Philadelphia Rock Radio 1975 - 85 WMMR WYSP
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- aircheck of the three major rock stations in Philadelphia for the period from 1975 through 1985. Some of the DJs included: Joe Bonadonna, Ed Sciaky, Anita, Steve Martorano, Ed Anderson and Paul Fore.
Grew up in Camden 63- 83 listening to YSP and MMR . Love the good old days!
I can’t believe this exists on RUclips what a treat
Kudos to all who had the foresight to preserve these archives - today it's something of a time machine to revisit this stuff. Good job
I grew up on WYSP & MMR
When I was at Devereux, I'd often listen to Philadelphia FM radio stations
WMMR, WYSP, WIOQ, WMGK, WIFI 92, WFIL(56)
WPEN, which was on your AM radio dial at 950, etc.
Then, when I moved to Woodcrest Manor, which was in Rhinebeck, New York, I'd often sometimes listen to WHVW, from Hyde Park/
Poughkeepsie, New York, and they used to call it 95HV. Patty Norton, who was a staff at Woodcrest Manor, and who was also an
older lady, listened to WHVW,and so did her husband, Charley.
She'd often call that radio station,
"HVA!"
-Mark Weintraub.
Now I'd often listen to radio station WYSP, which played some of the rock you'd hear on some of the top 40 stations,like Yes, Elton John, Bad Company, Leo Sayer, Cat Stevens,
Crosby, Stills and Nash, Al Stewart, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, the Bee Gees, Linda Ronstadt, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Who, the Eagles, the Kiki Dee Band, Eric Clapton, Minnie Riperton, BT Express, Santana,
Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead Jefferson Airplane, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Hot Tuna, David Bromberg,
Leonard Cohen,Foghat, Frank Zappa, Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Boz Scaggs, Steve Miller Blues Band, Chuck Berry, etc, etc, etc.
-Mark Weintraub.
WMMR played a lot of progressive rock, in full FM stereo sound, on the FM dial at 93.3.
When you tuned in to like either WMMR or WYSP, you heard like the Beatles,Led Zeppelin, the Who, the Eagles, the Moody Blues, Van Halen, Tom Petty, Hall and Oates, Todd Rundgren, Loggins and Messina, the Allman Brothers Band, Mountain, Blue Oyster Cult, City Boy, Bruce Springsteen, the Doobie Brothers, Santana, Pink Floyd, the Animals, the Kinks, Elton John, Jefferson Airplane, the Jefferson Starship, the Cars, Foreigner, ZZ Top, the Outlaws, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, etc, etc, etc.
-Mark Weintraub.
Trying to find station ID for WYSP from when it played big band music before switching to rock in August 1973. It was a group of singers. Lyrics were "Music and more, on stereo 94, WYSP, Philadelphia". I was 11 years old but I remember it clearly.
I heard about that!
YIKES!!!!! I'm also included ("alfredo") at 05:40 - 05:50, opening up the first WMMR-FM segment. I'm back-selling a track from the NEW Genesis album, "Wind and Wuthering" (January of 1977)
Wow...very cool! Glad I managed to save the tapes for 40 years
Hey Lewis, yep you got me too. Second set on WYSP (1:20) and then later when I joined WMMR (8:12) as Music Director and later PD. Also in handoff to Steve Martorana (14:02) Fuhr pronounced Four ;;)
This takes me back, and thank you. What I’m specifically looking for is the rock radio station identification that ended with Phiiiiiiladelphia. Deep voice. Anyone remember it?
That is WMMR.
@@mikeleone1347 Charlie Kendall did that spot. One of my favs!
Miss WYSP. Sports talk must be the most inane formats. What idiots spend their day listening to sports talk? Boring. Its like watching grass grow. WYSP may have itself to blame. So many format changes...from heavy metal to alternate to class rock. Hard to keep track. Fondess memory is when WYSP picked up the Howard Stern show back in the 80s. Debella morning zoo which reached a stale plateau and never wavered fell like a house of cards in the ratings. Still listening to WMMR especially on You Call It Friday Nights. Closest commercial
FM gets to free form radio.
I have never yet met one person who remembers that back around 1970 WMMR had a DJ for a while who had a British accent and for some reason I think his name was something like Dan Johnson... I was just a kid back then but I certainly remember him and I think one time I even called him to make a request at night...
Does anybody remember this at all ? ..he had a British accent .
The other problem is most of the people I knew back then a lot of them were still listening to AM radio... I was in grade school and I didn't really know any other kids that listen to MMR
Luke O'Reilly?
Here man Take a ride in the time machine
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Radio listeners et al, would hope that 'Payola' was a distant memory in the history of Radio Station Broadcasting? It appears now, however that the music format radio stations of today, STILL play the same songs over, and over and OVER again! Why is that?! Is it the "fashionable" way to drive their listeners stark-raving-mad?! ESPECIALLY if it's a song that you don't like? There are literally thousands of songs out there in the music world, of each genre classification. Ergo, there is no logical reason why a particular song needs to be played more than say, three times a year {quarterly}. I personally 'gave up' on listening to the radio in my car. I now subscribe to Sirius Radio, but even then find that some songs are repeated a little too much for my liking. At least I don't have to listen to annoying radio commercials, ESPECIALLY by Insurance Companies!
Anyone remember the song they would play on Fridays at 5 o clock?
WIOQ 102 FM
WIOQ was the most progressive rock station….hands down and i STILL can hear their ID’s with space out
Ed Sciaky was an Icon
You should’ve thrown a bone to what was the MOST PROGRESSIVE radio station ever in Philadelphia and that was WIOQ 102.9 on the dial a true AOR station…
i miss WYSP, and WMMR got lame, in my opinion.
To retain a particular format, but survive in an uber-commercial environment, requires certain concessions I assume. Sucks they don't have the same FU attitude from the 60s, 70s, and early 80s to just allow the jocks to play whatever the hell they want to play though... Just my opinion
@@KevinBostonRATbuster133 wmmr plays a lot of whatever they want. Anything that rocks is played
WMMR got bought by a big radio conglomerate
I love Federal reserved pet rules Phil anthony
Lewis are you from the philly area. Just asking because I am in Pitman nj and still listen to WMMR
Moved from perkasie Pennsylvania to Oklahoma in 2017 still listen to MMR Via internet been listening to MMR since 1977.....
Also listened to WYSP