Steve Miller, WLPL-FM Baltimore, December 1971 (0:48:55)

… Congressman Wilbur Mills says the Democrats could beat President Nixon in 1972, if they tell the truth …
[Description by Uncle Ricky] Contributor Joe Evelius wrote that WLPL-FM was Baltimore’s first FM rocker at 92.3 Mhz. Anyone who worked in a small or medium market in those years will recognize the Frankenstein Acapella Jingle Company offerings here. OK, so WLPL owned a few jingles of their own, and they stitched them together with some other jingles. With the exception of Footstompin’, which has audible phase error, (the only serious defect in this otherwise excellent recording) it’s likely all of the music on this unscoped exhibit was from 45 RPM vinyl singles. Holiday Alert: There are a couple of seasonal musical offerings in this unscoped 48 minutes of the Steve Miller program on a Million Dollar Weekend from a Saturday night in December, 1971. Steve also reads the news – following a muddy musical stager dating back to the early sixties! The lead story advises pregnant women to avoid emptying the cat’s litter pan. Please make a note of it.

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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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