Musicradio WABC Pictures of the Week for June, 2025
Week of June 3, 2025:
Dan Ingram in the WABC Studio!
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Week of June 10, 2025:
WABC
Magazine Ad from 1968
Standing: Harry Harrison
Top: Dan Ingram
Middle: Chuck Leonard, Bruce Morrow, Ron Lundy
Bottom: Roby Yonge, Charlie Greer, Bob Lewis
Here's what the caption says:
If yours is one of the
1,069,300 homes that makes WABC the most listened
to station in America...Thanks for your loyalty. You've found our
interests,
like yours, range from the contemporary sound of music to current
events (up to date news) and public affairs. All vital, alive... part of
today!
When your fingers put your radio on 77 you've got the pulse of
the now generation. Listen to it...feel it...it's your beat.
Turn on. Tune in. We're your kind of people.
Click here for another version of this ad.
Week of June 17, 2025:
The Album Cover From Napoleon XIV
(1966)
The Napoleon XIV WABC Story
In 1966 recording engineer Jerry Samuels came up with a wacky song
about a fellow going "utterly mad" and being taken away to the "Funny
Farm".
It was titled "They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haa!"
and it reached as high as #3 on WABC:
The song resulted in protests from
mental health professionals as well as women's groups who thought
Napoleon was ranting against his estranged wife calling her a "mangy mutt".
WABC, ever mindful of its license and overall image in the
community,
removed the record from airplay just as it reached
Even though the song was never again played on WABC,
the station did acknowledge its survey position in subsequent
weeks during Cousin Brucie's Top Twenty Countdown on Tuesday evenings.
It should be noted that WABC was not the only station to pull the song.
Cross town rival WMCA did likewise as did many other stations.
Prior to all the protests, Samuels cut some tailored promos for
WABC.
The only one of these that I know of that actually aired is the first one from this
set:
Week of June 24, 2025:
WABC Coverage Map from 1979
(courtesy Johnny Donovan)
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