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Time for Another Star Spangled Weekend

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It kicks off this Friday when for the 249th time, America the Beautiful, marks as only it can, the anniversary of this Republic’s founding in 1776.
As the centuries and decades tick away, the men and women of these United States stand ready to fire-up their grills as the Fourth of July has come to symbolize along with the various facets of history, hot dogs, hamburgers and an endless tradition of side dishes.
When it came to serving up first-class entertainment with dynamite air personalities and the American music classics, I honestly don’t believe that anyone ever did it better than the incomparable WNEW 11-3-0 in New York!
If you were a fan and/or admirer of that unforgettable New York radio station you no doubt remember your favorite air people whether they be air personalities or the well-versed WNEW News broadcasters. Make no mistake about it, a lot went into the record selections and just as much for the news department in writing those up-to-the-minute ‘casts that brought details on a wide variety of stories from down the street and yes, around the world!
From the Personal Archives of Edward C. Brown
Long ago we were reminded that we should never cry over spilt milk but yet it remains a difficult exercise to recall that “The WNEW Dream” lasted only 58 years and change from 1934 through December 11, 1992. Perhaps on the big screen of life that represented just a few nano seconds. However, for those of us who experienced it as listeners, enthusiasts, and/or station employees it was, indeed, a magical time!!!
Article contributed by Bob Gibson
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The Declaration of Independence declaring the separation of the American colonies from British rule was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, while the vote for independence occurred on July 2.

Declaration of Independence Transcript

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Jingles, Listener Comments

Our Fan Favorite

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We’ve Got Quite a Few Friends

WNEW AM had…has long standing relationships with their listeners, many spanning generations.

WNEW1130.com celebrates the memory of our fan favorite,

Dr. Leo S. Halpern
North Arlington, New Jersey

Growing up in Northern New Jersey in the 1960s my late father, Leo, was a Dentist. WNEW radio was playing in the waiting room for patients. That’s where I got my first exposure to Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and the entire entourage…naturally MCd by William B. Williams. Great time in music. All the best, Ted Halpern. <Dr. Halpern’s son>

I would like to recognize that Dr. Halpern was a freelance photographer for The Star Ledger and Morristown Daily Record. He won national awards and his work was exhibited at several museums…He also volunteered as a dentist for the St. Edmonds Home for Crippled Children in Philadelphia and the Unwed Mothers Florence Crittenden Home in Newark. He was a World War II U.S. Navy veteran, having served with the rank of lieutenant commander as ship dentist aboard the USS Randall.
New Jersey Jewish News
11-March 1999

©NJ.com

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History, Jingles

WNEW – And, so it began

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Early style jingle. Tommy Dorsey esque late 1930s

..In 1933, Milton Biow, and Arde Bulova, manufacturer of watches, had recently acquired two small radio stations from the Amalgamated Broadcasting System. The ABS, formed by comedian Ed Wynn to challenge the three major radio networks, had failed, and Biow and Bulova took over five floors of studios at 501 Madison Avenue.
Ed Wynn’s initials are often said to be the source of NEW’s call letters. But retired engineer John Sarpaylic offers this first-hand account: “One Sunday morning I had to drive Mr. Biow and Richard O’Dea (owner of station WODA) to the new location in Carlstadt where they were building the transmitter. And the discussion was, what are we going to call this? Milton Biow said, ‘We haven’t had a station built in this area since 1928. I think the best call letters we could have are WNEW, which says new.  NEW in the metropolitan area. The NEWest thing in radio.'”

 

©Where the Melody Lingers 1984

The preceding is an excerpt from the book “Where the Melody Lingers On WNEW 1934-1984,” Nightingale Gordon, NEW YORK.

©”A Radio Station & It’s Mistress”  Marlin R. Taylor

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There’s Only One

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….and most assuredly, there will never be another!  The reference is to WNEW 11-3-0 in New York which was the radio home to some supremely talented air personalities, aided and abetted by a stellar news operation!
Those voices that appeared between the records belonged to a fraternity of personalities who had one tradition: To offer amusing chatter and incisive comments about the records they played.
At the same time, those news broadcasters (some of whom still write for this website), did their level-best through sharp editing and impeccable writing to keep the New York metropolitan area informed up to the minute!
Sadly, that all came to an abrupt end thirty-two years ago on December 11, 1992 and was only amplified by the Nor’easter walloping New York, New Jersey and Connecticut at the time.
 As I have said before and meant sincerely, the heavens were weeping for what we will always recall as the Big W!

Article contributed by Bob Gibson

WNEW-AM on-air roster (partial) originally posted 12/10/2012
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December 11, 1992 Listener Memory

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December 11, 1992 – A sad day in the NY tri-state area, as WNEW last crossed the airwaves. WNEW was an extraordinary station and the memory resonates deeply with its listeners. For this reason, we are able to flip the sad to glad as I share with you a listener memory, sent in by Mr. Kevin Haynes.

 

My Mom had the kitchen radio tuned to WNEW morning, noon and night for my entire childhood, from toddlerhood in Brooklyn to getting ready for school on Long Island in the mid-1960s and beyond. 

