Johnny Williams, CKLW Windsor-Detroit, December 31, 1973 Pt.8 (1:16:26)

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… My New Year’s resolution will be not to dream of Raquel Welch, just to dream of normal mountains …

[Description by Uncle Ricky. Exhibit contributed by Andy Bologovsky]

Part Eight of this Extended-Play CKLW Logger Tape features Johnny Williams and his very boss jock program from 10:15 AM to approximately 11:30 AM on Monday, December 31, 1973.

Grant Hudson interrupts with a traffic advisory, and is also heard with 20/20 News and a CKLW In-Depth report about Canadian Robert Goulet.

This recording, like the previous CKLW Logger Tapes presented in The Andy Bologovsky Collection, was recovered from the original logger reels by restorian Charlie Ritenburg. The fidelity is comparable to a recording made from a narrow-band AM receiver in the local signal area of the mighty CKLW.

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