WLS AM89 NEW YEAR'S MONTAGE [1960-1989] ■ OffTheCharts365
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Every New Year's Eve, the "Top 89" songs of the year were counted down on WLS-AM (and FM). After the #1 song was played at about 4 minutes before Midnight, the radio station wished listeners a Happy New Year!
Then...this wonderful montage was played. Each year added about a minute of the previous top songs in Chicago. The montage originally started short, as you can guess, and ultimately ended up as this 27+ minute marathon.
After WLS-AM changed to all-talk in 1989, this montage was no longer heard in Chicago. But thanks to Scott Childers, this "rebuild" version can be heard exactly as it was played every year. Kudos to Scott for putting this together!
This is an appreciation to the production work that Scott, Tommy Edwards (the originator) and the production staff created over the years. And of course, for the greatest AM radio station that existed in the rock era, WLS-AM 89 !!
Thanks to Scott Childers for the permission to post this. Check out his site at www.scottchilders.com.
This is how I spent NYE as a kid!
ONE OF THE GREATEST RADIO STATIONS OF ALL TIME, LISTEN AS A YOUNG MEN IN WESTERN INDAIAN BRAZIL. UNCLE LARRY.
I remember listening to this every New Years! Brings back so many memories! I remember WABC using a customized version of the WLS montage when they flipped format in 1982.
I closed my eyes and floated through every school year (all in Illinois) from elementary school (1967-1976); high school (1976-1980); college (1980-1985/5-year plan); the year I worked because I was broke and couldn’t afford more schooling (1985-86, thanks Ronald Reagan); and lastly med school from 1986-89 (well, that’s when this montage ended. I didn’t graduate until ‘90). Aside from the love of friends & family, music has been the very best thing about being a human temporarily alive on this Earth.
Congratulations, you made it and you should be proud. I went for 3 years in Chemistry and never finished, Illinois, things happened and couldn't finish. But where ever I went and I could get it, WLS went with me. Part of my life for 25 years. Stay safe, we are losing too many of you guys to this damn virus. You realize you are the new heroes.
It's like time travel in the best years of music the nights listening to John landecker there in my 64 ford necking with my girlfriend.
I used to listen to this every new years eve ...and I'm in Minnesota.
I was a radio DJ at WMWM Salem MA from 1978-1987 and I literally played almost every song in this montage...Thank You for putting this together. Great Memories of the world's best music!!
Great memories of a great station! Thanks for the comments and for stopping by!
Go back to June 1980, picture a carload of Northern Ontarian Canadian teens grooving along with WLS 890 cranking on the dial. We were cruising with our grad dates, heads full of mexican redhair, in my midnight blue '66 Pontiac Beaumont with a 327 small block under the roof, 3 gears Hurst straight front, positrac rearend, heaps and heaps of horsepower at my beck and call. Then we experienced some kind of transcendental exprience when Jeff Davis, dedicated a song to US and wish us all a great phu@#inG graduation. I had written him weeks before requesting a dedication to us, but never figured Jeff would make that evening the best ever . He sent us shirts and stickers and Jeff I wrote back and forth for a few ears until life got in the way. WLS Music Radio Chicago 89...outstanding memories from an outstanding time.
@ mywmwm - Thanks for listening. Kudos goes to Scott Childers, Tommy Edwards and the rest of the production staff at WLS
Scott Childers is the only one that could have done an accurate version of this because of the localized versions of Mr. Jaws and Life is a Rock that are nigh impossible to find. Well, that plus the actual bumpers. Thanks so much, Scott!
Years ago I put some random WLS recordings on a CD and sold it on eBay. He bought one.
How many of us jocks wanted to get a gig on the Big 89 (raise your hands, everyone!)? 33 years and I never got close. Thanks for a well-replicated nugget from a time now long gone and never to return. Remember WLS' last song, "Just You 'n' Me".
Ah I remember me and my spiral notebook staying up writing them all in order!! This is scrumptious!!
