Chuck Leonard getting stuck working New Year's Eve and playing some of the year's best songs, of which there were many. Whenever a change was made a new list is Then, after Ron was there for a number of years both airshifts on WABC from December 7, 1960 until May 10, 1982. Rick Sklar. Late summer of '63 surveys. The incident highlights the ongoing debate surrounding free speech, cancel culture, and the importance of context in understanding controversial comments. We mostly remember Charlie Greer doing overnights, but he did mornings from late 1965 before returning to overnights around 1968. To connect with Ryan, find him on Twitter @SureToCover. Bruce still sounded excited in these days and was still speedtalking. Dan Ingram still being funny but the music mix seems kind of a mess, strange because there was a ton of great music in 1973. . Oyster Bay Branch. Jus Mic (aka Mike Gaines) previously spent nearly two decades on the air in Central New York, beginning in 2000. By 1982, I didn't think much of WABC, but to their credit, they let Dan completely break format for this special show. And Dusty Springfield shows up on the 18th as well. In the UK, the Beatles had a policy of not including singles on albums and also not releasing singles from albums after they were released. And we've got what would become rock canon: "He's A Rebel", "Monster Mash", which was always fun to hear, especially around Halloween; "Green Onions", "Return to Sender", "Let's Dance", "Beechwood 4-5789", "Stormy Monday" and "Bring It On Home To Me". But "Nowhere to Run" beginning its run up the charts. A lengthy article detailing why WABC was so successful. January 23, 2023 0 Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, is joining Red Apple Media's WABC (770 AM), the station announced on Monday. It is easy to get the wrong impression that people The question was, with an increasingly fractured society and music starting to reflect that, did it still work? Aside from the Impressions, Lenny Welch and Marvin Gaye, there wasn't much good here to listen to. It was put together by WNEW-FM's news director, Earl Bailey and features interviews with program director Rick Sklar, Bruce Morrow, Herb Oscar Anderson, Scott Muni, Bob Lewis and Dan Ingram as well as a number of great airchecks. A message from Fox News Chairman Rupert Murdoch to Fox Corp. board member and former Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan claimed Hannity had been privately disgusted by Trump for weeks, but was scared to lose viewers after the January 6th Insurrection. Roll Over Beethoven b/w Please Mr. Postman (Capitol of Canada 72113) on December 9, 1963. There's also some airchecks within this aircheck, although many are incredibly poor quality. Limbaugh, who died in February, launched his national show in 1988 with WABC as the flagship station of a network that grew to 650 stations before he moved across town to rival WOR in 2014. You've got "Big Girls Don't Cry" jumping from position #39 to #4. "New Yorkers want compelling content. Doubtful. The third segment is from the August '65 visit. A similar This was 10 months after Disco KTU launched. Bruce left WABC on August 7, 1974. A man was frustrated after seeing a Rasmussen poll indicating that a slim majority of Black Americans agreed with the statement its okay to be white. Adams interpretation of this poll was that it revealed a racist outcome. AIRCHECK: Chuck Leonard / Jay Reynolds [mono]. WABC got a copy of the UK release and started playing "What Goes On" as an exclusive. Here's a short restored aircheck as posted by Rob Frankel (RadioMaven77) on MixCloud of Charlie Greer, who sounds extremely upbeat for 5am in the morning (I presume). The surveys for the weeks of February 1, 8, 15, 1971. long gaps in time from one list to the next. Oddly, I agree politically with almost everything Joe says. But the Top-40 DJ Bob Lewis sounded completely different than the progressive DJ we would later hear on WABC-FM and WNEW-FM.And we get to hear Roy Orbison singing a Coke commercial, which actually was better than the track that follows: Herman's Hermits singing a cover of Sam Cooke's "What a Wonderful World (It Would Be)". They were quite noisy and getting them to chant "WABC, WABC" was probably an incredible sales promotion for the station. A big playlist