[Description by contributor Sam Hale]  (16:32) This Exhibit SCOPED The music has been removed for a ‘scoped version of this aircheck. The most unpleasant memories of my radio career are from WJJD — the exception being that I enjoyed working with Jack Spector, with whom I did some hops. Jack did afternoon drive. At the time of this air check the studios were in the Union Carbide building at 230 N. Michigan Avenue. The main broadcast studio was suspended so the vibrations from the underground rail would not be a problem. It must have been built in the ’30s or early ’40s as the studio was large enough to accommodate an orchestra and studio audience. I don’t think it had ever been repainted. The colors were drab to begin with and the lighting was poor. The announcer’s desk was in the center of the studio and way over in the left corner were the turntables, records and transcriptions (commercials). At this time, the musician’s union still provided the musician to operate the turntables. My guy hated top 40 music and would show his displeasure with grimaces and by actually plugging his fingers in his ears. The (older) engineer who controlled the mike and volume levels was up in the control room several yards away, and was smoking his pipe and reading the morning paper. Plus, after signing on at 4:00 or 5:00 AM (I’ve forgotten which); we signed off for 15 minutes at 7:00 AM to allow some station out West to sign on. This tape begins after we’ve signed back on. My charge was to do a light and happy show under these conditions. Embarrassing as these early air checks are, they are part of my Top 40 radio history. By the way, the “image” voice was the newest PD, Stan Major, heard on all the promos and intros. The short period that I was there was too long. I was later able to introduce newsman Cy Nelson, who was incredulous with those news stagings, to a job with Bartell at WOKY in Milwaukee. He was a quality gentleman. Interestingly, when I returned to Bartell later in ’61, Chris Lane was PD and his charge was just the opposite – straight ahead “tuff” manly radio. It was only a short time until Chris went to Bartell’s KYA. Later he became one of the giants with his country format. He actually put WJJD on the map for a few years later with country. Chris was post-humously inducted into the Country Music DJ Hall of Fame in 2001. Although he was a native of the mid-west, Chris’ radio career had begun in my little hometown of McMinnville, TN and we meet up again in Milwaukee! As they say, “it’s a small world, after all”.