Hello, Mr Ellis Feaster, you have done it again. And I love it. Thank you so very much, for sharing this. And everything else that you are making happen . It is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for this 'check, Ellis. Bob Lewis, aka "Bob-a-lou" (Norman Freedlander) was a beloved member of the Richmond radio community. He was only briefly shanghaied to Chicago for overnights (apparently he packed "HOT DAMN" in his suitcase!) but returned to be a fixture at Q94. Had the proverbial cup-of-coffee at Mix 106, then ran "Bob-a-lou's Music Zoo" in Mechanicsville before leaving us much too soon in 2002. Most Richmond radio folks from the 80's and '90's have a "Normie" story.
I believe that WTICFM was the first hot hits station. What’s funny to me larry is I always heard it with the FM tag because of TIC FM and it sounded funny to me without that tag.
Ironically, WTIC-FM in Hartford, CT and WCAU-FM in Philadelphia pre-dated WHYT! So by the time WHYT debuted, the jingles that sang “FM” at the end were more commonplace than the jingles without the “FM” at the end. Over the course of time, there were 4 stations WITH “FM” and 4 stations WITHOUT “FM” at the end of the jingles. So it actually evened out in the end!
Hello, Mr Ellis Feaster, you have done it again. And I love it. Thank you so very much, for sharing this. And everything else that you are making happen . It is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for this 'check, Ellis. Bob Lewis, aka "Bob-a-lou" (Norman Freedlander) was a beloved member of the Richmond radio community. He was only briefly shanghaied to Chicago for overnights (apparently he packed "HOT DAMN" in his suitcase!) but returned to be a fixture at Q94. Had the proverbial cup-of-coffee at Mix 106, then ran "Bob-a-lou's Music Zoo" in Mechanicsville before leaving us much too soon in 2002. Most Richmond radio folks from the 80's and '90's have a "Normie" story.
@@pdxwatcher Thanks for this. We knew little about this Bob-A-Lou.
Great memories! Two of my Milwaukee staff mates went to BBM-FM. (Our station was running the same jingle package, with Charlie Van Dyke voiceovers).
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I'm just wondering do you have any airchecks from WDEL AM 1150 in Wilmington Delaware with host Bill Harrlmen in the 70's adult contemporary music 😮?
I remember Bill. I worked down the hall at WSTW. Sadly, I never thought to record WDEL. Wish I had.
What songs and artists are at 1:33 and at 6:34?
Murphy's law & Man on Your Mind.
I believe that WTICFM was the first hot hits station. What’s funny to me larry is I always heard it with the FM tag because of TIC FM and it sounded funny to me without that tag.
Hot Hits was a great format. This is not the Bob Lewis of 77 WABC fame?
No, this is a different Bob-A-Loo.
@ thank you for clarifying, Ellis.
@ This Bob spent most of his time in Richmond at WRVQ Q94.
I have the WHYT Detroit one and WBBM having to put the FM in is so anti-climatic. I know it has to be there because of WBBM AM but it's a downer.
Ironically, WTIC-FM in Hartford, CT and WCAU-FM in Philadelphia pre-dated WHYT! So by the time WHYT debuted, the jingles that sang “FM” at the end were more commonplace than the jingles without the “FM” at the end. Over the course of time, there were 4 stations WITH “FM” and 4 stations WITHOUT “FM” at the end of the jingles. So it actually evened out in the end!