WLS Radio Chicago - Dick Biondi Show 1962 Aircheck
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- Hop aboard the time machine and go back to the late evening of December 4, 1962. Dick Biondi "The Wild Italian" is just starting his 9pm to Midnight show on WLS 890 Radio in Chicago.
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Dick Biondi was on the air at night in S.E. Georgia back in the '60s and every car at the cruising spots had WLS AM on the radio. If you saw the movie "American Graffiti" with the music constantly playing in the background then you heard what it was like with Dick Biondi on WLS. 50,000 Watts of total bliss back in the days of real Rock n Roll. Thank you Dick for all the fond memories of my teen years!!
Listening to his show 45 years ago made me want to be a DJ. I became one, and loved every minute of it....I'm still on the air every night. Love you, Dick...my hero!
That Dick Biondi is a legend in Chicago radio, Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane!
Memories from Chicago 1962..those were the good days of rock and roll and listening to Dick Biondi and the hits of the time. Cold nights on West Superior street listening to the radio late at night and into the wee hours of the morning. We got lucky and were able to pick up Wolfman Jack from Del Rio Texas. Miss those times.
Chicago 1962, Wells Sr. High and listening to WLS and Dick Biondi and late at night we would catch Wolfman Jack from Del Rio, Texas. Dick played the top hits and the Wolfman the best R&B. Biondi was so much fun, always kept everything so lively and I want to thank him for those great memories. I remember his "On top of a pizza, all covered with cheese I found my first meatball, till somebody sneezed."
Dick Biondi and Art Roberts are the two WLS jocks I remember listening to from my home near Philly. Amazing how many of us have such warm memories of listening to AM radio through a single flimsy plastic earplug on a six transistor radio. There has been no sound system invented since that gave me so much pleasure.
spent many a night as a 16 yr old kid listening to the Wild Italian setting at the local Drive In Rest in Somerset Ky. what a blast we all had listening.
Dick still broadcasts on WLS-(FM) Weekend mornings. And he's from Endicott,NY, my hometown.
I never will forget my little red transistor radio.WLS would always come in clear every night.1962 had some of the best ever.I would wake up in the mornings and my little radio would still be on.Just some memories that WLS and Dick Biondi are a part!
A Blast from The Past! This man I listened to every night as a young boy.
Thank you for the memories ! I listened to my 6 transistor under my pillow every night I 'remember his broadcast of Tellstar .
Me too !
Oh, oh, oh.....Biondi, read this and know you rained on my ears and I was a teen dj in L.A. at a junior college radio station in 1965. Oh, my god...your voice and exuberant personality that roars across the air waves. Thank you.
Wow - how amazing to find this site with Dick Biondi airchecks. I listened to him every night on WLS AM from Madison, Wisc. when I was a teen. I loved him and all the DJs there. Great music that can never be duplicated, ever!!! Those years were such an integral part of my coming-of-age and I miss those times. Thanks for the memories!!!
this is the guy i listened to every possible night...from central arkansas. he's one of the reasons i wanted to be in radio...leading me to walk into my local station at age 16 and asking for a job....and then spending the next FIFTY freakin' years in the business...
Which stations were those? (Though the closest I've ever lived to Arkansas, was west-central Illinois, I WILL be familiar with the stations. Trust me on that; my knowledge of radio stations in the 1960s is virtually encyclopedic.)
Wow! This is amazing. I grew up in Virginia and each night I'd put my transistor radio under my pillow, lay my ear over it and listen to Dick Biondi, across the country in Chicago, and all the songs from the early 60s. I loved Dick Biondi. I even sent away for an autographed picture and when it arrived I could not believe what he looked like but I still loved him.
listened to Dick Biondi last nite on WLS 890 on his 50th Anniversary, thanks for the wonderful memories....my dad turned me on to him...
Brings back good memories. We listened to him all the way down in Arkansas. I'd love to hear an aircheck recorded during his "There is no California" crusade which got him in a little bit of trouble, but was fun. Does anyone else remember that? I think the school teachers of Chicago protested, so he stopped.
Dick Biondi is such a doll,
he's my favorite DJ...
possibly ever.
:D
I especially love his playlists.
AM radio with its wide reach was the internet of its day. You could hear you favorite DJ - at night - from far away. WLS really ruled the airwaves for us teenagers back in the 1960s. I did not realize Dick Biondi was only on WLS a few short years back then. It seemed longer. But all of the WLS DJs were excellent. Glad I grew up then.
