12,329 talking about this. Your email address will not be published. AIRCHECK: Dan Ingram's Last Afternoon Show [mono], WABC-AM 770: Friday, November 23, 1979 (83:02). And who does WABC choose as the next pick hit? And we even get the beginning of a newscast. A similar In spite of the evidence before their eyes, they still didn't know what was happening. Baseball Broadcasts Do Not Need Rules Analysts, Maggie Gray Is Thrilled to Thrive On A National Stage, Warner Bros. Contributed by Rob Frankel via Herb Squire. The Beatles chart nine times(!) Unfortunately, Action Central News was edited out of the show. The station will no longer air the Ben Shapiro Show. She Loves You b/w I'll Get You (Swan 4152) on September 16, 1963. Very tight playlista few decent songs. You knew the election wasnt stolen from Trump, and you guys lied about it anyway because you felt you had a good reason, the caller said, as transcribed by Media Matters. Radio Message Board! He would stay three years until August of 1977. Weekday lineup changes are coming to Red Apple Medias 770 WABC in New York City. there was a lot of maneuvering of the midday shift at WABC. In the UK, the Beatles had a policy of not including singles on albums and also not releasing singles from albums after they were released. Musicradio WABC Website! They weren't too good, but I do congratulate them for breaking format and being local to do it. He has also worked at WIBW-AM in Topeka KS, earning the Kansas Association of Broadcasters (KAB) award for Major Market enterprise reporting in 2016. WABC-AM 770: Saturday, July 22, 1967 (35:56). 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My Bonnie b/w The Saints by Tony Sheridan and the Beatles (MGM K13213) on January 27, 1964. A show poster for Bob Lewis' live show of Doo-Wop Oldies groups at the Hillside Theater in Queens. The video shows a man get out of another car, get into the victim's vehicle, and drive off with her holding on. The surveys for all the weeks of November 1968. Ringo (in spite of supposedly being not the brightest Beatle) immediately understands this is a promo and refuses to say "WABC". Tuesday, February 28th. Format, staff, management, or branding and marketing? PROMOTION: Ron Lundy by Jack Davis (1975). Note that this show was broadcast on AM and FM, although this aircheck was obvously recorded from the AM side as reception was far less than perfect. In spite of the fact that progressive rock was in all its glory and we had WBLS (Black), WPLJ (AOR), WXLO (Top-40), WCBS-FM (Oldies), WNBC(AM) (Top 40), WNEW-FM (AOR), WWRL(AM) (Black), WKTU (Mellow), WPIX-FM (Top-40) and WLIR (AOR), WABC remained #1 in the ratings with an 8.5 share of the audience in the general July-August 1977 ratings. I Love You (Capitol of Canada 72076) on February 4, 1963. Bruce mentions that one hour of the show was being recorded and was going to be sent to servicemen in Vietnam, but he talks about it like it was some kind of miracle that a radio station could tape something. James Brown, Ramsey Lewis and The Yardbirds. From Me To You b/w Thank You Girl (Vee Jay VJ522) on May 27, 1963. This is just 22 days after WABC-AM officially became a Top-40 station, DJ's included Charlie Greer (in mornings), Farrell Smith, Jack Carney, Chuck Dunaway, Scott Muni, "Big Joe's Happiness Exchange" and "The All Night Satellite Show". Also interesting is that about half way through the aircheck, Bruce plays a track from a local high school band as part of a contest. Legend says this stemmed from a dispute Muni had with Rick Sklar over a Four Seasons recording. Even the songs from the Beach Boys and Dion were among their lesser offerings. Lamer: The Casinos, Royal Guardsman, Herman's Hermits, Tom Jones, The Seekers, Gary Lewis. Notice it's "Cousin Bruce", not "Cousin Brucie". Full Story. Here's another of the WABC advertiser marketing campaigns. This was another WABC Top Stories; 77 WABC Early News; Local; National; Sports; Entertainment; Science; WABC Radio Foundation. Maybe: the relative poor audio quality of AM radio might have been a good match for the roughness of the Punk sound. Note the new format for the survey which has the most professional design in decades. "Love Me Do" was originally released by Capitol of Canada in February of 1963 and was included on the original version of the Introducing the Beatles LP on Vee Jay Records in January of '64. A lengthy article detailing why WABC was so successful. Ron's shirt hurts my eyes. You'll note that only a few songs get played and the ones that do get played all relate back to years in his WABC career. While the Beatles UK catalog represents the "canon", the American Capitol Beatles catalog was re-released on January 21, 2014. Doubtful. But we have Roy Orbison, Manfred Mann, Jeremy & Clyde, The Shangri-Las, Martha & the Vandellas, The Supremes, Gene Pitney, The Searchers, the Dave Clark Five, the Rolling Stones, The Impressions, The Kinks and The Animals. He'd return to afternoons a year-and-a-half later, he was greatly relieved. Eduardo Razo is the Assistant Content Editor for BNM, which includes writing daily news stories on the news media industry. Note when Bruce asks Ringo to read the inscription on a listener-designed medallion, Ringo thinks it's a promo for the station and won't mention the call-letters. Ryan Hedrick Ryan Hedrick serves as the Assistant Program Director and Co-Host of the Morning News Express at WFMD. Capitol had to pull it and replace the sleeve with a simple photo of the Beatles standing around a trunk. The survey for the week of August 12, 1967. Both stations are operated by John Catsimatidis' Red Apple Media, which will also make the show. The surveys for the week of September 1st and 29th 1975. Here's another of Rob Frankel's restorations as posted on MixCloud. In recent months, WABC has made several changes to its weekday lineup including the addition of Charlie Kirk and former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani. Love Me Do b/w P.S. What can I tell you? Of course there was also pop and bubble gum. Stern stated that hes a major fan of Morning Joe and went the extra mile to say that he and co-host Joe Scarborough share the same political idealogy. Note: The audio quality improves