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Dan Ingram, WABC 20th Anniversary, July 3, 1981, Pt.4 (scoped) (0:36:13)

Scoped
The Bruce Portzer Collection
… love you, Pappy …

[Description by Uncle Ricky]

Without question, some of the most poignant moments in Top-40 history, 46-year-old Dan Ingram pays respect to Hal Neal, and plays a 1933 recording of his father Johnny Ingram in the last hour of his 20th Anniversary Show on WABC, New York. And Dan learned lessons about tongue-twisters.

Newsman Rick James reminds us of the horrors unfolding before us as Jimmy Carter becomes President, including Jim Jones and the hope and change promised by Ronald Reagan. What happened to Lee Marvin’s first-ever Palimony suit? Ask Liberace’s live-in friend.

Dan’s intro to Kiss And Say Goodbye is simply hilarious. There is some material repeated from previous contributions to REELRADIO (online since ’96), but we’ve not been privileged to Dan’s marriage proposal until now.

The RESTORED version includes six songs played during the 1981 broadcast.

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