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From Super CFL

That one for sure.... I also liked the one that basically went....

"Never was your radio so radiant
Never has your set had so much soul
What we have for your ear is irresistable
pretty songs and rock and roll
You can tell....its 'CFL"

And another long one that I'm probably going to be a little off on....

"If you hear that there's a paucity of east-west animosity, a kindness or atrocity, a master's virtuosity, a record's luminosity"......
 
That one for sure.... I also liked the one that basically went....

"Never was your radio so radiant
Never has your set had so much soul
What we have for your ear is irresistable
pretty songs and rock and roll
You can tell....its 'CFL"

And another long one that I'm probably going to be a little off on....

"If you hear that there's a paucity of east-west animosity, a kindness or atrocity, a master's virtuosity, a record's luminosity"
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You can thank Ken Draper for all those innovative jingles. I have said earlier that he greatly overspent on promotions but, WCFL never sounded better than in the summer of 1967. Draper was the most intelligent and creative program director that WCFL ever had. All of the greatest WCFL djs were all hired by Draper.....Barney Pip, Ron Britain, Jim Stagg, Larry Lujack, Dick Biondi, Joel Sebastian, Jim Runyon and all the rest of the WCFL jocks that you most remember. This thread makes me want to "turn into peanut butter".
 
RADIO TRUTH said:
2. DJ Buddy Carr - ( a big guy) whose jingle was to the tune of "Alice Long." Dick Williamson's (what ever happened to him?) jingle was to the tune of "The Horse." I remember pre-wcfl. when "Uncle Willi" worked at WIND. After 'cfl, he seemed to disappear. I can still sing Joel Sebastian's jingle - to the tune of Eleanor Rigby, and "Jimmy P. Stagg's jingle too, but can't place the song it's from.
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The jingle package you are talking about was made by TM in 1968 and called "The Beat Goes On". It was the first jingle package that TM ever made after they went into business. It was the third WCFL jingle package. The first WCFL jingle package was made in 1965 by CRC and has the slogan line "music, music, music". The second WCFL jingle package was made in 1967 by Draper-Blore Productions. You might remember a 1:00 jingle from the Draper-Blore package that said "A groovy day at cheetah, a slapshot by Mikita". That jingle ended with "as much a part of Chicago as WCFL". That one jingle may be the most interesting jingle that WCFL ever ran.
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That was a great jingle.
 
Does anyone remember Patti Allen? I think she did traffic in the 60's at CFL. Always remember the apartment in Marina City that CFL had for the jocks?
 
Dr Wayne said:
Does anyone remember Patti Allen? I think she did traffic in the 60's at CFL. Always remember the apartment in Marina City that CFL had for the jocks?
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For all of them or just one apartment that they all shared?
 
Just one apartment. The jocks would bring girls up there after their shifts from what I was told......
 
Say there Truth... I've got the Superjock book and I'd like to read more about it. What page is that on?
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Check out pages 5, 6 and 7. The dj with the love carpet was Barney. The dj lounge that Lujack mentioned in the book was the WCFL dj lounge. It was at a time in 1967 that Lujack had just come to Chicago and was doing the all night show on WCFL and Barney was doing 9 to midnight. Barney told me that the love carpet was actually an old coat with some interesting residue on it. There is much more to this story.
 
RADIO TRUTH said:
Say there Truth... I've got the Superjock book and I'd like to read more about it. What page is that on?
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Check out pages 5, 6 and 7. The dj with the love carpet was Barney. The dj lounge that Lujack mentioned in the book was the WCFL dj lounge. It was at a time in 1967 that Lujack had just come to Chicago and was doing the all night show on WCFL and Barney was doing 9 to midnight. Barney told me that the love carpet was actually an old coat with some interesting residue on it. There is much more to this story.
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Maybe they should have gotten a new love carpet, er... coat.
 
All of you reading this might want to check out the audio processing thread that I put on the New York City board. Your various opinions will be interesting considering how flat and dead both WCFL's and WLS's audio was in the 60s.
 
Prais said:
Sorry, but from a business standpoint, today, cheap makes sense.
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well, hope that CHEAP is working out for ya, nobody will be listening.
 
RADIO TRUTH said:
All of you reading this might want to check out the audio processing thread that I put on the New York City board. Your various opinions will be interesting considering how flat and dead both WCFL's and WLS's audio was in the 60s.
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The comparison is unqualified. I listened to both in the 60's. The reverb and compressor may have been the same as they used, but
I know both sounded much BIGGER than the sample clips in the YouTube videos.
Did the audio in the youtubes even HAVE the ability to go over 100% modulation?
It's hard to sound huge without aysmmetric mod over 100%.


Perhaps a little less drive into the compressor would make it less squashed.

I did find some issues with "soundstage changes" due to compression in the audio of WLS and WCFL, but there weren't any stations that did not have this issue.
 
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