… 1937 was the year …
[Description by Uncle Ricky, contributed by Art Vuolo]
Magic Chris Connor has a full rack of drop-ins and effects, including a personal manservant named “Howard”, on this rare aircheck of high-energy Top 40 on WNAP-FM, Indianapolis. And speaking of drop-ins, Connor uses one of the Super Wonder Dog Blue recordings, which was also in use by Long John Silver at WAYS in Charlotte, N.C., at the same time. That dog sure got around!
The station went through some significant changes in the years that followed. This exhibit survived as a scoped, fluttery reel recording, made after Christmas and before New Year’s Eve, 1968. In addition to Connor’s upbeat delivery (inspired by Barney Pip a few years earlier?) there are PAMS jingles, not the custom Heller tracks heard on WNAP airchecks from 1972-1975.