WLS/Chicago - radio jingles - Anita Kerr Singers
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Just a quick sampling of a few of my favorite WLS jingles from the early '60s/late '50s. WLS began using PAMS of Dallas to produce their jingles in the early 1960s. But these jingles in this montage are a product from just before that time, when WLS jingles were sung by the Anita Kerr Singers. I must say, as radio jingles go, I've always believed that nobody has ever matched the quality of the Johnny Mann Singers during the Drake era (KHJ/Los Angeles, KFRC/San Francisco, WRKO/Boston, etc.). But I'd honestly forgotten just how good these Anita Kerr Singers jingles on WLS were. They're clearly from an earlier time in top 40 radio, so the style is decidedly more square. But the vocals are incredible. Almost as good as the Drake Johnny Manns. Almost. These are just a few of my favorite Anita Kerr Singers jingles done for WLS. Growing up in the midwest (in Kansas City) in the '50s and '60s, I remember as a kid sleeping over at friends' houses, we'd always stay up late (well past the time our parents would approve) and listen to our 7-transistor radios through our pillows. And we'd tune in "faraway" radio stations, like WLS in Chicago. I still remember quite well hearing these exact jingles on the radio, and it's been over 40 years since they aired. This short jingle montage includes a few cuts from the "personality" package, as well as two of the greatest "weather" jingles of all time. I still get goose bumps hearing the "Radar Weather Eye" jingle. It's just so cool! :-)
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As a retro head, I love these old jingles....just Magic !!!!!!!
Notice that the weather jingles have a musical bed with no singing in the middle, for the DJ to do a short live forecast. That meant the on-air guys had to become familiar with how much time they'd have to speak when they played these.
75 NOW 2023 GREW UP WITH WLS 89 60s🤔
What a blast from the past! I grew up just outside Chicago in one of the suburbs..high school years were 1960-1964 and all we ever listened to was WLS, but sometimes WJJD too. I still in the area of Chicagoland...great city
Anita Kerr... la Reine de l'harmonisation vocale, merci ! thank you !
Thanks for the memories !I too had my 6 Transistor under my pillow listening to Duck Beyondi playing Telstar !! Who remembers the launching of our first telecommunications satellite ??
@Engelbird
5 жыл бұрын
fellow pillow transistor listener - I'm only 50 but I've always loved that song SO much. my ma used to play it on our organ (when having an organ in the house was cool), God bless 'er.
WLS WAS MY STATION AS I GREW UP. I LOVED THE MUSIC. I NEVER FOUND A STATION TO REPLACE IT.
RIP to Anita Kerr, gives me chills to hear these after decades and decades...
I recall how Art Roberts would explain, using his own imagination, how "Kalamazoo Slacks" were baked so they "never needed ironing", those were the first days of no iron clothes when introduced for the first time. I think Art Roberts was great in relating to younger people. I listened to him every night, he played the top 3 at 10:00PM. I still hear him raving about Stevie Wonder, "Little Stevie Wonder" back then, when his first record came out. Roberts passed away a couple of years ago.
I remember these and love them! I was once a Guest Teen DJ on the Art Roberts' Show!
@hobbette2452
3 жыл бұрын
"Don't be nervous...don't be rocky...you're our teenage...guest disk jockey now"
the guitar after the Radar Weather Eye jingle totally sounds like Les Paul.
@chersch5
5 жыл бұрын
Could have very well been. Sounds like him to a tee. This was at about the time she (Anita Kerr) left RCA Nashville for California.
@sunwolf4291
4 жыл бұрын
I always loved the radar weather eye music
WONDERFUL!
I do remember these jingles
I still have some of my Surveys ranging from '63-74. So glad i kept them.
@randypoole195
3 жыл бұрын
For those who lost their WLS Silver Dollar Surveys somewhere through the years, take heart, and go to oldiesloon.com
amazing...back then kids would even sing-a-long to the jingles...so the flow was non-stop...jingles to song..to jingles..etc..etc...love it...miss it! thanks for uploading such great jingles and helping bring back some absolutely wonderful mems........ty..ty
Wow thanks for is post. I definitely remember these little jingles from the early '60s growing up in Chicago. Really something how something this small can put you in a nice frame of mind remembering a happy period of life.
Used to listen to Art Roberts back during the folk song scare. Had a show from 10 til midnight on Sundays with the latest in folk music. Loved Chicago in the 60's. Especially Old Town.
January 28th, 1966. I happen to remember that day. Not yesterday or the day before mind ya......... but January 28th, 1966........
I grew up northwest of Philly and could pick up WLS for about an hour early in the evening ( instead of homework) and remember some of these jingles .
@Engelbird
5 жыл бұрын
and you had some classic stations there that I, as a chicagoan, wish I could've picked up when I was a little girl tuning around on my transistor at night!
@randypoole195
3 жыл бұрын
WFIL!
fantastic video and some of the all-time best jingles heard on radio. the anita kerr singers were incredibly skilled in singing those tight harmonies. I love the radar weather eye jingle with that repeating effect at the end... "in chicago-go-go-go-go" and the guitar plucking out those notes. thanks for posting this!
wls brings back memories for mr ..I grew up with this soothing jingle and grae dj's
If you grew up in the midwest then Chicago's WLS was your radio station. With the legendary Ron Riley and Art Roberts and occasionally the wacky Dick Biondi. With the advent of electronically digitalized music dee jays became a dying breed on the air waves. But this was music at its best when WLS was in its hey days. The Anita Kerr Singers were second only to The Jordanaires as session back up singers and they sang on hundreds if not thousands of songs in the pop and country fields.
I spent a lot of weekend and summer vacation hours, up on the 4th floor at 360 N. Michigan Avenue ... watching the great WLS jocks at work. They were pretty inspirational, and I ended up on the air in Chicago for right around 14 years. Never got as well-known as those WLS legends, though.
I remember these great jingles on WLS radio that I received from Pittsburgh,Pa at night!
i would listen to wls more than i do now if they did stuff like this
Wow they were great!!!!!.
I listen to these great old long jingles, and sometimes I wonder how they wedged in any songs.
Great days!
Hi to a guy from my the same neighborhood where I also grew up. I still have a stack of Silver Dollar Surveys from 64-69 collected from Roseland Music Store. ;)
quite enjoyable indeed
Like buried treasure, deep in my subconscious...Class of '64, St. Joseph, Michigan
Wow!
I think that jingle was: "keep your radio on, keep your radio on, stay up with us for a while" or something like that.
With all due respect, in my opinion the Anita Kerr jingles are far beyond those of the Johnny Mann Singers. More dense harmonically and textured brilliantly as the group goes back and forth between octaves and perfectly voiced 4-part.
WLS used to be the station to listen to in the sixtys. It realy sucks now. All right wing talk .What a shame.
@ApartmentKing66
5 жыл бұрын
Better than left-wing crap.