WNEW FM - New York 1982 (2)

[@carlosguzman7437]

This video has done so much for me,all the memories,all the times listening in my bedroom,hoping to hear,pulling mussels from a shell and tempted by the fruit of another.This video really took me back...wow.

[@billsager5634]

Grew up listening to WNEW-FM. Scott Muni, Pete Fornatelle, Dave Herman, Richard Near, Meg Griffin, etc...... Great times. OMG "Tonight's dreaded oldie will be 'How Much is that Doggie in the Window"" Now that was a DREADED by 1982!! I remember that song, because my mother had a ton of old 78 records, one of which was Pattie Paige's "How Much is that Doogie in the Window", and I remember my mother playing that song constantly for my sister and I when we were very you. -btw- Funny how Meg mentions a Rolling Stone concert and how it might be the last chance to see them perform live. 40 years later, and the Stones are still performing live.

[@joeblow7407]

Allison Steele.....Vin Scelsa, Dennis Elsis.......Tom Morreo overnights.........Sad ending for Dave Herman.......

[@WooBino.]

@@joeblow7407 Butch and the Brick show!

[@jimforsyth3155]

If you were young and in New York from 1969-1979 then you were lucky. Scott Muni, Johnathin Schwartz, and the Night Bird made WNEW the model for FM radio. Radio is dead but the memories are very much alive. .

[@philallen3221]

brill from England visiting ny at the time it was aired

[@frankpapandrea1]

amazing time in radio

[@hcmusic101]

1982 Meg Griffin says "You never know when will be the last time The Stones are going to perform"...38 years later in 2020, The Stones are still going.

[@defaultusername123]

hehe cause Mick has to pay for all the kids

[@JWD1992]

I was born 10 years later in 1992. Ten years after that in 2002, I was seeing them in concert on their 40th anniversary tour. That was 20 years ago, and I am now 30 in the year 2022. And they are still touring (albeit without Charlie, which is a substantial loss). That's just wild. As for Meg Griffin, I listen to her on SiriusXM on the telephone in my pocket.

[@jdenino6022]

I saw the Stones in 1981 in E Rutherford, NJ❤

[@chasbodaniels1744]

@@jdenino6022 1969 at MSG and 1981 in Hartford. Today is July 13, 2024 and they’re currently on the West Coast leg of their Hackney Diamonds US Tour.

[@AudiophileTubes]

WNEW was awesome, to say the least! I listened to them religiously, growing up in North Jersey. Scottso's voice was so soothing and fatherly, it 'drew you in'! I remember just marveling at the fidelity of FM back then, staring at the dual power meters on my Pioneer SX-780 stereo receiver I had picked up at 'TECH HI-FI' in Paramus! Sounded great on my 'Realistic' speakers with the added 'super tweeters' I placed on top!

[@focusedmessagemarketing958]

Small world! I bought my Nikko receiver at the same store in 1978. I lived in Dumont NJ at the time.

[@christylewis5701]

Hackensack here, but in those days, my dad was still doing the buying 😉 Still got the jingle singing in my head.. WNEW WNEW New York, New York FMmmmm

[@focusedmessagemarketing958]

I listened back in the day. R.I.P. SCOTT.

[@c12croft]

Spent my 1975 to 1981 , adolescence into adulthood with WNEW playing constantly. The Caldarone in Hempstead, Yankee Stadium, Madison Square Garden, Nassau Colosseum, CBGB, mud club, And the Palladium

[@mshell1959]

Yeah buddy!!

