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Date Posted: Wednesday, December 21, 02:10:03pm
Author: Steve Green
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

Hya Gus,

Some background: I grew up in Howard Beach and Rosedale. Despite me and one other guy winding up in radio of some sort, out of the entire crew, I was amazed at the people in the group who would out-transistor the others -- including me and the other radio guy -- during those glorious pre-Beatles radio years. It was a real keep-up-with-Joneses deal. Me and Dave (the other radio guy) usually had the lousiest transistor radios of the bunch. But we knew how and where to tune.

That said...

WKBW, WSBA York, WPOP Hartford, WPTR Albany (with a stiff North wind), and WARM Scranton often provided terrific nighttime teenage fare.

Murray The K, Cousin Brucie, BMR and Gary Stevens could get a little too hokey at times. I actually liked 'Beautiful Music' as a teenager, too, and would get some nice stuff on, say, WCBS 880. Heck, you could tune to thirty AM stations back then and hear a wonderful cross-section of all American pop music.... Country, Jazz, MoR, Soul, Rock-n-roll...

Different strides for different prides, to be sure. But if recall is accurate, WABC was the most-listened-to of the New York City stations in our bunch. The allegiances to WINS and WMCA weren't as crystallized.

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