in the 80's I was told that the 70's were the glory days of MMS, before the days of playlists when DJ's would bring in their own vinyl from home. Nowadays only college radio has that freedom.
Buzzard Radio was at its zenith in the 70s. All the Buzzard DJ's played anything they wanted in the '70s, Billy Bass introducing David Bowie and "his band the Spiders from Mars," Kid Leo in his prime, Denny Sanders erudite in studio, Matt the Cat mellow in the morning, the discovery of Rush and Donna Halper's help to get them a contract, the Bruce Springsteen 10th anniversary show, broadcast live at the Agora in 1978. The corporate 80s paled in comparison.
Murray Saul gave me and a friend a thick sleeve of mushroom stickers..it was better than gold to give out and be a big deal...Long gone from Cleveland but it will always be my home and WMMS my station.
Definitely the '70s. I started listening about 1972 or 1973. In the the summer of 1975, they played a stolen copy of Born to Run before it was released. (I eventually got sick of that song and Murray Saul's Friday afternoon shtick.) Album sides, and some unexpected things too; first time I heard The Planets by Gustav Holst was on WMMS! ua-cam.com/video/MhHwr1tLrrY/v-deo.html Once the DJ put an album on, and then nobody was there to cue up anything after that. We suspected he was out in the parking lot smoking a joint. I left OH in 1981 so I wasn't around for the decline and fall.
The glory days were back in the 70's, when the late, great Murray Saul did his intro in the weekend on Friday at 5-6pm, with the 'Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, GET DOWN DAMMIT!' Yes, I remember the 'Morning Zoo' in the early 80's, but I also remember when WMMS barely made it to the west side of Clevelend in the late 60's, but they played things I never would have heard ANYWHERE else on radio! WMMS went down the toilet and went commercial when bought by a company that also bought WRQK (106.9 FM) in Canton, Ohio.
A good friend of mine has the distinction of having recorded on reel to reel tape, EVERY MURRAY SAUL "GET DOWN" EVER BROADCAST ON FRIDAY EVENINGS! I'm told that he has them safely stashed in a top quality cardboard box in his garage for posterity in case the Smithsonian shows interest!
Earlier today I was telling a 35 year old guy I work with about the fact that in 1975 my radio went out in my car but that at 5 on Friday you could just roll down your windows and so many folks had Murray on that you could hear it driving down Euclid Ave. I then got one of the You Tube clips of Murray and played it for him and as Murray started into Gotta Gotta Gotta a buzzard flew circling over us. I live in Virginia Beach near the Ampitheater for concerts and was blown away at all the symbolism. Remember The Weekend Never Ends on WMMS! Go Tribe, Go Cavs, Go BROWNS!!!!
Listened to Murray every Friday night on my way home from work. What a way to kick off the weekend! I would be so bummed out if I got held up at work and missed it. 😂
I liked it better in the late 70's. This was the last time you could call in and request. And the thunder buzzards came thru. I wonder where those guys are now.
+William Walker In the 70's I grew up at the midway point between MMS and DVE and with my directional antennas I had a choice. MMS in the late 70's, very early 80's was great. Jeff and Flash at MMS and Jimmy and Steve at DVE ... need I say more?
Great video. Love watching the DJ;'s at the control board. I attended college, in northeastern Ohio back in the early 1980's, and was a DJ at my school's radio station. Our control board wasn't so elaborate :) When I wasn't on the air, in class, or listening to the college radio station, always had WMMS (Home of the Buzzard) or WSRD (Home of the Wizard) on the radio My college's radio station was "The Home of the Worm". . What happened to radio? Growing up in NYC area, we had WNEW-Fm. Cleveland had WMMS., Detroit had WRIF and a few others. What happened to GREAT radio?? Amazing, been some 40 years since listening to WMMS, but watching this video, all the DJ voices, memories came back quickly.
Back in the day, if the weather was just right and I held my breath, I could pick up WMMS in SE Ohio. All of us lived for those little moments of music and banter back then.
