Larry Lujack, WLS Chicago, April 26, 1971 (0:58:34)

… Up, Up and Away – Larry Lujack starts your day …

[Description by Uncle Ricky]

REELRADIO pays music licensing fees to present unedited music online. Your tax-deductible subscription to our organization helps keep this and other “unscoped” exhibits available.
A portion of ABC News includes a clip from Vice-President Spiro Agnew, and then WLS newsman Lyle Dean opens this 30 minute, unscoped aircheck of Larry Lujack’s 7AM hour on April 26, 1971.

Those fabulous WLS stagings and PAMS jingles are always a treat, but this aircheck includes an extra surprise: Larry’s Double-Clunk Letters of the Day (actually, double invitations) and the feature is introduced by a produced “da da dum, da da dum, da da dum”, instead of Larry’s usual solo acapella (at 23:54, PLAY.)

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We want to thank the board of ReelRadio, Inc. for their stewardship since the passing of the founder Richard Irwin in 2018.  It has not been easy and they have maintained the exhibits for future generations to enjoy.

I met Richard Irwin, aka Uncle Ricky, when we were freshmen at East Carolina University.  We both had worked at local stations in our hometowns.  No one was more passionate about radio, especially Top 40 radio, than my friend Richard. 

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