My Mother would probably remember this. I had the pleasure to meet Dick Biondi several years ago. Talk about the most down to earth kind gentleman! In fact I reminded him about some sort of headbands in which he gave away in the 60's one of those people happend to be my Mom back around 62-64. And he was very flattered that I was told that story.
From Central Illinois on the farm I listened every night. Loved Dick Biondi. Anyone remember "teenage guest disc jockey? " a local teen; Pat Sajak, was one of the guest disc jockeys. Can't say I remember him either but I remember the jingle: "Don't be nervous, don't be rocky, you're our teenage guest disc jockey now" Loved all the WLS DJs. What great memories. Transistor radio and earplug so I could listen when I was supposed to be asleep.
In West Virginia in the 60's always listened to him at night. Was my favorite dj
I was in grade school in Chicago and should have been asleep but we stayed up most nights to at least listen to part of Dick's show - little tiny AM radio turned real low so mom wouldn't catch us
oh yes I remember them days, but mine was not so tiny and would glow a soft amber orange out the back
I moved to the south side Chicago in 1959,started listening at age 10 and listened untill I went in the USMC & Viet Nam movd out of Chicago,It was A treat! to find this .retired in southTexas
In the late 1950s, I used to hide under the covers with my transistor radio and listen to Dick Biondi, who then broadcast on KDKA in Buffalo, NY. The station faded in and out, but it was my link with a new sound called "rock 'n roll." Thank you, Dick Biondi, for introducing me to music that has become a soundtrack to my life.
OMG! Talk about time warp. I spent many freezing winter nights listening to WLS and the world's greatest disc jockey. I was fortunate enough to meet him at a mixer at my jr high school with Ronnie Rice in 1961. Very down to earth guy.
I used to listen to Dick in Renton, Washington [just south of Seattle] on an old consoleradio I had connected a long line antenna to a tree, and the station came in loud enough. This was early '60s, and I liked the iceberg races on the Great Lakes.
I and 2 of my girlfriends formed the BWS -- Biondi Worshippers of Suburbia; we lived in Park Ridge, IL and listened to the "Wild ITRALIAN" nightly. That was in the late 50's through 1961, when I moved to California. One day we went down to WLS (a parent drove us -- we were about 13-14 yr. old) and met Dick -- and he showed us around the station and gave us some demo 45s, and I think he autographed them for us.
Wow. This is great. I was five days old when this aired.
I listened quite a bit to Dick Biondi on WLS when I was attending Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., from 1959 to 1963. Great memories!
I remember listing to Dick Biondi back then. We could only pick up
WLS at night up in northern Michigan. And that Tackle commercial. I used to use it!
Great Memories listening to Dick way up in Thunder Bay Ontario Canada....late night on my crystal radio...
One of the top DJs ever ... on one of the best Top 40 stations ever. I listened to Dick Biondi on WLS from places as far away as Nashville, Tenn., and Casper, Wyo. Great memories!
I lived in Western Arkansas in the early 60's, in a valley surrounded by mountains. After 9 PM, only a few stations came through, but WLS was always loud & clear. I listened to Dick Biondi & Art Roberts nearly each night on an ancient Zenith, volume turned down with my ear pressed up to the speaker. Only later did I get a transistor. Does anyone remember Dick's "There is No California" campaign, that got him in so much trouble?
Cruising around town at night listening to this guy. Great memories.
Why thank you so much for putting a Biondi aircheck on video!!!! :-D
Freakin AWESOME.....What a find....We adored this Guy...
Living in upstate NY, I discovered WLS and Dick Biondi using a scout project crystal radio. Empty toilet roll - copper wire wrapped tightly around the toilet cardboard roll. Connected to that circuitry was a whisper/crystal pointer which the operator drags over the copper coil, right-to-left until audio is noted.- I caught him in the middle of his pizza song - that was CRAZY! Oh yeah, I grounded the set on one of the kitchen cold water pipes.
Thanks for the memories.
Bob Swanson
Castro Valley, Ca.
