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May 1973 Aircheck - Charlotte and Winston-Salem

That was great. It was nice to hear the "music" from NBC News again. One of the newscasts had very unpleasant sound effects, though.

I was amazed WRPL had an editorial. I guess in those days even the daytime-only 1000-watt AMs still did more than entertain.

What I couldn't believe was WROQ playing Glen Campbell. "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" I could believe, though by the time I became aware of WROQ, it was a hard rock station.

WSOC-AM was actually standards. That music sounded good, but I don't remember them doing that. I listened to that station back in those days and it was more like adult contemporary. More conservative than WBT but still contemporary-sounding. I would like to have heard more music samples. "Big" WAYS, from what I could hear, didn't rock as hard as I remember. It was 1000-watt WIST playing "Frankenstein". When oldies radio, or rather classic hits, sounds more like that song than the others I heard in the sample, I sort of want to know the people back then were really listening to that kind of music.
 
Wow, I came to Charlotte to work for WSOC in 1981. It's interesting to hear what radio sounded like in 1973. WSOC had a very "Old School" sound, even for 1973. It had to have been before Program Director Don Bell came from sister station WIOD Miami. WIOD sounded much more contemporary.
 
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