[@topcat43truffles15]

Found this little gem searching for something else. Remembered a song by Reverberi, called Muni’s Mood, which I first heard on WNEW. Always assumed it was a tribute to Scottso...(Reverberi, Stairway to Heaven album) Anyway, looking for that, found this. I grew up listening to “N E W” probably around 71? I can’t imagine there ever being a better radio station to grow up listening to. Enjoyed them till the end... So many great memories... Remember when they played their 1millionth song. For days we wondered what it would be. And then the day came and we found out... “God Gave Rock and Roll to You” by Argent Couldn’t have been a more perfect choice. So much of my musical influences came from listening to “the Nightbird” Allison Steele. She was a big fan of Prog Rock. Learned to love all those bands. ELP, Yes, Pink Floyd etc. But best of all, she turned me on to one of her favorites. “Renaissance” with lead vocalist Annie Harlem. My only regret, is that I never got to meet Allison, to tell her how much she molded this young kids taste in music. Thanks for the post, and for helping those of us that were lucky enough to have experienced WNEW-FM 102.7 in NYC to remember those glory days...👍🏻❤️😎🍻

[@topcat43truffles15]

“Bleep” Spellcheck, “Annie Haslem” Guess I should have done a better job of proofreading...lol

[@jpolar394]

Man, I wish both AM and FM radio was like that today. Radio today is completely worthless, it's nothing but commercials.

[@mshell1959]

I have goose bumps watching and listening to this. Thank you very much!

[@aloysiusyanas]

Oh my God what a magical find behind that window invisible window of radio this made me cry

[@desert.mantis]

Great seeing, hearing and remembering many of the WNEW-FM characters (including Crazy Eddie :D) from my past. I recalled the voices instantly, though I never knew what they looked like. Gotta love the "interweb"!🖥 Thanks for the upload.

[@mule5150]

........When I was a pup , I used to listen to NEW , day and night ......thanks Scotso.......the nightbird used to keep me up all night ......thanks Allison ......best of the best .......

[@sdmackpictures]

This is priceless!

[@brianmachler2783]

Robin Drews as the newscaster was and still is amazing. A truly humble and brilliant woman.

[@christopherdougherty9832]

I remember the station well. I was there at 1989 when there was a contest to win tickets to see the Who perform "Tommy" at Radio City Music Hall. The Dave Herman show sent out the challenge of what was the most outrageous thing you would do to win the tickets. I called in and said I would listen to Barry Manilow records for a couple of days. They took me up on it and I was there for 24 hours straight listening to the records. I survived and saw an awesome show.

[@jamianmateja]

How was your time spent in their offices?

[@christopherdougherty9832]

@@jamianmateja Excellent. It was quite exciting meeting the DJ's and seeing how a major radio station operates. For a couple of the shows I was able to be in the studio, for others I sat outside.

[@jdenino6022]

@@christopherdougherty9832awesome 😊

[@geraldwright9841]

My playlist made it on Dave Herman's "Something old, new , borrowed and blue" in 1983. Remember that show?

[@cheffer57]

Wow Charlie Dore, are we getting that old?. When radio was the soundtrack of our lives.

[@RichD384]

That was a great song. Memories from 1980.

[@leolopez_0728]

Pete Fornatale, Scott Muni, Dennis Elsas, Richard Neer, all major personalities and DJs of the Golden Era of FM Progressive Rock!

[@marknc9616]

I didn't live in the NYC area or be able to listen to WNEW back in the day. I was interested in the days when I had my stereo and played records and tapes before the advent of the CD and the rest of the digital transition. In this respect, this video is an unplanned time capsule. Note that I didn't notice a computer on anybody's desk...

[@RichD384]

Radio was so great back then. It's a wasteland today.

[@jgandalf1]

I still remember Dave Herman for his groundbreaking show The Marconi Experiment, which introduced Philly (& me) to the nascent progressive rock movement (which was called Underground Radio back in the day). Freed from the confines of the Top 40 formulaic crap, this new concept allowed music lovers to get into rock in a big way. I came from a classical music background and progressive rock turned me on to the greater possibilities of the rock format. RIP Dave. I say this despite the people who get their rocks off by airing their moral outrage.

[@DiscoMatty79]

rest in piss

[@joshjoseph7628]

Back when ny radio stations were great and so was new york city

[@catmousedogbird]

So true!!

