WFPG FM 97 Easy Listening Atlantic City, NJ 1980

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

Комментарии • 29

  • @TheTruthResearchers
    @TheTruthResearchers 2 года назад +15

    Thank you so much for this beautiful rare nostalgic NJ Aircheck Gem! So heartwarming to feel & remember the great Days of Jersey when people were more generous & trustworthy, and LIFE was affordable & simple, and Family was still alive.... and Love was easy to find.🌻
    May GOD Be With Us All💜

  • @davidlewis6670
    @davidlewis6670 2 года назад +8

    Beautiful memories of summer vacation with my family in the early 1980s in Wildwood.:-))

  • @jeffreybennett323
    @jeffreybennett323 2 года назад +6

    This is great, I am originally from the Bronx, and remember hearing this radio station on FM band openings. My apartment was on the 22nd floor and I placed an FM antenna on the balcony to get good FM reception.

    • @davidlewis6670
      @davidlewis6670 Год назад +1

      Grandmothers apartment was in the ninth floor. Of B’nai B’rith in Franklin street in reading. Same basic situation.

  • @jimhilliker2450
    @jimhilliker2450 2 года назад +6

    Love these over the air recordings. Thanks. My first radio job for two years was at a similar FM station in Southern California. We had half a dozen FM stations with the beautiful music format in the Los Angeles area between 1968 and 1985. Sad that radio doesn't play this music now.

    • @70sleftover
      @70sleftover 2 года назад +2

      It's amazing how much of the FM dial was devoted to this format in Philadelphia back in the 1970s, but it was rapidly giving way to all the AM-wannabe formats (with all the commercial and other non-music interruptions FM used to brag they didn't have!) by 1977 and so we were left with two competing stations with this format by 1980. But you could travel around the state of Pa. and there always seemed to be a similarly-formatted station like these on the local FM dial emanating from larger towns and smaller cities into the mid 1980s if not later.

    • @Spillers72
      @Spillers72 Год назад

      Was it KJOI?

    • @edp9821
      @edp9821 Год назад

      There were others down at the Jersey shore. WSLT and WWOC. For a time in the Fall of 91, 560 was WWSH.

    • @edp9821
      @edp9821 Год назад

      I also recall in the early 80s 1290 WJBR was also EZ listening but separate from 99.5.

    • @dondoughty488
      @dondoughty488 11 месяцев назад

      kewt was our good station

  • @fubarsnafu4994
    @fubarsnafu4994 Месяц назад +1

    Been home with the dogs for the last five days. Neighbors must think I done flipped my wig. Been punching out the old ladies honey do list and have been listening to this and few others in the background. Yo My dogs are completely chilled out listening to this, I may have found my new day time dog sitter. Thanks for the nostalgic trip down Muzak lane ! Dog are chillin and so am I. Weed helps. Thanks 🐕✌

  • @Hoonigantrucker
    @Hoonigantrucker 2 года назад +2

    I lived on the coast of North Carolina and picked up this radio station almost always. Powerhouse! Love the music. Reminiscing of wonderful memories in wonderful times. Good to hang onto in these dark times.

  • @ddewittfulton
    @ddewittfulton 4 месяца назад +1

    What a truly lovely version of Lennon's "Oh My Love" by Stevo!

  • @jasongordon13
    @jasongordon13 Год назад

    Excellent listened to it all thanks

  • @RoadTripTelevisionNJ
    @RoadTripTelevisionNJ Месяц назад

    I miss beautiful music/easy listening station WPAT-930 AM/93.1 FM, licensed to Paterson, New Jersey, and had studios located in Clifton, New Jersey (Passaic County).

  • @rutheliz75
    @rutheliz75 5 месяцев назад

    Refreshing . Thanks for posting .

  • @GKM3Live
    @GKM3Live 3 месяца назад

    I went to AC many summers in 70's and early 80's with my parents and I recall there was a local tv station in the city that showed a rotating wheel/scroll of ads for local businesses and it simulcast a radio station from the Steel Pier. The thing I remember about the radio station's ID spots was that you would first hear the bell of a dingy and then seagulls after which the announcer would give the call letters and say Steel Pier. If I remember correctly, at the top of the hour, a news update would come on a feature news from the CBS radio network. Not sure if this was still WFPG or a different station.

  • @avancerezo7998
    @avancerezo7998 3 года назад +3

    Hermosos recuerdos😊

  • @edp9821
    @edp9821 Год назад

    I used to always pull this station in all the way up in NE Phila. in the 80s and beyond til a low powered WORD FM station went on the air in Wynwood Pa went on this freg..

  • @70sleftover
    @70sleftover 2 года назад

    Fascinating how directional FM stations were (are?). I lived across NJ in suburban Phila. and even though I spent many a vacation on the beaches of south Jersey I don't think I ever heard of this station. Back home could've been overshadowed by a stronger FM station serving Phila., or the signal westward (deeper inland) was intentionally limited. Admittedly, at the shore I certainly wasn't tuning into Beautiful Music FM stations. On the other hand, WMGM-FM Atlantic City was an FM station I do recall listening to for the latest pop music on a visit to the shore in 1980. FM stations out of Philly didn't reach the beaches (heck, the old pop AM stations out of Phila. were really too weak once you traveled three quarters across NJ) and we would be down there trying to find something to satisfy our musical tastes.

