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Do Steve & Johnnie Formerly of WGN Overnight Have a New Gig?

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Charlie Heinz

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Does anyone know if WGN's Steve & Johnnie are on another station?

Still can't believe that they've been gone from WGN overnight since December 2011! I had just discovered them two months earlier on internet radio. Their replacement sounds like some sneering young punk with no class. Radio is a cruel business. But then show biz is a hazardous occupation.

I think it may be time for the internet to have a strong radio presence. It can't be any worse than people constantly flipping the dial on traditional radio.

And gosh, I recall hearing WGN at night in the 1940s at my grandpa & grandma's house in South Dakota on their huge Zenith radio.
 
Charlie Heinz said:
Does anyone know if WGN's Steve & Johnnie are on another station?

Still can't believe that they've been gone from WGN overnight since December 2011! I had just discovered them two months earlier on internet radio. Their replacement sounds like some sneering young punk with no class. Radio is a cruel business. But then show biz is a hazardous occupation.

I think it may be time for the internet to have a strong radio presence. It can't be any worse than people constantly flipping the dial on traditional radio.

And gosh, I recall hearing WGN at night in the 1940s at my grandpa & grandma's house in South Dakota on their huge Zenith radio.
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As far as I know they are not on the air now. A station like WIND should consider Steve & Johnny.
 
radioman148 said:
As far as I know they are not on the air now. A station like WIND should consider Steve & Johnny.
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I suspect if Steve and Johnnie really wanted to be on the air, maybe they would still be on WGN?

Someday when you are in your mid-60's and you have been doing something over and over for 27 years, let's see if the word retirement is part of your vocabulary. ;D
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
radioman148 said:
As far as I know they are not on the air now. A station like WIND should consider Steve & Johnny.
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I suspect if Steve and Johnnie really wanted to be on the air, maybe they would still be on WGN?

Someday when you are in your mid-60's and you have been doing something over and over for 27 years, let's see if the word retirement is part of your vocabulary. ;D
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You may be right. They have their place in Florida, maybe they'd rather be down there.
 
There was a report here in the forums shortly after they retired that they might spend some time in Nashville and maybe play "the host" on a cable TV thing that Doyle Dykes was going to produce in Nashville. Even in retirement, people need something to keep them "scratching". My Dad was 82 when he finally sold his cattle and rented out the pasture land to someone else.

I intent to match or beat his record! (But not with cattle. Goats? ..... maybe. )

Maybe one of these days I will be travelling to Arkansas and get off the Interstate at Bucksnort, TN looking for a place for a potty-stop and find Steve hitting some hot licks on his guitar in a little bar in the back of the convenience store. ;D

"God made fleas to keep an old dog scratching rather than lay there and die." Todd Ormiston, 1963.
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
There was a report here in the forums shortly after they retired that they might spend some time in Nashville and maybe play "the host" on a cable TV thing that Doyle Dykes was going to produce in Nashville. Even in retirement, people need something to keep them "scratching". My Dad was 82 when he finally sold his cattle and rented out the pasture land to someone else.

I intent to match or beat his record! (But not with cattle. Goats? ..... maybe. )

Maybe one of these days I will be travelling to Arkansas and get off the Interstate at Bucksnort, TN looking for a place for a potty-stop and find Steve hitting some hot licks on his guitar in a little bar in the back of the convenience store. ;D

"God made fleas to keep an old dog scratching rather than lay there and die." Todd Ormiston, 1963.
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HA! What Goat Rodeo Cowboy said! Megadittoes. Steve and Johnny were great radio, the likes of which seems to have disappeared overnight, except for Jim Bohannon, who doesn't come in here over the air. But can hear him on the internet. I'm 73 and am still in the communications biz. Working on a musical now when not selling stories. Had a great time in radio with great memories. Just living to be 73 after being in radio seems to be a milestone. Two good DJ friends of mine passed away. I'm still around. Must mean something.
 
I'd bet that Steve & Johnnie will once again reappear on Chicago radio some time in the future. It may not be an everyday gig, but I believe that we haven't heard the last of them here.
 
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