[@glennm7167]

Boy, do I miss Pete Fornatale...

[@theirthereandtheyre2947]

Listened from northern NJ

[@Exileonbackroad]

WNEW in the 70s was my church, everyday. Too bad about Dave Herman but I couldn't care less it won't ruin my memories.

[@donreed7018]

40 years ago. Still remembered, but sadly, because such high standards were then trashed.

[@Miss_Chick]

Love this!

[@ErikD71]

and my mom would listen to David Herman in the morning because she said Howard Stern was a pig. Ironic aint it.

[@christopherdougherty9832]

@M Harris Remember. He never stood trial and no evidence was produced.

[@chucktanner3826]

Can’t even look at Dave Herman on this. Sick man....

[@tubularbill]

Philly had great FM radio but NY was the cream of the crop

[@446ci]

had the opportunity to play with my band at his discotheque at 48th st 2nd ave NYC back in 67 or 68.

[@divisioneight]

Remember the WNEW rock calendar?

[@Zickcermacity]

Scott! Dave! Pete! Where did you all go?? RIP Scottso. Radio has indeed lost a voice. Dave Herman, hope you're still lighting up the air somewhere with your casual laid-back banter. Hope you haven't lost the keys to that vault! Radio is simply not the same now - very homgenized, corporatized, and desensitized to local community demographics. Thanks for posting these memories!

[@focusedmessagemarketing958]

WNEW had more heart than any station ever.

[@tomdegan6924]

Its awkward seeing Dave Herman again. Is legacy is in ashes.

[@curt300s]

Agreed. It’s repulsive even seeing his name, let alone hearing his voice, knowing of his criminally sexual, monstrous perversions with children. The sicko has been scrubbed from every aspect of the Philly station where he stared his ‘experiment.’

[@bwworld]

Last I heard, Dave Herman was retired & living on a tropical island, possibly in the Carribean. Sadly, Pete passed away last year. And I agree, radio is not the same.

[@defaultusername123]

LOL oh boy

[@RPMac]

people don't get it....woodstock would have been less people without wnew fm...started with them in 67. it was THE music station of the era....they started off commercial free for a brief time...without it we would not have known who was out there in the rock world...ask anybody who was say 18 in 1968...it was our station...the best and only choice for good listening .....

[@NoSacredCowFla]

(1982) tickets to see the Stones in Europe "you never know it could be the last time" (giggle)

[@juanvarleta2558]

Right... Now it’s 2020 and still a valid (giggle.)

[@drinkingpoolwater]

meg griffin was such a babe. howard stern crushed on her too. robin sagan was hot too. man these were the days! i was born 84 but this period of time in new york was beautiful.

[@marknc9616]

04:12 start of news with Robin Sagon.

[@Zickcermacity]

0:03 - This clip of the late Scott(so) Muni begs the question: What state of health was he in by the early 1980s? Or is he moving around like that to properly articulate for radio?

[@claudecall]

He was in generally good health when this clip was shot. In my experience, a lot of people in radio have weird tics that they do when they're on-mic. He was on WNEW until 1998, when he jumped over to WAXQ (Q104.3). He continued working there until he had a stroke in January 2004, which incapacitated him until his death in September.

[@helenmurphy3143]

history

[@bman342a]

Yes, that's what got me here, unfortunately. N-E-W, as we called it, was OUR station. We felt a close affinity to all the jocks, Muni, Fornatale, Griffon, Steele, Elsas, Scelsa, Herman, and even some of the newsies like Robin Sagon. Just so disgusted with who Herman turned out to be. From what he is purported to have said it is probably safe to assume he's been engaging in this nonsense for years if not decades. As one of my FB friends said: WN-eeeeeewwwww.

[@boocee3ll]

back in 1980 I ended up in New York one sunny morning at the WNEW studio. the doorman was nice enough to let me up into the studio for the rock and roll morning show with dave herman. I was a fan since 1972, hearing him every morning as I got ready for school. anyway, dave was a turn off from the get-go. i got some bad vibes from him. i never listened to him again. maybe I DID see right thru him. and he new it. and now he has ruined my rock and roll memories...ugh!

