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ONLY ON WLNG...JIM PIERCE TIMES TWO!

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One night back in late '80s I was listening to WLNG. Jim Pierce (of WNYG & WALK fame) was on the air. I called up the request line. Not to request a tune but to talk up a record. Jim said no problem. At home I put on my cans. Jingle. Then comes "Bust A Move". Phone line on. I talk up the tune but missed the post. I ask Jim can I redue it. He goes No. It's a cut! All on the air. You could only do this on WLNG. That Jim Pierce is one funny dude.

Sidenote: This market had two jox named Jim Pierce. The one that worked at WLNG, WNYG & WALK (and I'm sure I'm missing a few). The other worked at WSHR, WRCN, possible WALK, WBLI & WYFA. Good guy! The BLI Jim Pierce did the sweepers for my first pirate station. He cut a few tracks when he was at WYFA.
 
That's OK. I once talked up a record for Bob Aldrich standing on top of a 2800' mountain in Lexington, NY (about 30 miles SW of Albany) through a 49Mhz cordless phone that was connected to the cow barn about a mile below. And yes, I was monitoring WLNG off the air. That was before there was a 92.1 in Poughkeepsie. When they went on the air, that ended that game. And no, I don't remember if I hit the post.
 
Al Case said:
That's OK. I once talked up a record for Bob Aldrich standing on top of a 2800' mountain in Lexington, NY (about 30 miles SW of Albany) through a 49Mhz cordless phone that was connected to the cow barn about a mile below. And yes, I was monitoring WLNG off the air. That was before there was a 92.1 in Poughkeepsie. When they went on the air, that ended that game. And no, I don't remember if I hit the post.
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Al Case is on the case! Good stuff. When I'm on NYS Route 145 (part of Albany County) I sometimes get LNG.

Did you ever work at 1240 WGBB?
 
Yes, I've heard that WLNG can be heard up in that area, around Howe Caverns too even with the 92.1 on the air in Poughkeepsie.
I did work for WGBB from July 1966 to September 1977 as their CE and also did Saturday nights for over 10 years. And yes, I did work with Dick.
There are a ton of old WGBB pics, jingles, etc. on my website at http://mysite.verizon.net/al_case

--Al--
 
I didn't do a remote talk up on LNG (though I did a couple on WKRB in Brooklyn), however I did win a contest on Rusty Potz's show from a pay phone in Toronto!

Here's the story:
Back around 1982-83, I was on vacation in Canada when I decided to call Bill "Spanky" McFarland, who was moonlighting from his WERI job at a Cumberland Farms in Westerly. Bill had WLNG on in the store, and I heard Rusty doing a contest. I told Bill that I knew the answer, I hung up on him and called Rusty. Even with the delay of having to reach an operator and charging the call to my home phone, I still got through as the first correct caller! And when I told Rusty where I was and how I heard the whole thing, and how I got through, he went wild! He was saying stuff like, "Let me get this straight.. you are in Toronto and you called Bill in Rhode Island, and you called me in Sag Harbor!, etc." Rusty then topped it all off by exclaiming, "You guys are insane!!", followed by his bell!! I believe Bill airchecked that whole scenario, but we never found out what happened to his aircheck collection after he passed away.
 
WLNG was the place where things that normally didn't happen in radio actually happened. Let us not forget the time when Ed Newlands splits the AM & The FM signals and did two live shows on both stations at the same time with NO DEAD AIR!

Or the time that Frank Lapple went up to the transmitter shack to do some work, and after the work was done, turned on the stereo generator on the transmitter just to "see the light come on" on the car radio.

WLNG is a classic. Hands down.
 
Wow...'LNG history that I'd forgotten! Yep, even as an oldies 'jock' in southern New England I (and others) look to the good guys of Sag Harbor LI NY for making us all stop and listen - often - to the most real radio station on this planet. All service, all good tunes - so many that almost all the oldies gurus long since shelved and left in the dust.

Ah, but even I am blowing the dust off the good stuff and bringing whatever I can find on my Sunday Morning JUKE BOX GOLD show up in Putnam CT. We keep it 50s & 60s...but I was tempted to infuse some of those forgotten 70s when I heard 'Song On The Radio' from Al Stewart the other night...

We owe a great deal to WLNG's ongoing oldies repertoire for keeping the format thriving and listeners turning the dial up! So, THANK YOU WLNG FOR 44 YEARS OF OLDIES!!!

-BILL ALLEY
WINY'S JUKE BOX GOLD
Putnam CT
 
WINY! Wow! A DX memory from maybe 1963 or so from where we lived near JFK Airport (Idlewild at the time). The far-closer WNLK had one of their periodic vacuums of dead air, and around midday or so was heard, in the lapse, 'Winnie radio for the Tri-State area....'

(Heard 'em one NIGHT out here in NEPA several years back, in fact!)

The homespun atmosphere of just about each and every Long Island radio was awesome to listen to and to visit and witness. Several were actual clubhouses for radio wannabees and DXers at all hours to drop by and record and be part of ..... WPAC, WLNG, WHRF/WRCN, WGBB (shhh ... It was on my watch) ..... WBAB in the late 60's .....

And even the stuffier stations would put up with you for a while.

The Jim Pierce I know looked a little like a cross between John McEnroe and Ed Norton's tough kid brother.

And were there only two Pierces?
 
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