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James Westbrook
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1133
From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa
Registered: Mar 2006

posted 01-07-2018 01:15 AM

It's the new radio tuners I was grumbling about, which is why a station only 65 miles away is hard to pull in.
Of late I have been listening to old radio airchecks on You-Tube and have discovered WABC AM. Even back with the better older tuners I could not pick that station up in Lubbock, but now I discovered how awesomely funny (to me) Dan Ingram was. Lots and lots of airchecks on You-tube from stations all over America and even Canada (A station with the call letters CHUM.) Been recently sampling the old AM Top 40 powerhouse 610 KFRC in San Francisco. Fascinating we don't know what we lose until it's literally gone...

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Frank Angel
Film God

Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 01-07-2018 10:58 AM

100% agree, James -- Dan Ingram was the best of the jocks on WABC -- wry humor and uncharacteristically intelligent commentary; a great wordsmith, unlike most of the other jocks who relied on what I would call "slapstick" commentary -- lots of noises and vocal shenanigans -- Bruce Morrow as an example - lots of silly noises. Thing is, back then top 40 was personality driven -- each deejay had a discernible, distinct style and delivery. Since the music was incessantly repetitious, we listened specifically for the deejay(s) that we liked. Dan Ingram was my favorite. Then again, there wasn't much room for differentiation in the Top 40 format except for the deejays -- even the jingles all came out of that production house in Texas -- JAM or PAM or something.

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-07-2018 08:43 PM

Station KOOK in Billings, MT used to have a jock named Steve Horner and his show was called Horner's Corner, or Horner's Music Corner, or Horner in the Morning (he used all 3, I never knew what the official name was) but he was a great DJ in that he played a lot of tunes you'd never hear other places. He wasn't afraid to step out of the top 40, even though KOOK was a top-40 station. He was the Dr. Johnny Fever of my teen-hood. I think he was the guy who said "Here's a couple of really big ones for ya...Dolly Parton!" and he once mis-announced a record as "Out of Speed, by REO ControlWagon."

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