[@michaelfidanza6176]

No Sacred Cow mentioned 4 years ago about Meg Griffin saying in 1982 ( time: 6:45) ‘you never know when the Stones will stop touring. Here it is in 2019 and the Stones will be out on tour. 37 years later, for God’s sake!! 😂😂😂

[@Oldcrotch]

Where Rock Died a Slow And Horrible Death, overplay of The Beatles and Springsteen and poor decisions by management, Mel Karmazan for one, killed this flagship of Rock and Roll in New York.

[@donreed7018]

There's something missing in this mash note, but I know not what. Ah.. It has come to me. It is too sweet, too kind, too soft.

[@Zickcermacity]

7:39 - Pilot of the Airwaves. WHERE can I download this version of this song?? The version on Amazon does not sound like it at all.

[@marknc9616]

www.amazon.com/1-Hits-80s-No/dp/B0000047VV/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453697612&sr=8-1&keywords=no.+1+hits+of+the+80%27s

[@nycarl]

Nice receiver.

[@bwworld]

Terrible news, just heard about it this morning.

[@stza16]

Sounds like good news.

[@jeomemo]

Herman said you have to be a lunatic to do that kind of job ironic.. and of course radio was worth listening to.. it was the only thing we had, to listen to.. there was no ipod's or mp3's satellite or internet radio. those were some boring long ass day's.

[@lloyd_and_harrys_worm_farms]

102.7 WNEW-FM

[@PatrickTX100]

@radprog was that Carol Miller at 6:40?

[@claudecall]

That's Meg Griffin.

[@claudecall]

@M Harris oh, I know that. That's where I met her. The question here was whether it was Miller in the video, and it's definitely not. Even if you don't know what Meg Griffin looks like, she literally identifies herself in the first second.

[@popguynj]

That's when they played normal stuff then they played garbage i wish we can go back in time.

[@richardconstant5821]

Megless!

[@DateTwoRelate]

"Wonderful" Dave Herman. He comes across here as a bit of a slithery guy and if only that was his worst quality.

[@stardaddyo9]

meg foster

[@andyznuff]

Amazing, I grew up listening to these pointless dullard boring non important robots spewing unimportant nonsense and bought that they were important people. Howard, Opie and Anthony became normal after many years of listening . These not necessary wasted payroll grandiose blow hards were nothing , looking back now. Actually, good for falling asleep to.

[@wylier]

You seem to have a real chip on your shoulder, andy. I would be curious to know just who in radio you actually DO like! lol

[@AudiophileTubes]

Aren't you quite the pleasant man?

[@djmcnerney]

They talked mostly about the songs, the records, the artists and the upcoming concerts. That’s exactly what DJs at a rock station should be talking about. And Scott Muni did it better than anyone else.

[@raultennis5904]

Beginning of the end was when Dennis Elsas replaced by the vapid Meg Griffin. Meg was then foisted on us for what seemed like 7 days a week. 6 hours a day. Ugh!

[@normrosen9404]

C'mon. Meg was great

[@ed.z.]

I’m glad you that. I used to get mad at Meg for some silly reason.

[@anibalsoto8131]

Then came the opie and anthony show and the fun began

[@drinkingpoolwater]

the shock jocks ruined radio in the long run in my opinion. it was better here. same with hiphop, i enjoy the music but it polluted culture and now its the main form of pop music.

[@TheJetfighter666]

Ok, this is Scottso and it’s Friday 4:00, so that means THINGS FROM ENGLAND! Here is a group that’s tearing up the U.K. charts… THE WOMBLES!! Yes! THE WOMBLES Their coming to America and their gonna be BIG! …,,.too many Hooki Dookies Mr. M u n I 🥸

[@gregkolesnikov7044]

The best D J..SCOTT