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WPFM Tribute Site on the air!!

C

cceng1

You guys and gals need to check this out .....it will bring back some GREAT memories !!

http://www.thegreat108wpfm.com/

Great music, jingles, airchecks, etc....

This site is for those who visited or grew up on the World's Most Beautiful Beaches in the 1980's. The only station in Panama City for Top 40 music during the day with personalities like the late Young Preston Young, Mike Stone/Michael J. Stone, Jeff/Jefferson "Cat" Davis, Skip Bishop, etc. and Rock tracks with news of the weird in the middle of night with Little John Walker was The Great 108, WPFM. You'll hear music as it was played in the past with special PC songs, classic airchecks and sometimes we'll just play a lot of Modern 80s tracks. Regardless, you will always hear the original jingles, sweepers and Legal IDs. You might hear some exclusive production too

cw
 
I started crying when you posted this! I am listening to Tears for Fears. Preston -- wow. Haven't heard that Stone guy
yet. That'll take it to the next level. The Talk Talk era was 1984, IIRC. The Outfield, etc. was (I think 1986.) The year 1986
was the most "beachy" PFM sounded and was a true Top 40 Hit station.
 
the guy who is doing this lurks on this list from time to time....I have it going in my office and everyone is coming in saying "what are you listening to? it great!"

cw
 
I'm listening right now.

We used to spend a few weeks every summer at Mexico Beach. WPFM was one of the stations
we discovered during that time.
 
Ohhhh the things I did in PCB with P Fm on in the background. If that 82 Ford Escort could talk.

Nock
 
Nock -- tell me it was not 1985 or 1986 that you were in PCB doing lewd things listening to the pristine Great 108, was it?
That thought makes me glad to not be on the air knowing I was background music for your destructive, demented
state back in "the day." Wait a minute, that was all of our natures. Ah, I loved the 80's...

Charlie, this is not someone taping (called that back then, really) WPFM ...but rather someone who had some liners, id's
etc., who positioned the music around them. (Right? I haven't gotten through more than 30 minutes of it)... I recall
someone sending me something similar to this a few years ago in the mail. I think the guy was from Canada or NY
(it wasn't you was it Rob?) I had no return address to say thanks for that. Maybe that person checks out radio-info.

"Rip the knob off..the Great 108" between "Pride (in the Name of Love)" and "Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes still sounds terrific.
Wow.

How would this music do on WPFM today, I wonder???
 
Tibbs...the guy who put this on is a radio professional.....was a vp of programming for a large group until recently....has a lot of radio miles under his belt including quite a bit on PCB....email me direct and I can shed more light.....and if you know how to get an email to Jeff Davis (M.E.) let him know about the site....the only email address I have for him bounced when I tried to drop him a note about the site today.

cw
 
Tibbs2 said:
Nock -- tell me it was not 1985 or 1986 that you were in PCB doing lewd things listening to the pristine Great 108, was it
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Tibbs ----- Let's just call it 1982 - 1987. It was more important to consume massive amounts of alcohol. Who needs a hotel room, we just slept in the parking lot of Spinnakers.

Nock
 
There is only one guy who could have done this...
Ted (inside joke) S.

Thanks for the memories--and are you back in PC?
 
it's good to hear vinyl again like this.. this really sounded like a fun station compared to today (blah)

-Rob
 
Rob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~hell

YOU'RE POST MERITS A STROBEY AWARD...who will second the nomination?

Even Charlie might buy yuh a Stella, eh? Good postin'. REAL Great 108
sounding good. Depressing to hear so much great music... that not one
radio station in America plays anymore. The 80's format would have
done a lot better if they had played such a diverse mix instead of 18
of the most over played crap. "Whoever" is behind this tribute site
should be running Chitadel or Crumulus so they'd survive.*
Play Annimotion (Obsession) more. That's what's happening when
people listen.

*Figerative, not literal. We still hate them and will not forget. ;D
 
Tibbs....I would buy Rob a Stella or even better, a Pilsner Urquell, but he probably would complain about the taste and ask for a Miller Lite or a Keystone Light instead ;)

cw
 
sorry, i don't drink beer mostly water. i can hear the popping of the vinyl when it's cranked up. ustream's low fidelity kinda messes it up. i would love to hear it in it's 44K glory.

the jingles sound like there PAMS. or were they homemade? someone said there doing 104.3 in PCB..how about stunting with old 80's jingles?!

(won't be able to hear it as we have 100KW JACK ing off FM out of Atmore)

-Rob
 
Something is wrong with me too.... I love the rich sugar free taste of a Diet Coke, or Dt. mtn. Dew. After a 2 liter I'm wound up and talkin' 100 mph and stutterin' like Mel Tillis ;D

Travis
 
Memories. LRB lyric says it all, "All the times we're missing spending the hours reminiscing". I think that was Little River from the late 70's wasn't it? I slept in the car at Spinn one night, got it stuck in the dunes on the side, I think. The 70's & 80's on PCB.......seems I was there???? I think. Gosh, for some reason I don't have many, certainly not clear, memories of that time period. Seems I remember a studio under some trees, a girl in a tank top letting us in, an older guy telling us he didn't have a bathroom we could use then letting us look through the little window of a locked door we couldn't go in and then telling us to go. But the sweet girl in the tank met us at the door with a t-shirt for each of us. The shirts sure helped later on 'cause when we unloaded the tapped keg from the back seat, ..... never mind. The tank top girl still occasionally visits in my dreams to this day. This was before you youngsters were in town, March of '78 or '79. Anyone know who she was?

BTW, excellent site!
 
No big issue on the beer rob. You need to be sober for all the dx-ing that is starting.

Baseball season openers are better for beer than Strobey Awards. CW ==
Road (make that 'air') trip to Yankee Stadium? Multi-beers for those who love 'em like we do...

We can meet up with Nock and RNR. Gotta see the new digs.

Stewy - why would anyone ever use an indoor bathroom on PCB???
 
Stewy said:
The tank top girl still occasionally visits in my dreams to this day. This was before you youngsters were in town, March of '78 or '79. Anyone know who she was?

BTW, excellent site
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Stewy,

It sounds like you've been thinking of another classic song. "Undercover Angel" by Alan O'Day.


"undercover angel, midnight fantasy... I never had a dream that made sweet love to me. Undercover angel, the answer to my prayers...."

Nothing like the classics from the '70's 8)

Travis
 
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