Grew up in Canton listening to The Home of The Buzzard. Loved Murray Saul ! Nelson Ledges Freedom Festival , Cleveland stadium general admission rock shows. Pink Floyd, the Stones, Ted Nugent, Rush, Cruisin’ McKinley park lookin for that Redbud. Didn’t,t know how good we had it.
+kevin malone I used to call him all the time as a kid 10-12 years old. He was informative, friendly, yet, "a tough guy". He was from Minnesota. Bill" BLF Bash" Freeman. He was a cool dude. He always played my request within 15, 20, mins of us hangng up. Regardless of what it was. Bruce cockburn, Zep, George Clinton... I miss LOCALLY owned america
I used to listen to a station called M-105 from Cleveland. It was a killer rock station but I can't find any info on it or anything on YT about it. It was great station until the end of the summer of '83 or '84 when it became Magic 105 and an awful MOR format.
Best station ever. I did a high school internship in '82. Got to answer request lines for Kid Leo. Still on cloud 9. (And, I ended up working for Z100/NYC.) This is a bit past their true prime era (playing an Cyndi Lauper ballad), but still the classic DJs and good.
WMMS WAS A FABULOUS RADIO STATION FOR YEARS! JEFF AND FLASH WERE GREAT, AS WAS KID LEO, WHO NOW DOES AFTERNOON ON SIRIUSXM LITTLE STEVEN'S UNDERGROUND GARAGE. KID LEO IS ONE OF THE LAST OF THE GREAT RADIO VOICES AND PERSONALITIES. ACTUALLY, ALL OF THE 1980'S DJ'S WERE GREAT!
Actually, it was Congress and Bill Clinton with the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that killed the radio star…and the video star…and terrestrial radio and the music business and turned it into the zombie it is now.
The JAM Jingle Singers: Flying At The Speed Of Light! Jeff Kinzbach: Ladies & Gentleman, Len "Boom-Boom!" Goldberg! The JAM Jingle Singers: THE THUNDERING BUZZARD! WMMS! Robotic Autotuned Sonovox Voice: ROCKS CLEVELAND! Freddie "The Thundering Buzzard" Buzzardini: (Buzzard Screeches)
Going to Hiram College 35 miles SE of Cleveland from 1979-1982, I can say that WMMS ( The Home of The Buzzard, not The Buzzard) sounded damn good, but from what I was told, not as great as the early and mid 70's. Therefore I'll have to disagree with the mid 80's being the WMMS glory days
You know, I always told my children how I grew up listening to 'MMS because we where the "hard core" radio listeners. What's up with all of the Cindy Lauper, Mister Mister, Madonna music on this video clip? I don't remember that stuff!
I moved to Florida in 1981. What the f.. is this? I remember WMMS better than this! I guess like some of the commenters that they went downhill after then were right. 70’s MMS was the best!
Well, you didn't listen to it for to long. And half of the DJ's went to MMS right after. Unless you consider a country format heavy shit? NCR don't even belong in the same sentence as WMMS !
Art, really? Really. The mid-1980s represented MMS's glory days? Nope, its fans had turned it off because the Buzzard SOLD OUT by then. Did you not listen to the crap music they were playing? That disco/Madonna garbage proves my point because that is NOT what made WMMS. That was hardly AOL radio. It's terrible to listen to those great DJs forced to play that garbage. If you knew the history of MMS, you would know that the mid-1970s was when it was at its peak.
I can't agree with you more. If you read my post up above, you'll see I saw the best radio station in the nation go down the tubes! I'm originally from Cleveland and now reside in Canton (can't call this living either!). I remember when they first started out as an underground station and played music you would never hear on any other station. If I remember correctly, (my memory is scorched!) they started out in someone's basement or garage!
Betty 'Crash' Corbin, Ed 'Flash' Farentz (?), Kid Leo, Matt the Cat, and the list goes on. I went on a tour of WMMS and met many of them. That was in the early 80's and it was obvious, none of them were really happy with their job anymore! It sucks to see corporations take over and ruin a good thing!
