Sonny Fox and the Wake Up Crew, WHYI Y-100 Miami | 1985

WHYI Y-100 Miami


Sonny Fox, WHYI Y-100 MiamiHere’s Y-100′s morning show featuring Sonny Fox, from the middle of the ‘decade of greed’, 1985! HitOldies jock Al Roberts recorded this noise free mono ‘check way back when. Compare with THIS aircheck we posted from 1984…

Special thanks, as always, to our HitOldies friend Daniel Coulombe for this exceptional aircheck.

Dr. John Leader, 93/KHJ Los Angeles | July 1, 1977

93/KHJ Los Angeles

An original recording obtained by contributor Daniel Coulombe, here’s the great Dr. John Leader… on KHJ! 1977 was still a good Top 40 year for the AM band, and KHJ was still in contention, even if K100 was the hot FM at the time, and with KTNQ was about to hit…

Leader was also heard at WQXI Atlanta and KSTP in the Twin Cities, but surely never better than here on KHJ!

Tommy Edwards, WOR-FM 98.7 New York | 1971

WOR-FM 98.7 New York


Tommy Edwards, who would later appear at WLS Chicago, is heard on this very high-quality QuickCheck of the old WOR-FM 98.7! Courtesy of Paul Ford, this is a short, choppy scope of WOR-FM which includes jingles, but not much else for elements. You hear a bit of Tommy Edwards doing the format but that’s really just about it. Still, its a good history lesson from the dawn of FM Top 40 – 1971!

Johnny Lance, 92.3 WFLY Troy, NY | 1971

WFLY 92.3 Troy NY - Logo Circa 2010

Just over 6 minutes of what we think is the earliest FM Top 40 aircheck in the Capitol District, here’s Johnny Lance on the first pop music incarnation of WFLY. This is from 1971. WFLY will revert to a Classical format for a few years in the mid-1970s before returning to the Top 40 fold in ’78 and remains in the format today.

Courtesy of Paul Ford

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