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« Reply #50 on: March 22, 2011, 12:38:42 PM » |
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Didn't Henry Cooke do an all night truckers show on WMAQ in the 70s? That was Fred Sanders, unless Cooke preceded him. |
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« Reply #51 on: March 22, 2011, 02:00:47 PM » |
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Didn't Henry Cooke do an all night truckers show on WMAQ in the 70s? That was Fred Sanders, unless Cooke preceded him. Cooke retired after doing morning (although I believe he continued to do TV announcing for a while). Jim Hill was the all-night man for years (and early morning booth announcer on TV and fill-in weatherman) until the flip to country and Sanders' all-night show. Hill continued to do the early morning announce shift on TV and became the early morning weatherman on TV. It seems that he was forced to retire because he had trouble running the computer weather graphics, but Sirott might've stayed at 5 doing "First Thing in the Morning" longer if Hill had stayed around and wasn't replaced by the obnoxious Roberta Gonzales. |
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« Reply #52 on: March 22, 2011, 05:51:10 PM » |
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As for WIND, indeed Milo Hamilton was one of the jocks in the mid 50s.There was a story that he lent his name to multiple "teen record hops" that went on simultaneously on Saturday nights, etc. As the story goes...and who knows if it's true....there'd be these several hops going on run by other people. Then at some point, Milo would show up, intoduce a couple of tunes, pick up a check, and then move on to the next one to repeat the process!
I don't know how long this went on....if indeed it even happened at all.
I do, however, remember that WIND was more pure top 40 at night than it was during the day. At night, Patti Paige, Vic Damone, etc, might be replaced by Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, Gene Vincent, & company.
Yes in the late 50s WIND did play more Top 40 at night, probably taking advantage of WJJD being rundown at sundown. I even remember Howard Miller pulling double duty & hosting that nightime countdown show a few times. Sounds like the formula at a number of Westinghouse stations during the 50s and 60s, MOR by day, top 40 at night. Makes perfect sense WIND would take advantage of WJJD being daytime only.  |
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« Reply #53 on: March 22, 2011, 05:52:55 PM » |
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Didn't Henry Cooke do an all night truckers show on WMAQ in the 70s? That was Fred Sanders, unless Cooke preceded him. My error. |
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« Reply #54 on: March 23, 2011, 03:32:18 AM » |
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...Chuck Berry wrote in his autobiography that he would appear on a rock 'n roll radio show at WGN in the '50s -- might this have been an early assignment of Wally Phillips' after he first arrived from WLW Cincinnati? On the WGN-TV 40th Anniversary special in 1988, Geraldo Rivera commented that Wally was also a Dick Clark-like disc jockey on Channel 9 before Jim Lounsbury did The Record Hop on WGN-TV and WBKB?...
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« Reply #55 on: March 23, 2011, 08:33:06 AM » |
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I read recently that Lee Rogers (Former WIND Jock) was let go from a west coast station where he did mornings for several years. I recall in the late 60's
Chuck Benson/Kurt Russel did 6-10 AM, Lee Rogers 10-2 PM and Dale Ulmer 2-6 PM. I believe a sports show was on in the evening.
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« Reply #56 on: March 23, 2011, 09:42:35 AM » |
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I read recently that Lee Rogers (Former WIND Jock) was let go from a west coast station where he did mornings for several years. I recall in the late 60's
Chuck Benson/Kurt Russel did 6-10 AM, Lee Rogers 10-2 PM and Dale Ulmer 2-6 PM. I believe a sports show was on in the evening.
The sports show that was on in the evening was hosted by a guy named "Berg". I can't remember his first name, but he later went to WGN. Was it Bill? |
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« Reply #57 on: March 23, 2011, 09:44:57 AM » |
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...Chuck Berry wrote in his autobiography that he would appear on a rock 'n roll radio show at WGN in the '50s -- might this have been an early assignment of Wally Phillips' after he first arrived from WLW Cincinnati? On the WGN-TV 40th Anniversary special in 1988, Geraldo Rivera commented that Wally was also a Dick Clark-like disc jockey on Channel 9 before Jim Lounsbury did The Record Hop on WGN-TV and WBKB?...
Wally Phillips did host an evening show on WGN where he did play pop music. He mentioned later that he never liked Rock & Roll, but that's what he was told to play. |
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« Reply #58 on: March 23, 2011, 10:50:56 AM » |
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I read recently that Lee Rogers (Former WIND Jock) was let go from a west coast station where he did mornings for several years. I recall in the late 60's
Chuck Benson/Kurt Russel did 6-10 AM, Lee Rogers 10-2 PM and Dale Ulmer 2-6 PM. I believe a sports show was on in the evening. The sports show that was on in the evening was hosted by a guy named "Berg". I can't remember his first name, but he later went to WGN. Was it Bill? The name Bill Berg sounds familiar from WGN. IIRC, he did afternoons there in the '70s. |
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« Reply #59 on: March 23, 2011, 12:50:47 PM » |
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I read recently that Lee Rogers (Former WIND Jock) was let go from a west coast station where he did mornings for several years. I recall in the late 60's
Chuck Benson/Kurt Russel did 6-10 AM, Lee Rogers 10-2 PM and Dale Ulmer 2-6 PM. I believe a sports show was on in the evening. The sports show that was on in the evening was hosted by a guy named "Berg". I can't remember his first name, but he later went to WGN. Was it Bill? The name Bill Berg sounds familiar from WGN. IIRC, he did afternoons there in the '70s. Yes, and before WGN he hosted an evening sports show on WIND in the late 60s. |
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