Question: Does anyone in the Cleveland to Canton, Ohio area remember a DJ that called himself 'The Bag-Man'? Don't know what station he was on. I would love to hear some recordings of his show.
My station back in the day(mid-late 90's) was 107.9 The End. I was very heartbroken when they switched over to rap. I almost cried. Im glad I no longer live in Ohio though.
I lived out in lorain county, had a rooftop Fm antenna and my Choice in the late 80's and 90's was 89X out of Windsor,Ontario. kinda put The End to shame.
Not sure why this popped up on my UA-cam feed. As far as I can tell, this is a story about some guys in the 80's who took vinyl record albums out of a dust jacket and put them on a turntable. An activity that probably happened a hundred thousand times a day in that era. Did these guys go on to produce some significant films or produce some big name band or something? I don't get it.
MMS was first, they signed on in August 1968 as the already existing WHK-FM, and a month later changed the calls to WMMS (MetroMedia Stereo after the company who bought them). They only lasted a year or so, and changed format to adult standards. That's when WGAR-FM 99.5 changed calls and format to hard rock WNCR, dubbed "The Electric Renaissance". However within a year at NCR, there was trouble between the DJ's and the management, many quit, and made a deal with WMMS to take them on and change their format from Top 40 by then back to hard rock, and the management of WMMS obliged, and their ratings skyrocketed, and WNCR was forced into a couple of format changes and eventually settled on country music, and got their WGAR-FM call letters back, and where they are at today, a successful country station. MMS adopted their Buzzard persona in 1974.
@@dannykewl WNCR was owned by National Cash Register, hence the call letters. Yes, for a while, there were two awesome free-form stereo FM radio stations in Cleveland. It was glorious! WMMS did win out in the end.
WMMS was excellent radio station. They played hard rock heavy-metal and rock ‘n’ roll. They had funny skits they had They had Jeff and flash. They had kid Leo. ,,...but now, This alternative grunge alt rock, man bun, hipster garbage, Has ruined WMMS.! Are you WMMS is not funny at all anymore. They do not rock! It’s young punk millennial hipster garbage! The only good thing about it now is Jeff Snyder’s hair metal segment. Maybe one day it will return back to glory when he plays hard rock and heavy metal and good old rock ‘n’ roll. He WMMS,… Don’t forget the 90s are over also!
The Glory Days were in the 70's when you call in requests and they would actually play them you have to remember the music died in 1976 due to that disco shit WMMS was one of the only stations that was not playing that Communist Shit even in the 80's they were still Rock & Roll now their just SHIT !
Wow, forgot how badly they fell off the tracks. Jeff and Flash did the same exact show for 20 years. Horrible fake laughs. What was that racial crap, offensive even for then.
This makes me sad the memories of how good music and things used to be growing up.
Driving north on 71 I knew I was coming home when I could tune in WMMS.
❤❤❤
in the 80's I was told that the 70's were the glory days of MMS, before the days of playlists when DJ's would bring in their own vinyl from home. Nowadays only college radio has that freedom.
You were told correctly!
Buzzard Radio was at its zenith in the 70s. All the Buzzard DJ's played anything they wanted in the '70s, Billy Bass introducing David Bowie and "his band the Spiders from Mars," Kid Leo in his prime, Denny Sanders erudite in studio, Matt the Cat mellow in the morning, the discovery of Rush and Donna Halper's help to get them a contract, the Bruce Springsteen 10th anniversary show, broadcast live at the Agora in 1978. The corporate 80s paled in comparison.
Murray Saul gave me and a friend a thick sleeve of mushroom stickers..it was better than gold to give out and be a big deal...Long gone from Cleveland but it will always be my home and WMMS my station.
I miss WMMS. Great times back then.
i was a kid in the 70s and 80s .... nothing and i mean nothing was cooler than listening to WMMS. those were such innocent and good days ❤
The 70's were the glory days- Kid Leo, Matt the Cat and Billy Bass. Breaking acts The Boss, Roxy Music, Bowie, Mott etc
There was Betty Corbinr too. I used to listen Boom Boom late night (as a troubled teen.)
