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fun trip back to 90s cleveland radio

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pk33616

hey all....have become fascinated with hearing old airchecks...always used to love radio, but certainly nowhere near the participant that you all seem to be.

Anyway, decided to drag out old tapes that haven't seen the light of day since at LEAST 1997 or so...and try my hand at making some chex. Please, be gentle. :) I'm working with a laptop, and old tape deck! sound isnt always the best, as i found that sometimes the tapes were recorded at huge levels that i cant do much about fixing now! so if its 'crunchy' sounding at times...im sorry!

Also, i'm still in love with the music from back then, so if you find a seemingly-off mix of chatter and tunes, well, i couldnt help myself!! they were great to hear again...especially when they put a good beat behind slow or rock songs..(no full songs, tho)

I moved away from Cleveland to Tampa in 1992...it was a good, fun time in life, and we were all a LOT YOUNGER!!

so, i came across quite a bit of old Jammin 92 and Power 108, as that was my kinda music. I was 20ish at the time!

https://www.box.net/shared/tausljs8f9
https://www.box.net/shared/32dnptrrdz
https://www.box.net/shared/31v58m6ez7
https://www.box.net/shared/f20j7dyr6y (very crunchy)

https://www.box.net/shared/c88ncxf22y
https://www.box.net/shared/tzio738hmf
https://www.box.net/shared/my0af9baxp
https://www.box.net/shared/vetgkatg79

https://www.box.net/shared/htmea27yzf
 
Thanks much for sharing, pk33616 . I listened to a couple so far, they sound decent enough. Fills in some of the gaps during that time period when I didn't live in Ohio, and some songs I forgot about or never heard in other areas I was living.
 
danny...glad you enjoyed!

and dgendevil...im not sure...that one was me testing the program...but i do plan on getting into the older stuff and digging for G98 and 92Q
 
This is definitely a flashback!

I grew up listening to both stations too. I was more inclined to listen to 92 since its 92Q days. The Power 108 aircheck from 91 could have easily been from Jammin 92. By 1991, I was only listening to 92 so I had no idea they had similar playlists (with the uptempo/rap stuff).The DJs from 108 like Rick Michaels,Cat Thomas,Maria Farina im familiar with though. They use to air the Open House Party on Sat and Sun nights with John Gardibearean. That's when I tuned in the most.

The Jammin 92 aircheck from 92 is awesome. This is when they were playing alot of dance music and were known as the "party pig". I think that lasted for about a summer lol. It's hard to believe they were playing stuff like Clubland, Army of lovers "crucify", "James Brown is dead" by L.A. Style. I think that was the summer some people got into real techno music with more mainstream songs like 2 unlimited's "twilight zone". One thing about Jammin 92 is that they were always tweaking their music.They tried being a dance station but Cleveland in the early 90's was and still is too much of an urban hip hop type of town. They went from being the party pig and cleveland's dance music station to dance and romance. And who could forget when they did the Channel X thing thats when I tuned out completely. Dj's I remember are Don "action" Jackson (think he ended up as pd), Johnny D,Doc Reno and Leanne Sommers. The best part about 92 for me was the Summer Concert Jams at the Nautica Stage. I went just about every summer. Good times ;D
 
Don "Action" Jackson has been doing PM drive for WMJI since 2001, replacing longtime PM drive and ratings winner Scott Howitt. http://wmji.com/pages/j_action.html

Howitt was never lower than 3rd in PM drive in 11 years. Action isn't even in the Top 10. Even with PPM, which loves oldies., Action doesn't fair very well.

LeeAnn is in Denver working for the former CBS stations, now owned by Waitt Radio I believe http://www.mix100.com/pages/2923524.php

Johny (one N) D is "Program Director" and PM drive for CC country WCKY/103.7 Findlay OH http://www.1037wcky.com/pages/johnyd.html

Doc Reno has been in Miami for years, where he's PD Clear Channel rock Big106 http://www.big106.com/pages/docspage.html
 
Morpheux said:
This is definitely a flashback!

I grew up listening to both stations too. I was more inclined to listen to 92 since its 92Q days. The Power 108 aircheck from 91 could have easily been from Jammin 92. By 1991, I was only listening to 92 so I had no idea they had similar playlists (with the uptempo/rap stuff).The DJs from 108 like Rick Michaels,Cat Thomas,Maria Farina im familiar with though. They use to air the Open House Party on Sat and Sun nights with John Gardibearean. That's when I tuned in the most.

