WLS Radio Chicago - Dick Biondi Show 1962 Aircheck

Hop aboard the time machine and go back to the late evening of December 4, 1962. Dick Biondi "The Wild Italian" is just starting his 9pm to Midnight show on WLS 890 Radio in Chicago.

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Music

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• WLS
• Chicago
• Aircheck
• Radio

[giberish9]

Where did you get this?

[leadsquirter]

Probably in a trade with another aircheck collector during the mid-90's, I can't remember. The whole tape is an hour with the songs intact.

[Johns805]

Oh yeah!  I'll think to that! It sounds like it was taped on a reel to reel with a transistor radio as the source! That's the way to do it! [LOL!] Enjoy!

Java Jive Jay

Surf City Sounds Plus

[leadsquirter]

And the mic was probably set in front of the speaker. lol

[leadsquirter]

Your welcome!

[TimelordR]

That Dick Biondi is a legend in Chicago radio, Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane!

[mccrackin1000]

WOW from the WAY BACK MACHINE!!!! Excellent Post !!!! Leads Quirter.

[MultiBudboy]

I think this came from "Aircheck Factory"....he made cassettes but I dont know if he ever went to cds.

[centralparocker]

I lived in Gettysburg PA in the 60's and WLS and WCFL would both come in loud and clear....Dick Biondi is a legend....!!!!

[soxbearshwks]

i was stationed in SoCal. 64-65. on a few occasions when i had night duty, if i put the radio by the open window, i actually picked up WLS, the signal would go in and out, but it was still cool hearing WLS and 1 night, i picked up Dick Biondi....very cool....

[MayorMcSleaze]

Freakin AWESOME.....What a find....We adored this Guy...

[polehiker1]

I listened in 1962 like a lot of other teenagers with a transistor radio with an earplug, so as not to keep the rest of the house awake. On the farm south of Galesburg, IL

[TheCentralpagal]

In the late 1950s, I used to hide under the covers with my transistor radio and listen to Dick Biondi, who then broadcast on KDKA in Buffalo, NY. The station faded in and out, but it was my link with a new sound called "rock 'n roll." Thank you, Dick Biondi, for introducing me to music that has become a soundtrack to my life.

[hunterv41]

I listened to Dick when he was in Buffalo in the late 50s.

[brerrabbit77]

I used to listen to him back about that time in southwest Virginia where I lived and was about 12 years old at the time. BTW you can get the "line out" signal from a radio by hooking up to the 2 outside terminals of the volume control. Observe that one of them is grounded and you must use that for the ground of the signal cable. You get a cleaner signal for recording that way. It also works on TVs. Or at least from the TVs and radios from back then with a metal chassis.

[hookalakah]

We all dug The Wild Eyetalian for the couple of years he was on KRLA. Thanks for the loan, Chicago.

[lucychinn149]

@MARILLIONROCKER45

Love it! And I remember the Wolfman, too. Too great!!!