Thank you so very much. I always listened in every night to Dick Biondi show. On this date I was a few days from end of my sophmore year Heltonville High, Heltonville Indiana. I didn't get good reception from 890 untill about time for the Biondi show came on. That was 62 years ago!!! Great to hear again.......Thank You
WOW! The jacket Biondi is wearing in this photo was mine (I still have it!). The day of this photo shoot, which was used for WLS's promo album cover, Biondi hadn't worn (never did) a suit jacket and borrowed this for the shoot. Just a surprise to see this 47 years later....
I listened with a "Rocket Radio" grounded to my hot water rad beside my bed. I lived in London, Ontario and got WLS loud and clear, every night. I couldn't get CKLW from Windsor/Detroit at half the distance but WLS rocked!! Life was good.
I recently found a copy of the album that is pictured above. The people in the photo are Gene Taylor, Art Roberts, Mort Crowley, Jim Dunbar, Clark Weber, Bob Hale, and of course, Dick Biondi behind the mic.
In top of a meatball roll covered with cheese .....till somebody sneezed... it rolled on the floor...I saw my first meatball roll out the door . Now the too three at ten .....oh yea I l I I tell you sometime something ..... ... .
I think that's Ron Riley with his hands on Art Roberts' shoulder, and Jim Dunbar is directly behind Dick. I don't know who's to Dick's left or Art's right. I guess they're Hale and Card.
I met dick at the Krol's Men's ware store in the Hillside shopping center in about 1966 or 67 it was cool to see some one you only heard over the air.....
Who the hell is the music director? A well known disc jockey on a well known station but not one or barely recognizable hit record. Who the hell is Gene Stridler? It sounds like DB is picking and playing whatever comes up in the stack of records. Someone explain WLS it's first five years.Nothing but stiff and flops.
You haven't a clue. WLS was the main mover. They broke a bunch of the sounds of the day. You had to hear a new number before you would go out and buy and make a hit out of it. What your hearing is the menu of the day.
@@caroltenge5147 Yes WLS early 60s along with CFL were the thing in Chicago. What I'm saying is those songs on that aircheck where most are not remembered or became hits anywhere else in America. And that is poor programming spending a full hour breaking unfamiliar records that sure showed it's stiffness or bombing on the charts. It took to the latter sixties when WLS sounded solid mainstream. Especially when they had to battle WCFL. Even today's Chicago boomers wouldn't remember most of those songs because they flopped in America when they first came out.
@@billschindler1381 The Highwaymen "Im on my way". Was a popular number from the folk/hootenanny craze of the day. Then the "Limbo Rock" was one everybody loved. The male vocal and Jan Bradley were up and comers.... "So this Love" by the Castells was a flat out smash. Im hearing "Village of Love" by Nathaniel Meyer. Then again a knockout hit. Thats a normal night at any station back then. They were top 40, and they were playing top 40 of everything, These days stations are more tightly focused. Ive been a DJ since 1964. This is my 59th year in radio. Im hanging up my mike at the end of the month. Its all over. Bill, neither you or I need to stress ourselves about such things. The america we knew is sadly gone forever. Happy trails to you. Chucko and the great Boss sound.
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Thank you so very much. I always listened in every night to Dick Biondi show. On this date
I was a few days from end of my sophmore year Heltonville High, Heltonville Indiana. I
didn't get good reception from 890 untill about time for the Biondi show came on. That
was 62 years ago!!! Great to hear again.......Thank You
WOW! The jacket Biondi is wearing in this photo was mine (I still have it!). The day of this photo shoot, which was used for WLS's promo album cover, Biondi hadn't worn (never did) a suit jacket and borrowed this for the shoot. Just a surprise to see this 47 years later....
I listened with a "Rocket Radio" grounded to my hot water rad beside my bed. I lived in London, Ontario and got WLS loud and clear, every night. I couldn't get CKLW from Windsor/Detroit at half the distance but WLS rocked!! Life was good.
I can't belilve I found this, these guys were great and Dick was the cream of the crop, Thanks for posting!
Used to listen to him from Monroe, Louisiana when I was a teenager.
Listened to it every night
From Winnetka, Ill (high school)
From Rockdale, Tx (summers)
From Northfield, Minn (college)
I was in west Tennessee in high school when I used to listen to Dick Biondi most every night. What memories.
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I recently found a copy of the album that is pictured above. The people in the photo are Gene Taylor, Art Roberts, Mort Crowley, Jim Dunbar, Clark Weber, Bob Hale, and of course, Dick Biondi behind the mic.
Thank you for filling in the "holes."
Use to listen back in the 70's
Dick Biondi is still going strong on Chicago radio it's too bad WLS FM choose to move him to the overnight shift, he's on from 11pm to 2am now.
Where is Stan Dale, and have I got news for you?
dick biondi a hall of famer and we cant forget that great radio station w. l. s. in chicago.
glen pittman The 50,000 watt Flamethrower! What an amazing collection of air talent.
In top of a meatball roll covered with cheese
.....till somebody sneezed... it rolled on the floor...I saw my first meatball roll out the door . Now the too three at ten .....oh yea I l I I tell you sometime something .....
...
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I think that's Ron Riley with his hands on Art Roberts' shoulder, and Jim Dunbar is directly behind Dick. I don't know who's to Dick's left or Art's right. I guess they're Hale and Card.
Bob Hale with the crew cut and I think Dex Card with the glasses at left.
Navy blue Communion Suits
I met dick at the Krol's Men's ware store in the Hillside shopping center in about 1966 or 67 it was cool to see some one you only heard over the air.....
Where is Ron Riley! He was the star of the show! haha Is still a Ron Riley Rebel Raider!
Ron Riley wasn’t in the original crew. He came to WLS in 1963. Certainly was a star from that point on.
Interesting that they all wore coats and ties back then.
Bad Hale is my grandpa haha
Bob Hale on right
Art Roberts, Dick Biondi at microphones. Clark Weber in rear extreme right. Others: Bob Hale, Dex Card and help me I can't remember the rest.
Who the hell is the music director? A well known disc jockey on a well known station but not one or barely recognizable hit record. Who the hell is Gene Stridler? It sounds like DB is picking and playing whatever comes up in the stack of records. Someone explain WLS it's first five years.Nothing but stiff and flops.
You haven't a clue. WLS was the main mover. They broke a bunch of the sounds of the day. You had to hear a new number before you would go out and buy and make a hit out of it. What your hearing is the menu of the day.
@@caroltenge5147 Yes WLS early 60s along with CFL were the thing in Chicago. What I'm saying is those songs on that aircheck where most are not remembered or became hits anywhere else in America. And that is poor programming spending a full hour breaking unfamiliar records that sure showed it's stiffness or bombing on the charts. It took to the latter sixties when WLS sounded solid mainstream. Especially when they had to battle WCFL. Even today's Chicago boomers wouldn't remember most of those songs because they flopped in America when they first came out.
@@billschindler1381 The Highwaymen "Im on my way". Was a popular number from the folk/hootenanny craze of the day. Then the "Limbo Rock" was one everybody loved. The male vocal and Jan Bradley were up and comers.... "So this Love" by the Castells was a flat out smash. Im hearing "Village of Love" by Nathaniel Meyer. Then again a knockout hit. Thats a normal night at any station back then. They were top 40, and they were playing top 40 of everything, These days stations are more tightly focused. Ive been a DJ since 1964. This is my 59th year in radio. Im hanging up my mike at the end of the month. Its all over. Bill, neither you or I need to stress ourselves about such things. The america we knew is sadly gone forever.
Happy trails to you. Chucko and the great Boss sound.