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Pre Drake era WRKO jingles and airchecks.

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samw54

Hi there folks. I know that many of you loved WRKO in its Drake top forty days when it sounded nearly identical to KHJ, KFRC, CKLW and so many other Drake stations out there. But that was exactly what I DIDN'T LIKE about the Drake format, its uniformity, the fact that the individual sound that gave each radio station its distinctive identifyable personality was gone. That made me very sad.

There was a brief time period in which I really loved WRKO, when it first launched as a top forty station back on March 13, 1967. From then until August they sounded great. Al Gates in the morning was truly awesome. Chuck chuckles Knap at night was super as well, along with John Rodey, Joel Cash and for a brief time, even the woo-woo, Arnie Ginsburg was at the new sound in bean town, the new 68 WRKO until Max Richmond saw to it that he was kept off the air as a disc jockey for eighteen months. But Arnie Ginsburg just went into sales so that his voice could still be heard on WRKO. I always loved in particular, those PAMS a capella jingles that WRKO ran during that time period, and I'm wondering if anyone happens to have those jingles available, plus, any board airchecks of the station during this exciting time period of WRKO's existence. If anyone can help here, you can either send me a PM, or contact me through my own website
contact form.

Thanks in advance for any help from anyone here. These are truly awesome radio forums indeed.

Sam Ward in Ontario Canada
 
at Salvation ARmy on Rt 1 in Norwood/Walpole saw a 680 RKO promo disc. looked like something pressed up monthly or so. probably gone by now, and didn't preview it for bumpers...
 
samw54,
I well remember those early days of WRKO. What a great sound the station had before the Drake era! I lived out in the Gardner-Fitchburg area where we could never pick up WMEX, and 'RKO was (for a brief time, anyway) a welcome change from WBZ, whose management could never seem to decide whether they wanted it to be Top 40 or geared to adults. Al Gates was a funny, iconoclastic nutball; Chuck Knapp was just plain exciting; Joel Cash, with his smooth delivery, had already made his mark as a prominent DJ in Hartford and Worcester; and then, of course, there was The Woo.

I'm with you --- while the station maintained high ratings, its sound deteriorated under the "sameness" of cut-and-dried Drake format. After a few years, I finally stopped listening. I became bored by it.
 
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