Tac Hammer - KQRS-FM - August 1978
The recording includes the full commercial segments. This tape was recorded by Hank McKenzie when he lived in the Twin Cities. He use to record radio stations at the time to get recordings of the music he liked. Hank writes:
"t was one of about a dozen I made during that time to extract music I enjoyed while keeping within the budget. Unfortunately, this is the only one that has survived the years. The others have been recorded over. I will say that I was going to Brown Institute at the time working toward an Electronics degree and had earned a 1st Class FCC license so I paid a visit to the KQRS studios out on Lilac Drive one morning to investigate the possibility of working as a broadcast engineer for the station or, at least, research the duties and such. The engineer wasn't available so I spent about a half an hour watching Tac thru the glass as he did his morning show. Unfortunately I did not get a chance to actually meet him."
Contributed by Hank McKenzie, Marysville, WA. Posted 5-1-11
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KQRS-FM Tac Hammer 9-12-78 |
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WCCO-FM Paul Stagg and the Captain - January 1975
John Meyer wrote an email in late November 2010 to tell me what he had on WCCO. Part of it follows:
"What I have....... 6 Captain Marsupial bits from January 3, 5, 6, 14, 21, 24 of 1975. They run between two minutes to just over six for the longest one (it includes a sort of contest they were running based on the old McDonald's "2 all beef patties, special sauce, pickles, cheese, mustard on a sesame seed bun", commercials that was such a big hit at the time.)"
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WCCO-FM Paul Stagg & the Captain - Cinderella |
WCCO-FM Paul Stagg & the Captain - Prosperous Island |
WCCO-FM Paul Stagg & the Captain - Enchanted Stone |
WCCO-FM Christmas Theatre 1973 with Mark Durenberger
John Meyer recorded a few of the WCCO-FM Christmas Theatre segments in 1973 and has shared them here. Mark Durenberger hosted these shows back then. There were old-time radios shows with the likes of Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Red Skelton and others. These old shows are still available should you want to hear them in their entirety. Mark provided some historical perspective on some of the shows. John Meyer recorded two parts of the Christmas Theatre off the air.
John Meyer writes in an email to me:
"As for comments, you might mention that Mark Durenberger's programs, both on WLOL and WCCO-FM were the main and perhaps only reason I got re-involved in what came to be known as OTR (Old Time Radio). As a child of the 40's and 50's my family did not join the television crowd until 1956 or 57. So my early memories are of kids shows on the radio rather than Howdy Doody or various cartoon shows. Mark's late weekend re-runs of radio shows during the very early 1970's sent me off on a collecting binge that has lasted nearly 40 years and continues to this day. Thanks Mark, it was, and is, appreciated."
John Meyer also had two short recordings of Mark on WLOL-FM as Mark Dee. There were recording quality problems, and Mark Durenberger send me another high quality recording to use. This file is from the last hour of his last show and is undated. It may be from the early 1970's.
I remember listening to a jazz show on WLOL-FM, but did not recall it was Mark on the air. The first time I listened, he played Maynard Ferguson's version of "The Theme From Shaft." I bought the record the next day. It is interesting that the first song on this recording is from Ferguson's MF Horn 2 album.
Contributed by John Meyer of Shell Lake Wisconsin. Posted 1/2/2011.
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WCCO-FM Mark Durenberger Host Christmas Theatre 1973 - Part One |
WCCO-FM Mark Durenberger Host Christmas Theatre 1973 - Part Two |
WLOL-FM Mark Durenberger Last Hour of Last Show - Undated |
Captain Buzz Studley (Undated) Early to Mid 70's | Al Schostag
WCCO-FM Studio Engineer 1981 - Provides Some WCCO-FM Memories
Al sent some MP3 recordings to be posted on the site. On the Captain Buzz recording you will hear Tim Russell do Buzz with host Paul Stagg. Buzz does his traffic report and also reports on the Gray Panther militant protest on the Capital steps. Buzz also tell the listeners about the dog he and his wife just bought and you will also hear about the Fair Deal Grocery store that he shops.
There are two WCCO-FM jingles, one slow and one up tempo. The up tempo jingle is about one minute long. These recordings are undated and would be near the early to mid 70's.
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WCCO-FM - Slow (between songs - not edited) |
WCCO-FM Uptempo |
Sven Skarnasdag 1 | More Al Schostag contributions:
Sven Skarnasdag - Carl Lensgraf with Mark Johnson. Mark was a newsman at WCCO-FM. On the first recording, Sven reports from St. Peter Minnesota and provides some history that most of the Minnesota governors came from St. Peter. The Sven a recording has two segments.
Sven recording 2 has some minor level problems near the beginning. At the end the last few minutes was lost. Since the recordings were sent as MP3 files, I did not edit it to prevent any loss due to further compression.
More Captain Buzz at the beginning of Tim and Carl bits recording with Tim Russell and Paul Stagg. Carl Lensgraf does Charles Evens Hughes Stonebrenner with "little Known Fact," a feature done daily around 4:20 PM in the mid to late 70's.
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Sven Skarnasdag 2 |
Tim Russell & Carl Lensgraf Bits |
WONE 1977 Dayton Ohio - Bobby Craig Morning Show | Local Home Grown - Former Pirate
Bobby Kraig grew up in Minneapolis and attended Brown i 1972. He got his first on air experience at WXYE-FM, the 70's pirate station in St. Paul.
He eventually worked in Dallas and received numerous Program Director of the Year Awards from Billboard. He was named to the Country Radio Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
Bobby sent this to me over the 2010 Thanksgiving Holiday weekend. for his resume see the following link Country Radio Broadcasters Hall of Fame
In 1977, he became morning air personality and Program Director at WONE (Dayton, OH). He later became Program Director of KPLX (Dallas, TX) and held that position until 1993.
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Old Newspaper Radio Schedule for WFLG
This is collection of older newprint schedules and display ads for WCCO and its predesessor, WFLG.
The St. Paul Daily from January 1924 shows a schedule for WLAG, the call letters prior to WCCO. It also shows scheduled from out of town stations, like KFI in Los Angeles and others. You will need to enlarge the file to see the print better, or download it to your computer to get a better view.
The display ads from 1958 appeared i the Minneapolis Tribune.
Contributed by John Meyer of Shell Lake Wisconsin and posted 1/2/2011.
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