77 WABC 2-26-75 with Dan Ingram

Big Dan Ingram on WABC 770 from
February 26, 1975!
This is a reupload for better quality
Here is a link to the entire aircheck with the music included on Archive.org: archive.org/de...

[@Sailormac2]

Oh, my God, this is priceless. Ingram was the greatest DJ of all time, period, full stop. Silly and mischievous, but also very warm, very professional and never malicious - you got the impression he loved the music he was playing even as he was mocking the hell out of it. And what a time capsule this aircheck is! The 25,000 button! Who remembers going to The Gap to pick it up and then wearing it everywhere in hopes of encountering the elusive Button Spotters! The ORIGINAL version of the Burger King Have Ot Your Way jingle! Breck Shampoo! Lincoln Makes Friends! Martin Home Decorating Center, It Ain’t Just Paint!

[@RobDebbieGT]

Just listen for two seconds, and you realize that the Great Dan Ingrahm was the very best !!!! Dan was the DJ’s, DJ !!!! He was definitely on top of his game !!!! Rest in Peace Dan Ingraham you were the very best !!!!

[@sbphillips177]

Totally agree! Thank God for these reels..

[@bamkablam]

The panoply of interstitials is tantamount to an audio art exhibit. Dan Ingram was a great and unique talent. And those commercials. Love all of this.

[@Ken_Casanova]

Great DJs, Jingles, Commercials and good Music, of course....

[@Skyhi0]

Bullseye for posting Thanks for reminding us of that awesome time back when

[@papasteel804]

Love the Jack Davis drawing, it's amazing how often I see his work in the oddest places.

[@luizamorim1626]

Dan's intro to Tom Jones' "Without love" is priceless...his comments about Minnie Riperton's voice in "Lovin' you" makes you crack up...

[@speeta]

21:36 "Miss Grimble, look around you. what do you see?" "...Decorative lumber."

[@mcarlus]

26 February 1975: 1. 'Lady Marmalade' (Labelle); 2. 'Get dancin' (Disco Tex & Sex-O-Lettes); 3. 'I'd love you to want me' 1972 (Lobo); 4. 'Lovin' you' (Minnie Riperton); 5. Have it your way at Burger King (com); 6. 'Some kind of wonderful' #15 (Grand Funk); 7. 'Until you come back to me' 1974 (Aretha Franklin); 8. 'Black water' (Doobie Brothers); 9. Steve McQueen commercial; 10. 'Leaving on a jet plane' 1970 (Peter, Paul & Mary); 11. 'Have you never been mellow?' (Olivia Newton-John); 12. Sarah Lee's cheese cakes; 13. Lincoln Savings Bank; 14. 'Summer breeze' 1972 (Seals & Crofts); 15. 'Fire' #2 (Ohio Players); 16. 'Papa was a rolling stone' 1972 (Temptations); 17. Hearshey's chocolate bar; 18. 'Mandy' (Barry Manilow); 19. 'Mr Postman' (Carpenters); 20. 'I'll never fall in love again' 1970 (Dionne Warwick); 21. 'Doctor's orders' (Carol Douglas); 22. Mel Brooks' 'Young Frankenstein' film (com); 23. 'Supernatural thing' (Ben E.King); 24. 'My eyes adored you' (Frankie Valli); 25. 'Best of my love' #6 (Eagles); 26. 'I am woman' 1972 (Helen Reddy); 27. British Airways (com); 28. 'Shame, shame, shame' (Shirley & Co.); 29. 'Lonely people' (America); 30. 'Express' (B.T. Express); 31. 'Only you' (Ringo Starr); 32. 'Superfly' 1972 (Curtis Mayfield); 33. 'Lady Marmalade' #5 (Labelle); 34. 'Lady' (Styx); 35. 'Fire' #2 (Ohio Players); 36. 'All you need is love' 1967 (Beatles); 37. 'Black water' (Doobie Brothers); 38. Pick a pack, what a juicy fruit gum (com); 39. 'Reeling in the years' 1973 (Steely Dan); 40. 'My eyes adored you, my nose rejected you' #1 (Frankie Valli); 41. 'Once you get started' (Rufus feat Chaka Khan); 42. 'Lovin' you' (Minnie Riperton); 43. 'Drift away' 1973 (Dobie Gray).

[@eddiecharlie77]

WABC had to change its jingle sound due to the loss of The PAMS jingles series.

[@alexkije]

Music was still good. Rick Sklar was program director for the WABC sound. He came over from WINS. I think it all ended for several NYC stations in 1977. WABC and WOR changed their air sound.

[@eddiecharlie77]

By the late 70s its ratings were way down due to emerge of new FM stations in NYC, by 1982 it was over.

[@alexkije]

@@eddiecharlie77 Ah! Competition. The FM's extended audio range was a factor. I did like that AM processing. There is no technical reason why AM can't have an extended bandwidth. I've worked with AM stations with up to 13,000 Hz on the audio.

[@Sailormac2]

WABC peaked in the early ‘70s, and then it got chipped away at by one factor after another. There was the loss of the PAMS jingles, the departure of Cousin Brucie, competition from the FM dial (not only AOR stations, but 99X, who presented Top 40 with more bite and hipness than ABC - 77’s warm dads sounded stale and square next to 99X’s Steve “Smokin’” Weed). The final nail in the coffin was disco. For the first time, they couldn’t be a true “mass appeal” station because the Top 40 was full of a style of music that many considered divisive. The coming of Disco 92 KTU, which siphoned off that share of WABC’s audience, didn’t help matters. The final fall from grace was, alas, inevitable.

[@eddiecharlie77]

@@Sailormac2 Yes, also they fired 3 of their popular dee jays and brought in Howard Hoffman who in my opinion was not made for "abc' Happy that Harry, Ron, Chuck, Bruce were able to keep their radio careers in the NY Markets, even Dan on a part time basis.

[@Sailormac2]

@@eddiecharlie77 Ye gods, I forgot about Hoffman. Didn’t fit in was an understatement. I think he’s the main reason I quit WABC for good and shifted my allegiance full-time to WPLJ (New York’s Best Rock!)

[@garymckee8857]

I recall that late at night 🌙 I could pick up WABC in East Tennessee.

[@ronron42]

dan wasn't on in late nite. BUT THEN who are YOU really TALKING about ?

[@garymckee8857]

@@ronron42 The station itself, l don't recall the DJ's

[@algordon7631]

Gary McKee the morning mouth of the south on southern 79 WQXI Atlanta! One of the best morning men ever!

[@eddiecharlie77]

In the southeast you can pickup WABC and WLS late night with its 50,000 watt signal WABC had Jay Reynolds and WLS had Yvonne Daniels on overnight radio.

[@edwinkirkland8856]

You could pick up WABC FROM ANYWHERE MISS THIS

[@roncaruso931]

When radio was great.

[@edwinkirkland8856]

I miss the 77wabc jocks😢

[@steve732]

Scoped....Bummer !

[@thevictrolaking]

The full version is in the description.

[@packtray6569]

it's crazy to think he had to use carts for all of those stingers he keeps dumping in during talkups

[@wolfwinners]

That was the tech of the times. Carts were great back then

[@alexkije]

Had a board op.

[@2linepass1]

Wow, 47 degrees in February in 1975. Guess global warming was back then too 😂

[@OldHeathen1963]

It was.

[@2linepass1]

@@OldHeathen1963 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😑 Amazing how 1000 years ago, this earth was enduring the same weather as now.