a few minutes into the aircheck, PRESS: Cousin' Brucie Returns to WABC Radio. That would come later. A man was frustrated after seeing a Rasmussen poll indicating that a slim majority of Black Americans agreed with the statement its okay to be white. Adams interpretation of this poll was that it revealed a racist outcome. There are typos everywhere: That group the BeGees, Creedance Clearwater and I didn't know that Sly Stone was on Solumbia Records. There's also a (strange) sports segement in the middle of the show. Yes, ideology can poison the mind, and many simply believe what we want to believe. The details include Juliet Huddy moving from middays to join Frank Marano on the "77 WABC Early News" from 5-6 am. According to NPR,Adams distributor, Andrews McMeel Universal, has also ended their relationship with the cartoonist, citing their opposition to any commentary based on prejudice or hate. Almost as if the design of the survey also represented the importance of WABC. The Four Seasons are back on top. Adams interpretation of this poll was that it revealed a racist outcome. A really high-quality aircheck of Dan Ingram when WABC was at its peak before there was any rock on commerial FM radio. How do you transition from Harper Valley PTA to Fire or from Hush by Deep Purple to The Vogues? This was 10 months after Disco KTU launched. Not bad. Late summer of '63 surveys. situation existed from 10 PM to Midnight. Since WABC was a full-service radio station and we get to hear the news, we learn that the workers at the NY Times were on strike, we were a month away from the mayoral election with John Lindsay, Abe Beame and William F. Buckley running (Lindsay won), it was a cold 43 degrees, cigarettes were still being advertised on the radio, banks paid 4.25% interest on savings accounts and Pope Paul had just returned to Italy from New York, almost 50 years to the day that Pope Francis returned to the Vatican from New York. The boxed set contains both Yesterday & Today album covers and each disc contains both the mono and stereo mixes. But it was a big deal then. The Beatles did much to revive the excitement of AM radio. Limbaugh, who died in February, launched his national show in 1988 with WABC as the flagship station of a network that grew to 650 stations before he moved across town to rival WOR in 2014. The surveys for the weeks of January 15th and 22nd 1973. Before Ron Lundy took it over, it was done first by Charlie In the U.S., it was common for albums to always include recent hit singles. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com. Here's a bit of Dan Ingram sitting in for Roby Yonge doing the annual review of the best 100 songs of the year. Even a public radio station wouldn't be that daring today. The original Butcher cover and the re-release. Just about everything else was pretty weak in retrospect, even the ones that scored big hits, like "Do You Love Me". At least they were supposedly playing some Stevie Wonder. They also issued thousands of miniature tombstone paperweights that declared "Cousin Brucie is going to be buried by Wolfman Jack." Again, one can make the case that while the playlist is small, there is as much diversity as any FM station with acts as different as Edgar Winter, Clint Holmes, Barry White, Dr. John, Manu Dibango, Paul McCartney and even Perry Como. And the Ohio Express lost that argument. 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What's remarkable in these excerpts from when the Beatles returned in August of 1964 is how much WABC's Bruce Morrow and Scott Muni (with Dan Ingram back in the studio) were able to manipulate the crowd, largely comprised of 12- to 15-year-old girls. The Beatles chart 3x on February 1st and even "My Bonnie" makes an appearance on February 15th. Muni would leave WABC at the end of January 1965 and join WOR-FM in October of 1966 and WNEW-FM in December of 1967 and stay 31 years. The survey wasn't circular, but this particular one had been cut down for display purposes, so this is partial There's pretty good music on this survey and it's actually more rock and R&B oriented than the one just three months earlier: Gary U.S. Bonds, Ben E. King, the Cleftones, Del Shannon, Rob Orbison, Bobby Lewis, Ernie K. Doe, early Gladys Knight, the Everly Brothers, the Drifters, the Marcels, etc. I Want To Hold Your Hand b/w I Saw Her Standing There (Capitol 5112) scheduled for January 13, 1964, but moved to late December when the hype started. Plus a lot of top-40 hits just two months after the Beatles invaded and Dan does start to play "From Me To You". The new program . Note: The audio quality improves greatly a few minutes into the recording. Don McNeill's Breakfast Club is the best example. What did I talk about? There was plenty to like. Her current partner Curtis Sliwa will remain in middays from 12-3 pm for the rebranded "Curtis Sliwa Show." It The survey for the week of June 24, 1967. Some good music here, including music that was getting played on WOR-FM, but as good as the music was, it must have been incredibly boring to hear those same tracks over and over. There was some great music here that would become part of the pop rock canon, but also a lot of really annoying non-rock tracks. The survey for the weeks of January 31 and February 7, 1972. Janis Ian's "At Seventeen" is the surprise track here. Brian Shactman Added to Morning Team at Entercom Hartford, Key Networks Taps Deidra Hoye for Lead Sales Role, The State of the Radio Industry and Technology, WTICs Todd Feinburg Caught The Radio Bug At An Early Age, Kansas City Chiefs Playoff Runs Giving Local News Talkers Bump. And the first track played is an oldie and then we hear more spots. Weekday lineup changes are coming to Red Apple Media's 770 WABC in New York City. of interesting things to notice as you go through the schedules: In the early years Well maybe not the real reasons, but the reasons they liked to promote. By July 18th, The Beatles chart four tracks from "A Hard Day's Night". 77 WABC has signed O'Reilly to a show that will air Monday through Friday from 10-11 p.m., the station's owner, John Catsimatidis, told CNBC. WABC is also dropping a program from its lineup. 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