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Schroedingers Cat

When WIND was Hot AC/Adult CHR/Chicken Rock, in the early 1970s, they played a lot of Oldies on weekends, "WIND Number One Music" was a jingle they played between songs. Does anyone have a link to that jingle? Would that work for MeTV FM? "Me TV FM Number One Music".
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
Was Bob DelGiorno working at both Westinghouse stations, WIND and WOWO, during the same years circa 1970-1973? Was it voice tracked or did he come up for a Weekend Shift?
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I first heard Bob DelGiorno substituting on WIND in the early 70s. When I first heard him he was using the name Bob Dell and he was in from WOWO.
WIND liked him so much that they hired him and urged him to use his real name. At this time he had already left WOWO.
 
radioman148 said:
I first heard Bob DelGiorno substituting on WIND in the early 70s. When I first heard him he was using the name Bob Dell and he was in from WOWO.
WIND liked him so much that they hired him and urged him to use his real name. At this time he had already left WOWO.
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Bob played "It Could Be We're In Love" by The Cryan' Shames a week before WLS and WCFL, and promoted them at small Southeast Michigan Concert venues.

Michael DelGiorno reminds me so much of his Father. Sometimes it's like listening to WTAC in the 1960s again. On Cumulus' WWTN, Nashville, he talks about his years in Arlington Heights/Chicago a lot. He's not just about Politics and Religion. Some topics are almost Shock Jock fare, though with a Judeo Christian perspective, and humorous at the same time.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
Bob played "It Could Be We're In Love" by The Cryan' Shames a week before WLS and WCFL, and promoted them at small Southeast Michigan Concert venue
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"It Could Be We're In Love" appeared on the WLS survey for the first time July 7, 1967. I'm guessing Bob must have been playing them sometime in June of 67.
 
radioman148 said:
"It Could Be We're In Love" appeared on the WLS survey for the first time July 7, 1967. I'm guessing Bob must have been playinlg them sometime in June of 67.
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That is correct. The Week Ending 6-22-67. "It Could Be" is #5 on the Hit Bound. At I recall, it wasn't a big hit at WTAC, but was probably played for 2 or 3 weeks. Some Surveys show the Dates and Venues. The New Colony Six was another group that played at Bob Dell's promoted venues. I'd have to look through them to find them.

http://las-solanas.com/surveys/WTAC/WTAC_1967-06-22_1.jpg

The most significant thing about it is not only did Bob play it first, it's the quintessential Rare Regional Chicago Garage Band Hit. Wish we had a paper or air check trail like this for John Landecker at WTRX in 1966, who was "Jones Boy" Dow Jones, a unique Jones name he picked himself as a "Jones Boy". No other DJ used Dow Jones. Spike Jones (Ken Sands) was another unique name. Ken was the recording engineer who did some rather famous Motown mixes, like "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye, "Ball Of Confusion" by The Temptations, and the sirens and gunshots in "Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor.
 
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Schroedingers Cat said:
That is correct. The Week Ending 6-22-67. "It Could Be" is #5 on the Hit Bound. At I recall, it wasn't a big hit at WTAC, but was probably played for 2 or 3 weeks. Some Surveys show the Dates and Venues. The New Colony Six was another group that played at Bob Dell's promoted venues. I'd have to look through them to find them.

http://las-solanas.com/surveys/WTAC/WTAC_1967-06-22_1.jpg

The most significant thing about it is not only did Bob play it first, it's the quintessential Rare Regional Chicago Garage Band Hit. Wish we had a paper or air check trail like this for John Landecker at WTRX in 1966, who was "Jones Boy" Dow Jones, a unique Jones name he picked himself as a "Jones Boy". No other DJ used Dow Jones. Spike Jones (Ken Sands) was another unique name. Ken was the recording engineer who did some rather famous Motown mixes, like "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye, "Ball Of Confusion" by The Temptations, and the sirens and gunshots in "Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor.
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The earliest Landecker aircheck I've heard is from WOIA in 1967 with Art Vuolo. Wish we could hear the Dow Jones one.
 
