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[Apologies if Im forgetting anybody.] The station may be offline, or you may need to update your browser. Thanks for all of the comments and memories! Already a user? They had a very strong signal at night and played all the latest hits!! KHJ lasted about 10 years. Ill never forget the zany humor of Gary Owens and Don MacKinnon on KEWB. A list of 20 is too short. ), WCAU-FM Philadelphia (not just its Top 40 format, but also the Disco format that immediately preceded it), WOR-FM/WXLO New York, AOR-turned-pop WPLJ New York (as Top 40 and later Hot AC, the latter since defunct (the owners of the syndicated Christian AC network K-Love bought the station almost four months ago and took over WPLJ just nine days ago)), WBUD Trenton, NJ, and WYNG Goldsboro, NC come to mind. Will ALWAYS love radio. Playlist. your traffic, you can earn additional bucks every month. Hello Lee Roberts! A Top-40 jock named Eddie Haskell?!? PLEASE! One other station I listened to was WSGA in Savannah, GA. and to see CKLW picked by the readers at #1!!! WTIX-FM - playlist by jamacco | Spotify Home Search Your Library Create Playlist Liked Songs Cookies Privacy Preview of Spotify Sign up to get unlimited songs and podcasts with occasional ads. TALK! All my old pals! It was fun reading about these different stations and what made them excel, and I wish we still had many of them. Side note- thanks to Randy Michaels for seeing what I saw- that great radio isnt necessarily only in great cities. Gotta put a vote in for The Big 143, CKFH! Oldies, needed now more then ever!!! And they had some great ones Charlie Tuna, Machine Gun Kelly (at night!). He also did a live show from the afored mentioned WGR in Buffalo. Scott Shannon and other PDs stole from Y107 every time they came to Film House to cut a TV spot. But Ive got to know, did anyone measure? I worked there as a young man when Mac owned the station, so I know first hand. Fenway Park was in back of 70 Brookline Avenue. Im blessed to have been taught by the best. My thanks to Randy and Lee as this would have been a difficult task, since there were so many stations back in the day. Sgt. Bob Martz was probably one of the most funny guys along with the likes of John Garry, Larry Obrien, Bob Kelly, Don Williams (and of course myself Rick Allen, I just had to toot my own horn didnt I? (AND TO THINK THAT AT HIS PREVIOUS RADIO EMPLOYER IN BOSTONWMEXTHAT WAS ONE OF THAT STATIONSAS YOU SAID, PAULHOUSE NAMES! Watch the video below! I meant WKYC, not WXYZ. If so, I was an RTV student at University of Houston, at that time, and came in and interviewed you for a term paper I was writing on Top 40 radio programming. KOMA (along with handful of other legendary stations including 890 WLS, Chicago; 1090 KAAY, Little Rock; 1060 WNOE, New Orleans; 770 WABC, New York; 800 CKLW, Windsor/Detroit; and 1100 WKYC, Cleveland) could be heard on car radios, in homes, and everywhere a kid could tune in. WMGK Magic 103 (soft rock-oriented AOR until modifying to hits-oriented soft rock in the early 80s); WSNI Sunny 104/104 and-a-half/Sunny 104.5 (first hybrid AC- /MOR-based easy listening, then all-soft rock hits), Kiss 100 (WKSZ Media, PA) WSSJ Camden, NJ; WJBR Wilmington, DE; and even WIBG and WFIL (1975-77 (before briefly going Top 40 for the last time) and 1977-81, respectively). KIIS/Los Angeles. 94.3 Rewind playlist United States Michigan Monroe 94.3 Rewind 94.3 Rewind playlist 94.3 Rewind playlist Don't know what song's been playing on the radio? How can anyone leave out WMCA, New York?. Easy to use internet radio. If you re-read this article, youll see that Randy Michaels *did* list WMCA. With only 250 watts way up at 1450kHz, WTIX debuted with a 50 share. Dont get screwed, get WAPEd!. Photograph. Hope you are both well. Poor Lee hadnt been paying attention. The studios were in a former carriage house with a false front to make it look taller and a mirror at the end of the long single hallway to make it look bigger when you walked in. How about a shout out for KSTN-AM in Stockton, CA. Mac Richmond brought Arnie Ginsburg to 1510 from WBOS-AM. I completely agree. Its city of license is Galliano, Louisiana. Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. All the playlists are suitable with Kodi ! And John Teshwell, we all know what became of him. and from the mid-Eighties until it went all-talk in 88); (Nashville: ) WSM (Not only was it MOR during the day and country at night (before going all-country in 79), but in 73 or 74, it changed its MOR daytime format from either standards or standards-slash-soft rock (traditional MOR) to all soft rock hits (contemporary MOR nka Adult Contemporary)), WSM-FM SM95 (I dont know if WSIX switched/modified its MOR format completely to AC/lite rock, but you just read at least two of Nashvilles AC stations of the past. I was listening to WSAI when JFK was assasinated, and when I first heard The Beatles. I like the mention of Big WAYS and WTIX as I lived in those cities and I used to hear WAPE. Great jocks, a lot of personality, fun to listen to. They only beat WLS in the ratings once, but that battle was David vs Goliath in signal and cash. Many stations that are just average have lasted a long time. Randy lists his top stations, and also details why each station he picked was great in the Top 40 format. Paper Filing? I always thought of them as the WABC of the South. As an engineer, I was lucky enough to work along side many of them, and even heard Humble Harve and Bill Drake cutting IDs and voice-overs in the early 70s. He said I look outside and if I see lights then we give it a try. Install the free Online Radio Box app for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! From well into the early 70s through the mid-70s, it underwent an MOR-to-soft rock transition not unlike what WIP Philadelphia underwent a half-decade earlier-and-change, tops. You patiently answered them for this 17 year old radio freak. as well as creating the mess that radio is now. Skinny Tommy Cheney's shout out, and. Two legendary Top 40s that apparently didnt make the cut for these lists. WAPE introduced a lot of the south to Carolina Beach music. Amen! Doc thanks for the shout out to Drake/Chenalts 13KYNO, in Fresno, where so many radio (and television) notables passed through. After M&M Hot Rod Glenn picks up the mid-day duties, Pal Al Nassar covers afternoon drive, and Jay Douglas a.k.a. 44 12 Magic 101.9 is an Adult Contemporary radio station serving New Orleans. I wouldnt leave out KEWB Oakland, where such notables as The Real Don Steele, Robert W. Morgan, and Casey Kasem played DJ before any of them became nationally known. 15 WLAC in Nashville, my choice for the best. 4539 n. i-10 service rd. Makes my Beer brewing on my deck a pleasure. KMPC remained Adult Contemporary (the soft-rock radio formats name by then) until about the turn of the following decade. Whatever your new sound, pitching can help it get heard by fans around the world. Holliday was also great as Baron of the Bay at KYA/SF. If you go by Abrams characteristics, CFL was heads and shoulders above the rest (plus they had Chickenmanand Lujackand King B, Jim Stagg (who traveled with the Beatles on tour), Biondi, Barney Pip, Jerry G Bishop, Joel Sebastion, Jim Runyon, Ken Draper as GM, a huuuge news department, and on and on). So, a small hat tip to WMGM as well. Great visit Great station!! (5:10) * Don Anthony - Aircheck August 1973 (7:33) They had a New Years count down of the top 100 from the year and I listened to every song for several years. Best radio station without question. As for signals, WINS was 50kw,but with short towers and a headlight-narrow beam across the city. KLIF/Dallas. KNUS was a big deal when FM became commercially viable. The BEST show came out of 55KRC in Cincinnati. Alternatively, you can select which cookies or technologies you want to allow in "Settings". To me, radio was riveting in the 60s and 70s, and it fascinated me enough to get in to it, which I enjoyed for over 40 years. Radio Ink also held a three-week online poll and asked you which you believe are the best Top 40 stations of all time. more What's New Version History Version 1.0 Boogie. Those two local stations, though, played the soundtrack for many folks pre-teen and teen years here in our area. Im surprised no one mentioned WQXI Atlanta. According to Dick, the phrase Top 40 was coined in New Orleans. @Phil Dirt WBEB Philadelphia (What did it change its nickname from B101.1 again?) WTIX/New Orleans. Call sign: WTIX-FM Frequency: 94.3 FM City of license: Galliano, LA Format: Oldies Owner: Fleur de Lis Broadcasting Area Served: New Orleans Sister stations: Z-104.5 WMZ FM Contact A tue rocker in its days. Like the stations you name-dropped (call letter-dropped? 