[UPCruiser]

There was always WJR out of Detroit-not much on music, but big on talk radio.

 

[EDEd]

A lot of great radio on AM back then... WLS, WCFL, WMAQ, all great stations back then on AM.
Anyone with some time can listen to some old stuff here:
http://www.reelradio.com/
And a WLS Larry Lujack show here:
http://www.reelradio.com/af/index.html#llwls87b
You can listen to one of these shows with your eyes closed and really smile.

 

[dchance]

I remember listening to WLS clear through Oklahoma one night on the way to Texas.

 

[Denny]

I remember.......

I remember what Dick Biondi said that got him tossed off the air. He said, "If womens skirts get anyshorter, they'll have another head a hair to comb and two more cheeks to powder." LOL

Denny <transplanted Hoosier>
Wyoming

 

[dhawk]

I listened to WLS in the early '60s on my 3" x 5" transistor radio in Stone Creek, Ohio in my upstairs bedroom of our farmhouse. Sure went thru the batteries though. Dick Biondi was my favorite!!!

Good Memories!!!!!!

 

[White Fang]

There was a second station too, I can remember their call letters.Bill

I was born and raised in Custer, MI. In the late 50's and early 60's I would listen to WLS and if it didn't come in the other station I listened to was WJJD in Chicago also.

 

[Stan]

I was born in Chicago in the late 40's and grew up there as a teen in the 50's and 60's. WLS was the station to listen to as a teen. Dick Biondi was my favorite. I now live in a Virginia suburb of Washington, DC. Our local weatherman on Cox cable channel 8 is Ron Riley, one of the major mid to late 60's Dj's on WLS.

 

[WesternRider]

WLS?

You bet. I listened to that all during my time at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in the 60's.

 

[grumpy one]

http://www.wzznfm.com/

DICK BIONDI is here in the evenings about 10:00 pm. c.s.t.

 

[Tony]

I remember all of those stations also WCKG was another one.

 

[TxGoldWing]

Grew up in Wheaton, a burb of Chicago. I remember DJ Dick Biondi. And the night he got thrown off the air (for decades I believe) for "I went to the ball game with my girlfriend the other day, I kissed her on the strikes, she kissed my on the balls". Gone!

Also remember..."The Beatles are coming...the Beatles are coming" And the first time I heard "She Loves" you and "I wanna Hold Your Hand"

Soon after I bought my first bike, a Honda CB 160

Alzheimer's hasn't set in yet....

 

[MOTORDEPUTY]

I WAS BORN IN NORTHERN IL. N LISTENED TO WLS IN THE BASEMENT WHEN I WAS LITTLE THEN MOVED TO TAMPA IN 67 AND COULD STILL LISTEN TO WLS AFTER THE SUN WENT DOWN / MATTER OF FACT IT CAME IN BETTER THEN LOCAL STATIONS DID CAUSE THEY CUT THEIR POWER AT SUNSET / FUNNY HOW YOU CAN HEAR A STATION 1200 MILES AWAY N ONE 30 MILES AWAY WAS STATIC / FM KILLED THOSE OLD POWERHOUSE RADIO STATIONS / I GUESS THE WLS'S OF TODAY WILL BE ON XM OR SIRRUS NOW

 

[pidjones]

Growing up (if that's what I was doing) in Monticello, KY we used to wait anxiously for the sun to go down, the local station to sign off, and WLS to come in. One of our local DJs was so bad reading the news that he one time read about the Grand Pricks of Lee Mans being run. The station was owned and operated by a nice guy that let us go out there and look through old records in their library (45s) to get song ideas for a garage band I was in.

WLS and Chicago was such a world away for us growing up in our own version of Mayberry.

 

[papa benny]

I'm originally from 20 miles north of St. Louis Mo. and listened to WLS all the time as a kid growing up. Those WERE the days!!!!

 

[White Fang]

I'm listening to WLS right now. Direct TV, channel 803.