"How Chicago Rocked The 60's" (Documentary about Chicago garage bands of the 60's) 

In fairness, they didn’t change their name to Chicago until around 1970.

@@Seanakin True! But most don't even think about that. I've had quite a few since-deleted comments about how the title was "misleading" or "click bait."

@@60s70sChicagoRock I grew up near Chicago so I could understand why some people could be confused by the title of the program. Now if they only had named it "How the city of Chicago rocked during the 1960s", I believe that would have eliminated the confusion.

@@jaybee5659 Yes, it probably would have! 😄

Wow dude that’s groovy

Ditto on WLS, I could pick them up in Sioux City, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska at night. Very powerful station!!

Dx ed to WLS and CFL any nites in eastern Michigan as a kid and listened to Uncle Larry's animal stories when I worked in Chicago. Good times

Thank you for your service.

LOVED Animal Stories and had the albums they sold of them to benefit some children's charity. Listened every night on the way home from work in the early 1980s. Great humor and great team - Larry and Tommy.

Snot nosed Tommy!

'Ol uncle Larr.... and there he is, little snot nose Tommy...

Loved LS while attending ND

+Dale Stroker You are welcome.... and were quite lucky to have all that free music back then!

Sorry that I didn't know you, I grew up in Niles in the 60's as well, over on Shermer Rd.

Lived near Lutheran General hospital and went to Maine East HS. Take good care....we grew up in a cool surburb! Remember Papa Joe's in Park Ridge? It was formerly called The Deep End, when I was an early teem in the late 60's.

Yes, I do remember The Deep End, and The Green Gorilla. Good times, and great music. A wonderful time, and place in space to grow up in.

The Cellar Club, Arlington Hts!

Common mistake! That's why I picked a thumbnail that showed another group (The Buckinghams). 😉

@@60s70sChicagoRock yeah I should've picked up on that..lol.

I did!

No. The city had it's own sound...just like Philadelphia had their own sound.

- No.

@Martha Mack I was a teen in the northern 'burbs... what a fun time that was! Thank you for visiting. 😊

Love Cryan Shames.

k, am i th only 1 eyeballing th postee's names here? WstrnSubs, hmmm, Downers Grove perhps? i recall a Mack family near where I lvd on Grant street- 1953 to '69 era

Yes, we certainly had a huge amount of local talent back then! Lots of fun times seeing these bands at teen dance "clubs" in the mid-60's. Glad I was able to record this off the tv and have it to share with other fans. Thanks for watching and sharing your story! :)

James Cavender , Ronnie Rice!

In the 70s, someone had a regular thing where they booked local bands into big rooms around Chicago on Friday, Saturday Sunday nights. They played in Evanston (IIRC) on Fridays, Aurora on Saturdays and at the Sherwood Club in Sherrerville on Sundays. Styx were regulars as was Kracker. I was sitting on the floor at the Sherwood Club one Sunday night listening to Styx, and when they did Lady, I got a bit freaked out cause it looked like Dennis was staring at me while he was singing it. After the song ended, the gal sitting next to me elbowed me and said "Don't worry, that's my husband". Chicago rock was like that. I recall many a battle of the bands, and my high school clique had a garage band we called Felicia Sims. Played a few school dances around NW Indiana and fairly regularly at the South Haven Youth Center in Portage.

That and "The House of the Rising Sun" and "Little Black Egg".

I was the drummer in my 1st college band. We played a lot of oldies. The beauty of Gloria is that just about anybody could sing it - and this song plus “Stepping Stone” by The Monkees are the two songs that I would go out front and play the bass and sing lead on.

All three chords of Gloria but I still like playing it.

Gloria was first recorded by Them featuring Van Morison.

@@angelaackerman8934 He wrote it too. Other claim that. They just adjust lyrics for air play.

+Tully Bascombe he was the best

+Tully Bascombe I grew up listening to WLS and Larry Lujack. Great times and memories.

They sure were, Phil

Tully Bascombe , Turn into Peanut butter! Berwyn, There IS No Berwyn!

I remember meeting Dex Card, one of the WLS DJs, at a Sears store on the North Side(Lawrence Ave) for a promotional appearance in 64 or 65. This was during the height of the British Invasion, such a cool time.

@Scott Meli Thanks for watching!

@Larry Launstein Jr I just started using the 'free' version again after several years and found your profile while looking for Chicago bands music! So now you have another follower. 😉 open.spotify.com/playlist/6CpvF9VqI24w4F6btvlA0M

@Richard Pandolfo "Back in Love Again" was probably my favorite. It did reach #32 here in Chicago, but should've done much better. Less air play may have had something to do with James Guercio leaving to manage The Big Thing/CTA/Chicago in '68. Also a couple band members had changed around that same time. Thanks for watching!