93Q had the better air personalities, including John Lander and the Q Morning Zoo; but, the music battle between the two stations was just exceptional. Was Out in the Street by the Shangri-Las really the last record you played on Wins and the last record heard thereon? Thanks, to that Ron Parker, whether you or someone else, You have the right RP, Robert. Save peace in the world. Seattle and Portland had great radio in the Top-40 days. * Keep listening to your radio while doing other tasks. Dick Lamb and Gene Loving also did a show called Disc-O-Ten on WAVY-TV, and Lamb later had a morning talk show on WTAR (now WTKR), Channel 3. * WTIX Composite Aircheck (1979) featuring: Robert Mitchell, Larry Hamilton, Kathy Fishman, Pal Al Nasser, Greg Fox. Also the WTIX 1969 Halloween House Decoration Contest, a Signal 20 traffic report by David Lawrence, a spot for the new Vanilla Fudge tape on sale at Tape City USA, and a full Coca Cola "It's The Real Thing", Cruise out on the lakefront once again with the sound of the real and classic WTIX 690 on a summertime, * Bob Walker -Aircheck April 1971 (1:23), * Bob Walker -Aircheck February 1972(12:08), Where were you in February 1972? Others from that same summer (as we were on a long road trip from our home New Jersey, where WABCs tower stood outside my bedroom window): KMEN in San Bernardino and KCBQ in San Diego. I later worked with Jacobs on the KHJ book we put out together using his memos as a base(and yes he we had to redo the book over and over again til Ron thought it was perfect before it was released). The men who did it both wanted to make lots of money but also great radio. WCTC New Brunswick, NJ (went talk in 91, w/AC on Sunday overnights only, literally all-talk in 92, (syndicated) oldies in 2008 and reverted to talk in 2011) Best wishes to all alumni of radios golden age. One KLIF engineer told me the new night signal was so tight it went down Commerce Ave without touching either curb! Chalk up one more who thinks WQXI should have been on the list; the liveliest sounding station in the South, the one that seemed the least canned. After lunch he sang a few of his songs for us in his living room. Pat KJR was a great station. Starting briefly as a mixture of Top 40 and Rhythm (Rhythm and Rock) [plus a Jazz show hosted by Demetrius], we quickly evolved into the only non-commercial disco station in the country (with the exception of my popular Oldies show on Friday nights, throughout). Storz and McLendon traded PDs, air talent, and promotion ideas. Def Leppard 1675327016. While at age 20 I had only about 10% of an idea of how to actually be an effective PM drive personality, I had loads of freedom, encouragement from Bobby Rich, inspiration from all my peers and energy to spare. The Greatest Top 40 Stations Of All Time! In the early '60s such guys as Robert Mitchell, "Buzz" Bennett, Ted Green, Deane Johnson, Bobby Reno, "King" Bob Walker, and Don Anthony were the greatest! He hired major-market talent and they stayed. Already a user? KILT Houston? and I was glad to see CKLW made #1 on the readers poll, also mentioning engineer Ed Butterbaughs work on their signal was unbelievable, CKLW actually DID jump out of radios, like Ive never heard since. Owned and operated by Audacy. And would this surprise you? Todd Storz had the first Top 40 station. You hit the70s and go back to the better old stuff. I arrived after that promotion but of course it was well documented. (P.S., Rockin Ron did a great Oldies Show Sunday nights on WBT, Charlotte). Love all the music and the DJs. Free IPTV Playlists. U of Ps WXPN also did a good job with that format. WLS and WCCO are now news talk stations. Station was located at 70 Brookline Avenue. Was in college there in the mid 60s. Longtime morning man Lacy Neff passing was big news last June. 16. WTIX 94.3 FM is New Orleanss Greatest Hits Station. Using the actual TV show theme song "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett" and splicing the banjo on the beginning over and over, a similar fun song was born that spotlighted the WTIX DJ's of 1962 instead of the Clampett family. You folks in the Windy City were lucky SOBs LOL!! Of course we took him up on his offer. Hence the morning mans name FENWAY. . Jim Craig Professor, Broadcast Studies In more recent times, as a young man, I moved to Houston in the early 80s. I was listening to WTIX-FM (a station that I have only recently "discovered") while painting my kitchen the other night, and I have to say, I'm surprised they aren't doing better. 