I fondly remember Klavin & Finch, William B. Williams, Ted Brown (my favorite!) and sportscaster Chip Cipolla, who once told a hilarious story about getting a piece of fan mail addressed to Gypsy Polo. 

To this day, I still recall a couple of the station promos as well as the jingles for Chicken Delight and Robert Hall (“School bells ringing/children singing/It’s back to Robert Hall again…”) 

I recorded WNEW’s final two hours to preserve the memories, bid adieu to a New York institution and share the fond farewell with Mom.

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Mr. Haynes, Kevin, donated a digitized version of his long held cassette of the last two-hours of programming, saying,

“…I’m delighted to give it a new, loving home.”

Thank you Mr. Haynes, for your contribution.

 

This website cannot accommodate the size of those files, so, here are a few cuts from each of the 1 hour recordings.

If you are interested in hearing them in their entirety send your request to editor@wnew1130.com.

Cassette 1.  Dec 12, 1992  Mark Simone and guests
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Lena Horne

Jim Lowe

Sinatra

Cassette 2. Dec 12, 1992  Mark Simone and guests
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Ted Brown

Tony Monte & John Pizzarelli, Jr sign off / Jingles

Jim Harlan

Final on-air words and song, including some jingles

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Audio, Chronoliogy, History, Images, Jingles, Perspective

Marty Wilson

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marty wilson euglogy

For more about Marty Wilson:

http://wnew1130com.ipower.com/music-2/staff/u-v-w-x-y-z/marty-wilson/2673-2/

MARTY WILSON

(WNEW 1981-1986)

Marty wilson Marty became interested in broadcasting at a very young age.  His parents surprised with him with tickets to be in the Peanut Gallery on the “Howdy Doody Show.”  He spent more time looking at the cameras, mike booms, and production staff than he did at Buffalo Bob and the puppets!

 A few years later he took the tour of NBC Radio and was hooked.  In junior high school he became a member of the Cousin Brucie Fan Club and would visit the WABC studios on West 66th Street.  He then worked for Bruce backstage at Palisades Amusement Park.

 After enrolling at City College he majored in cutting class to work at the college radio station where he became Assistant Station Manager and hosted a number of shifts.

symphony sid 1909-1984
Symphony Sid (early 1970’s)

 In 1968 he got a job at WEVD as a summer and part time engineer. In addition to learning how to understand commercials in 16 languages, he met Symphony Sid.  One night at a remote from the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn, Sid became a little “under the weather.”  He turned to Marty and said, “You finish the show, I’m going home.”  Marty then moved to the other side of the glass.  He became a staff announcer, and when Sid retired, Sid gave him his record collection and later Marty hosted his own show, “Jazz Through The Night,” at times broadcasting from his Upper East Side apartment in a studio he built.

 After leaving WEVD, he worked briefly at WHLI with the “Music Of Your Life” format.

 During the “Jazz Through The Night” years he met Bob Jones, who was on the air at WNEW.  Bob convinced PD Jim Lowe to give him an audition.  The audition consisted of, “Here’s a reel of tape, there’s the studio, there’s the record library, do an hour.”

 He was hired as the weekend host of the ”Milkman’s Matinee” and shortly thereafter became the full time Milkman following in the footsteps of a number of great hosts.  He introduced a number of features during that time including an audience participation novelty called “It Could Be Verse” where listeners would try to guess what song was playing just by listening to the verse. Ted Brown enjoyed his style and insisted that Marty be his vacation substitute.

 In 1987 Marty also conceived the idea for a syndicated program, “A Moment Of Musical History”, a daily feature, that was heard nationally and is still on the air as of this writing in 2012!

 After leaving WNEW, he and a college buddy of his bought a station in New Haven, Connecticut, which he ran for nine years. After selling the station he joined the staff of “Jukebox Radio,” doing afternoons and then middays.

 Now he concentrates on doing voice-overs and producing commercials for a variety of clients and agencies from his own studio in sunny South Florida.

Editor’s Note: Symphony Sid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_Sid

Archive, Audio, Jingles

Mimi Sings Our Song

Bill Diehl (a WNEW alum) writes:
A couple of months ago I interviewed Mimi Hines for a feature I was doing for ABC News Radio. She had recently turned 80 and on July 19 did a special 80th birthday show at “54 Below,” the Broadway nightclub. Mimi, who used to perform with Phil Ford, who’s gone now,(they made their debut in 1958 on the Tonight Show with Jack Paar) had fond memories of WNEW and those wonderful station breaks. So with a little help from her pianist Russ Kassoff, she performed one of the jingles for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuwZE_jxkcY&feature=youtu.be

Mimi Hines_Russ Kassoff

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from PLAYBILL — Hines made her Broadway debut when she replaced Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, performing the lead role for 18 months. Since that time she has starred in several national tours, recorded numerous albums, and returned to Broadway as Miss Lynch in the Tommy Tune production of Grease!. Hines was also seen in the York Theatre Company’s production of 70, Girls, 70, part of its “Musicals in Mufti” series, as well as the City Center Encores! production of Follies.
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