and lots of different types of music although I can't say I loved hearing either "Calcutta" (Lawrence Welk) or the "Theme from Exodus" (Ferrante & Teicher) over and over again. Entertaining and Informative Talk Also interesting is that about half way through the aircheck, Bruce plays a track from a local high school band as part of a contest. The surveys for the weeks of January 15th and 22nd 1973. (Maybe that was the problem.) WABC-AM 770: Wednesday, November 29, 1967 (27:07). They were a thousand feet back. We really needed the Beatles, but we'd have to wait until the end of the year. Weeks ending August 17th, 24th, 31st, 1963. However, talk show hostChris Stigall said Tuesdaythat Adams comments have been taken out of context and that he is being unfairly accused of going on a racist rant. It is also important to note that most of those DJ's did the (If anyone knows better, let us know. The Beatles only have one track at the beginning of the month- "Love Me Do", originally released in 1962. During his OReilly Update Morning Edition Wednesday, former cable news host Bill OReilly argued that everyone has been subject to betrayal at one point or another. State legislators decided they just would pass a law. Scott Adams, the originator of the well-known comic series Dilbert, is facing backlash and cancellation from his syndicator and major newspapers after allegedly making racist comments on his podcast,Real Coffee with Scott Adams.The fallout began after Adams referenced a Rasmussen study in which a slim majority of Black individuals agreed with the statement, Its okay to be white. Adams then condemned Black individuals as a hate group and advised white people to stay away from them. My Bonnie b/w The Saints by Tony Sheridan and the Beatles (MGM K13213) on January 27, 1964. Four hours of the great and underused Chuck Leonard filling in for Charlie Greer on the overnight show, playing WABC's Top 100 of 1968. JINGLE: "Movin' and Groovin' with Cousin Bruce", Here's an early Bruce Morrow theme. 6 pm - Channel 7 Eyewitness News at 6. And then there was that Touchables novelty record by Dickie Goodman which I thought was very funny when I was ten years old. Lamer: The Casinos, Royal Guardsman, Herman's Hermits, Tom Jones, The Seekers, Gary Lewis. By this time, WABC seems to have pulled away from most of the acts that could also be heard on FM. And WOR-FM was several months into the Drake format. The Yardbirds show up. In 2013, with WOR in a holding pattern, WABC's audience share has doubled and almost tripled WOR's. WOR is optimistic that will change with a mostly new lineup that also includes Elliot Segal,. The TV recording was accomplished with a cheap dynamic microphone. Here's another of the WABC advertiser marketing campaigns. Morrow recently left Sirius/XM satellite radio after a 15 year tenure there. Brought to you by Dennison's Mens Clothiers. Adams interpretation of this poll was that it revealed a racist outcome. who had an "official" reason for needing the complete The radio host thanked MSNBC for providing him with what he loves: 24/7 news. John Catsimatidis, CEO of Red Apple Group, and subsidiaries Red Apple Media and 77 WABC Radio, has announced that Greg Kelly has joined the station's daytime lineup beginning March 9th from the 1-3 p.m. Kelly is an experienced broadcaster and a veteran of the United States Marine Corps. Don't know if they were really playing all those albums, but Abraxas, Sly, Elton John, Joplin, Creedence, Chicago, George Harrison and Grank Funk Railroad would all be played on FM as well. According to NPR,Adams distributor, Andrews McMeel Universal, has also ended their relationship with the cartoonist, citing their opposition to any commentary based on prejudice or hate. time, Chuck Leonard was the air personality affected by this. Radio Ink: Any changes planned for WABC? Partisan observers, for example, most states have laws that partisan observers get to watch the vote count from start to finish. The survey for the week of September 22, 1980. Im watching oldDatelines. WABC is also dropping a program from its lineup. Her current partner Curtis Sliwa will remain in middays from 12-3 pm for the rebranded "Curtis Sliwa Show." We hope to locate some more. 3:00 PM to . The Other Side of Midnight with Frank Morano, Sorry, this content