Jack Armstrong Air Check - at WIXY Radio, Dec., 1966!!
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- From the last day of 1966, here is my hero Jack Armstrong, doing what he did best!! In this aircheck, he plays some of the top hits of 1966, trying to squeeze in 30 songs in 1 hour! Jack personified the "screamer" disk jockey that was so prevalent in the 60s, and he worked wonders with the music, talking up the songs, and the jingles - enjoy!!!!! (I'm uploading this to all 6 of my RUclips channels for wider exposure!) BTW, to recapture the spirit and music of the WIXY years, a friend and I have re-created the legendary WIXY-1260 on the Internet on a streaming radio station!! Go to wixy1260online.com for details and links to players!!!
He was my hero too, and one of the main reasons I got into radio...simply incredible
Thanks for posting..jack Armstrong was The Best!
WIXY was No. One in Cleveland throughout most of the great days of radio's hey day. I listened to WKYC Radio 11. Jack Armstrong became "Big Jack, Your Leader," when he moved to WKYC.
Jack was only 21 years old when this aircheck was made, sounded much older.
One of a kind, Jack Armstrong lived to be on the air. He was sensational.
Worked with Jack in Fresno 87-89 was his gorilla on our Video broadcast weekends. Loved that man.
HE WAS EXCELLENT!!!!!
This is a REAL tenna-topper of a compilation! WTG ` Ron
How well I remember.I spent the last day of the year with my new tape recorder recording all the songs I could on their first year-end countdown.Jack Armstrong came after Dick(Wilde Childe) Kemp on WIXY.
I remember Jack Armstrong when he was on WWKB many years ago when it was an oldies station where it carried into New York City at night during wintertime. I've never heard of him when he was on WIXY before he came to Buffalo at WKBW.
Miss you Big Guy!
Nice to hear live jocks with some excitement unlike the voice tracked monotone we have today on radio.
8 years after your post about hearing live jocks that don’t speak in a monotone way, I would add that in 2020, it’s now become more rare to hear live jocks at all. Many stations are now using pre-recorded song announcements, (some human, some AI, that are fed from a computer that comes from some bullshit IHeart corporate HQ server that’s located in a city that’s hundreds-or even thousands- of miles away from the cities we live in. Radio station “control rooms” are dark, often without any actual people working in them (other than perhaps an IT tech whom is there to make sure that the computers keep working).
To quote Bruce Springsteen, “This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?”
WIXY 1260 is dead. Long live WIXY... and WHLO, and CKLW, and WHK, and...
You may or may not know that I have brought back WIXY1260 on the Internet, and have a streaming station that is a clone of the old WIXY...minus commercials! Go to wixy1260online dot com and you'll get links to listen to it!
I can't believe the crap we put up with, back then! I haven't listened to commercial radio in 20 years. Or more, really. Cassettes ended their game for me. Then home made CD, and finally MP3. Freeeeee at last!
You haven't listened because the conservatives hijacked AM radio with crappy Limbaugh and religious guilt trip shows. The new tech didn't free you from the radio it freed you from greedy record companies. As to "this crap" I love it for its exciting upbeat promotions of songs, artists, and humanity in general. It was a community of listeners of great music, not of divisive political and religious cultists.
There are several rare songs (i.e. only hits on WIXY, just bubbling under on the Hot 100) on this: "Dream With Me" Jacabson and Tanesley and "She Ain't Loving You No More" by The Distant Cousins. '66 was my favorite year for singles.
At the beginning, noticed the use of the CBS Special Presentation bumper.
Most people don't know this: Jack had his jaw tendons surgically loosened (I think it was '65). This lead to his being officially declared Guinness' "Fastest Mouth in the World." That, and the short length of '45s in '66, was how he was able to play 30 songs in an hour.
Happy DJ Day 2016
Nam Jock - this is untrue. I am his daughter, loosening of tendons s false. Guinness happened because of hard word not surgery
nobody can be that talented. Must be surgery
I did not grow up in Cleveland, but have been an addict of Top 40 radio all my life. I used to listen to Cleveland's WKYC down in southern Indiana at night. But, I heard about WIXY 1260 after moving to Cleveland in 1984 and that it was actually the most popular top 40 sgtation here during that heyday.. I've listened to a number of WIXY akirchecks and think the formatting and music are excellent, but I can't understand how this station was so popular with such a terrible signal! 1260 AM has an absolutely awful signal and range east/west, I can't see how anyone could pick it up.
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