Is 18 minutes all they allow? My tape of this September 77 aircheck is over an hour long, and starts way before Strawberry Letter 23 with And You And I by Yes. Well, better than none. Always great to hear the PLJ from years I remember. My growing up depended on PLJ and PIX!! Also, HEY ELLIS!! Thanks. Watch those Altamonte drivers!
I always loved listening to Tony Pigg! He was the long time announcer on Regis & Kathy Lee! Whatever happened to him? This was when WPLJ was playing all the top album cuts it was more loose in formatting back back then.
Brothers Johnson in the beginning. I remember around that time more soft rock artists Carly Simon, Bee Gees, Stevie Wonder on PLJ. 78-79 changes as Elvis Costello, Blondie, Clash, Joe Jackson, the Cars and Police start to dominate play list.
The sad thing is that WPLJ was not always a Rock Station. I Remember when they played bee gees, Carole King, Barry Manilow, Melissa Manchester, Linda Ronstadt , Carly Simon and so many more non Rock Acts. So the fact of the matter that they ever called them selves the home of Rock and Roll is so untrue and misleading.... honestly at this point they deserve to taken over by K-Love one lie deserves another..
@@costri99 PLJ was not Freefrom. It was a focused radio station with discipline. You could not play what you wanted to play on PLJ unlike WNEW-FM. You may think Freeform was great. Trouble is too many jocks let their egos get in the away and it turn the audience off. Few got Freeform right, and one of those who actually did it right was Jim Ladd.
Well even Q104.3 has a little flexibility. Although they are straight on Classic Rock you will also hear Stevie Wonder, War, Bob Marley, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, The Temptations and Sly and The Family Stone.
16:35 it's weird hearing a news broadcast from 1977 referring to a record that can be played with a laser... little did anyone know that 10 years later, almost everyone would be using this technology,
Ellis Feaster thanks. Yeah I remember I started college in 78 and then when I got home I started to notice the songs didn’t sound right. It was awful when they started the top 40 format.
Ellis Feaster thanks. Yeah I remember I started college in 78 and then when I got home I started to notice the songs didn’t sound right. It was awful when they started the top 40 format.
Definitely I remember when PLG went pop in 1983 and I noticed that the songs sounded fast. If you speed up a song by just 5% its hardly noticeable and you can get a extra 15 seconds of airtime per song. So you can get a extra 2 minutes per hour of commercials so that all adds up but the key here is that nobody notice that you are speeding up the songs but some people do notice like me. I was so pissed off I actually wrote them a letter about it.
@@bobmilin Actually, I would argue that speeding up any more than 2% is noticeable to the average person. I actually took an aircheck I had of PLJ in the late 80s and ran the music through an audio editor. It looks like they were speeding it up almost 8%! It sounded borderline ridiculous...I never understood why they took it to that extreme.
