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Date Posted: Thursday, December 22, 01:09:56pm
Author: Mike Cerniello
Subject: Re: What Station did you listen to in the AM Radio days
In reply to: Gus Katsoris 's message, "What Station did you listen to in the AM Radio days" on Wednesday, December 21, 12:57:35pm

In the 50s I remember my father listening to WNEW 1130, Klaven & Finch, Martin Block, and William B. Williams.

When I started listening on my own around 1958, it was to WMGM 1050, originally to hear the Yankee games, but it served as my introduction to top 40 Radio, and I enjoyed the to 40 countdown every afternoon with Peter Tripp. They played everything back then, and there were many songs I heard for a week or two, and never heard on the radio ever again. For example, at this time of the year in 1961, while "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and "Runaround Sue" were near the top of the charts, "Free Me" by Johnny Preston spent a single week on the Billboard Chart at #97. That song stuck in my mind, and after 43 years I finally was able to obtain a copy in 2004!

After WMGM became WHN in early 1962, I listened to WINS 1010 until (as the story goes) the program director locked up all the music except for 4 Frank Sinatra albums. All Sinatra all the time, augmented by Ella Fitzgerald a few days later drove me to WABC. In the later 60s I listened to WNBC 660 because they seemed to play more Oldies, which, at the time, meant pre-1964 records.

In 1968 I made the big switch to WOR-FM 98.7 the Big Town Sound featuring such people as Bill Brown and Joe McCoy.

Around 1970, I started listening to WPIX 102 as they played more Oldies. I remember after Elvis released "The Wonder of You" I requested the 1960 version by Ray Peterson. It took a few days (Maybe to find a copy?), but WPIX DID play it.

In July of 1972 while at work a driver came in and announced that WCBS-FM was playing ALL Oldies, so that's what I listened to until June 3 of this year.

Now it's WKHL KOOL 97 in Norwalk, although for serious listening, I enjoy tapes of WCBS FM from the 80s, when the variety was inconceivable by today's standards.

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