Remember having cassette deck cued up to record this at the stroke of midnight New-years day for many years. One year had deck cued up ready to record, midnight passed and Big 89 countdown wasn't played. They decided to stop playing it. People were calling asking what the heck was going on. I found the previous years cassette and a battery powered cassette player. I called in and asked if I could play it over the phone. YES! Put the handset next to the tape player and got to broadcast the Big 89 Countdown on WLS for about 10 minutes - till batteries on tape player started running down, causing tape to gradually get slower. DJ was a real good sport for letting me do it. Yea, back in the good ole analog days of AM radio.
Great job, great memories. I was a DJ and PD at KAFY 55 Bakersfield, Ca in the mid 70”s. Oldies format very similar to WLs.
WHAT A BLAST FROM THE PAST!!
THE BEST RADIO STATION BACK THEN!
I love timesweeps now that I found them. I made one with all of the tunes I had, back in the day from vinyl to cassette. Still have it, errors and all. 150 minutes. Drives my wife nuts.
Memories...I was another girl who sat up and listened to this every year until I went into the Navy...so glad to have found it here! :)
There's always a song or two that someone may not know. If you know everything in this montage, you're a true music lover!
I still have my cassette versions from 1981 and 1986. I was just getting into it back then not knowing that it would be the end in '86. I lived in a Canadian city north of Duluth, MN so the signal would fade in about at times. I know I sound old when I say this but there was something magical listening to stuff like this from distant radio stations.
DX'ing is a great hobby - I loved listening to different stations from across the country and the world. Thanks for your comment!
+Alan Auld I have them from 70 through 85. Is there any places to post this stuff? It's a bit too long for SoundCloud. I think Scott is the WLS historian so he may have everything.
+525Lines I was among those who wanted Scott to extend it beyond 1989 through the 21st century for us UA-camrs. But it must be too difficult with copyrights & what all ...
+Jean O'Boyle I'm not interested in the newer stuff myself.
+525Lines That's okay. I'll agree to disagree.
WLS & SuperCFL were great listening to in the summer as the strong signals travelled easily across Lake Michigan upto the coast of northern Michigan and the Frankfort Crystal Lake area. Larry Lujack John Records Landecker disc jockeys who were among the best in the mid 70's. WLS call letters stood for World's Largest Store owned by Sears Roebuck, started transmissions on April 12, 1924. Super CFL (wcfl) Was owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor. Began broadcasting June 19, 1926. Also known as the Voice of Labor...sold in 1978. Great time sweep.
Here it is 2021 and I am still awed by this audio spectacle. I grew up in Chicago listening to MusicRadio WLS in the 70's and 80's with the BIg 89 Countdown and the WLS Montage as the soundtrack of my New Years Eve. I played the Montage for my co-workers where I now live in Wichita, KS. They were beyond impressed and became instant fans even with most of this music being before their time. I think this will be a workplace tradition as 2022 looms. LONG LIVE THE BIG 89!!
Thank you for posting. Every year I'd tape this off the radio from my home in Philadelphia on an old Sony Reel to Reel deck which bit the dust long ago. Had amazing 'skip' reception of stations in Chicago, Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, Fort Wayne. The WLS montages were produced and presented from the historic London Guarantee Building in downtown Chicago and sent to a supercharged 50,000 watt transmitter. This year I went to a conference in Chicago, staying at what is now the London House Hotel located within the original London Guarantee Building. Took the elevator to the fifth floor of 360 North Michigan, where WLS studios were once located, now replaced with luxury hotel rooms, and could just feel the electricity from all the years (1960 to 1989) of the greatest music being played within those historic walls. An era we can never relive but we have great memories thanks to the wonderful world of the Internet.
I lived in the Quad Cities but listened to WLS all the time!!
Wow ... how great was THIS to listen to. Such great memories of listening to the year-end countdowns from 80-84.
It still blows me away after all of these years.