The Jammin 92 aircheck from 92 is awesome. This is when they were playing alot of dance music and were known as the "party pig". I think that lasted for about a summer lol. It's hard to believe they were playing stuff like Clubland, Army of lovers "crucify", "James Brown is dead" by L.A. Style. I think that was the summer some people got into real techno music with more mainstream songs like 2 unlimited's "twilight zone". One thing about Jammin 92 is that they were always tweaking their music.They tried being a dance station but Cleveland in the early 90's was and still is too much of an urban hip hop type of town. They went from being the party pig and cleveland's dance music station to dance and romance. And who could forget when they did the Channel X thing thats when I tuned out completely. Dj's I remember are Don "action" Jackson (think he ended up as pd), Johnny D,Doc Reno and Leanne Sommers. The best part about 92 for me was the Summer Concert Jams at the Nautica Stage. I went just about every summer. Good times ;D
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don't forget Tim Virgin! I loved his mini call-in show "Listener Lewd-icy" (and Johnny D's "City Check" when he was the night guy). There was another guy that co-hosted with Virgin sometimes "D-Sta" or something like that, especially during the 11PM Hardcore gangsta rap program "Street Level". I wonder what ever happened to D-Sta, he was in some rap group called "1-3-1" also.

When Virgin left for Florida, there was another guy that went by "Crash" who lasted only one day, he was awful! Long periods of dead air,(even longer than usual for 92!) random songs in whatever they called their top 5 at 9, the guy was clueless. Then Mighty Geromino came in after Crash got canned.

I wish I could remember the morning guys name that did the "Company Challenge" quiz show. I wanna say Scott Free who did mornings at one time but I think someone else did the company challenge thing
 
went even further back

since the 1st ones i did were pretty generally well received, i spent the last few 'chilly' days here in tampa doing some further tape-work.

man, i sure don't miss cassettes!! 8)

so, here we have 92 WRQC, from 1984-85, and before they were imaging as 92Q. Seems they began the Q thing in 1985.

http://www.box.net/shared/u40tli5u9a
http://www.box.net/shared/j8eduqua0x
http://www.box.net/shared/lvl1amzesm
http://www.box.net/shared/rjyuj8y8qa
http://www.box.net/shared/ovps6y75bc

and, to my surprise, at this same point in time 'G98' wasn't being used on air, pretty exclusively '98.5 WGCL'

http://www.box.net/shared/dj5k0sggcg
http://www.box.net/shared/mks4lt7qop
http://www.box.net/shared/rxslgbhy2h
http://www.box.net/shared/hkczz07mux
http://www.box.net/shared/ouph3h8ddv
http://www.box.net/shared/cgcpnh3tom

again, apologies for being heavy on music and a little 'choppy' on the production!
 
Great, dude! Lost Lee Gelette stuff from G-98,,,one of my mentors! Howard Belcher, Uncle Vic, & great older than most have stuff! Van Stephenson & some of the other stuff showed earlier than 85-86 because of the tunes...gonna listen to more now...GREAT clips!
 
inter1097 said:
Morpheux said:
This is definitely a flashback!

I grew up listening to both stations too. I was more inclined to listen to 92 since its 92Q days. The Power 108 aircheck from 91 could have easily been from Jammin 92. By 1991, I was only listening to 92 so I had no idea they had similar playlists (with the uptempo/rap stuff).The DJs from 108 like Rick Michaels,Cat Thomas,Maria Farina im familiar with though. They use to air the Open House Party on Sat and Sun nights with John Gardibearean. That's when I tuned in the most.

