XM will recreate WHBQ today

[AlbumOldies]

Starting at 3 pm Central time today (Fri) the XM 60's channel will be recreating the sound of WHBQ for several hours.

 

[radiosaur]

Heard it. Fun. I wonder where they get thier stuff?

The 70s channel should do that too.

 

[AlbumOldies]

Heard it. Fun. I wonder where they get thier stuff?
The 70s channel should do that too.

My brother and I talked about that very thing yesterday. It would be GREAT if the 70's channel would do WHBQ. I barely remembered most of the jingles they used yesterday. I really liked the jingles WHBQ used from the late 60's thru the end of the music days in the 80's. I can hear Jack Parnell now: "The now sound for the now generation."

Does anyone know how I could obtain copies of these 70's and 80's jingles from the Big 56? I bought a CD of WHBQ jingles from Ken-R a couple of years ago, but they were mid-60's like most of the ones we heard yesterday on XM.

 

[robgrayson]

Heard it. Fun. I wonder where they get thier stuff?

The 70s channel should do that too.

Don't they still run the Pig N Whistle on XM? If so, I would think Alex Ward was the source (he would have all the old jingles, and plenty of airchecks).

 

[AlbumOldies]

Someone sent me a link to an article in the CA about it which said the call letters WHBQ stood for We Have the Best Quartets. I had always heard the letters had something to do with Hines Broadcasting. Anyone besides me ever heard that?

 

[KennyBosak]

There is an enormous amount of urban legend about what the WHBQ call letters mean.

The calls have nothing to do with quartets or Harding College or anything else.

The call letters were randomly assigned by the FCC.

 

[mikl73]

found this online:

WHBQ, licensed to the Men's Fellowship Class of the M.E. Church of Memphis, Tennessee, whose call-letters boasted "We Have (the) Best Quartet."