And Dia Stein.
Definitely the '70s. I started listening about 1972 or 1973. In the the summer of 1975, they played a stolen copy of Born to Run before it was released. (I eventually got sick of that song and Murray Saul's Friday afternoon shtick.) Album sides, and some unexpected things too; first time I heard The Planets by Gustav Holst was on WMMS!
ua-cam.com/video/MhHwr1tLrrY/v-deo.html
Once the DJ put an album on, and then nobody was there to cue up anything after that. We suspected he was out in the parking lot smoking a joint.
I left OH in 1981 so I wasn't around for the decline and fall.
70's ROCKED harder and better. Crazy good with all those DJ's coming into their own, and sharing the BEST ROCK n ROLL with us teen Boomers.
And Lee Anderson
Reaches the beaches and shakes the lakes. Good memories. Boom box and lake front Park
This is well past the glory days of MMS. Go back to the 70's for that. No "Morning Zoo" crap and playlists, etc.
The glory days were back in the 70's, when the late, great Murray Saul did his intro in the weekend on Friday at 5-6pm, with the 'Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, GET DOWN DAMMIT!' Yes, I remember the 'Morning Zoo' in the early 80's, but I also remember when WMMS barely made it to the west side of Clevelend in the late 60's, but they played things I never would have heard ANYWHERE else on radio! WMMS went down the toilet and went commercial when bought by a company that also bought WRQK (106.9 FM) in Canton, Ohio.
A good friend of mine has the distinction of having recorded on reel to reel tape, EVERY MURRAY SAUL "GET DOWN" EVER BROADCAST ON FRIDAY EVENINGS! I'm told that he has them safely stashed in a top quality cardboard box in his garage for posterity in case the Smithsonian shows interest!
Earlier today I was telling a 35 year old guy I work with about the fact that in 1975 my radio went out in my car but that at 5 on Friday you could just roll down your windows and so many folks had Murray on that you could hear it driving down Euclid Ave. I then got one of the You Tube clips of Murray and played it for him and as Murray started into Gotta Gotta Gotta a buzzard flew circling over us. I live in Virginia Beach near the Ampitheater for concerts and was blown away at all the symbolism.
Remember The Weekend Never Ends on WMMS! Go Tribe, Go Cavs, Go BROWNS!!!!
Listened to Murray every Friday night on my way home from work. What a way to kick off the weekend! I would be so bummed out if I got held up at work and missed it. 😂
I liked it better in the late 70's. This was the last time you could call in and request. And the thunder buzzards came thru. I wonder where those guys are now.
MMS was best in the 70"s, I was there. Before that my station was WDVE in Pittsburgh, and they were great!
+William Walker In the 70's I grew up at the midway point between MMS and DVE and with my directional antennas I had a choice. MMS in the late 70's, very early 80's was great. Jeff and Flash at MMS and Jimmy and Steve at DVE ... need I say more?
Same here. Salem, O.
always on my mind
One way to identify an old freak: he still has a WMMS mushroom sticker (circa 1973, before the buzzard) stuck on one of his possessions.
Got mine!
Great video. Love watching the DJ;'s at the control board. I attended college, in northeastern Ohio back in the early 1980's, and was a DJ at my school's radio station. Our control board wasn't so elaborate :)
When I wasn't on the air, in class, or listening to the college radio station, always had WMMS (Home of the Buzzard) or WSRD (Home of the Wizard) on the radio My college's radio station was "The Home of the Worm". .
What happened to radio? Growing up in NYC area, we had WNEW-Fm. Cleveland had WMMS., Detroit had WRIF and a few others. What happened to GREAT radio??
Amazing, been some 40 years since listening to WMMS, but watching this video, all the DJ voices, memories came back quickly.
The 70s! I was there then for the Glory Days!!
WOW brings back so many memories.. MMS was really Awesome!.. Gotta Love it!
