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Jim Stagg, WOKY Milwaukee WI May 1, 1962 (scoped) (0:18:31)

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Tom Konard's Aircheck Factory Collection
… … check the white pages of your phone book … …

[Description by Uncle Ricky]

Newsman Raymond E. Spencer opens this half-hour of the WOKY Milwaukee morning show starring Jim Stagg. It’s the first day of May, and the Communists are marching. And yes, the phone company once published phone directories with “white pages” of residential and business listings.

Stagg spins a very adult selection of music for the morning here. Chris Lane was behind the formatting of this station, as he was for KYA in San Francisco. At the time of this aircheck, WOKY was owned by Bartell.

There’s a great background of the WOKY format with the aircheck of Sam Hale on WOKY from July 17, 1962. It includes comments written by those who were there.

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