Studio A Profile Of A Disc Jockey
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Studio A is a profile of a radio personality John Records Landecker on AM Radio in the late 1970's playing top forty rock. A Documentary Film Directed by James (Jim) R Martin in Chicago. Distributed as Educational Documentary. Top Ten finalist American Film Festival
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John was/is the gold standard of American DJ’s. This just shows the man behind the mic. In the ‘70s, he was must listen to radio. All hail John Records Landecker!
I just saw John two days ago at a gathering called the Radio Dream Luncheon, put together by Art Vuolo. It was at Steve Resnik's house in Sunland, CA. I hadn't been to one of these before, but I knew there would be all sorts of radio on-air talent in attendance. Upon my arrival, I found that the neighborhood is in a rural area of Los Angeles, in fact, it's horse country. I parked and started walking to the house where the party was happening. I passed a guy riding his horse on the street and wished him a Happy New Year. When I got to the address, there was a steep driveway from the road up to the house. Once I walked up the hill, the driveway flattened out and there were about 5 or 6 steps up to the front door. As I hit the first step, the front door opened and out walked a guy with a coke in his hand and he stood on the stoop for a moment, checking his iphone. I continued up the stairs and as I realized who it was, I said..."John?" "John Records Landecker?" He looked up and he said, "Joe Cipriano?" haha. How fitting that my first encounter at the Radio DREAM lunch, was indeed a DREAM SIGHTING...the one and only JRL. It made my day. We had a fantastic chat and toured Steve Resnik's house/radio museum together. I mentioned this film piece to him as something I've enjoyed watching over and over again and a few other of my favorite John Landecker bits. He showed me his laptop with the movie "In a World" in the cue to watch. He said it's one of his favorite movies and he watches it often. I told him a couple of stories from when I auditioned for the small part I had in the film with Lake Bell. So all in all...the Radio Dream Lunch was indeed just that for me. Looking forward to seeing you again John. Happy New Year 2019!
Thanks for the incite Joe. As a 90s jock we used your clipa when we needed inspiration!
YA! Thats right! My man!
This was an absolute treat to watch! Grew up listening to John Bob Sirott and Larry LuJack and Fred Winston
Enjoyed the video. Thanks John for posting it! Going to go make my crab munchies now.
Back in the day, WLS was booming out all over the country. I remember hanging out with friends during warm summer nights and we'd have WLS on and listened to JRL doing Boogie Checks 500 miles away from Chicago. He was our Wolfman Jack.
I just did some research based on some of what John said on this video, and have come to the conclusion that this was originally aired on 12/7/1976. I know it shows 1977 in the video info, but one of his news gags talked about Billy Carter losing his bid for mayor of Plains, GA yesterday. The election was held on 12/6/1976. He mentions its Tuesday at another point in the video, and coincidentally 12/7/1976, was in fact a Tuesday.
John Landecker was my first influence who got me interested in broadcasting. I was on Boogie Check 37 times!
Oooo! Ahhhh! Lol
THE BEST - EVER. PERIOD. Thanks for posting. It was great to see a Boogie Check live.
John RECORDS Landecker was the BEST! I grew up in Sikeston, MO and listened to John everytime he came on back in the Seventies. WOW, oh the memories!!
One of the all-time greats. Imagine Lujack and Landecker on the same station! It actually happened. And it was great.
Yes, it did. Yes, it was.
Jim, thank you so very much for posting this Studio A short film and for creating it back in the day! John Records Landecker was definitely a Radio Hero of mine! He along with other DJ’s in the 1970’s & 1980’s spawned my own career on air which lasted from around 1984 to around 2002. I desperately miss my radio Broadcasting Career which sadly only lasted about 15 years. Thanks again for posting this excellent profile of John back in the days of great local radio! ❤️
Thank you. Try podcasting.
For the time Landecker was The Best Jock their ever was and will be, We worked our asses off those days to do a show, Plenty to do durring a 3:30 min record it wasnt until Stairway To Heaven could we use the bathroom!
I loved those days and wouldnt trade them for the world
You know, when you say "best", the field includes guys like Mad Daddy and Dick Biondi and a lot more.
Thank you for posting this. In the mid 80's one of my teachers played this in class on a 16mm or 35mm projector (can't recall).
