Al Brady wraps his portion of the WOR-FM All-Time Top 300 with hits number 268 through 249. Sad to say we don’t have the entire countdown, and I don’t know that it exists. And by the way, it’s not that the actual chart is of interest – it’s the presentation of that chart that is fascinating.
What is really surprising here are the number of live reads required to “fill in” for veteran Tony Taylor. Al was a very accomplished and promising 24-year-old in 1969. This was First-Class, Union-Waged Big Time Big Town radio. He had “made it”.
In Part 3, Dave Spencer is featured with a ten-minute PM drive newscast, which is why this part includes a ‘scoped version. The newscast is loaded with Events Of The Day that may not have seemed important then, but we are so much smarter now, aren’t we?