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WSDM Airchecks?

...Tom Konard's Aircheck Factory used to have a 60-minute 1970 aircheck of Connie Szerszen on WSDM, when she used the pseudonym Den Pal Dawn. Less than a year after that aircheck, she moved to WIND and started using her legal name on the air...
 
Actually, DDB, WSDM dates back to before the early 70s. I was stationed at the Great Lakes Navy Base in 1968-69, and remember it from that time. Most everyone knows all this, but a synopsis: (a) it had an all-girl DJ staff (Yvonne Daniels was perhaps one of the best known), (b) 'twas all-jazz, (c) call letters stood for Smack Dab in the Middle, bcuz 97.9 was the center spot of the 88-108 FM dial, and (d) it was co-owned with legendary WVON 1450 AM.
 
WSDM did indeed start in the mid-60's. It became The Loop in 1977. A history of the station is here at the WLUP entry on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLUP-FM

Connie S. is currently on ChicagoRadioOnLine.com (a part of AccuRadio.com)
on The Classic Hits Channel with Fred Winston & others. She doesn't do much....they just read liners which aren't updated very often. Learn more about Connie, her recently published book, and her art (!) here:
http://www.TopRockGirlyJock.com

Burt Burdeen, WSDM's long-time PD, teaches at Columbia College. He is on Facebook, as is Connie, now that I think about it.
 
...before Burdeen, Linda Ellerbee (a.k.a. Den Pal Hushpuppy) was the PD at WSDM (doubling as a newscaster on co-owned WVON)...
 
Yes, that Linda Ellerbee! There's a photo of "Hush Puppy" in one of her books. I remember hearing her on the air, but I don't know that she was PD.

And so it goes...
 
I remember in the mid-70's WSDM was known as 'Wisdom 98' but the station had both men and women DJ's.

The format was adult-leaning Album Rock. I remember when the call letters were changed to WLUP, the music was initially the same as it was under WSDM. Eventually The Loop evolved to a more mainstream/harder AOR sound by the late 70's, but that only lasted for a few years.
 
And today (effective earlier this month) the station in Brazil, IN bearing the WSDM calls and formerly branded "Wisdom 98" is now ESPN Radio all day long.
 
avtosalon said:
I remember in the mid-70's WSDM was known as 'Wisdom 98' but the station had both men and women DJ's.

The format was adult-leaning Album Rock. I remember when the call letters were changed to WLUP, the music was initially the same as it was under WSDM. Eventually The Loop evolved to a more mainstream/harder AOR sound by the late 70's, but that only lasted for a few years.
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I remember the last six months of WSDM pretty well...they played albums like Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, Steve Miller's Fly Like an Eagle, Jackson Browne's The Pretender, the Eagles' Hotel California, Linda Ronstadt's Hasten Down the Wind...some local nuggets like Lake Shore Drive by Alliota Haynes Jeremiah and some AC-ish songs. The mix got a little more hard-edged right before the call letter change. I think Kitty Loewy and Gloria June were the last of the female DJs--neither of them carried over to WLUP.
 
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