Wednesday-"Last Kiss"

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   Thanks for the WJET chart. Erie Pa was within the CKLW orbit along with the entire Lake Erie shoreline in Ohio. Stands to reason it got action in that market. 

Good to know the song did well on WLS. Surprised it did not chart better in the USA on that fact alone.

Teen Angel is the follow up I could not think of last night. Thanks for that fact. CKLW gave it some play. 

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C J Brown Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 27 December 2007 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote C J Brown Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 March 2020 at 7:33pm
	Thanks for the WJET chart. Erie Pa was within the CKLW orbit along with the entire Lake Erie shoreline in Ohio. Stands to reason it got action in that market. Good to know the song did well on WLS. Surprised it did not chart better in the USA on that fact alone. Teen Angel is the follow up I could not think of last night. Thanks for that fact. CKLW gave it some play. Edited by C J Brown

eriejwg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 10 June 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 90	Post Options Post Reply Quote eriejwg Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 March 2020 at 8:49pm
	The music director of JET at the time was the late Kay Jones, the first wife of the late owner of JET, Myron Jones. I remember JET playing many songs from Canadian artists that were stiffs other places. Songs like I Been Moved from Any Kim and Glamour Boy from the Guess Who. An FM in town, 103.7, was known as WCCK then. The jocks made it a point to say the call letters WC - CK. I don't remember the reason why perhaps to confuse listeners a bit, but they because certainly couldn't compete with the signal of CKLW even though WCCK was 50,000 watts.
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eriejwg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 10 June 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 90	Post Options Post Reply Quote eriejwg Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 March 2020 at 8:51pm
	Look at the other Canadian artists on that JET survey with songs that didn't do well elsewhere... Blue Collar Painted Ladies Pretty Lady Last Kiss
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C J Brown Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 27 December 2007 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote C J Brown Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 March 2020 at 7:33pm
	Yeah I should have noted those imports on my message. All familiar fodder for CKLW listeners. As were the Andy Kim title and the Guess Who title. Glamor Boy was right in there with the somewhat small "Glam Rock" presence in North America. Another Canadian song that sticks out in my mind is Keith Hampshire "Daytime Nighttime". This Toronto DJ turned artist sure took a page out the early Chicago playbook or "Vehicle" sound from Ides of March. Too bad he was a few years late to do this. Edited by C J Brown

C J Brown Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 27 December 2007 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote C J Brown Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 March 2020 at 7:41pm
	CKLW exerted an influence in the Great Lakes never heard before or after on radio. So dominant and strong. The engineer of the 70's and early 80s has said he thinks CKLW had an ERP of 250,000 watts or greater to the east and south east back then thanks to his tweaks and fine tuning. A lot of muscle for a 50,000 watt signal. Listeners from Toledo Ohio feel CKLW drove two local stations out of the top 40 format WTOD AM 1560 1968 and WTTO AM 1520 1973. Plus a third heritage top 40 WOHO went to talk at night giving up the effort to fight the CKLW night time sound 1972. CKLW having overnight jocks such as Ted Richards, Super Max and Mike "Killer" Kelly did not hurt anything either.

crapfromthepast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 14 September 2006 Location: United States Status: Online Points: 93	Post Options Post Reply Quote crapfromthepast Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 March 2020 at 10:17am
	Oh yeah! I remember listening to CKLW at night in my New York City suburb in the late '70s. BIG signal.
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eriejwg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 10 June 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 90	Post Options Post Reply Quote eriejwg Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 March 2020 at 11:11am
	Jim 'Edwards' Davis had worked in Toledo before being hired by CKLW in the late 1960s. He went on to work at/program legendary other stations like WOR-FM, KMPC and many others. I remmeber Keith Hampshire received airplay on WJET but not WCCK. The April 2, 1973 WJET survey shows "The First Cut Is The Deepest" by Keith at #42 in its 2nd week, up from #50.
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C J Brown Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 27 December 2007 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote C J Brown Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 March 2020 at 7:08pm
	Big Jim Edwards aka James K Davis at WTTO Toledo 66 & early 67. Also at WTRY earlier in 1966. Jim Davis after CKLW. No matter the name he had a good set of pipes. CKLW must have confused New Yorkers at times on tiny transistor radios being so close to WABC Legend has it that you get on I90 in Chicago near sundown - drive all night on the ninety to New York City and be able to get CKLW all the way to the Big Apple before sunrise. I can tell you in points east of Cleveland in Ohio and in western PA from the north border to south border CKLW had a very strong signal. It would start about an hour before sundown. I am going to return of the thread to records and music before I get thrown out