Unfortunately, she started it too late in the class and we only saw about 10 or 15 minutes before class ended and I never saw the rest.
I grew up in SW Michigan so WLS was my "big local station" and I listened to John Landecker and Larry Lujack all the time. That made this especially interesting to me.
Funny thing, I just looked up John on Wiki. It turns out we both went to MSU (about 30 years apart) and I later worked at WILS in Lansing where he had worked much, much, earlier.
I never made it to a big market and left radio after only a few years. It was fun while it lasted though.
And it was a blast to finally see the rest of this!
It was a great time to be in radio when the audience was not as wildly fragmented and you could smoke in the studio.
This guy was several years younger when I was (still am) a fan. He "looked" much more mature back then. That has always blown me away growing up as a radio-fan. Even the local guys NEVER looked the way they sounded. The mystique of radio -I LOVE IT..!
I have played this many times for students in my broadcast announcing class. John's insights into the nature of the job and his approach to it still have relevance today. On another note, I recall being able to listen to WLS in my car (summer of '85) while on my overnight security guard job at a Mercury dealership...in Winnipeg.
Kids these days think Pandora is a radio station now. Wife and I went into a "Local Restaurant" just outside Nashville, TN, and I asked the young waitress where the music was coming from. Pandora was her answer. They ignore terrestrial radio today. Terrestrial Radio Owners are suffering and for the AM Station, buying FM Translator is not the answer to the problem. Those weak signal in the top 100 markets just junk up the FM Band, and that's why the younger generations have gone to XM/Sirus, Pandora, Spotfly, and all the other on line junk that is out there.
And I bet during the day you listened to 58 CKY. Great daytime channel.
@@that70sguy74 Don Percy!
Absolutely a master at his craft. WLS in 1976 was THE station!!.
I listened to Landecker in the evenings after the sun went down on WLS Chicago in the early 70's while fishing in the Ohio River. I was living in Kentucky at the time.
Grew up listening to that dude in the 70's...WLS was great..Couldnt pick it up until later in the day though until towards evening..
There were truly a great 'catch' during the night. In 1981 and '82, they had a GREAT 'rock-40' format!
When I was in the Army Military Police stationed in Pennsylvania, I remember working the over night shift, and one night I was driving, and I was on patrol. It was a very slow night. Normally we didn't have commercial radios in our patrol cars, but this was a new car, they hadn't pulled the radio yet. One night I started picking up WLS out of Chicago. I was thrilled. It brought back so many memories of when I was a kid listening to WLS in the early 1970's. It was 1986 or '87, and it was John Records Landecker. Just like the old days! Come to find out Landecker had just returned to WLS in 1986. Unfortunately, I guess nowadays they are just a talk radio station.
I grew up on this station!
John I remember liseningto you when I was ax a teenager mid 70's thanks for the boggygy Che ks
I listened to John just about every weekday night on WLS, right here in Gallatin, TN. I miss the Boogie Checks, and the fun on AM Radio! I now own a radio station, and all the station is now just a small Arrakis Mixer, PC, satellite receiver, and a transmitter that was shipped to me and my wife, via UPS! I wanted to just retire and own a small 250 watt AM station. We'll I have 1,000 watts and they want to kill AM Radio in 2015! I am in my 50s, had to retire early from a accident in 2008, so I see these old videos and ask why? My Theory is don't try to fix what isn't broken!
We listened in Jackson, TN too.
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I can't imagine working at a radio station that has an engineer running the board, cart machines, etc. I did all that and managed to do a show. That is a high budget station.
ditto...worked at several stations and none had an engineer turning the pots...did everything myself....carts, records, news..a lot of the time only guy in the building...many times the GM or a salesman would call..."just sold 30 sixty second spots for "widgets are us'...write it..produce it...with music bed..log them and start in fifteen minutes" !! ...ok...let me cue up McArthur Park....got really good at nailing spots on the first take that way...
Chuck Lundi yeah in the larger stations a board operator would man the studio while the DJ announced. In some cases it was union mandated.
I worked with some amazing engineers or "board ops" in Philly who were masters of back timing, drop in sound effects and program flow. Worked with some bad ones too.
Fantastic! Simply fantastic.
That was Alabamas radio station at night went to sleep with John on every night The great seventies!
That engineer is a real foxy lady! Good Documentary!