Does this ever bring back the great memories of our youth...We had a car club called the Leamington Road Runners and we were just east of Detroit on the Canadian side...many, many nights we were entertained by Dick Biondi from WLS Chicago while Ken and I worked on our cars
YOUNGSTOWN OHIO HERE. DICK WAS A LEGEND HERE IN THE 50S. THOUSANDS CAME TO HIS RECORD HOPS ON FRIDAY NITES AT A AMUSEMENT PARK KIDS LOVED HIM LEFT HERE AN WENT TO CHICAGO. HE WAS THE BEST,
down here in Hardy, Arkansas, we dug him all during the 60s.......the greatest time rock has even known! No one could intro the Righteous Bros Ebb Tide like he did.
Later Biondi was doing Evenings at KRLA. I used to hang out there in 66-67. Tons of kids would go there and hang outside the KRLA Studios at the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena on summer nights. Dick would hang out with us on his way into the studios. Great memories.
I heard Biondi on KB.....I'll bet the artists and record companies loved him, he announced every record.
I listened to Dick Biondi out in the boonies of Mc Henry Co., IL all summer when out of school. I also remember having to pick up a weekly Silver Dollar Survey at the local Ben Franklin (I think that was the name of the store). I sure miss those days!
Ditto on what TimelordR said. :) thanks for posting this.
Dick Biondi, the Wild ItRalian! Man, he's still great. Well, he was a few years back when we saw him at Skip's Car Swap in Lake County.
I listened in 1962 like a lot of other teenagers with a transistor radio with an earplug, so as not to keep the rest of the house awake. On the farm south of Galesburg, IL
He sounds exactly the same today!
I like how he's fervently advertising a product that's pointedly called "Bif" because it's not legally "beef". Shades of Wolfman Jack selling autographed photos of Jesus for $9.99. The 60s was a wild time on the airwaves.
I used to listen to him back about that time in southwest Virginia where I lived and was about 12 years old at the time. BTW you can get the "line out" signal from a radio by hooking up to the 2 outside terminals of the volume control. Observe that one of them is grounded and you must use that for the ground of the signal cable. You get a cleaner signal for recording that way. It also works on TVs. Or at least from the TVs and radios from back then with a metal chassis.
We all dug The Wild Eyetalian for the couple of years he was on KRLA. Thanks for the loan, Chicago.
@MARILLIONROCKER45
Love it! And I remember the Wolfman, too. Too great!!!
My cousin Kenny's favorite DJ..
He visited my hometown in Indiana. Somehow I had a 45 with some of his corney jokes. I wore the grooves of that thing. Knock knock. Whose there? Cantalope. Cantalope who? Cantalope tonight my father's got the car. I'm still not sure I get it but thought it was hilarious
I wan there in Galesburg listening too, just 16 years old :-)
Clear channel 50k watts 890 AM What a great competition to out little WOKY AM 920. Spent many hours tuning up and down the radio dial, WCFL AM 1000 was pretty good too at 50k watts I am recalling these stations from the 1960's - 1970's oh and another local station was WRIT 1340 AM, Can tell I am (still) in Milwaukee WI? lol
he sounds the exact same!
When I was at Tilden Tech HS in Chicago,I used to write him letters and he read several on the air.Needless to say I had my 15 minutes of fame from 1960 to 1964.I went to a cruise-in at a now closed restaurant in Orland Park and he said he remembered the letters.With out a doubt,a real great person and a Chicagoland icon that was and still is #1.
@leadsquirter any chance we could hear the whole thing? I know it'd have to be in pieces, but that would be something.
I used to listen to Dick from Hazard Ky,,,I was listening the night he told the Knock Knock joke that got him fired from WLS
He got fired?! What happened?
I think this came from "Aircheck Factory"....he made cassettes but I dont know if he ever went to cds.
Exactly....:)!
Java Jive Jay
Surf City Sounds Plus
double youuuuu el sssss!
Wild Itralian
Oh yeah! I'll think to that! It sounds like it was taped on a reel to reel with a transistor radio as the source! That's the way to do it! [LOL!] Enjoy!
Java Jive Jay
Surf City Sounds Plus
.... Oh omg... She said.. Tuley HS... Oh no..
Where did you get this?
"89 W L S"
just want to say hi to Lisa dad Big John and what's his name Ramblin Ray from Andy Lorna from Missouri New York Sage Beach Missouri
Cool b20012-2005_2018 lots of. Forget time of quite me and hers mes at home weird how u git so much to talk about now?
Wilson's BIF...hamburgers in a can. Sounds yummy.