is available only to the members of the, Please enter your WABC VIP Club email address, It looks like you are not a member of WABC VIP Club yet. WKTU achieved a 1.4 in the Summer book and jumped to an 11.3 in the Fall once the Disco format started. The 9/1 survey features the same tracks from three weeks before. Brian Shactman Added to Morning Team at Entercom Hartford, Key Networks Taps Deidra Hoye for Lead Sales Role, The State of the Radio Industry and Technology, WTICs Todd Feinburg Caught The Radio Bug At An Early Age, Kansas City Chiefs Playoff Runs Giving Local News Talkers Bump. shows. Montauk Branch. The lists are arranged by year. The Beatles did much to revive the excitement of AM radio. Maybe: the relative poor audio quality of AM radio might have been a good match for the roughness of the Punk sound. Thank God you dont play the oldDatelinesanymore on the weekends. and The Searchers and the Dave Clark Five also chart. Four hours of Harry Harrison playing from the 100 biggest Top-40 hits of the year. And on October 24th, WABC finally chooses a truly great Pick Hit. That was socialization back then. Summer of '63 surveys. There was some great music here that would become part of the pop rock canon, but also a lot of really annoying non-rock tracks. . Hempstead Branch. I'm going to sit down, break bread, and have lunch. Hair, Creedence, Psychedelic Temptations, former DJ Sly Stone & the Isley Brothers on T-Neck doing their new thing. Radio Message Board! WABC-AM 770: Saturday, December 28, 1968 (17:23). The survey for the week of February 24, 1975. That had to have been pretty boring, especially considering the short playlist. I made the case about Pennsylvanias constitution being violated because the constitution in Pennsylvania, it specifies in great detail, the only people that can vote by mail. The Tin Man has been Kung-Fu fighting, but I can help. Brucie makes a big deal out of a "first and exclusive" Dave Clark 5 track called "Try Too Hard". No. schedules are interesting. Perry Como. Note that the WABC jocks had become the "WABC Good Guys" (which WMCA also inexplicably used), which they were from December 1961 through Spring, 1963, but Dan Ingram and Bruce Morrow were now part of the team and WABC was quickly becoming the classic WABC that we think of today.Note that advertising had arrived to the Survey, although at least there was a tie-in to the music. Ryan Hedrick Ryan Hedrick serves as the Assistant Program Director and Co-Host of the Morning News Express at WFMD. 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Its like all news stuff. But it was a big deal then. The station will no longer air the Ben Shapiro Show. I am not convinced that it was a racist rant. Bruce always did seem to be on another planet when he tried to talk seriously about anything. Contributed by Rob Frankel via Glenn Morgan, originally restored for WABC Rewound and posted on Mixcloud by RadioMaven77. The Drifters and Impressions have some great tracks. The video shows a man get out of another car, get into the victim's vehicle, and drive off with her holding on. Nine singles had been released in the U.S. by the time the show aired: Contributed by Rob Frankel via Herb Squire. Not bad music, but it didn't change much over the month. As the years went by, the weekend A Billboard profile of the great Chuck Leonard. The Four Seasons are back on top. The #1 song is "Rag Doll" and #11 is surprisingly still "Love Me Do". Billboard reports on WABC deciding not to pick up Muni's option. That was one of the things that was great about top-40 radio: if it was a hit, it got played regardless of genre. not there. One original sealed copy recently sold for $15,000. Those same teeny-boppers are now 62 to 65 years old (as of 2014). I cant explain it. Here's a rare short aircheck of Scott Muni, originally recorded by Gary Liebisch and restored and posted by Rob Frankel (RadioMaven77) on Mixcloud. Contributed by Rob Frankel via his RadioMaven77 posts on Mixcloud. That would change about 18 months later with the advent of Disco WKTU. But if the playlist was a tight as the survey, it could have been excruciating to listen to. What a mix of music! In the U.S., it was common for albums to always include recent hit singles. Why? 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