Nice montage, this is the same thing Tommy Edwards did back in 1982 where he did the "WABC Musicradio Remembrance" montage during its last day as a music station with Dan Ingram and Ron Lundy. WLS was a great sounding station in Chicago and it is a 50,000 watt powerhouse station and it doesn't carrying NYC at night due to its interference with WCBS-AM. WLS is at 890 and WCBS-AM is at 880 and NYC listeners can't get WLS in other places like Brooklyn as well as most of New Jersey.
Yes, Tommy, as well as Jeff Davis, Paul Gardner and a bunch of WLS production directors and engineers all worked on it throughout he years. Glad to present a "fresh" copy with all the original edit and fade points!
This is the BEST Sound Clarity I have ever heard on Any of these montages...EVER!
Thanks again to "Off The Charts" for putting the video along to my audio! I really appreciate all the nice comments about the piece. It was a lot to put back together...even in a digital editor (which I was just starting to learn how to use when I did this almost 15 years ago).
As I have mentioned before, it has been edited to the exact edit and fade points of the original WLS Musicradio Montage. (Some of which I don't agree with). My goal was to present a "fresh copy" as a tribute to the production and engineering people who put the original version together, namely Tommy Edwards and Jeff Davis.
Please stop by and see my WLS History site at www.WLSHistory.com
Scott Childers
+Scott Childers Your montage was much enjoyed.
Thank you!
Terrific work, Scott! Always wanted to do this myself. Maybe I'll do the earlier version (totally different between "Be My Baby" and "Go Now").
I made a similar montage back in the late '70s that was played (once) on the long-gone WVVX in Highland Park, before they went to heavy metal.
As a listener to WLS from the time they were still carrying Don McNeils Breakfast Club and the WLS Barn Dance... all the way till almost the day it went talk... THANK YOU for your tireless dedication and thousands of hours of work to preserve the history of the greatest station in the nation. Ever.
This is one of the greatest things I have come across on youtube.
+ashland1977 I have the countdowns from 75 through 85 on mp3 that I recorded myself and more from 70 through 76 from another guy I traded with years ago. My original cassette tapes I gave to the Chicago Broadcast Museum but no knowing if they kept them. Wish there was a proper digital repository. No biggie. I know somebody has flawless reel to reel audio somewhere.
You're right! I should have said great audio. I live in Louisville KY and listened to WLS at night from the mid 70's until they changed to talk.
WLS was a legendary Top 40 station like WAKY and WKLO were in Louisville.
I believe that WLS can make a comeback as a top 40 station. Look at CKWW-AM, in Windsor, ON. They're doin' alright at it!
Thank you so much for posting this awesome memory of my youth. Most of this, especially "There was a girl..." "Island Girl" "There was a boy..." "Rhinestone Cowboy" is etched in my brain forever. I can't remember where my keys are but 30 years later I still remember that.
I also always sing "The Harper Valley PTA" any time I hear "I am the God of hell fire and I bring you..."
Bravo, so many memories in 60 minutes. Time, after it passes you can not change it.
use to get WLS at night like a local back in the 70s here in N/W Louisiana. Not today. The DA must have changed. Now it's 1200 WOAI sounds like a local at night. at about the 12 minute mark is when my on air started. amazing memories.
Hi Rick, WLS was one of the original class 1-A clear channel AM stations (not the company but the designation) and did not share its frequency, 870 and in 1941 890. It was never directional and still uses 50,000 watts. In my opinion there are two reasons the reception is poor now. 1) The FCC allows several other stations to use AM 89 at night and only protects the class 1-A frequencies to 750 miles. WLS shares the night with 8 other stations (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/890_AM#In_the_United_States). 2) There are a crap-ton of electrical devices that create all kinds of interference for AM radio. My phone charger and TV raise hell with local AM reception.
AM has certainly fallen on tough times. I had a blast as a kid living in the northern plains scanning stations from all over. WLS was always the favorite and now AM is a mess. Perhaps digital is the answer but what a major expense for the broadcasters and the owners.