The Jammin 92 aircheck from 92 is awesome. This is when they were playing alot of dance music and were known as the "party pig". I think that lasted for about a summer lol. It's hard to believe they were playing stuff like Clubland, Army of lovers "crucify", "James Brown is dead" by L.A. Style. I think that was the summer some people got into real techno music with more mainstream songs like 2 unlimited's "twilight zone". One thing about Jammin 92 is that they were always tweaking their music.They tried being a dance station but Cleveland in the early 90's was and still is too much of an urban hip hop type of town. They went from being the party pig and cleveland's dance music station to dance and romance. And who could forget when they did the Channel X thing thats when I tuned out completely. Dj's I remember are Don "action" Jackson (think he ended up as pd), Johnny D,Doc Reno and Leanne Sommers. The best part about 92 for me was the Summer Concert Jams at the Nautica Stage. I went just about every summer. Good times ;D
Click to expand...

don't forget Tim Virgin! I loved his mini call-in show "Listener Lewd-icy" (and Johnny D's "City Check" when he was the night guy). There was another guy that co-hosted with Virgin sometimes "D-Sta" or something like that, especially during the 11PM Hardcore gangsta rap program "Street Level". I wonder what ever happened to D-Sta, he was in some rap group called "1-3-1" also.

When Virgin left for Florida, there was another guy that went by "Crash" who lasted only one day, he was awful! Long periods of dead air,(even longer than usual for 92!) random songs in whatever they called their top 5 at 9, the guy was clueless. Then Mighty Geromino came in after Crash got canned.

I wish I could remember the morning guys name that did the "Company Challenge" quiz show. I wanna say Scott Free who did mornings at one time but I think someone else did the company challenge thing
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How could I forget those guys and their segments. I use to tune in just for that when I wasn't working or hearing college radio. As far as the company challege thing, I think the other guy who did it eventually co-hosted the morning show with Leanne Sommers.If its the guy I am thinking of,they didn't get along too well on the air and Leanne ended up walking of the show one morning haha.
 
When Kim Colebrook took over 98 is when the 98.5 WGCL change happened. I was not happy. Although Lee Gelette's office phone answering machine message still said "and thanks for calling the great ninety eight" long after the change.Kolebrook also brought with him J. Michael Wilson, Mother Love, (& Rodney) who were later taken to Colebrook's Sandusky cluster. I'd like to know if they cleaned house or if everyone just quit(Danny Wright, Lee Gelette, Jobo Hannon, Bob Travis, Phil Gardner, Diane Burr, etc).
 
I was always a huge fan of Fred The Jammer on WZAK saturday nights....whatever happened to him? Great hip-hop mix show!
 
I think in the early 90s Bob Becker & _?___Hayes did Saturday mornings on WWWE & used TONS of bits. It was HYSTERICAL. I remember laughing 'til it hurt when they kept playing a clip over & over..."looks like we've got another stiffy Ricky" :D :D :D. Anyone know Hayes' first name?
 
'Atta boy LUTHER!
 
nightfly61 said:
I think in the early 90s Bob Becker & _?___Hayes did Saturday mornings on WWWE & used TONS of bits. It was HYSTERICAL. I remember laughing 'til it hurt when they kept playing a clip over & over..."looks like we've got another stiffy Ricky" :D :D :D. Anyone know Hayes' first name?
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His name was Luther Heggs, and he also did weekend duties for both WMJI and WZJM/92.3 (while "Jammin Oldies") back in the late 90s.
 
The actual clip I used was.." I can't keep this dicky down Ricky!" ....It was a drop I pulled from an old Jerry Lewis flick.....Glad somebody was amused by all that crap I spent so much time digging up for the show!
Thanks for listening.....even tho you didn't know who I was.....that's showbiz ......And just FYI (if you care) ....The "Becker& Hegggsshow was first aired from 2-6pm on WWWE in 1990-91....The shows you heard the "dicky Ricky" clip on were on WTAM in 1994-95. We did the morning show there Sat & Sun till I was booted out and went to MAJIC solo for the next 5 years.....It was fun ! ......

Luther Heggs
 
Call me weird, but I enjoyed the Majic weekend show, as I felt you put quite a bit of work into it. I liked the background info you always gave, Luther.
 
WMJI's lineup in the 90s was killer.

They were live 24/7 (!), and had, at one time or another, Lanigan & Malone (and Webster for a time), Ravenna Miceli (later Daune Robinson), Scott Howitt, Denny Sanders (the PD), Billy Bass, Sandy Bennett and Chris Quinn. Weekends were, at one time or another, Luther Heggs, Bob Becker, Max Heywood, Ken Morgan, Gina St. John, Chuck Matthews, Norm N. Nite, and some others that I am probably forgetting.

Their weekend lineup was better than most daily lineups today.

Now THAT was a real radio station.
 
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