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Favorite Oldies Shows/Formats Though The Years?

It was a typo yes I'm aware WGRR did not exist in 1976. I meant 1996 which is when I returned to Ohio. I remember WOKV, then WOKV going disco then semi-disco, as well as WBLZ.
 
I think Don Steele did a 60's themed show many years back. I remember it came in on vinyl. I did work a couple of shows live with Wolfman just a few years before he passed. Those were a couple of VERY intense hours. It was nothin lke American Graffiti...except when he cracked the mic.
 
Undoutetly Dusty Rhodes' Sunday evening oldies show..at first in 55KRC around 1979-80 then moved to WLW. WIZE also used to air Dick Clark's Rock,Roll and Remember during the Great Trails days.

Cool Bobby B still puts together an awesome doo-wop show and miss it on WDJO before it moved to 1480. Glann Sauter also has a great show which still can be heard on low power WSWO and WRPO where Cool Bobby B can also still be heard.

Gene "By Golly Barry" also did a Saturday afternoon oldies gig on the old WAVI in the early 80s before moving back to WING one last time in the late 80s on Saturday nights.

John King's "The 60s at 6" on WING weeknights in the early 80s.

Joe Demma did a live remote on Saurday evenings on Kool 95/Oldies 95 in the 90s.

"Polka Monster" which featured about twenty seconds of an oldie played on an accordion on the Dale Grimm morning show on the former Rock N' Soul Classics WULM just a few years back.
 
Now it can be told..the Saturday night remote on Kool 95 was not live. The marti signal would not reacn Piqua from West Carrollton so Joe or Mark would voice track a "re-creation" that went on the air and live DJ for the crowd at the bar. Make Believe Ballroom 1996!
 
This thread sure takes me back to the return of oldies on AM. I can remember hearing WKRC"s Top 550 in 100 song installments on weekends in the Fall of '78, and regretting that I didn't know about the first one.

And Dusty! His "Great Oldies Years" series was so good that I gave most of it away to a friend. I miss all his theme shows, and now I miss him.
 
I did work a couple of shows live with Wolfman just a few years before he passed. Those were a couple of VERY intense hours. It was nothin lke American Graffiti...except when he cracked the mic.
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I'd love some details.
 
The group has forgotten one of the best shows!

"Sunday at the Memories" with Ray Durkee. It ran on WING in the 80s.
 
Unique is the word I'd use to describe that one. It's got to be the only oldies show ever to play, "Call of the Wild Goose", by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Had it not been for that show, I would have thought WING had gone absolutely insane! Did anybody get the book he put together about million sellers? Last but not least, What was name of the format across the country?
 
Yep, and I used it to hand pick my top 100 of the Beatle Years. and then tape them in succession. And the hits just kept on comin', with less Motown less of the time.
 
gr8oldies said:
Now it can be told..the Saturday night remote on Kool 95 was not live. The marti signal would not reacn Piqua from West Carrollton so Joe or Mark would voice track a "re-creation" that went on the air and live DJ for the crowd at the bar. Make Believe Ballroom 1996!
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OMG! I'VE BEEN DECEIVED!!! (UGH!) How could you Mr Demma?

(Didn't they have Tieline Commanders back then though???)...ah...whatever!
 
My favorite oldie show is Dusty, WKRC, WLW, WGRR, WSAI, and WDJO. Love the Wolfman and if you have not heard The Real Don Steele, Steele is one of the greatest rock jocks of all time. Here is Steele from "Death Race 2000" as announcer Junior Bruce, start watching the clip at 7:37, Part 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj22as5svMw
 
callletters said:
I better correct myself. Further checking reveals that The Real Don Steele actually passed away on August 5, 1997.
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Had you said the Wolfman died in 1997 I would have to have corrected you even if you did not correct yourself on the Real Don Steele passing. But you are right on the Wolfman. He was in rough shape on that last broadcast from Planet Hollywood in DC.
 
He had just gotten back from doing the show on Friday night, flew or drove home Sat...almost literally "Hi honey I'm home...plop."
There was a refeed of the Fri Planet Hollywood show on Sunday night. Weird to hear it after learning he had died the day before. Sounded normal enough to me.
 
Yep. He complained on the air that he was dragging. Flew home after the show, technically Saturday morning, I guess. And that was it.
 
Drake's "History of Rock 'n Roll" is my favorite.

Re Wolfman Jack - I remember listening to his all night show on XERF-1570 when I was a kid. They put a pretty
good signal into Cincinnati at night.
 
RadioBill said:
Drake's "History of Rock 'n Roll" is my favorite.

Re Wolfman Jack - I remember listening to his all night show on XERF-1570 when I was a kid. They put a pretty
good signal into Cincinnati at night.
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I used to turn on my transistor radio under the pillow. They put out a pretty good signal through most of North America at night. :D
 
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