I grew up in New York so knew very little about Chicago radio but when WABC changed formats they used a version of this that featured WABC jingles and changed some of the songs that better reflected that station. Since WABC was AC leaning at the time of the switch to talk that's how their montage ended and that was in 1982. This one covers the entire 80's and the production values are incredible especially considering technology at the time. I was a big fan of creating montage but mine was on reels with lots of splicing....lol. Kids today would have a heart attack at the thought of doing something like that..lol. Anyway thanks so much for posting and thanks to the Facebook page that put up the link that I used to hear this. Great way to kick off a new year.
Great edit job on this! I got literally all these tunes as they "flashed by"... the ones in the 60's & '70's, for sure...though in the 80's, the remembering them got a bit shaky in recalling them. Many, I mean many, to probably most of the 1960's to late 1970's, I've got. WLS AM 890 was literally my favorite station to listen to, especially in the mid '60's through mid '70's. Some of America's best DJ's were in that era I remember most.
And..."They Don't Write Like That Anymore" - Greg Kihn Band (1981)!
Radio was so amazing back then. We always used to wait for this. How fun!
I started listening to the WLS big 89 countdown in 1970 on New Years eve and they always played this after they played the number one song around midnight. Every Year they added about a minute to the montage for that year. I taped it every year and looked forward to the new Minute of the montage more than the countdown..lol
+MrZwip30 So did I, later in the 70s. It was quite the thrill for a simple gal like me ...The last NY I caught it live was after the end of 1986.
Thank You for bringing this back!
This, I believe, was the list of songs played in chronological order--and it's a long short story (from 1955 to 1976 only; the following year music began to change--lol):
1955: Rock Around The Clock
1956: Heartbreak Hotel
1957: Little Darlin'
Wake Up Little Susie
That'll Be The Day
Diana
Jailhouse Rock
1958: Get A Job
Poor Little Fool
The Book of Love
Sweet Little Sixteen
1959: Kansas City
Charlie Brown
Sixteen Candles
Teenager In Love
Mack The Knife
1960: Only The Lonely
Now or Never
Walk Don't Run
The Chain Gang
Stay
Save The Last Dance For Me
You're Sixteen
Shop Around
1961: Dedicated to The One I Love
Runaway
Tossin' And Turnin'
Please Mr. Postman
Take Good Care of My Baby
1962: Mickey's Monkey
The Twist
The Wander
The Locomotion
Sherry
He's So Fine
Surfin' Safari
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
He's a Rebel
Soldier Boy
Mashed Potato
1963: Wipeout
Fingertips
It's My Party
My Boyfriend's Back
Surf City
Louie, Louie
Donna The Primadonna
Surfin U.S.A.
Be My Baby
1964: She Loves You
House of the Rising Sun
Where Did Our Love Go?
Pretty Woman
Do Wah Diddy Diddy
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Can't Buy Me Love
A World Without Love
Suspicion
1965: Mr. Tambourine Man
I Can't Get No Satisfaction
Help!
Eight Days A Week
I Got You Babe
1-2-3
Like a Rolling Stone
Yesterday
Silhouettes
1966: We Can Work It Out
This Diamond Ring
You're My Soul and Inspiration
I Can't Help Myself
Go Now!
Dirty Water
My Love
Sunshine Superman
Red Rubber Ball
Sunny
Strangers In the Night
Cool Jerk
Kicks
Daydream
If I Were a Carpenter
Lightning Strikes
You Keep Me Hanging On
Time Won't Let Me
Ain't Too Proud to Beg
These Boots Are Made for Walking
I'm Your Puppet
1967: Kind of a Drag
Jimmy Mack
Incense and Peppermints
For What It's Worth
White Rabbit
Brown Eyed Girl
Gimme Little Sign
Alfie
I Think We're Alone Now
Happy Together
Gimme Some Lovin'
Don't You Care
Get On Up
Never My Love
All You Need Is Love
The Happening
1968: Sunshine Of Your Love
Judy In Disguise
Cowboys To Girls
Spooky
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Since You've Been Gone
Fire
Harper Valley P.T.A.