Damn! I'm still laughing at the bear joke! Classic WMMS!
WMMS started suck'in around 1981 or so. What everyone remembers is what they think it was. It wasn't.
Back in the day, if the weather was just right and I held my breath, I could pick up WMMS in SE Ohio. All of us lived for those little moments of music and banter back then.
In ‘84 I bought an WMMS buzzard t-shirt. I wore it with my jean jacket. My mom thought it was totally subversive. 😂😂 I felt like a badass.
MMS was the soundtrack of my youth........
Me too, I'm great full for John Gorman's vision and programming.
Amen
Grew up in Canton listening to The Home of The Buzzard. Loved Murray Saul ! Nelson Ledges Freedom Festival , Cleveland stadium general admission rock shows. Pink Floyd, the Stones, Ted Nugent, Rush, Cruisin’ McKinley park lookin for that Redbud. Didn’t,t know how good we had it.
Michael wow that takes me back cruisin' McKinley park and the Buzzard.From close to you Louisville Ohio.
Wmms and M105. Both incredible Rocknroll stations
I miss WMMS! I found my WMMS sweatshirt, I can be cool again 😂
I'm so jealous!! I want that sweatshirt ❤
lol I remember every one of these DJs. The World Series of Rock hosted by WMMS was something you had to see to believe the band lineups they had.
I love it. Nowadays, they'd be fired for the comment " we be got a 8 on the soul-metdr"
This is awesome. Where can we find more recordings of programs? Or even some playlsts from the 70s and 80s.
BLF Bash! anyone remember M105 with Mr . Bill?
+kevin malone I used to call him all the time as a kid 10-12 years old. He was informative, friendly, yet, "a tough guy". He was from Minnesota. Bill" BLF Bash" Freeman. He was a cool dude. He always played my request within 15, 20, mins of us hangng up. Regardless of what it was. Bruce cockburn, Zep, George Clinton... I miss LOCALLY owned america
I used to listen to a station called M-105 from Cleveland. It was a killer rock station but I can't find any info on it or anything on YT about it. It was great station until the end of the summer of '83 or '84 when it became Magic 105 and an awful MOR format.
soundcloud.com/kctaper/cleveland-ohio-wwwm-fm-m105
M105 went off the air in 1981
before m 105 went off the air they use to say magic is coming ,magic is coming! know one knew what they were talking about!
WWWM M105 became WMJI Majic 105.7 on June 14, 1982.
How's about
"POWER 108"
It didn't last long in the 80s but the station played rock
Best station ever. I did a high school internship in '82. Got to answer request lines for Kid Leo. Still on cloud 9. (And, I ended up working for Z100/NYC.) This is a bit past their true prime era (playing an Cyndi Lauper ballad), but still the classic DJs and good.
The best time’s for fm radio. Miss those days.
The Kid had that reportage of Rock, unprecedented!
WMMS WAS A FABULOUS RADIO STATION FOR YEARS! JEFF AND FLASH WERE GREAT, AS WAS KID LEO, WHO NOW DOES AFTERNOON ON SIRIUSXM LITTLE STEVEN'S UNDERGROUND GARAGE. KID LEO IS ONE OF THE LAST OF THE GREAT RADIO VOICES AND PERSONALITIES. ACTUALLY, ALL OF THE 1980'S DJ'S WERE GREAT!
Rob: This was my favorite station growing up in Chagrin Falls, OH.
The best radio EVER!
Today all talk radio. Wish I could listen to them again
Howard Stern killed the radio star - Howard Stern killed the radio star.
Actually, it was Congress and Bill Clinton with the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that killed the radio star…and the video star…and terrestrial radio and the music business and turned it into the zombie it is now.
They were their best in the 1970s!! Kid Leo..Matt The Cat..Kinzbach?
WMMS...The Michael Stanley Band...the 1980s...best decade of my life...
wonderful memories from my child hood
Len "Boom" Goldburg did a great opening for Madonna's Lucky Star
The good old days ain't nothing like that now what a same it went down the tubes
They ran the station into the ground, especially with the ballot stuffing debacle for the Rolling Stone award.
