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Short Jay Andres aircheck from 1981 WGN Overnights

Wow, does that bring back memories!
Unfortunately, we now have Great Nattering from Chicago in that time slot.
Any idea what happened to Jay?
 
Loved that! My mom used to listen to his program all the time.

I wish we had a station playing that kind of music today!
 
Jay Andres's opening theme song for the overnight program on WGN was "Bouquet" by Percy Faith.

He retired several years ago, I don't know any more than that. I believe he was on WBBM-AM in the 60s and 70s doing overnights before he went to WGN. Maybe those more familiar with Chicago radio history could fill in with more info. After WGN he went to WNIB/WNIZ and WFMT for a brief period.
 
Scholarm1111 said:
Jay Andres's opening theme song for the overnight program on WGN was "Bouquet" by Percy Faith.

He retired several years ago, I don't know any more than that. I believe he was on WBBM-AM in the 60s and 70s doing overnights before he went to WGN. Maybe those more familiar with Chicago radio history could fill in with more info. After WGN he went to WNIB/WNIZ and WFMT for a brief period.
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Yes I do remember him on WBBM-AM in the 60s. Then I believe he came to WGN after Franklyn McCormack passed away. Thanks Scholarm 1111 for the song title.
 
I found one of my own tapes included a few minutes of Jay Andres from 1976 or so.
If anyone is interested I could e-mail it, it's only a few minutes.
 
Jay Andres gave me one of the greatest segues of all times back in the 70's on WGN.

I got up at 3:30 one morning to sign on the FM/daytime AM I worked at and was listening to Jay. Out of the bottom of the hour newscast he played (of all things) "Catherine" from Rick Wakeman's "Six Wives of Henry the Eighth" and immediately segued into the vocal open (his record-turner cued past the piano open) of "Morning Has Broken" by Cat Stevens. Matching keys and smooth as silk.

Jay knew music....and how to showcase it on the radio. And back in the day he obviously could play what he wanted on the 'GN all night show.

I of course did the same thing out of the 5 AM sign on news that morning.

I miss the REAL all night shows on the 50 KW clears!
 
317C50KW said:
Jay Andres gave me one of the greatest segues of all times back in the 70's on WGN.

I got up at 3:30 one morning to sign on the FM/daytime AM I worked at and was listening to Jay. Out of the bottom of the hour newscast he played (of all things) "Catherine" from Rick Wakeman's "Six Wives of Henry the Eighth" and immediately segued into the vocal open (his record-turner cued past the piano open) of "Morning Has Broken" by Cat Stevens. Matching keys and smooth as silk.

Jay knew music....and how to showcase it on the radio. And back in the day he obviously could play what he wanted on the 'GN all night show.

I of course did the same thing out of the 5 AM sign on news that morning.

I miss the REAL all night shows on the 50 KW clears!
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I do too! That is what I grew up listening to. We lived not far from the big three... my mom used to catch me at night listening on headphones to the all night shows on WMAQ, WGN, and WBBM over my Remco 1-transistor radio. That was a magical time!
 
A 1 ( ! ) transistor radio! Why have I never seen one of these?
I did a good bit of listening to Chicago AMs on a crystal radio.
At good volume too, since we were only 40 miles out of Chicago.
I uploaded a Jay Andres 1976 aircheck on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhggUw5-8-o


The aircheck was made on an AIWA 5 inch reel-to-reel at 3 3/4 ips. Strange, as we got a cassette recorder in 1968.
I think one of my father's friends had just given us the reel-to-reel as he knew I was into electronics and it was "obsolete"
by then. I was probably testing it.

The picture shown appears to take on a 3D effect on many LCD screens when you tilt your head sideways.
 
Tom Wells said:
A 1 ( ! ) transistor radio! Why have I never seen one of these?
I did a good bit of listening to Chicago AMs on a crystal radio.
At good volume too, since we were only 40 miles out of Chicago.
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Yes, Tom, there was a 1-transistor version that used a diode detector followed by a transistor amplifier (it was in effect an amplified crystal set). Selectivity was very broad, but the audio quality was excellent! Mine had a gray plastic cabinet with a decorative (non-functional) antenna on top. It was a kit of sorts; you had to mount the few components inside the back. It ran (almost forever!) on a single D cell.

Unfortunately I lost that set somewhere along the way, but I still have the crystal set version that was given to me by a friend. It has an orange cabinet that looks otherwise quite similar. If there is interest I could post a photo of it.
 
Thanks for posting the 1976 Jay Andres aircheck on YouTube! Really enjoyed it.
 
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