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Coolest Calls for 60's Top 40

WEEP FOR JOY in Pittsburgh. WEEP was a very good station. However it failed to get a fulltime signal in an attempt to move from 1080 to 1070 and got trounced by KQV.
 
Yes, even had a jingle with it. They were co-owned with WHOT in Youngstown and WJET in Erie.
 
Here's one from the other extreme:  WFUL in Fulton, Kentucky.  A very small AM station.  The call letters obviously represent the first three letters of its home town (FULton), but I suppose it would be too easy to drop an "A" in front of those call letters if you didn't like them.

(WFUL was their heritage call letters.  They changed to WKZT in 1988 (initials of a former owner) after being off the air for a while.  They returned to their heritage call letters WFUL in 2004, but when I worked for them in 1991, they were (still) WKZT.)
 
K/MEN 129 - San Bernardino-Riverside, CA - a really great top forty station that knocked the socks off of crosstown rival KFXM 590.
Located in cow pasture and programmed by Ron Jacobs of KGB and KHJ fame and oft overlooked in Southern California radio history for some strange reason. Both KFXM and KMEN could be heard in eastern LA County and many of the dj's from both moved on to the big time from the Inland Empire.

Fast paced with Johnny Mann jingles between sets and great dj's, K/men was the freshest sound around in Southern California.

K/men threw some of the classic promotions in radio history, the "walk back and forth" between San Bernardino and Riverside to name one, the hot air balloon promo another and reputed to be the inspiration for the song "Up, Up and Away."

Wish I could find some airchecks of the K/men in action in the early 1960's.

Where is "Huckleberry Chuck" these days?

rickity
 
rickityone said:
K/MEN 129 - San Bernardino-Riverside, CA - a really great top forty station that knocked the socks off of crosstown rival KFXM 590.
Located in cow pasture and programmed by Ron Jacobs of KGB and KHJ fame and oft overlooked in Southern California radio history for some strange reason. Both KFXM and KMEN could be heard in eastern LA County and many of the dj's from both moved on to the big time from the Inland Empire.

Fast paced with Johnny Mann jingles between sets and great dj's, K/men was the freshest sound around in Southern California.

K/men threw some of the classic promotions in radio history, the "walk back and forth" between San Bernardino and Riverside to name one, the hot air balloon promo another and reputed to be the inspiration for the song "Up, Up and Away."

Wish I could find some airchecks of the K/men in action in the early 1960's.

Where is "Huckleberry Chuck" these days?

rickity
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Larry Lujack worked briefly at KFXM in the early 60s.
 
I found a site that broadcasts a show called Time warp top 40. Hosted by Jason Miller, Time Warp Top-40, he counts down the Top 40 charts from the 50's and 60's
There are many other great vintage DooWop and R&B shows on the site

http://www.doowoptaxi.com
 
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