Listen to THE REAL Cousin Brucie, on 77 WABC every Saturday Night 6-10pm. Jingles, music, prizes, and all! (Via radio or WABC'S website) He came back to WABC sept 5th 2020, it was a great day! (Listening on AM radio is more fun, but if your not in the area the web will do...)
It was the best time even if the world was messed up; it was my childhood and adolescence and I will always remember it with affection. Thank you Dan Ingram! Damn, I wish we could just go back in time for a few weeks.
WABC MUSICRADIO 77. Love this station with all the great music, the jingles, & the great DJ personalities. Harry Harrison, Ron Lundy, Big Dan Ingram, Cousin Brucie. This station was great! #1 station in my book. You can't find anything like this today. I used to listen to this station when I was kid while I can. I miss this station.
Listen to Brucie, he’s back! On 77 WABC!!!!! 6-10pm Saturday nights! Jingles, prizes, phone calls, music, and all! If your within 120 miles of NYC listen on the radio, if your not, listen online, on wabc’s website. It’s great! -Nick
Interestingly, New York City had an earlier radio station called WABC, but this long before the American Broadcasting Company was formed. This WABC in the 1930s was named for the Atlantic Broadcasting Company; it was subsequently bought by the Columbia Broadcasting System (now CBS Broadcasting) and the call sign was renamed WCBS. At that time WJZ 770 was part of the NBC Blue Network. In 1948, that system morphed into ABC, and in 1954 WJZ became WABC.
770/WJZ was NBC Blue owned and operated until the 1943 federal court order divesting NBC Blue of the network and all owned stations, effective in 1945. The new American Broadcasting Company took control. 880/WABC, the Atlantic Broadcasting/CBS flagship in New York, was unhappy with the confusion over the new network. WCBS was assigned to a small station in Springfield, Illinois at the time. FCC took call letter changes seriously at the time. It took a few years, but eventually the three major networks got their appropriate calls for their New York flagships. WNBC went from 1410 in New Britain, CT to 660, replacing WEAF; WABC moved down the dial to 770 and WCBS went from 1450 in Illinois to 880 in New York (by the way, 1450/WCBS was a Blue Network affiliate). CBS got the WJZ calls, which now rest at their stations in Baltimore.
My favorite was Herb Oscar Anderson in the morning hours 6 am - 10 am. He would sing the song “That Happy Feeling” on occasion. Also had a Gal Friday which he sent a boutique of flowers to a secretary every Friday. I had the honor and privilege of speaking to his adult daughter on the telephone once on my job and I told her how my family loved his broadcast every weekday for years.
The short jingle at 0:29 was used in the soundtrack of the movie "Midnight Cowboy". The lead character, Joe Buck, is arriving in New York City from Texas on a Greyhound bus and he's listening to his radio. He hears this and says something like, "Hear that, ma'm? That's New York!" to the nun sitting in the seat next to him
You know, WABC is really turning around with their new owner! Cousin Brucie is back every Saturday night, Tony Orlando is a new DJ, they just added a new Live-Jazz show, AND Joe Piscopo does a “Sunday’s with Sinatra”. If you want a real 60s WABC experience, listen to Brucie on 770 WABC Saturday’s at 6pm, with the jingles, music, phone calls, letters, and the generally warm feeling! I live on Long Island, and I listen on a vintage Transistor set (it’s the most fun that way) but you can listen on Alexa, google, or on their website too! But if you can, AM radio is the best way to listen, the jingles and Brucie’s voice sounds best on real radio! -Nick
It’s all back, with weekends ON 77 WABC! They got Cousin Brucie back on, and Tony Orlando (the singer) is now a dj too! They’ve got the jingles, the music, the iconic voices! Listen every Saturday night 6-10 with Bruce Morrow, then at 10pm you’ve got Tony, where he takes you “behind the music” with a famous guests, like Paul Anka and the 5th Dimension! If you don’t have a radio, or don’t live close enough to NYC (about 120 mile radius) to get it on one, you can listen online at WABC’s website(they have 2, one for music radio one for their weekday talk). It will be a little delayed from the real radio though. (Your chime times may be a minute or two off, haha!).Plus, a transistor radio gets you the full experience! I hope this helps fill the void in your heart/soul for some good, old, authentic, FUN radio! -Nick (aka “the teenage radio guy”)
Anyone remember the old TV ads from the early 1970's that had music notes dancing like the Rockettes, and singing "WABC?" There was also a G Clef who told an awkward note that only hits play on WABC. I even had a note sticker.
