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Date Posted: Friday, June 09, 11:19:52pm
Author: Charlie Mac
Subject: Re: Forerunner of CBS-FM: The Drake-formatted WOR-FM
In reply to: Frank De Rosa 's message, "Forerunner of CBS-FM: The Drake-formatted WOR-FM" on Friday, June 09, 09:01:42pm

Great post, Frank. OR-FM really took off in 1968. It spurred alot of baby boomers to buy their first fm radios. All the great catch lines: "the big town sound", "OR-FM 20-20 news", (drum roll) "number one then and number one now". They sold in the stores the OR-FM Double Golden albums. The great djs: Steve Clark, Al Brady, Sean Casey, Tony Taylor, Sebastian Stone to name a few. By 1973 alot of them wound up on 97 WWDJ, another great station that couldn't survive because of a weak signal. In 1968, I was stationed in Boston and listened to WRKO, a Drake sister station which was a mirror mage of OR-FM. You mentioned CKLW - The Max Man was the superstar there. These stations played the good new music and plenty of oldies. I was very disappointed when it became 99X, but CBS FM seized the opportunity and took a good portion of that audience and became the standard bearer for oldies stations all over the country. The late 60's were exciting times - the Jets, the Mets, man on the moon and OR-FM was the "in" station at that time. What great memories!

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