Tony Taylor, Jim O'Brien, WOR-FM New York, May 2, 1968 (scoped) (0:17:12)

Scoped
… Ladies and Gentlemen, Memories Are Made Of This …
[Description by Uncle Ricky] This exhibit boasts smooth Tony Taylor in the last hour of his early afternoon shift, followed by a quarter-hour of Jim O’Brien. A second part, featured below, includes another 75 minutes of O’Brien. Taylor had been at WQXI/Atlanta just three years earlier. Tony Taylor passed away Sunday, June 18, 2017. He was a 2008 Career Achievement Inductee into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame. There’s lots of great and not-so-great music in this one, including a few Hitbounds that ultimately have been forgotten. But Bill Drake’s custom WOR-FM format is in full glory with the Million Dollar Battle starting tomorrow. The fidelity and stereo separation is good, though there is some infrequent high-frequency splatter.

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This site is now operated by the North Carolina Broadcast History Museum. 

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. 

Our goals with this site are to preserve the exhibits and make them available free of charge for people to enjoy.  Over time, we hope to add some airchecks to the site.  This will not happen immediately.  Time and resources will determine the future of new exhibits. 

Many thanks to the web folks at the Beasley Media Group for countless hours of work.  Again thanks to the board members of ReelRadio, Inc. for their faith in us. 

Richard Irwin’s hope was that his site would live on long after his passing. He said, “I hope REELRADIO will survive as my contribution to the ‘radio business’. The business is allowed to forget me, but the business should never forget the great era of radio that we celebrate here”.

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Carl Davis
Trustee
North Carolina Broadcast History Museum