When I lived in southern Connecticut in the mid 1960s, my Grundig portable was permanently set to this channel. When I moved up north, receiving the station became an engineering challenge, but with the addition of a 175-mile range log periodic on a 25' mast (and the fact that I was on one of the highest points in CT) and my Karg Laboratories CT-2 FM tuner was able to pull in WRFM once again. I sure miss that station!
My Dad listened to WRFM in his darkroom. I used to sit in there and watch him develop film and make prints. Now when I hear some of this music, I can still smell the chemicals. When I smell something like those chemicals, I can hear this station in my mind!
R.I.P. Jim Branch, whose voice was heard throughout explaining what songs were being played. I remember his "WRFM Report" pieces and news updates on Jim Aylward's AM drive show very vividly (and I see Aylward was well represented here)..
Bonneville owned and operated, programmed by Marlin Taylor and run by Loring Fischer, worked with these two great guys in several markets, guess they had not started the Anita Kerr WRFM ingles yet. Radio has come a long way.... NOT, vulgar, brash, crude American 2012 even more vile TV no longer anything relaxing easy and civil.
My parents used to listen to a station in the early 70's that would play such songs as Alone again, naturally by gilbert o'sullivan and a song called "blue blue my love is blue". This was in nyc. Can anyone confirm this might have been the same station?
1982 was the year the music died in the northeast US. Numerous stations converted over to soft rock and other formats that year. It was a colossal loss for the medium of radio.
@@basspig The format died a very quick death, that's for sure. In 1979, we had 4 beautiful music stations in Detroit. By September 1982, when WJR-FM became Top 40, we were left with just one, WJOI. They amazingly remained BM through the rest of the 80s, and then began to slowly evolve into a soft AC station starting in 1991. Detroit was one of the format's last strongholds. Incidentally, Format Change Archive has a recording of WRFM switching away from BM. It is dated April 15, 1986.
In April 1986, Bonneville very abruptly switched WRFM to soft rock WNSR (New York's Soft Rock), leaving WPAT-FM (93.1) alone in the format. PAT did occasionally top the ratings in NYC through the late 80s before switching to AC in 1992 and flipping to Spanish AC in '96.
I had to be tortured to this station in the Barber Shop as a Kid. It would be playing on my Barbers Bell & Howell Stereo. It was bad enough sitting in the chair, and getting a haircut!
What a BORE! Living in the NYC area every business and place I worked played this station incessantly all day. I couldn`t escape it wherever I went, even at my parent`s house! LOL
What a flashback! This is all my parents listened to in the house! How I miss them!
this brings back such wonderful memories,thank you for posting this.
When I lived in southern Connecticut in the mid 1960s, my Grundig portable was permanently set to this channel. When I moved up north, receiving the station became an engineering challenge, but with the addition of a 175-mile range log periodic on a 25' mast (and the fact that I was on one of the highest points in CT) and my Karg Laboratories CT-2 FM tuner was able to pull in WRFM once again.
I sure miss that station!
My Dad listened to WRFM in his darkroom. I used to sit in there and watch him develop film and make prints. Now when I hear some of this music, I can still smell the chemicals. When I smell something like those chemicals, I can hear this station in my mind!
R.I.P. Jim Branch, whose voice was heard throughout explaining what songs were being played. I remember his "WRFM Report" pieces and news updates on Jim Aylward's AM drive show very vividly (and I see Aylward was well represented here)..
I remember his "Out On a Limb" essays.
I listened to this while in college so I could study. Jim Aylward was the name and voice I remember
Ditto!
I remember this station like it was yesterday - especially Jim Aylward!
Bonneville owned and operated, programmed by Marlin Taylor and run by Loring Fischer, worked with these two great guys in several markets, guess they had not started the Anita Kerr WRFM ingles yet. Radio has come a long way.... NOT, vulgar, brash, crude American 2012 even more vile TV no longer anything relaxing easy and civil.
Oh G-d, I remember this and WTFM and WPAT...
My parents used to listen to a station in the early 70's that would play such songs as Alone again, naturally by gilbert o'sullivan and a song called "blue blue my love is blue". This was in nyc. Can anyone confirm this might have been the same station?
i'm not sure..this seems like a station that just played instrumentals....but i remember both of those songs...both beautiful
I know most "beautiful music" stations did convert to soft rock and pop in the mid 1970s. I am not sure about the specific history of WRFM.
1982 was the year the music died in the northeast US. Numerous stations converted over to soft rock and other formats that year. It was a colossal loss for the medium of radio.
@@basspig The format died a very quick death, that's for sure. In 1979, we had 4 beautiful music stations in Detroit. By September 1982, when WJR-FM became Top 40, we were left with just one, WJOI. They amazingly remained BM through the rest of the 80s, and then began to slowly evolve into a soft AC station starting in 1991. Detroit was one of the format's last strongholds. Incidentally, Format Change Archive has a recording of WRFM switching away from BM. It is dated April 15, 1986.
In April 1986, Bonneville very abruptly switched WRFM to soft rock WNSR (New York's Soft Rock), leaving WPAT-FM (93.1) alone in the format. PAT did occasionally top the ratings in NYC through the late 80s before switching to AC in 1992 and flipping to Spanish AC in '96.
I call WRFM ON GREAT GENERATION RADIO IN NYC 😢 I FEEL SO BAD IT COULD'NT STINK TO ITS ASSISTANCE . I FEEL SO BAD😢 THATS ALL
i loved listening to this station as a kid,what a wonderful station wrfm was until bonneville decided to put it's dirty hands on it.
and it should be noted that Marlin Taylor was the chief programmer of Bonneville EZ format.
I had to be tortured to this station in the Barber Shop as a Kid. It would be playing on my Barbers Bell & Howell Stereo. It was bad enough sitting in the chair, and getting a haircut!
What a BORE! Living in the NYC area every business and place I worked played this station incessantly all day. I couldn`t escape it wherever I went, even at my parent`s house! LOL