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Living on the air — a throwback to the Rock of Chicago

If you know, you know. Christmas card from WLS in 1986, via the WLS Radio History facebook page.

Some of you know my academic background is in (broadcast) communications. Yep, effectively took a degree in radio and took it nowhere.

Larry Lujack (RIP) and WLS-AM in Chicago set me up to follow that path, and a summer station operator on WBKE-FM in North Manchester 5 years later dragged me behind the board and into 47 CFR 73. I had weeks when I was on the air for 20+ hours, and had my Progressive Variations program for almost five years.

But in between, I had my AM/FM mini boom box with a cassette recorder in it, and would ride around Peru, Indiana, listening to WLS-AM or WLZR-FM Monticello, recording some of it on those colorful Memorex tapes that you could see through. Probably have a couple of Chrome and Metal tapes around that I recorded on, even without any gear that could benefit from them.

Here’s a throwback recording of the music of the rock era on WLS… some of this stuff, I can picture where I was when I first heard the song (often it was my bed in the front room of our house, listening to Casey Kasem). Others, I’m thinking about where the vinyl is (probably in the cubbies next to my antique network switch shelving unit in the garage).

The WLS Musicradio Montage

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And here’s the last song ever played on WLS-AM.

The last day of the rock era at WLS.

THE ROCK OF CHICAGO FINALLY CRUMBLES Rumors of a format switch had begun circulating in the late 80's, after the loss…

www.wlshistory.com

Enjoy, and have a happy holiday weekend.

Oh, and if you find a copy of the biograpy Superjock by Larry Lujack, let me know. I read it almost 40 years ago and haven’t found it for less than a certain historical Japanese laserdisc since then. Might have to drop $60 for one of the copies on eBay or Amazon— last time I looked the cheapest copies on sale were in the $200–300 range.