Uh, uh, uh - you didn’t say the magic word!

It was something like that; I sent it to a friend of mine in NYC area and he fixed it. :)

Yep, that's exactly what happened, leaks. I wish I had 3 hands sometimes, would have made it easier to make that video.

my nephew was born in Sept. 79. I grew up on WLS. depending on the time of day I likely heard this broadcast. I lived 100 miles from Chicago. 79 was a magical year!

Nah, I gave it to a friend in the NYC area

how is that funny? this computer is gold to someone like me

@@ChrisTubutis damn, i was too late! might have to special order one lol

@@AllGamingStarred I guess i put the LoL in there, as I was replying to a post made 3 years ago. Love the computer (I have 2 of them, only 1 working hard drive though)

me too Joe! started my freshman yr of highschool in fall of 79. I hated to see the 70's end.

No problem, I put these things out here to help people, thanks for speaking out!!!

I set up video cameras on the walls inside the garage, need to figure out how to make those things available on the Internet.... society isn't perfect in the USA, either.... ;)

Oh, wow, thanks for posting, William! I just now found this comment and it was awaiting approval; I'm sorry, the delay wasn't intentional. I'm also 53 (not sure if my youtube profile lists that anywhere) and also remember the whizbang cordless telephones about the size of a brick. ;) I still have a Zenith 19" color CRT TV in the basement, even has electronic channel selection. :) But, yeah, every time I listen to this, it's a massive throwback to my teenage years. (Want ANOTHER throwback? I just went to a Styx + Boston concert about a month ago! Now, THAT also brought me to my teens/20s! But, man, those guys look as wrinkled up as Mick Jagger does.)

great story, ill be 53 this year.

+Mark Ash-Petta No problem, glad you found it. :)

Hmmmm... the original was done on a stereo system I bought when I was 12-13-14 yo with money I got from a paper route; it was a JVC but I don't remember the brand of the cassette tape deck (but it was nothing outrageously fancy). That tape sat in a box in my basement for ~30+ years, it wasn't until fairly recently when I decided to try making a digital version and putting it on KZbin. For that process, lessee, how did I do that.... I used my mom's Sony CFD-S300 to play the tape, connected it to my computer's sound card with a mini-phone-plug cable (headphone jack output -> sound card AUX IN input) from Radio Shack. My computer is an Ubuntu Linux box... I think I used the Ubuntu-included gnome Sound Recorder v2.3.0 software for the initial recording....the software I used for the editing was OpenShot (www.openshotvideo.com/) I rememeber using that stuff to make it a "movie" cuz KZbin apparently doesn't like audio-only files... Once I got it up there, they pretty quickly found some songs that were apparently violating some record companies' ownership rights and therefore restricted access to only non-US locales... so I ended up editing them out... Led Zeppelin and maybe Foreigner come to mind as possibilities but I really don't remember for certain... but that OpenShot stuff made it pretty easy to do...

Chris Tubutis i asked about the receiver because it sounds more broadband than I'd expect a DX'er to use. I am the chief engineer for WLS now and as many, also grew up listening to John and the others in its hay-day. I had the pleasure of working with the program director of that era, John Gehron at Harpo from 2006-2009. I've been at WLS since 2012 and now see and/or hear John every weekday. He's on our FM now 8-11p and then Dick Bondi still follows him until 2a. Anyway, it is cool to listen to the historic days of WLS. John has posted many audio and video clips himself. Occasionally I'll see him editing something before his show. It was an amazing time for radio then that I doubt will recur in lifetime. Thanks for the post...

No, thank YOU for the information!!! I didn't even know WLS was still around! Just looked on your Web site, yeah, OMG, John Landecker is still there!!! Last I remember, WLS was a talk-radio station but that was a LONG time ago, I think they had only recently branched off into FM-also mode. I remember Larry Lujack from the daytime hours, it wasn't until I became a teenager that I started listening some at night (and hanging around with older kids who could drive). The unit I recorded it on was a cheap, consumer-grade (think Lloyd's-type of quality) JVC AM/FM stereo unit with a built-in record player on top. Nothing elaborate but fine for my needs at the time. ;) Boy, this is reliving the past....... thanks for showing up!

Believe it or not, I find AM radio sounds better from a distance. When local to the antenna, there is receiver overload. When getting DX, it has a warmth to it and none of the distortion.

Scott, receivers and radios WERE more broadband (and selective) back then....a good majority of new radios (especially in cars) have useless AM sections, with a bandwidth that sounds like 1kHz and poor range and selectivity. See my video on my 2014 Ram truck radio and hear how bad they really are. (Older radios had bandwidths of 5kHz -10kHz, which makes the audio much clearer but does allow the characteristic "AM whistle" as heard during the last ten minutes or so of this video upload.)

No, not that I remember, and that name doesn't sound familiar to me.

+Chris Tubutis Yvonne Daniels was one of WLS regular djs and a classic name from that golden era of WLS am radio culture. Names like Les Grobstein (sports) Bob Sirott, Larry Lujack, Tommy Edwards gave us the sound of Chicago throughout the 70s.

+hotel foxtrot I mostly remember a DJ named Larry Lujack, he was on in the afternoons IIRC... I was 11-12-13 (or so) years old which is a point in your life when you're growing up and interests are changing. Someplace around here I had a paper route and was earning some money, I bought myself a stereo system that had a cassette recorder... and I recorded a lot of songs from FM stations (I still have *those* tapes, too!) , I had pretty much lost interest in the AM stuff. It wasn't until my family moved to Denver a few years later that I would kinda-sorta listen to WLS AM at night mostly for homesick/nostalgia reasons,, and only when the atmosphere allowed the signals to travel that distance... and I became aware that Boogie Check was going to end, so I made efforts to record it for some reason...

Chris Tubutis Chicago radio (WLS am & the Loop fm) was alot of fun for us tweeners growing up in the (for me) late 70s. Boogie Check, Animal Stories, Americana Panarama, the year end top 100 countdown (usually Hey Jude or Stairway to Heaven took top honors)... WLS am would play Bobby Darin's Mack the Knife right after Foghat or Fleetwood Mac, I learned to listen to ALL kinds of music that way! It's just GREAT that you have these recordings at all! Brings me back to summer vacations & new years countdowns... Cheers & Thanks!