Was he ever on live on a Sunday evening in the studio or a pre recordded show? For some odd reason I seem to recall hearing him in the stations infancy.
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Was Wolfman Jack ever on WOGL back in it's infancy in 1987?
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There was a guy when they became OGL that sounded like the Wolfman and he used the term wolfman, was it Conklin, this is when 102 was oldies also...you must be young to claim 1987 was their infancy, it was more like 1970 when oldies was in its infancy on 98.1....WCAU-FM the best, totally the very best....
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Solid Gold Radio WCAU-FM under the tootleage of the GREAT Diamond Jim was the best and the only great oldies station this city ever had....I remember working in Center City I think it was around October 1970 and saw a pickup truck with a big billboard behind it...reading Solid Gold Radio WCAU-FM-98. I was very interested so when I went home I put it on and almost passed out, what a variety and the music was fantastic even the future gold and instrumentals around the top of the hour...The first song I heard was She Say by the Diamonds never heard it before but loved it at first note...The music was fantastic and I recognized Jims voice immediatly, like I said on another post I think this station was the prototype and when it exploded many CBS-failing FM'ers adopted the format including the powerhouse WCBS-FM around 1971 but they never had future gold and went stereo as soon as they launced...98 went a year later and it sounded unbelievable...I also think they were 50kw @1000' at the time plenty of power for FM's back then....sorry I could go on and on about this fantastic station...
The Sparkomatic FM Converter! That brought a smile to my face, it was mono and had AM radio quality but it brought in those FM stations! It was exciting to hear WCAU FM go from automated to adding live DJs, remember Smiling Irish Kevin Fennessey? Joe Niagra did Music Line on monday nights when listeners could call in questions about the station and music. After 2am on Saturday Nights they had a rock experiment show where they played deep cuts from current rock albums. You never knew what you would hear next on their normal format during the day.... from bubblegum like Tracy by the Cufflinks right into Whole Lotta Love by Led Zepplin. People knew it was automated but Jim made it sound fresh and exciting.
They played deep cuts of oldies like Summer Sun by Jamestown Massacre. I used to take a small radio with an earphone to school so I could listen to WCAU FM between classes or break times. As great as WCAU FM was I was thrown off my chair when I was down the shore and was tuning around 98.1 and heard WMOD 98.7 in Washington DC. Washington's Goldmine had jingles that sounded like oldies songs like Louie Louie and played real deep cuts of oldies like Honey Love by the Drifters, Jennie Lee by Jan and Dean. I convinced my parents to visit DC so we could see so many educational museums. I recorded several hours of WMOD. Both stations were incredible in their own way.
They played deep cuts of oldies like Summer Sun by Jamestown Massacre. I used to take a small radio with an earphone to school so I could listen to WCAU FM between classes or break times. As great as WCAU FM was I was thrown off my chair when I was down the shore and was tuning around 98.1 and heard WMOD 98.7 in Washington DC. Washington's Goldmine had jingles that sounded like oldies songs like Louie Louie and played real deep cuts of oldies like Honey Love by the Drifters, Jennie Lee by Jan and Dean. I convinced my parents to visit DC so we could see so many educational museums. I recorded several hours of WMOD. Both stations were incredible in their own way.
Back in '87, I seem to recall that he called himself Wolfman Joe, but mostly just said The Wolfman. He did nights on WOGL.
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stevations said:The Sparkomatic FM Converter! That brought a smile to my face, it was mono and had AM radio quality but it brought in those FM stations! It was exciting to hear WCAU FM go from automated to adding live DJs, remember Smiling Irish Kevin Fennessey? Joe Niagra did Music Line on monday nights when listeners could call in questions about the station and music. After 2am on Saturday Nights they had a rock experiment show where they played deep cuts from current rock albums. You never knew what you would hear next on their normal format during the day.... from bubblegum like Tracy by the Cufflinks right into Whole Lotta Love by Led Zepplin. People knew it was automated but Jim made it sound fresh and exciting.
They played deep cuts of oldies like Summer Sun by Jamestown Massacre. I used to take a small radio with an earphone to school so I could listen to WCAU FM between classes or break times. As great as WCAU FM was I was thrown off my chair when I was down the shore and was tuning around 98.1 and heard WMOD 98.7 in Washington DC. Washington's Goldmine had jingles that sounded like oldies songs like Louie Louie and played real deep cuts of oldies like Honey Love by the Drifters, Jennie Lee by Jan and Dean. I convinced my parents to visit DC so we could see so many educational museums. I recorded several hours of WMOD. Both stations were incredible in their own way.
Man do I hear ya, every thing you said is true and I lived it, with the exception of Fennessey, he was a late arrival, I don't think he fit on the station, he was too young and inexperienced, did not care for his delivery, but that is just my opinion, although all the jocks were automated...Wade, the Bird, Hatch, Manning, Foley and Jim, now that was the lineup and the greatest people on the air..... I remember, when I visited my cousin in DC..she went to college in Georgetown, I came across this station WMOD, early 70's, it reminded me of WCAU-FM, but much deeper and no future gold...Murphy in the Morning, Mike Fitzgerald afternoon, Jeff Leonard evenings and automated after 10PM...the music was fanastic, oldies you never heard anywhere else, I would go down to visit her just to hear this station, there was also WASH-FM with an oldies format same time the station with a heart of gold.....then I think in 1976 they blew up WMOD...I still have their jingles..."Your Listening to Classic Rock and Roll"...WMOD 98.7 Stereo.....where can you hear...The Bells of Rosaria by the Admirations, followed by Don't Bet Money Honey - Linda Scott to I Cant Stop the Honeycombs, then Ballad of a teenage Queen - Cash, followed by High on a Hill - Scott English and I'm Cryin the Animals in one set, I still have it on cassette tape, what a station, never will be anythingn like WMOD and also WCAU-FM... people think OGL is great, if they heard these two Gems they would think OGL is trash.....
WMOD was seriously cool, it was like the jocks were living in the 50s, not in the 70s playing 50s music. They also had controversial editorials like when Nixon and Agnew were in trouble or the mayor gets out of a traffic jam at a ballgame by using sirens so he can get home for dinner before it gets cold. Even the commercials were incredible....one for a townhouse communuity where a lady is asked if she heard of it and she starts humming Mmm Mmmm Good and the guy interupts and explains the townhouse then the lady start humming It The Real Thing and the guy explains more about the community...like the lady knows all about the place but really just has a bunch of jingles floating in her head.
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