No fans cared.
Most thought it was funny.
I did.
Thanks for sharing this, Art! Grew up listening to these degenerates!!!
The JAM Jingle Singers: Flying At The Speed Of Light!
Jeff Kinzbach: Ladies & Gentleman, Len "Boom-Boom!" Goldberg!
The JAM Jingle Singers: THE THUNDERING BUZZARD! WMMS!
Robotic Autotuned Sonovox Voice: ROCKS CLEVELAND!
Freddie "The Thundering Buzzard" Buzzardini: (Buzzard Screeches)
Went to high school with Jeff
does any body remember Murray Saul with gotta,gotta,gotta get down
Who remembers Bookie Joint?
Buzzard Bookie Joint Kid Leo
sounds of my youth....
Going to Hiram College 35 miles SE of Cleveland from 1979-1982,
I can say that WMMS ( The Home of The Buzzard, not The Buzzard) sounded damn good, but from what I was told, not as great as the early and mid 70's.
Therefore I'll have to disagree with the mid 80's being the WMMS glory days
You know, I always told my children how I grew up listening to 'MMS because we where the "hard core" radio listeners. What's up with all of the Cindy Lauper, Mister Mister, Madonna music on this video clip? I don't remember that stuff!
There was a time…
What? No mention of The Buzzard Song and Ho For the Weekend by Cleveland Troubadour Alex Bevan who is still at it in 2024
I moved to Florida in 1981. What the f.. is this? I remember WMMS better than this! I guess like some of the commenters that they went downhill after then were right.
70’s MMS was the best!
Used to listen to NCR for the heavy shit. MMS was for lightweights. 😁
Well, you didn't listen to it for to long. And half of the DJ's went to MMS right after. Unless you consider a country format heavy shit? NCR don't even belong in the same sentence as WMMS !
classic, I tell ya, classic!
"The Czech is in the male!" OMG!
Art, really? Really. The mid-1980s represented MMS's glory days? Nope, its fans had turned it off because the Buzzard SOLD OUT by then. Did you not listen to the crap music they were playing? That disco/Madonna garbage proves my point because that is NOT what made WMMS. That was hardly AOL radio. It's terrible to listen to those great DJs forced to play that garbage. If you knew the history of MMS, you would know that the mid-1970s was when it was at its peak.
You nailed it. By the 80's they were "anywhere usa" which sucked hard. Glory days ended by 1976. Maybe earlier.
I can't agree with you more. If you read my post up above, you'll see I saw the best radio station in the nation go down the tubes! I'm originally from Cleveland and now reside in Canton (can't call this living either!). I remember when they first started out as an underground station and played music you would never hear on any other station. If I remember correctly, (my memory is scorched!) they started out in someone's basement or garage!
Betty 'Crash' Corbin, Ed 'Flash' Farentz (?), Kid Leo, Matt the Cat, and the list goes on. I went on a tour of WMMS and met many of them. That was in the early 80's and it was obvious, none of them were really happy with their job anymore! It sucks to see corporations take over and ruin a good thing!
The 70's will never be the same on any radio station ever. WMMS was the greatest then. It was ruined in the 80's
the kid : smoothness personified?
Related to Jim?
Now they have _Rover's Morning Glory_ morning show. Are their best days in the past?
Question: Does anyone in the Cleveland to Canton, Ohio area remember a
DJ that called himself 'The Bag-Man'? Don't know what station he was on.
I would love to hear some recordings of his show.
That was late nights on G98, I miss those days
Was with indoor vic late night g8
Uncle vic g98
You're right!
Throughout The '80's WMMS Went To A Z-100 Type Format.
Yea they played music back then
My station back in the day(mid-late 90's) was 107.9 The End. I was very heartbroken when they switched over to rap. I almost cried. Im glad I no longer live in Ohio though.
