only getting one channel of a stereo feed.
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