The WOIA air check is from the end of the Six Day War, on a Sunday, after "Bonanza". I guess that was 10 PM, with JRL's Newscast. June, 1967. When he was at WTRX between his first and second years at MSU, they were on Quarters I think, so he was off from school from late June, 1966 to late September, 1966. I vaguely remember him being on, Dow Jones, where the other DJs joked that he was the station's "financial guy", coming in at 7 PM, on Sundays as I recall. Landecker picked the name Dow Jones himself, but didn't like his name at WIBG, Scott Walker, as I recall.

Here's the 1968 WTAC Survey, cut out from GO Magazine by a member of The Unrelated Segments, who were on the only station chart for the only week. The Concert Schedule shows the New Colony Six, hosted by Bob Dell, on Friday Night at Mount Holly. The chart date is not shown. Ray? from the NC6 was supposed to email me if he had the concert schedule to nail that date down.

http://las-solanas.com/surveys/WTAC/WTAC_1968-08-16_1.jpg

I'll look at the other surveys to see if I can find other concerts Bob Dell promoted. I do remember seeing a chart with the Ides of March, and possibly one with The Cryan' Shames.
 
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The date of the WOIA JRL aircheck that I have is 6/11/67. I can't be exact, but the chart from WTAC that you posted the link to certainly corresponds to music that was popular in mid August of 68.
 
You have to remember that WTAC (and WTRX) were way out ahead of the curve on playlist adds, as long as 13 weeks with "Nobody But Me". WTAC was FIRST to play "Brown Eyed Girl", so I'm more tired of it than you are. Still like the bass guitar break though. I suspect that the chart may actually be closer to the beginning of August, but I need to confirm that somehow.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
You have to remember that WTAC (and WTRX) were way out ahead of the curve on playlist adds, as long as 13 weeks with "Nobody But Me". WTAC was FIRST to play "Brown Eyed Girl", so I'm more tired of it than you are. Still like the bass guitar break though. I suspect that the chart may actually be closer to the beginning of August, but I need to confirm that somehow.
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You're right. Top 40 stations in smaller markets very often were ahead of the curve. Not like WLS or especially WABC that only played the records that were already established as hits.
Regarding "Brown Eyed Girl" as an ex bass player I loved the bass, but I don't want to hear the record again :)
 
And that was before Rick Sklar (RIP) took over the ABC O and Os and made WLS the "World's Last Station" to add new records by artists past their prime, and new artists. They did add "Crimson and Clover" and played it from a demo tape before it was released though, but Tommy James was a big artist at the time. After The Four Seasons left Vee Jay, and before they signed to the now ubiquitous Philips, Joey Reynolds was still consulting WTRX after leaving for his first big gig at WKBW, and brought an acetate of "Dawn (Go Away)" to WTRX in late December, 1963, and they were playing it by around Christmas. Some acetate copies also found their way to CKLW and WLS, and of course WKBW, and after the response in Flint, they added it the next week or so to CKLW, WLS, and WKBW. The WLS chart reflected the airplay weeks from the beginning of January, but Philips didn't release it until late January, too late to get to #1 before Beatlemania hit. It was one of the biggest #3 hits of all time. It was #1 on WTRX, CKLW, and WJBK, and #2 at WLS, once it was officially released and charted.

"Dawn" debuted at #19 on the WLS chart 1-31-64, in its fourth week of airplay. It reached #2 the next week, and then #2 again after dropping below more Beatles stuff. Here's the chart showing the airplay weeks.

http://las-solanas.com/surveys/WLS/WLS_1964-01-31_1.JPG
 
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Regarding "Dawn" it sat behind the Beatles on the WABC chart also along with "You Don't Own Me". At any other time those records would've been number 1, but they couldn't get passed "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and "She Loves You". Timing is everything!
 
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