  • @jaypea500
    @jaypea500 5 месяцев назад +1

    This was when the station had started automating the format for 24-hour broadcast. For many years prior to this, the station was known as "The Station with the Chimes." The WFPG-FM Top of the hour ID had the sounds of the surf and seagulls with a soft tune played on chimes, and a voice intoning, "This is FM 97, WFPG-FM, Atlantic City, The Station with the Chimes." They used the ID a couple other times during the hour. Much the same kind of music mix as this tape, though no vocals. The station was hosted live back then, not automated. Between midnight and 6am they'd simulcast their blockbuster cash-cow WFPG-AM's "Budweiser Beachcomber Show" as a bonus to the client, Kramer Beverage Company (Anheuser Busch distributor for the South Jersey Shore area) who bought the whole overnight show on the AM. The AM was an old-line Middle of the Road station at the time that sorta-kinda matched the FM format. Like most stations in this format that saw their ratings drop as the older listeners died off, they switched to Adult Contemporary/Soft Rock around 1988-89 or so as "Lite 96.9." They contemporized and turned a bit more upbeat in the mid-90's as "Lite Rock 96.9." I had the chance to work weekends there from 1999 till 2020, but having summered at the shore every year from the time I was a toddler, I remember this station well. You heard the station everywhere, restaurants, retail places, offices. Always the #1 station at the shore.

  • @danielmorse4213
    @danielmorse4213 2 года назад

    Love it

  • @thy-ine
    @thy-ine 8 месяцев назад

    Dance With Me
    Oh My Love - Steve Lawrence

    Let Your Love Flow - Orchestra Of Sergio Rafael
    Autumn Leaves - Franck Pourcel Et Son Grand Orchestre
    Today Is The First Day Of Rest Of My Life - Wilder Brothers (Sounds Of Sunshine)
    What's New Pussycat - Living Strings

    Swinging On A Star - John Avery Orchestra
    Moonlight On The Ganges - Frank Chacksfield Orchestra
    Top Of The World - The Carpenters (Or Harold Winkler Guitar & Norman Candler Orchestra)
    Love Letters - The Salsoul Orchestra
    Morning Has Broken - Johnny Pearson Orchestra

    Meditation
    Moonglow / Theme From Picnic - Pim Jocobs Orchestra & Piano
    Take A Chance On Me - Paul Mauriat Et Son Grand Orchestre
    April Love - Frank Chacksfield Orchestra
    Love Me With All Your Heart - The Lettermen
    Arrivederci Roma - Franck Pourcel Et Son Grand Orchestre

    The Most Beautiful Girl - Bert Keampfert Orchestra
    Light My Fire - BBC Strings Orchestra

  • @edp9821
    @edp9821 Год назад

    It would be interesting to know who did this cover of Morning Has Broken. Heard it before on WFMZ and WQQQ.

    • @CV2200A
      @CV2200A  Год назад

      Click "...more" and the text says "11-Morning Has Broken - Johnny Pearson". Therefore it was recorded by Johnny Pearson. ruclips.net/video/lP8SN0NEcOA/видео.html

  • @richardpeterson1398
    @richardpeterson1398 2 года назад +2

    What’s New Pussycat, is not Mantovani, I think it is by The Living Strings, and The Most Beautiful Girl, doesn’t sound like Bert Kaempfert. There’s a mistake on the artists, Bert Kaempfert usually have Trumpet and “Thumping Bass” Sounds.

  • @philipmclaughlin9636
    @philipmclaughlin9636 Год назад

    Now lite 96.9

  • @karlkunze7172
    @karlkunze7172 2 года назад

    Dance With Me
    Oh My Love - Steve Lawrence

    Let Your Love Flow - Orchestra Of Sergio Rafael
    Autumn Leaves - Franck Pourcel Et Son Grand Orchestre
    Today Is The First Day Of Rest Of My Life - Wilder Brothers (Sounds Of Sunshine)
    What's New Pussycat - Mantovani E Sua Grande Orchestra

    Swinging On A Star - John Avery Orchestra
    Moonlight On The Ganges - Frank Chacksfield Orchestra
    Top Of The World - The Carpenters (Or Harold Winkler Guitar & Norman Candler Orchestra)
    Love Letters - The Salsoul Orchestra
    Morning Has Broken - Johnny Pearson Orchestra

    Meditation
    Moonglow / Theme From Picnic - Pim Jocobs Orchestra & Piano
    Take A Chance On Me - Paul Mauriat Et Son Grand Orchestre
    April Love - Frank Chacksfield Orchestra
    Love Me With All Your Heart - The Lettermen
    Arrivederci Roma - Franck Pourcel Et Son Grand Orchestre

    The Most Beautiful Girl - Bert Keampfert Orchestra
    Light My Fire - BBC Strings Orchestra