MacArthur Park
It's A Beautiful Morning
Yummy Yummy Yummy
Angel of the Morning
Lady Willpower
Little Green Apples
Simon Says
Hold Me Tight
Lady Madonna
Cry Like a Baby
1969: Hey Little Woman
Crimson And Clover
Baby Don't Cry
Put a Little Love In Your Heart
Come Together
It's Your Thing
My Cherie Amour
Wedding Bell Blues
What Does it Take to Win Your Love
Crystal Blue Persuasion
Kentucky Rain
2525 A.D.
Games People Play
Grazin' in the Grass
Baby I Love You
Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
I'll Never Fall In Love Again
1970: Easy To Say No
Make Me Smile
All Right Now
I Want You Back
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
I'll Be There
War
Something's Burning
Julie Do You Love Me
25 or 6 to 4
The Love You Save
Spill The Wine
Lookin' Through My Back Door
Which Way You're Goin Billy?
1971: Amos Moses
Do You Know What I Mean
I'm So Tired of Being Alone
Go Away Little Girl
Never Can Say Goodbye
Chick-a-Boom
Don't Pull Your Love
Shaft
Uncle Albert
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
It Don't Come Easy
Put It In the Want Ads
What's Going On
Indian Reservation
He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother
My Sweet Lord
If You Could Read My Mind
Ain't No Sunshine
Superstar
1972: Saturday in the Park
Take It Easy
Walkin' In The Rain With the One I Love
Brandy
Freddie's Dead
I Can See Clearly Now
Daydreamin'
Bang A Gong
The Candy Man
I Am Woman
Hold Your Head Up
Mother and Child Reunion
Stay With Me
Roundabout
Use Me
You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Horse With No Name
1973: China Grove
Keeper of the Castle
Dancin' In the Moonlight
Steer It Up
Live and Let Die
The Cisco Kid
Basketball Jones
Little Willy
Rocky Mountain High
Do It Again
Killing Me Softly With His Song
Dueling Banjos
Drift Away
Little Louie
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
Pillow Talk
Crocodile Rock
Feeling Stronger Every Day
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Frankenstein
Love Train
Bad Leroy Brown
Hooked On a Feeling
Hello It's Me
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
1974: Bennie And the Jets
Radar Love
Tell Me Something Good
The Night Chicago Died
I Shot the Sheriff
Billy Don't Be A Hero
The Streak
Show And Tell
The Most Beautiful Girl
Takin' Care of Business
Havin' My Baby
Band on the Run
Sundown
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Midnight at the Oasis
Ruby Red Dress
The Bitch is Back
Helen Wheels
1975: It's A Miracle
Life Is a Rock
Lady Marmalade
Please Mr. Postman
Someone Saved My Life
Wildfire
There Was a Girl
Island Girl
Rhinestone Cowboy
Magic
Pinball Wizard
Get Down Tonight
That's The Way I Like It
The Hustle
How Long
Saturday Night
Bad Blood
Convoy
Fame
Dance With Me
1976: Rock *N Roll Music
Bohemian Rhapsody
Get Up And Boogie
Gotta Get You Into My Life
Disco Duck
Silly Love Songs
Crazy On You
Breaking Up is Hard To Do
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
If You Leave Me Now
Lonely Night
Welcome Back
Right Back To Where We Started From
Tonight's The Night
December 1963
Afternoon Delight
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Rhiannon
I Write The Songs
Baby I Love Your Way
A Fifth of Beethoven
For all those other years that came after 1976, just listen and find out!
Thank you for all those songs WLS (which I used to pick up at night before the Internet existed) used to play at one time or another!
This is great! Thanks!
Can I post the list of songs from 1977 and onward?
@@riceymartin2203 Go ahead!
@@dudeh88 Thank you! It will take me some time to write it all down, though.
@@riceymartin2203 It's perfectly fine. Looking foward to it.