Andrew Fernandez Are you sure? I recall they had gone to talk by 1978. That was the first time I returned to NY after moving to California as a child in 1966.
@ fansofjingles 1:27 That jingle was so funny, hear those PAMS singers gurgling " 77, WABC!" with a sofly noise of bubbles in the background and end with a big band finish with the soprano female singer was so impressive! If I don't mistake, this jingle was played on every summer of the 60s and 70s or not?
Cut out the WABC and you have most of the BigL Radio London jingles from '64 and '65. Oh HAPPY days! Were you on the road back from Arlington stock cars and listening to this?
Thanks for sharing! Reminds me of when I carried my transistor radio around everyday in the sixties and tuned into my favorite station. Some jingles sound like the fifties to 1960. How far back do the jingles go? I recognize Cousin Brucie and Dan Ingram and the most recent jingles.
Brucie is back on WABC, with the jingles and everything! 6-10pm every Saturday! Same sound and layout, he takes calls, gives out prizes, does chime times, reads letters, and more! Tune in online (wabcs website), or for a real experience get on the radio! (If you live anywhere from NYC to 120 miles out.) I live in the middle on Long Island, and I get the station prefect here. I can even get it in our vacation house in the Pocono Mountains with a little arm reaching and radio positioning! Sounds great in NJ and CT too. -Nick
@@fuzzipariah There you go! I would give you the link, but RU-vid thinks links are scams/viruses. So you'll just have to look up the station and find their main webpage. Then click "listen live" this Saturday night! Or download the app, and do the same.
Well, jolly Brat Pack, ye-all seem not to have ever know all those wonderful WABC jingles from Your Make Believe Ballroom that used to keep me flabbergasted here in far-Brasil, all along 1959-60, that swansong era for Martin Block (and then, along came payola...), No one of those extremely powerful jingles seem to have survived, and they were all based in the theme song of a TV series very famous at that time,"77 Sunset Strip".It's a shame that they have all gone with wind.
...ahh, remember listening to Charlie Grreer late night when lived in Milwaukee WI. Between about 10:30 PM to 3:00 AM or so (Central Time) WABC would come in as clear and strong as both of the major local top 40 stations (WOKY and WRIT which were further up on the band). Lived near the lakefront and had large multi-band SABA radio made in Germany that got remarkable reception. Stlll can here him saying "WABC Chime Time" and doing those Dennison's Clothing commercials "...money talks nobody walks...".
“We love the Beatles, and you do too, bla bla bla” HaHa! Actually, I just heard that jingle on 77 WABC cause Brucie is back on Saturday nights. (The show is great!) Pretty much all of the jingles on this video are played, along with the appropriate 50’s - early 70’s music. Happy jingling, -Nick (“NY radio kid”)
He’s back, look at some of the other comments I’ve made on other people’s comments. (Small recap) He’s back on 77 WABC 6-10pm every Saturday night! Since September. The show is just like the 60s with the jingles, prizes, music, and phone calls! Listen on the radio, or online. (Better experience online) (radio will only work if your in about a 120 mile radius of NYC) more fun on radio!
FYI( for you info) WABC is back with the old music and jingles with Cousin Brucie! On Saturday nights 6-10pm. You can listen on the radio if you live on the eastern part of the USA, or on the internet on WABC’s website... It’s a great show...
You know, he’s back on 77 WABC. With the jingles and music and all! I’ve been flooding this comment section everyone time I watch this video, letting people know the “classic” WABC is back on the weekends!