You're welcome, thanks for watching. I was one of those teens, frequenting the area dance clubs. :)

60s70sChicagoRock Loaded all the equip for the Knights, Colony, Hams ect ect. ...got in the show for free. Still hurts.

Johnny Bragatti How cool. :) And it was only a dollar or two to get in, depending on the band. Glad a lot of them are still around, still performing. You might want to check this out in May... forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-marty-grebb-benefit-concert-update.html

Jim Nesta I'm so glad somebody mentioned that. Many of their little ditties are stuck in my head. What is the weather for the weekend going to be.... :)

WLS was the station to listen to in the 60’s. Top 3 songs at 10 o’clock every night. Great times

I grew up on WLS and CKLW in the sixties, great time to be alive

WLS’s signal would fade in and out from time to time depending on where you lived. I live in Tennessee

@@billbagwell1105 In the summer of 1969 I was stationed at an Army fort near Augusta Georgia and one night when I was going through the dial of an AM radio I picked up the weak and wavering signal of WLS. I knew for sure because I heard the familiar musical jingle that I mentioned earlier. Being a lower frequency signal, the signal would normally propagate along the ground - ground wave. At night the ionosphere, a weak plasma, could reflect radio waves that would normally pass through - called sporadic E skip. This is the dominant mode of propagation for higher frequency short wave radio. Sometimes a radio wave can skip off the ionosphere and surface of the Earth multiple times.

Russ G - And how! Dennis Tufano still tours and he still has the chops! artistecard.com/DennisTufano#!/bio

Yes, Dennis Trufano. I got "Susan" played on BBC-6 back in the summer, but it didn't catch on. BBC-6 is the largest Indie station in Europe - I thought The Buckinghams might strike a chord.

Yup. Overdubs were rare, and processing did not exist. Most records were cut what we'd today call "direct to disk", with a single take and no editing of the tape.

I use to listen to those DJ's all the way from Texas on my transistor radio.

I played golf with JC Hook this Spring in Lombard this year. "Sugar &spice and everything nice🎵"

I posted this then I scrolled down and saw your comment. I grew up just east of South Bend Indiana. We could get WL in Chicago on the radio. There was nothing else like it in Northern IN.

I always look forward to a clear winter night when I lived in Philadelphia and was able to pick up a strong signal from WLS 😄😄😄😄😄😄

Clear channel designations. Many still operate that way.

@Rock and Roll Woman Did the same thing... mostly when Dick Biondi was on. I agree about the Beatles' cover by the Buckinghams. But that was when they were still babies!

I listened to W L S in Chicago in Inman South Carolina as a rock n roll kid in the 60 s and 70 s , was the best station on the air and we could only get it at night.

The music of Chicago is fabulous! You might want to listen to the Russian Tribute Band, "Leonid and Friends". It's amazing! These people are in their 20's, 30's etc. and they are carrying on the legacy of the great music that Chicago played, now that the original band members are in their 70's.

Excellent horns to be sure but please check this out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Memphis_Horns

Tower of Power from Oakland, CA will give them a real run for their money.

...and longevity.

If you're thanking the bands... they deserve it a million times over!! If you're thanking me for the upload... well, you are very welcome!! :)

What a phenomenal guitarist and singer/songwriter he was. Indeed R.I.P. Terry Kath!

I lived in the Chytown burbs in the 60's and it was great! We thought it would never end.

@Harold Fridkis Thanks for watching! 😉

SafeSpace47 - Pittsburgh was the birthplace of Doo-Wop and some great 60's artists like Lou Christie, The Vogues, and Tommy James and the Shondells. Thanks for commenting! :)

Loved their album A Scratch in the Sky as a kid. I grew up next to Lagrange. Hinsdale was named for my great granddad

If you really worked in Chicago in the seventies, you would know that it was Daley Plaza named after Mayor Richard J. Daley.

'Stonehenge'! (as he was called, when I saw them for the first time in early 1967🙂)

John Taylor Great story. RIP Gary 😢

Thea Jones me too! I grew up in Lagrange and Hinsdale early 1970s. Great times! Bozo, the dirty dragon show and ray Rayner!!!

He is now the morning host on WGN radio.

For sure, that's what it was, mine was blue though. 🤓. I still have it in my shoe box of memories, also have my little carry case of 45's. 😊

@clarkewi True, there were many influential Chicago area bands in this time period. See the description under the video that explains this program's primary focus, which would not include the Butterfield Blues Band.

You're welcome!

And don't forget Chickenman!

@FMHammyJ FYI, the picture was focusing on "Vehicle" by the Ides of March, at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. You're welcome. 😁

The Guess Who recorded in Chicago.

You're welcome... thanks for watching! :)