… How do you like me so far? …
[Description by Uncle Ricky, contributed by Eric Rhoads]If he sounds familiar, you’ve probably heard his 1971 WLS exhibit, or his outrageous 1975 CKLW performance (as Chuck “Hot Ticket” McKay.)
The “fidelity”, such as it is, is atrocious. Too many airchecks sound like this, blown out and distorted, and they were supposedly recorded by “broadcast professionals!” This one is “splattered” to death. Nice editing though, and this aircheck must have sounded great when brand new, before it was copied, and copied, and copied
Chuck was a great jock! It would be easy to predict his acension to the majors, but not necessarily his 50KW breakdown five years later.
Williams, (real name Jim Welch), died of natural causes in Phoeniz, Arizona, in 2008. He was 59.