+Wessel R That's Pam Murphy.
+Scott Childers I've seen your name and have heard your name being mentioned. Is there an email address for you that I can ask you a couple of questions? Thanks, Greg
This was back in the day when a person could make money in this business, earn a decent living, and put your kids through college! AM Radio was still king in the 70s, at least for me.
And afford lots of coke! lol
Who doesn't watch her levels very closely...at least during this documentary.
Still just classic. Brings me back. I wanted to and got into radio because of John Landecker. the ramp at 27:25 still kills it after all these years with "Rubber Band Man"- The Spinners as the bed.
Jim the DJ is just the best.
One of the reasons I got into this crazy job 43 years ago.
Never big KY 58 fans in our house. My parents liked CBC radio and my sister and I started with CKRC and then migrated to CFRW around 1973 or so. Then it was CITI-FM for me when they began in '78.
Yep, 92 CITI-FM! 😄
Loved the Boogie Check
I always imagined what he looked like he was the voice of radio playing the hits of the 70's at nite for us teenagers in Alabama
Firesign Theatre / Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers, is the first record played here, the next is the tail end of, "CHAOS - Part 1" by Arbogast & Ross.
It's John!
Its 32 here at Midway its 33 at the Loop loved that weather check
It was that easy for many of us.
Maybe he should write a book about being a DJ........
John Landecker should do stand-up comedy. Sooooo, smart, quick and funny!
What is the background music in the first 40 seconds?
JOHN RECORDS LANDECKER IN THE 1970'S
I’m absolutely shocked that John didn’t run his own board. I thought that was something every old jock did.
In a market the size of Chicago many of the stations had studio engineers, many unionized, to run the board.
Disc jockeys were forbidden to touch the control room gear by the local union in that market.
One of Don Geronimo's heroes. Larry Lujak is (of course) among them too!
I'm not from the states, so did AM radio have as much activity as FM there? Over here AM was for vital governmental communication like emergency announcements and stuff like that. Other than that I believe I tuned in to some pirate radio stations broadcasting from ships in the pacific. FM was the happening place with all the radio stations. Now its all DAB and/or web.
"I'm John Landecker. And you're not."
So did Chevy do it first, or John?
He has an engineer! Program engineers began getting fired in the mid 1980's and are all but extinct now.
it was a union rule in Chicago
About 25:00 you can hear how Landecker felt about the morning show on WLS.. He's lucky he didn't get tarred and feathered.
Man, those were the days.
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John is great. Toys For Tots at 7-Eleven. Must have been before Walmart. Ironic?
FM radio ruined everything
I wonder if "records" truly was his middle name...
I'm almost certain that it is, believe it or not.
It truly is!
Would John lie to you? lol
i think it's his mother maiden name. He used as his middle name
@@joeferguson2606 Yes it is his mom's maiden name.
What happened to landecker? He is a pro, a legend. I hope he avoided talk radio.
John was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2017. The last I heard he was doing a 6p to 10p on WGN radio. Kind of like going back to the time slot he started in when he first came to WLS.
He played the hits!
Except 'You Light Up My Life'! Lol
Now it's all run by consultants and you really have no power as program directors and the jocks you really have no job security because you must sign non-compete clauses that they do not pay you for it which means they can fire you without any cause and you can't work in that market for 18 months to a couple of years and that's unfortunate the radio wonder why people are not listening is because there's no entertainment factor in radio anymore the jocks are not communicating with their audience because they have options to keep their attention spans rest in peace terrestrial radio or one more caveat smoking is not good for your voice and career
He doesn't play his own records. How BORING!
Most of the bigger stations in the bigger cities had unions for the jocks-and for the engineers. Some stations had "Turntable Operators" after the live orchestras were replaced by records. One person on the controls, one person starting the turntables. These were union rules. They pretty much went by the wayside in subsequent years. Landecker in this movie had an operator who loaded the cart machines, ran the levels and followed his every finger point. Today's automation for the most part means whoever's talking needn't lift a finger more than 3-4 times an hour. It was once a jock's dream to work at a station with board operators. Sometimes however the operators weren't quite "with it". When you worked at WLS, WCFL or CKLW for example - you either followed the rules or you were out.
@@davemason7398 That's pretty sad. I wonder why this is known as Radio's Golden Age.