… When the saints go marchin’ in, I wanna be doin’ a number, when the saints go marchin’ in …
[Description by Uncle Ricky, contributed by Eric Rhoads]
Wolfman Jack, 1979
This ‘scoped aircheck of Wolfman Jack is extremely rare! There are very few airchecks of Wolfman and his live show circa 1973-1974 on WNBC. We know of only one other  a 1973 aircheck from Programmer’s Digest that generated lots of comment back in the “someone else paid for it” days. What’s really great about this almost half-hour is that it includes most of Wolfman’s first two hours of the evening.
The fidelity of this recording is nothing exceptional, but the content is hard-core Wolfman. And he has a problem. Apparently, he was expecting the new Rolling Stones album for his program this evening. (History tells us the LP was released on August 31, 1973.) The best he can arrange is 40 Angie singles, and he says he will give those away to the first 40 people who meet him at the entrance to NBC on 49th Street, at midnight (standing in an orderly line, of course.) Do you wonder if that went OK?
There are lots of WNBC “Adult Top 40” jingles. The original ‘scoping was somewhat irregular, but there’s no doubt that the NBC engineer on duty had some difficulty with levels, overlays and overall production. Some of what you will hear is just plain run all over itself. But, 20 years after Alan Freed’s Moondog first wailed at WJW, Wolfman was howling in the Big Apple.