That was an Excellent video of all the songs I remember everyone one of these.. I started listening to WLS in 1974. Still listen now..Thanks again. Minnesota
I was thinking about this on New Year's Eve remembering the days listening to this at midnight. I explained this to my girlfriend telling her how songs were added each year and how cool it was to listen to all of them. What a great treat to find this. Thanks for posting it.
Wow ! So Impressive ! I grew up listening to WLS and loved hearing this ! Once the 80s years kick in the songs are ones that bring back memories and I actually remember when they were in rotation. Thanks so much for this !
I once had the idea for WLS radio to take the songs up through 1989 (when they flipped to talk) and then use top talk/news clips of every year to the present. Ah well....
For nostalgic purposes, it would draw some big ratings to begin with. But for format, advertising, marketing and other means, it would not be possible to run the station at a profit. Long live WLS AM 89.
My innocent years. Uncle larry, Snotnose Tommy, Animal stories, Boogie check. I wish i could go back.
Remember listening to this on WLS back in the 80's-thanks for posting, and thanks for helping us all to remember what real music is! ED
I recognized most of these and I'm not even American!
Had to listen to it again today. You did a great job patching all the greatest songs around together ! Sound quality is awesome. I like how you did the WLS promo's followed directly by a song the way it would have aired. I would love to have my own station it would sound something like this ! - Nathan
11:22 to 11:30 is the most amazing over-lap on music in the countdow
I almost feel tempted to take this montage & build on top of it the music that has taken place Since 1989. It'd probably run well over an hour long as a result, but it would be worth it.
Also; "I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE, AND I BRING YOU...The Harper Valley PTA!"
Best radio in-joke in history.
I thought about doing the same - from 89 on, but what's here is as perfect as it's going to get.
I actually have continued to do the montage in the "WLS Style" all the way up to 2013!
Will we get a chance to hear THAT??
I should post it, so you can check out "the rest of the story!"
Bring it on, if you can ...
Thanks Scott, they still sound good at 75 .
So many years, so many great songs! Where did they go? :-(
Here in the Philippines. They name it WLS FM metro manila back in the 80's
The same name as on Chicago
That's awesome ! I knew about every song on there ! Thanks for sharing. - Nathan
A great montage, perhaps the best one I heard yet. I have been writing down all the snippets they're playing, yet there's something I couldn't get at 23:01 between Sister Christian and This Time
That would be New Song by Howard Jones.
"I am the gawd of hell fire, and I bring you...the Harper Valley PTA..."
Great Post!!
This really took me back. Thank you.
I believe in that montage they r missin THE HEAT IS ON
Nothing is missing. It's exactly as the original aired.
1985 was changed considerably at some point - on the copy I recorded on 1-1-86, starting right after "If This Is It", it begins (and ends) with the Miami Vice theme.
I used to listen as a kid in the 70s. I can remember back to about 73. Great night time reception before the signals were interefered with . Go back to music on CQUAM Am stereo. 890 is still in stereo, not HD. You can hear the lower sideband hiss on hd radio.
@ Joe Sislow - both the WLS and WABC are very similar with slight variation, but this is the confirmed WLS track list. Also, this rebuild version is slightly different than the original reel-to-reel they used back in the day
When I first tried recording this in '79, it was on a blank 8-track tape. Damn tough.
I remember listening to this
@ Zach Alvarez - that is Daryl Hall and John Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do). Thanks
I did one that went up to 2008.
I was able to DX WAKY 790AM late nights from 25 miles south of Chicago. They fought with CKLW 800AM in Windsor, Ontario on my dial!
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Great!!!
Great video!
The Euell Gibbons liner is a clip from a record that one of the jocks played, so WABC wouldn't have played it. Also, the same jock says "This Is Dickie Goodman at WLS". That is not Dickie Goodman. Both clips are jock John Landecker. ------ I haven't heard the WABC one for awhile. Gotta go find it. Thanks for reminding me of that - they are similar.
Wow!
If WLS continued in to 2017 imagine would it sound?.....
Still waiting in 2020. A girl can dream 🥰
"End Of The Line" by The Travelling Wiburys.