2. I remember listening to tix as a teenag. I LOVED the 6-years+ I spent at the helm of those prestigious monster radio stations. A top 40 station in the Washington,DC area in the mid to late 60s had a DJ named Alan Afterhours. Sorry, I dont mean to monopolize the conversation, but another old Philly station/format warrants mention: An all-Progressive Rock format launched by WDAS-FM, Hyskis Underground. A good playlist and entertaining jocks. Thanks M & M for keeping real ties to the original top 40 sound of Tiger Radio - The Mighty 6-90! Jim Woods in the night time was the most exciting thing around. Todd Storz took the tight playlist formula from KOWH,. The sounds that listeners remembered the most: ( Clydesdales marching in a Mardi Gras parade - Skip Broussard & Buzz Bennett ), (Check out the prices for new cars and gasoline! CD Signing Video My list would probably put KFRC #2, KCBQ #3 and CKLW #4. WROV was the lowest powered full time station in the market and often beat all other stations combined. David Kaye, 8/10/2017: WTIM was unable to reach outside of Taylorville at night due to its FCC-mandated 63 watts of power. They had a broad playlist and I wish I could have been a kid in Chicago. Well, Ive read the entire article, including the comments from beginning to end. I know a PD in Texas who couldnt afford research, so he just listened to WLS to see what to play. Bruce Bradley at WBZ told me at a record hop in 1963 NOT to go into Radio. Select a playlist such as Watch Later, or a. Dennis Williams, Toledo,Oh. Pentatonix (PTX) How bout them Kardashians.? What a great list. of THE PACIFIC MOTHERFUCKIN NORTHWEST!!! Bank Of Jefferson (with Aunt Polly and nephew Sterling), Dr. Pepper, Robo-Wash and more. Robert Mitchell plays the radio hits of 1969. Here she is complaining about, * Bob Walker -Aircheck 1981 The Oldies Professor Steve Slumber calls the WTIX Original OldieHour. and many others that would have put stations on Lee Abrahms Those that I liked list too shame. of a damn BITCH!! Pardon the rambling, but that station was Top 40 during the day and Italian-language programming in the evening, with overnights split between jazz & R&B (the latter three from when it was WOV prior to the ownership change in 1959 that changed it to WADO and shuffled at least either of those dayparts to a different time slot). LOL Other stations interrupt. If youre THAT Johnny Holliday, werent you on WINS New York during the tail end of its Top 40 era (before flipping to (and pioneering) all-news radio in 1965? It was a time that will live in our hearts forever. The FCC wasnt amused, but the public was. Todd Storz took the tight playlist formula from KOWH, doubled the number, and the first "Top 40" station was born. When I started at WGR as a part timer, that became my new name. KBOX/Dallas. I worked (twice) at WKDA (am) and I think BOTH MAK and KDA were both great outlets. WooWoo!!!!. Growing up in southern Minnesota from the late 1960s through the late 1970s, my friends and I listened to WDGY AM during the day and WLS AM after sunset. GM Paul Palmer just let us run with it. Dave Charles once called me smooth but I couldnt hold a candle to MM! Do you mean KFRC and *KYA* San Francisco? I wouldnt leave out KEWB Oakland, where such notables as The Real Don Steele, Robert W. Morgan, and Casey Kasem played DJ before any of them became nationally known. Agree that KFJZ was the station in Ft Worth. And yet another early soft rocker in Chicago-WMAQ, known later in its AC era as 67-Q.. WABC was good but rarely great. I loved WAPE 690. For help or assistance please contact us at 1-877-480-3201 or 1-717-338-2824 (TTY) or you may submit requests online via e-support. I worked there for a spell and the phones were lit up constantly. Ohas far as Adult Contemporary stations of the pastand the greatest such stations of all timeare concerned, Id be remiss if I omitted KMPC Los Angeles. Not a registered user of Streema yet? WMCA killed WABC in the ratings from 1963-1965. It exploded in 1967 with the Drake format. WABC carried the Yankees during its final years, and I vaguely remember WMCA caring one of the teams in its final rock/talk years. What about Kimn in Denver? Use our service to find it! He trashed the beautiful-music automation and took KFMBs little 10,000 watt FM live with no jingles, minimal formatting, an expanded uptempo playlist that was carted up at 46.5 RPM, heavy promotion, heavy Oganowski compression and a staff of crazed, hyper-caffeinated jocks including Rob Landree, Dave Conley, Rocketman (Scott Wright), Willie B Goode, Jimi Fox, Gary Kelley, Kevin Anderson, Phil Flowers and Billy Martin. WSGN, THE BIG 610, Birmingham, Alabama. Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. As are the respective lists of Top 40 *AND* Adult Contemporary stations that I listed above. Forgot your username or And lets not forget WHK in Cleveland who owned that City from 1959 to 1964 blowing every other station away. Posted on April 10, 2021 by IPTVMate. As Radio 8-0 CKLW spent the early 60s as a crappy Top 40 well behind WKNR and WXYZ. In stereo! Funny that nobody looked at the list and recalled Jeff Kayes often quoted positioning statement WKBW one of Americas two great radio stations!. To coin a sound alike phrase from the late Bill Drake, AND THE TALENT JUST KEPT ON COMIN. 15. Thank you for still give g praise to him. ). $25,000 Giveaway promo (Buzz Bennett voiceover), Bob Walker (TIX Original Oldie Hour). Except for the late-Sunday evening religious (African-American Protestant church services) broadcasts, WADO had become all-Spanish and so remains (having switched its Spanish format from music or music/talk to all-talk circa the turn of the decade before last, dropping its aforementioned English-language religious daypart). Buy on. (Users must have an Apple Music account to use this app.) Morgantown? Stan and Sis Kaplan were fierce competitors. Had a lot of fun working at TR, too, and enjoyed doing Smooth Jazz. (Welland was kind of a suburb of Buffalo, just not as close as Tonawanda was.) WHB710. Great station playing the music I grew up with. You can thank Rose Trombly for a great deal of CKLWs success. It was nowhere upstate or on the Jersey Shore. ), WOR-FM/WXLO, WNBC, and WPLJ! Several on-air staff departed for KTNQ Los Angeles in late 1976, creating openings for Shotgun Tom Kelly in AM drive, Glen (Martin) McCartney middays, yours truly in PM drive and Gene Knight in the evenings. Randy also sorta had something to do with Stevens & Pruitt and that 97.1 frequency in DFW, being the PD and all. WVAQ/Morgantown, WV. 13. Myron did, and because he had a TV station, he had to sell the AM to do it. At its prime, KISN was the king of Top 40 radio in this market. Heres a shout out to them. Super CFL!! Heard hed make the production director Bill Mousis redo the promos over and over again. Randy, get over yourself. living in rural washington parish now out of bogalusa and we needs signal cause we part of new orleans area. was the last song heard both on your show and on WINS in general. I remember Howard Taylor working the AM side then we had middle of the road on the FM side which captured the older crowd well. WHAT ABOUT WSGN BIRMINGHAM, AL!!! Metairie, LA. Bob Mitchell and Jim Swiler conduct an interview with "Quarterback Billy Kilmore". * WTIX Composite Aircheck (1979) featuring: Robert Mitchell, Larry Hamilton, Kathy Fishman, Pal Al Nasser, Greg Fox, $25,000 Giveaway promo (Buzz Bennett voiceover), Bob Walker (TIX Original Oldie Hour), Terry Young, Money Music Scrambled Songs promo, Marty with the Party, Kim Stephens. About my Junior year in High School, i found WXLO in New York. dayparts were themselves jettisoned in favor of additional Spanish-language programming. Again, pardon the rambling, but New York City even had a PART-TIME Top 40 rocker in the early days of said format. Cant do it. Boogie himself. The kids of today, sorry to say, really have NO idea what a true lifestyle broadcast radio station sounds like. CHUM Toronto (I mean, COME! Heres how everyone stacked up against each other. In my teen years, I remember calling in and winning prizes. History-making in so many ways, and still great today. (Thats 3 a.m. in Louisville. WHB was an early top 40 station but The Worlds Happiest Broadcasters were not the first. (For some reason, WMMR, which also joined in on that format, didnt appeal to me as much.) And I wont pretend to be as up on some of the other legendary calls as many of my radio brethren. K-NUZ. Smile on your brother. Mike has successfully managed to give WTIX a wonderful magic which I lovekeep it up! Pontchartrain Beach, Schlitz Beer, Metropolitan Bank of Jefferson (with Aunt Polly and nephew Sterling). Sports, music, news and podcasts. This is the station all of the Super Q imitators wanted to be. For me, WLSs personality driven approach was magic. Is there sill anybody around who still remembers us? And this is only a partial listing. WPGR, Philadelphia (c. latter 1980s-early 1990s, as recalled) I worked at WCOG Greensboro during the short lived revival of the station under PD Phil Valentine now doing talk in Nashville, TNit was a Mann Media