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Q-102 Back In The Day "Pick To Click"

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I recall Jim Fox, Pat Berry, Chris O'Brien and Mark Sebastian playing a song back in the mid 70's that I have been unable to find. I think the tune was called "Wheels" by Blaze but I'm not entirely sure. I believe they may have been a Cincinnati Band.

Does anyone recall this song? If so, is it available for purchase anywhere?
 
Blaze had a song called Silver Heels that peaked at #95 in 1976...I recall Q102 playing that. Seems they had one called Jamie as well, but neither Jamie or Wheels is listed in Joel Whitburn's Billboard Hot 100 Annual. Cincinnati Top 40 stations from WSAI and WUBE to Q102 never were afraid to add a tune or two that wasn't in the Top 40...thanks for reminding me about a great era in radio.
 
You're confusing local bands.

Wheels was a band fronted by guitarist/singer Mike Wheeler, with Mike Baney doing bass & vocals, Jeff Seeman pedal steel/guitar and Mickey Foellger on drums. If either of the Goshorn brothers was ever officially in that band it must have been very brief. I doubt ever.

The most radio-played songs by Wheels were "Heaven Help Me" (often mistakenly called "Heaven Help the Fool") and "Keep Movin' On."
 
"Silver Heels" by Blaze is a cover of an old Fleetwood Mac song. The Blaze version, IMO, is much better than the original; more upbeat and happy. It's one of those songs that will make you smile when you hear it. The "Real" Mary Peale will play it for you on her Sunday night "Jelly Pudding" show on Fox starting at 6 PM if you call and ask nicely. (Excellent show, by the way.)
 
Didn't Wheels do "Amaretta" from a 'EBN album project? I'd love to hear that song again.
 
Thanks for the memories. I was in Cincy a lot back in the day and I remember Blaze. I bought their records at The Song Shop at 6th and Race Street. They were on Epic. Another Ohio band called Wild Cherry was on that label too and hit it big by that time. I had that Fleetwood Mac album that Silver Heels came from. Don't remember the name of the album but I remember the tune I listened to on it more than Silver Heels was Coming Home. Another poster was right. Blaze ramped it up a bit! Loved it! Thanks for reminding me of that good time in radio and music. Cincy and Dayton were musical hotbeds back then. I remember the early Ohio Players before the big time, Roger's Human Body (evolved into Zapp I think), the group called Dayton and a whole lot more. The songs didn't have to score big on the charts, they just had to mean something to the audience thanks to the lost art of guts programming!
 
Q played "Jamie" by Blaze first. It was on Fraternity. Epic picked them up for Silver Heels. "Amaretta" by Wheels was on EMS. The label number was EMS 101 - probably the first song on that label. I have a copy in the computer. If you're not the RIAA, email me.

Remember "Black Betty" by Starstruck on the Truckstar label? It was picked up by a national label and the band renamed Ram Jam. Q played that one a lot, too.
 
According to the Q102 Top 102 Songs of 1982 "Amaretta" by Wheels finished for the year 28th.

Q had such a flavor during those years, songs that come to mind:

"Swingin'" John Anderson
"The Walk" The Time
'Partytown" Glen Frey
"It's Over" and "We're All Alone" Boz Skaggs (He wrote it and is a better arrangement that Rita Coolage)
"I Believe in Love" and "Celebrate Me Home" (played all year, not just Xmas) Kenny Loggins
"Flamethrower"-J. Geils Band
"Love's Got A Line On You" & "Goodbye To You" Scandal
"Nice Girls" Eye to Eye
You're Too Possessive" Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
"My City Was Gone" Pretenders

Mix all of that with a dash of Zeppelin, Motown, and everything else on a "Hot Fun Weekend" and you had Q102.
 
Radio Rob! That's exactly the era I knew Q-102 the best. I believe they were a Taft Broadcasting station at the time. I heard them when going to King's Island, too! In fact they broadcast from the tower there if I remember correctly. I think they played Klymaxx (an all female soul/rock band) and they were big on Midnight Star. They did have flavor. Just the right mix of pop, rock and soul! Late on Sunday nights I would listen in from NE Ohio. It was worth the fade outs and static. Sunday nights were good because a lot of stations signed off at midnight and you could get amazingly far away signals! I remember being up very late on Sunday nights listening to Q-102 in the late 70s and early 80s. In the late 70s I remember hearing "Shame" by Evelyn "Champagne" King for the first time on Q-102!
 
Q102 was an inspiration. It was available on FM cable in Lexington, KY and I listened to them as much as WLS. The station during those days lived and breathed Cincinnati and conveyed it on the air.

P.S.: Yes, it was owned by Taft.
 
radiorob2.0 said:
According to the Q102 Top 102 Songs of 1982 "Amaretta" by Wheels finished for the year 28th.

Q had such a flavor during those years, songs that come to mind:

"Swingin'" John Anderson
"The Walk" The Time
'Partytown" Glen Frey
"It's Over" and "We're All Alone" Boz Skaggs (He wrote it and is a better arrangement that Rita Coolage)
"I Believe in Love" and "Celebrate Me Home" (played all year, not just Xmas) Kenny Loggins
"Flamethrower"-J. Geils Band
"Love's Got A Line On You" & "Goodbye To You" Scandal
"Nice Girls" Eye to Eye
You're Too Possessive" Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
"My City Was Gone" Pretenders

Mix all of that with a dash of Zeppelin, Motown, and everything else on a "Hot Fun Weekend" and you had Q102.
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Another one was "Casablanca" by Dane Donohue. Assuming this was released as a single, I'm pretty sure it missed the whole Hot 100.

Is it just my imagination, or did Q-102's playlist get a whole lot narrower around 1983 or 1984?
 
Which of the songs mentioned had the line "sing like Etta James"?
Memories are flooding back. What great radio. I used to love when Q102 would play an album track (Dance by The Stones comes immediately to mind) and it just fit perfectly. A tight tight playlist but when a song was added you knew it.
 
1316wwood said:
Which of the songs mentioned had the line "sing like Etta James"?
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"If I could sing like Paul McCartney, and get funky like Etta James,
I'd never change silver heels ways"

I'm chair dancing right now.
 
BobointheH20 said:
1316wwood said:
Which of the songs mentioned had the line "sing like Etta James"?
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"If I could sing like Paul McCartney, and get funky like Etta James,
I'd never change silver heels ways"

I'm chair dancing right now.
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Could that be Blaze - Silver Heels ?
 
Kids - we've already covered this on page one of this thread. Yes, Silver Heels was a Fleetwood Mac song, redone by Blaze locally. Sorry, board goes back. (Google THAT reference...)
 
Does anyone remember a song that was on Q-102 a lot in the late '70s that started out "(something something) 21st century..."?

I've been trying to figure out for years what this song was. I'm guessing it was early 1979, possibly late 1978. If I remember correctly, the song had sort of a Styx-like feel.
 
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