So this montage was run in 1987 and 1988? I didn't bother tuning in at midnight those years, because WLS didn't have a Big 89 year-end countdown in either year (not in 1987, anyway) and I always thought that if there was no countdown, there wouldn't be any montage.
I hope I decided it's a good idea to do a special montage for WCBS-FM in the next 2 years in 2017 to celebrate 45 years as "New York's Greatest Hits" and adding stuff from the 1990's from 1990 to 1999 to make it a special montage for CBS-FM from oldies to classic hits.
They do a rundown of the Top 40 best sellers at the beginning of the following year but the nearest anyone ever got to something like this was when the late great Alan 'Fluff' Freeman used to do a Review of the Year in the late 1960s/early 1970s.
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I'm very impressed with the added years. A bit disappointed there wasn't any "Pour Some Sugar On Me", but you can't have everything.
Scott awesome effort! But , the Twist is not the original, it's a re-recording.
UK and US oldies are very similar. Many songs could be on both countries montages, but each would lean toward native bands and singers.
This is still up for now ... but it looks like the 1977-78 WLS New Year show has been taken down once again.
Do I remind you of wild hickory nuts?
I wish someone could give me a complete list of songs on that video.
I've listened to the one WABC did. They left out Dickie Goodman's Mr. Jaws, Leif Garrett's Runaround Sue, & the Euell Gibbons parody ("do I remind you of wild hickory nuts?"). The last two years (80-82) of that version also reflected its try at being an AC station.
I've heard both the WLS version and the WABC version, and it seems this mix is more of the WABC track list. Can anyone confirm?
wls fm 94.7 doesn't do this I miss it thanks
Does anybody listen to talk radio, anymore?
Only if they want to get angry. 😈
What is the song that plays between 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago and Spill the Wine by Eric Burdon and War?
The Love You Save by the Jackson 5
OffTheCharts365 I've never heard that song before.
OffTheCharts365 And the songs at 9:06 and 16:34?
Lloyd Thatcher Eek! The Love You Save was a #1 hit for the J5.
Lloyd Thatcher 9:06 is the very beginning of FREE by Chicago. 16:34 is Ray Parker Jr. singing JILL on Jack and Jill.
Dumb question: Have any UK stations done such a thing on New Year's?
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I must be getting old but I didn’t recognize the song between “Time For Me to Fly” and “Don’t Stand So Close To Me” at approx. 19:14 (after a WLS jingle)? Anybody want to check? Thanks!
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Heh. Not much of a video really. Audio? Oh yeah!!!
That's Wilburys
What was the name of the song in the 1989 montage, the one that goes "But it's all right"? That one didn't sound familiar to me.
"End of the Line" by Traveling Wilburys
Would you possibly have a song list?
Yes, somewhere. It would take a while to dig for it
Excellent quality. The last was 1993, correct?
+525Lines 1989.
+OffTheCharts365 The rock format didn't leave WLS until 1993? Maybe they stopped doing the countdown in 1989.
+525Lines WLS AM stopped being Top 40 around 1987. 94.7 took over for a while, but it couldn't keep up with what B96 & its urban format became by early 1991. I have no idea if 94.7 played this montage at all - sorry.
+Jean O'Boyle Yeah, rap got mainstream in the early 90s and while you still had record sales telling you top singles, I think people just followed different genres and had no interest in a billboard ranking. It's still that way, too diffused to make a top 40 list of any interest.
+525Lines WLS stopped playing music in August 1989. That's why the title of this post says [1969-1989]. They began playing music in 1960 and stopped in 1989.
what's song is this? 20:23 Please!!!
"I Can't Go for That" by Hall and Oates.
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What is the song at 11:01
"A Horse With No Name" by America.
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OffTheCharts365 What is the song at 20:48?
***** Centerfold by The J Giles Band.
Ellis Feaster Thanks
Talk radio is a DEAD format. You can only bring up so many subjects, before it get repetitive.
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