I lived out in lorain county, had a rooftop Fm antenna and my Choice in the late 80's and 90's was 89X out of Windsor,Ontario. kinda put The End to shame.
3:47....the music??
Did wmms have a fairwell event at the roxy on e9 st.?
Don Imus was on Wmms in mid 70s
I forgot that!
where is part 2 ?
They went downhill when they quit being 101.7 and became 100.7.
WMMS 10O.7 CLEVELAND ROCKS
IT IS GREAT STATION TO ROCK
What happend to Dan Bingam, aka Jim West? Hope120!!!
How long did it take after Howard Stern was syndicated to Cleveland until Jeff and Flash were cancelled? Was it even six months?
Mark Jastrzebski I was living in Cleveland at the time when Howard hit and it took I believe over a year
@@mikeyx007 at least one year
_'...Stern took the station from thirteenth in mornings to first place in under two years.'_
You triflin baby brains
Playing Madonna and Cyndi Lauper, the "glory days?" LMAO
Not sure why this popped up on my UA-cam feed. As far as I can tell, this is a story about some guys in the 80's who took vinyl record albums out of a dust jacket and put them on a turntable. An activity that probably happened a hundred thousand times a day in that era. Did these guys go on to produce some significant films or produce some big name band or something? I don't get it.
unless you grew up with it, that's no explaining it. it was a mood, for sure.
1:40 HEY THATS PRETTY GOOD
When did Len the boom pass away?
2006
I remember WNCR being the best Hard Rock radio long before MMS.
MMS was first, they signed on in August 1968 as the already existing WHK-FM, and a month later changed the calls to WMMS (MetroMedia Stereo after the company who bought them). They only lasted a year or so, and changed format to adult standards. That's when WGAR-FM 99.5 changed calls and format to hard rock WNCR, dubbed "The Electric Renaissance". However within a year at NCR, there was trouble between the DJ's and the management, many quit, and made a deal with WMMS to take them on and change their format from Top 40 by then back to hard rock, and the management of WMMS obliged, and their ratings skyrocketed, and WNCR was forced into a couple of format changes and eventually settled on country music, and got their WGAR-FM call letters back, and where they are at today, a successful country station. MMS adopted their Buzzard persona in 1974.
Wmms was before wncx
@@dannykewl WNCR was owned by National Cash Register, hence the call letters. Yes, for a while, there were two awesome free-form stereo FM radio stations in Cleveland. It was glorious! WMMS did win out in the end.
the czech is in the male lmfao
It’s soooo sad what has become of this radio station. It’s trash now. A disgrace to call themselves a rock n roll station.
this was befor they hiered xcon that ben in prison for stocking woman i think you khnow who i m talking about
The buzzard was okay however I prefer to listen to W-4 out of Detroit now that was a station
Yep! WWWW Detroit MI! Loved 'em!
The seventies were better before infinity communications and the Micheal jackson fiasco
WMMS was excellent radio station. They played hard rock heavy-metal and rock ‘n’ roll. They had funny skits they had They had Jeff and flash. They had kid Leo. ,,...but now, This alternative grunge alt rock, man bun, hipster garbage, Has ruined WMMS.! Are you WMMS is not funny at all anymore. They do not rock! It’s young punk millennial hipster garbage! The only good thing about it now is Jeff Snyder’s hair metal segment. Maybe one day it will return back to glory when he plays hard rock and heavy metal and good old rock ‘n’ roll. He WMMS,… Don’t forget the 90s are over also!
get over it, man!
The Glory Days were in the 70's when you call in requests and they would actually play them you have to remember the music died in 1976 due to that disco shit WMMS was one of the only stations that was not playing that Communist Shit even in the 80's they were still Rock & Roll now their just SHIT !
The mid 80s they SUCKED
Kinzboomer
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fart....
Wow, forgot how badly they fell off the tracks. Jeff and Flash did the same exact show for 20 years. Horrible fake laughs. What was that racial crap, offensive even for then.
Get a life, puke!
Jeff & flash seem like irritating boomers. Guys born on third base and thought they hit a homerun