… and tonight, a glue sniffin’ party will be held for all students …
[Description by contributor Russell Wells]
Narrated by Jim Taber (later of KLIF/Dallas fame), this is a very amusing “pitch” to a national ad agency (The Robert Eastman Company). While it does contain a couple of actual airchecks within, most of it is contrived, but to humorous effect. The ‘tricycle’ comment in the “Skylane 610” traffic report was a gentle poke at Ben McKinnon, the longtime GM of WSGN. Listen also for the digs at George Wallace and former Birmingham police commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, who was infamous for masterminding the “fire hose and police dog” episodes during the racial troubles of the early ’60s … and for the clips from Mary Poppins, and cuts from PAMS Series 33.
WSGN was a major player in Birmingham radio beginning with its entry into top-40 in early 1957 until 1980, when strong FM competition bumped it out of the Arbitron top 5. It managed to hold on with a contemporary format until March 1984.