SUGGESTIONS TO WLS FOR "NEXT TIME"

[Steve Eberhart]

Don't get me wrong - I L O V E D it - but...

More Lujack, less Tommy.
Fred was as if he never left - more of him!
Chris and Jeff: BRING a show, don't just show UP. "hey, it's great to be here..." is good for ONE break not an entire show. Prepare.
LANDECKER: don't change a thing - he GOT it - and delivered the goods - a true PRO!

where was Biondi - that's a must.
Chris Erik Stevens - you gotta get him onboard.
Charlie Van Dyke - a relative shorttimer there but he'd be great.
Ron Riley - surely he'd do it.

Have a little 60's influence along with the 70's and 80's...

 

[Anyacat]

But I loved Lujack and Edwards together again
Maybe it was Biondi or Landecker not Biondi and Landecker--who knows
I've given up on the music, it's all that 70s and 80s crap all the time

 

[pqgeorge]

I actually listened to most of the WLS Rewind (except for an obligatory errand run) and loved every minute of it. I actually had a nice Part-15 FM transmitter and fed the stream accordingly around the yard. If a neighbor happens to have checked it out on their FM radio, so much the better. This was quite historical hearing Uncle Lar, Tommy, Fred, Chris, Jeff, JRL, Catherine and TK (and I might have missed a couple, sorry) all on "The Big 89". If it happens again, you bet I'll be waiting! In the meantime, I will be tuning in to "94.7, True Oldies" (WZZN) for Dick, JRL and crew quite often. Thank goodness for this thing called the Internet. Hearing WLS in the daytime (I live near Boston, MA) was a treat to be sure. Before the Internet, I had to depend on Mr. Ionosphere for my nightly fix of WLS! Boy was that fun! I actually picked-up WLS briefly on the not-so-clear-channel 890 (sadly, there is another station in Boston on 890 playing ESPN stuff. Progress??? Burrrrrrrr..).

Thanks WLS and all the best to the great crew at Chicago's Big 89, WLS!

-Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts

 

[chgodave]

Landecker definitely picks up on the good old WLS days (even before his tenure) on his 94.7 afternoon show. Over the past few weeks, for example, he has brought back the old weather jingles, such as "radar weather eyyyyyyyyyye" and even "What's the weather for the weekend gonna be? Will it be hot...........cold............rain...........snow.......". And he doesn't even talk about them. It's sort of his way of saying "those of you who know will totally appreciate it". I know I do!

Meanwhile, no one has yet mentioned, in either the WLS or WCFL threads, the man of the phantom radio spots, Gary Gears, who was among those on both stations in the early 70's.

 

[Musicradio]

I just found out this morning that Jeff Davis did his show via ISDN from Los Angeles. I'm pretty sure Lujack was ISDN, too.

 

[CW]

Don't get me wrong - I L O V E D it - but...

More Lujack, less Tommy.
Fred was as if he never left - more of him!
Chris and Jeff: BRING a show, don't just show UP. "hey, it's great to be here..." is good for ONE break not an entire show. Prepare.
LANDECKER: don't change a thing - he GOT it - and delivered the goods - a true PRO!

where was Biondi - that's a must.
Chris Erik Stevens - you gotta get him onboard.
Charlie Van dyke - a relative shorttimer there but he'd be great.
Ron Riley - surely he'd do it.

Have a little 60's influence along with the 70's and 80's...

Steve,
did you get a chance to record any of it?? I agree Landecker was FANTASTIC.....I have his show on my laptop and have been listening to it on the road (playing it through the cassette adaptor.....best AM rock I ever heard..used 44.1 kHz and 16 bit mono... A lot of his intro talkover was GREAT....it was like he never left the top40 board...
Heard Biondi's name get mentioned on a spot about the lost 60s CD...Would love to have heard Van Dyke on there too!

(Note to Programmers: ITS all about the content AND personality....its NOT about the robot played music...IF I wanted that, I would have an iPOD) and 70s/80s is not all crap...I was glad to hear several songs I have not heard on the air in decades!!! EVEN on Jack or other similar stations..memories? Hell yes but thats the idea!!