… Whammo! …
Here’s Captain Whammo (Jim Channell), smokin’ on WMET (FM) in Chicago, 1977. I was introduced to the good Captain by Dave Kohl, sports director at WBLG in Lexington, KY when I worked there in the late 70’s. Dave worked at WMET when it was WDHF and Captain Whammo sent him this aircheck, and I got a dub.
I later got a chance to go up to WMET’s studios and watch Whammo work. It was the dead of winter in Chicago, but he was on the air barefoot in a t-shirt and Bermuda shorts sweatin’ his butt off. I remember being especially impressed with their phone system where the jock talked into the microphone, but the caller was heard out of a speaker. Pretty much the norm today, but where I worked at the time it was radical technology.