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Scott I'm a friend of Steve King and Johnny Putnam. Steve told me about this website and I love it! I've got everybody from WSM checking it out. We need something similar for our station. I've been at WSM almost 27 years and announce on the Grand Ole Opry. I've been a fan of WLS since high school and dreamed of someday working there back in the "Big 89" days. I was recently in Chicago and stayed at the Hyatt Regency on Wacker near the Stone Container Building. That building has a fascination for me much akin to the feeling I have for the Ryman Auditorium here in Nashville. I actually got to see WLS there back in the late 70's. Just wanted you to know how much I am enjoying your website. -Keith Bilbrey
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Scott, Thanks for creating such an awesome site. I work in TV post production and wish that I had spent a little more time pursuing radio. As a kid I used to ride my bike over to the old WCFL towers just to stare at them and admire the magic of radio. Or, I remember back in high school when the GM of WSEX gave me a tour of what was one of the last all on-site suburban Chicago stations. Radio is definitely a major part of Chicago's cultural history. Thanks for sharing some of your info. -Benton Bullwinkel
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Thank you for all of your work in keeping the memory of WLS Musicradio 89 alive and well. WLS is very much, in my mind, a class act even today. They have never forgotten how special this piece of Americana really is. They've proven it and so have you. Many thanks to you and the crew at WLS !!!
-Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
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My whirlwind career (15 years) in radio were born because of two words: "BOOGULAR" and "CHECK." And what followed! Wow. John R. Landecker was the best, and can span my panorama anytime. I didn't even discover WLS till it was practically all over! I got airchecks from a listener who could pick me up in the early '80s doing overnights on an AM, and he sent me airchecks of Chicago radio. Listening to them transformed me. Someday I want a Saturday night show, if for no other reason than to very obediently pay tribute to John Records - - because his kind of radio is the best. Thanks for this great site!! -Angela Allen
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Scott, Your tribute to WLS is fantastic! I used to love listening to the mighty 890 at night when I still lived in Indiana. WLS was many years of listening enjoyment for me. I have to admit the real vocal talent was always Wayne Messmer. He has just a fantastic radio voice. Definitely that classic WNBC style voice of the 60's, without all the over dramatic flair. -Derek Sailor
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Thank you for this site, it means so much to me. Our class of 1967 has a reunion on August 10th and 11th, 2001 and finding the surveys was fantastic! WLS and WCFL will always have a place in my life and radio history. On August 11th, we will tour our high school which is Downers Grove North. A heartfelt thank you for all your hard work. I am overtaken by excitement and a sense of relief that this is here. -John Leone
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Scott, I just read the WLS history you posted with Rich Samuels. I grew up listening to WLS Barn Dance in the 1940s. I just purchased (at the auction of DR. Ralph Muchow's Elgin Radio Museum) the Bronze Plaque of the WLS Creed dated November 1938, that hung by the WLS front door on Washington Street. I have been chief engineer of WRMN and WJKL in Elgin for the last 35 years. -Harold Cattron, Actually, Rich's site and the WLS History site are separate ventures.
However, he has quite an extensive look at WMAQ and NBC in Chicago.
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