owned station then which included WGLD, and WKIX Raleigh..The Flying Dutchman started out in Mornings, only to leave and Steve Early movin in thereafter!!! WKVQ (15Q)/Knoxville. ALL-TIME BEST OLDIES STATIONS! Country Hits 3. (Jesus!, to leave out some of the Top 40 stations in any major city and yet mention WABC, WLS, CKLW or even Z-100, your input has gotta the hell motherfuckin suck SHIT!). A further thought on this string: As kids growing up in Welland, Ontario, most of the radio we listened to was from Buffalo. The Brennans engineering genius and home-built transmitter pumped 50,000 daytime watts from Daytona to the North Carolina beaches. got a reply that he would love to have hired me but he needed someone who lived locally and could fill in on short notice. Currently, WDGY is based in Hudson, WI and is back to playing hits from the 60s and 70s. Thanks for the great work you did there. We had some pretty good board ops who could incorporate the Wolfmans customs. Bill Drake and others refined it, but Top 40 was the child of Storz and McLendon. The only reason Randy Michaels didnt rightfully list KHJ (which was number one on Lees list) is the fact that his anger towards Ron Jacobs and emotion ever came his logic. KIIS belongs on the list, no question. The night I visited Joey in the studio, he asked me to take a 45 in to PappyMemphis by Lonnie Mackplayed for the first time that night! WOW. I went to the University of New Orleans for 4 years and fell in love with TIX. Pats right, Radio Ink, your damn input DOES!! Every single one of us is in the Texas Radio Hall of Fame, every single one has gone on to stellar careers in our chosen branch of the business, most of us still going strong. I was lucky to work with Randy for a long time (and regret that I didnt take better advantage of that connection as a petulant 20-something.). I remember when ABC proposed Superadio in 1981, putting jocks from WABC, WLS and KQV on your small-town station. Marketing cookies help us and our partners to fit the adverts and content you see during and after visiting our site to your interests. Costello is best known as Michael in the Morning (M&M), host of the stations weekday morning show. !, yet!) One of the WTIX classic Time Chimes, New Orleans Radio Shrine All Rights Reserved, $25,000 Giveaway promo (Buzz Bennett voiceover), Bob Walker (TIX Original Oldie. The voice on the song is (WTIX DJ) Ed Ripley. (The same year the Milwaukee Braves moved to Atlanta, by the way. I worked with legends. Its hard to fight for supremacy when you own the competition. (3:13), * Bob Walker -Fats Domino PhoneInterview 1980 (5:51) Fats talks about his music, his upcoming shows at Bobby's Place, his upcoming movie with Clint Eastwood, and his new song in it, and he invites me and our Program Director Robert Mitchell over to his house next, weekso he can cook for us. Listening from Toronto. As did WPGR, VLT plays a vast playlist, a lot of forgotten hits and a heavy smattering of old local Philly hits. Talent like Ken Lowe (Steve Roddy), Rick Dees, Pat Patterson, Mike Reineri, Gary Edens, Tommy Walker, Eddie Weiss (Charlie Brown) with Jimmy Capps and Our Best To You in the late night hours and a terrific news team Joe Goodpasture, John Tesh, Doug Limerick, Bill Leslie, Mike Blackman. Reading what so many U.S. Others I would rank very highly (not necessarily in order): 18. Dick worked weekends at WDAF Kansas City when I was Ops Manager there in 1977. WEPN-FM - ESPN New York 98.7 FM 5. The official Facebook page of 94.3 WTIX-FM New Orleans, playing the greatest hits of all time. And the fired-up responses further support why great RADIO existed. The Marvelous Myth promo (Beatles), DH Holmes Yardley promotion, Sears (Dave Ralston), Expo '69 (not '67), Sergio Mendez concert (Michael Green), Bernie Dumas Buick (Bill Murvin), a bad Drive-In Movie ad, Metropolitan. Make a playlist from a video: 1. Been listening for decades to WTIX. another Top 40 station of all time that was left out: WKNR Detroit. As Beatlemania set in, Louise Harrison Caldwell (sister of Beatle George Harrison) called WTIX every day, fromSt. Louis, MO with updates and tidbits about the Beatles to fan the excitement of their upcoming, concert in New Orleanson September 16, 1964. Deal of CKLWs success there sill anybody around who still remembers us was 50kw, but that battle David! I THINK both MAK and KDA were both great outlets your New sound, pitching can help get. 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