Thank you for sharing. I moved to Chicagoland in 1989 and remember so many of these defunct radio stations. Great memories!

Thanks for this! You reminded me of WAIT which played the easy stuff, but I also recall a rare station that did that music as well-WNUS "the quiet oasis"

Fabulous job...great memories of hitting the airwaves!

I recognize about a third to half of those stations - especially WBEE(1570) - I used to listen to Daddy O'Daylie as a kid.

Wow! Thank you for this video. An honest blast from the past!

Wow-I remember alot of those stations although there’s a few I never heard of. I luved the R & B station WGRT/W Great where the dial was in between WLS & WCFL back in the day. The signal was weak but we still struggled to tune it in on our transistors. Was very upset that WNUA/Smooth Jazz was yanked without warning. They later said listenership was down but I don’t believe that. There had to have been other factors going on.

My only complaint is the WMET aircheck in the background was distracting. You did a nice job with this. You even had a few I forgot. Keep your eyes out for WWMM, that was at 92.7 from '72 to '81. They put bumper stickers in the Sunday paper and half of Chicago had one...

@hayford75

3 жыл бұрын

I couldn't find anything for WWMM.

@revrotunda3206

2 жыл бұрын

I remember the styrofoam balls WLS/WCFL AM’s used as promotional items back in the 1960’s that had a hole on the bottom to put on your car antenna. I used to get mad when they would steal them off the car.

WCFL the voice of labor from Chicago!

---- used to love listening to Forrest's "Musical Star Streams" on WNUA ---- my study music while I was in Optometry school.

Nice job. Thank you. I miss WNIB. If there are no classical stations in Chicago, I won't listen to any music stations.

I was stationed in Great Lakes at the time and listened to WMET a lot (loved the battles of the songs!) and of course *The Loop* WLUP. Can you say "COHO!"

I even miss the AM radio stations that played the classic standards like Frank Sinatra & Andy Williams-then it was WIND which I didn’t listen to but my Parents did but they had a couple of them in recent years I listened to that they got rid of but I can’t remember the call letters. They always get rid of the best radio stations.

Hi, Pete! When will we see more of your wonderful nostalgic Chicago videos? We LOVE them!!!

@hayford75

3 жыл бұрын

Very soon. I am trying to find a theme.

@brianglade848

Жыл бұрын

Our IT team is working on it

Hi, Pete...Just a suggestion...Since summer is right around the corner, for some wonderful nostalgia (which we can use right about now!), how about highlighting life as a kid in the 60's? I remembering going to Hollywood Kiddyland as well as the Kiddyland in Melrose Park. There was also Hawthorne Mellody Farm (they had a train ride which lead to a ghost town); Russell's BBQ; Zephyr and Buffalo ice cream shops; the old Randhurst Mall; Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine; Woolworth on Lincoln and Belmont; neighborhood church carnivals; Kiddie-a-go-go; Whammo toys; The Thunderbirds; WGN kid shows; Shenanigans and HR Puff-n-Stuff on Saturday mornings; Colorforms and The Thing Maker; "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies; wooden swings and teeter totters; incense punks; Jello 1-2-3, Tang, Ron Santo Pizza...I think you get the idea! LOL

Nice job

Worked at 3 of them.

I guess I’m really old, listened to WLS am Dick Biondi, Ron Riley, Art Roberts and Dex Card

@brianglade848

3 жыл бұрын

Yep

@revrotunda3206

2 жыл бұрын

That was my generation with all those DJ’s except Biondi had just left the station by the time I started listening to a transistor radio some time in 1963. “Ringo” Ron Riley was my favorite. I just luved WLS AM personality radio in those days. The DJ’s did an excellent job in entertaining us & we looked up to them. My Parents were listening to WIND AM with DJ’s like Howard Miller at this timeframe.

@revrotunda3206

2 жыл бұрын

And all those jingles like “Radar Weather Eye” come to mind. An era never to be repeated again.

Anybody remember Barney Pip with his "Turn Into Peanut Butter" tag line? Probably from 64-66.

WABT??? haha that one's funny!

How I miss WNIB, WJJD & WJMK. Good times. 📻

Remember animal stories

@KnuckleheadParker

3 жыл бұрын

Who did animal stories?

@brianglade848

3 жыл бұрын

@@KnuckleheadParker Larry Lujak and Little Tommy

@KnuckleheadParker

3 жыл бұрын

@@brianglade848 thank you

@brianglade848

3 жыл бұрын

@@KnuckleheadParker you're welcome