Dr Harvey Reuben- I listened I think in the 80s out of a SW burbs station. Phycologist call-in show. People would call with crazy problems and Dr Reuben would try to make sense and sort things out. Highly interesting show. Dr Reuben worked at major hospitals in the east coast. A Vietnam medic. A kind man but no wimp. Really laid back not a showboat like the ripoffs that copied him.

Buz kilman sat night show- he was great with Steve and Garry but had his own show awhile. He'd have regular call ins who would be hilarious.The king of all idiots I remember for one. Can't believe he didn't do more solo on Chicago radio.

Purvis spann the all-night blues man- I remember it was on 105.9. in those days really bad reception. Great music.

Jake Hartford wls- was on Saturday nights. Always would intentionally give wrong instructions on the 2 clock change days. People would be pleading with him that he was wrong. Stupid yes but funny. Very dry humor. I think he went to days at wls then died a fairly young man

Bob brinkers moneytalk wls- started on bears Superbowl Sunday and still is on wls on Sundays. Teaches you to buy no load index mutual funds and be your own financial boss. Thus avoiding high fee& commission brokers who legally ripoff the uninformed. Educational syndicated show, not the informercial get rich quick slop wls also plays. His market timing is faulty but gives good fundamental advice.

Buzz had a fun show with Tony Fitzpatrick

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Hartford was great. He did die young, his main gig was producing at channel 2. Hartford followed by Nate Clay on weekend overnights, often getting bombarded by prank calls, made for fun listening.

Jay Marvin during his first stint at WLS doing overnights was fucking awesome. Unapologetic flaming liberal with even anarchist leanings on a mostly conservative station. Laid into both the national GOP and the Daley machine relentlessly. He'd take unscreened calls (the Shootout) to start the show off, then when doing serious topics he would fight with callers to the point of screaming back and forth. He moved to Denver for a few years and came back, but it wasn't the same. WLS neutered him and eventually put him with this shrill woman in middays.

Anyone ever hear Gregg Doffin on WJOB Hammond? Morning show late 90's early 2000's, complete loony tune-right "Clinton wants to let the UN take over our lives" kook. He'd openly mock the speech of black callers "it's asked, not axed!". Sort of the heir apparent to Warren Freiberg in Da Region. Not long after 9/11 management deemed his brand of talk radio too controversial and canned him.

I will second the thoughts on Jay Marvin. I disagreed with him on a ton but he was great to listen to and even nicer when I met him in person.

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Gregg Doffin was a nut, but an entertaining nut. Whatever happened to him? I figured he'd resurface somewhere, but I never heard about him again.

There used to be many radio hosts that were enjoyable to listen to in spite of political differences.

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I have airchecks of this!


Didn't Jay Marvin have very serious health problems, like, almost died? I don't remember the timeline, but that may have had more to do with him calming down than WLS management (which, for a conservative talk station, gave a pretty long leash to liberal talk: Jay Marvin, Mike Malloy, some weekend hosts).

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Jay always had mental health issues, was diagnosed bipolar manic depressive and talked about it openly on air. I don't think he had serious life-threatening physical issues until his second go-around in Denver after WLS let him go in 2006. He cited both dealing with Columbine on-air while in Denver and also an incident with being stalked by a listener (guy found his home address and poisoned his dog or something crazy like that) as the reason for his mellowed demeanor when he came back to Chicago. But later on after he was gone from WLS for good he had an interview (Feder or Zorn, don't remember which) and said management told him to tone it down.

WLS did make sure to mix in liberal viewpoints back then when Drew Hayes and Zemira Jones were running it. Not anymore of course.

Yeah, it was weird. I saw his byline in the NWI Times a few times about 10 years ago, but only on news reports, not op-ed pieces or anything like that. Other than that, nothing. Maybe the black helicopters got him.

Sex talk with Phyllis Levy on WLS.

That was one I couldn't remember her name. A charming lady

Don't remember that, but I remember Private Lives on B96. I thought oral sex was the scientific term for kissing. I suppose it is, in a manner of speaking.

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I remember that vaguely. That’s a long time ago.

i remember one night on loveline a caller whined about his girl leaving him for one of his friends and adam carolla popped up with this moment of clarity like "you're looking at the situation all wrong! instead of looking at it like this guy took your chick you oughta see it as you're just another guy who's banged his girl"

i can't say that loveline was technically a "great" radio show, but that was a truly great moment.

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I need to work on distinguishing my Adam Carolla impression from my Paul Lynde impression. Not enough daylight between 'em yet.

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Seka had one with a guy who sounded exactly like Stan from Bellwood. (Stan Lawrence).

And Dr. Ruth had a crazy show, once with a caller who claimed that he would pop his girlfriend's fake eye out and go to town.

But I loved Terry Armour and Stan's show on CKG, featuring Bonnie Green from time to time. And she was often hilarious.

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Stan from Bellwood might not be Stan Lawrence after all!

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997 ... rts-talk/2


Also, eight minutes for a caller? Even the guys with their tongues way up Bernstein's ass wouldn't get two minutes.

EDIT: lol, it just occurred to me that people on the radio may not always use their birth names. haha.

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I remember an episode where a guy was complaining that his girl asked him to piss before any activity because she was afraid he’d do it inside her. That, and listening on very low volume as to not alert my parents to what I was listening too. I think they simulcast on Z-95. These are my only memories of it.

Jake Hartford on weekend mornings
Murph on WLS
Sportswriters on weekends
Coppock's show pre-Score
Nate Clay on WLS
Rush during the Clinton years

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My dad use to seek out the sportswriters. I kind of miss that show.

Jack Benny the greatest. Dont forget his radio fued w/ now forgotten Fred Allen.

Jay Marvin was fantastic in Chicago. When he came to WLS the airwaves were full of Rush Limbaugh and right wing radio personalities. Jay was a breath of fresh air.

Murph on WLS was great too.

JHood on the Score late nights was awesome.

I do remember Jake Hartford. He was a good listen . wow did not know he died.

Loved Nate Clay too.

Remember Bob Lassiter. I think that was his name. His show was just to get people angry.

You might not like what he says.

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Hood and Holmes hosting Wrestlemaniacs

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

Stan and terry show was another good one.
They had Julia Louise Dreyfus on and I emailed them that they were in awe of her...just joking.. terry emailed me back laughing. Stan ripped me a new one. They had a great rapport. Horrible to hear when terry passed.
Stan from Bellwood calls to murph were great. Also Southside Rodney and his beloved White Sox.

There was a sports radio show from a se burb small station pre score. It was like Harvey, or Chicago hts or somewhere near there. It was on weekdays for a couple of hours at 5. They'd take calls. A lot of future score callers would call in. I remember Southside Bob calling a lot. Wonderrful calls. He had a distintive voice. I think he still calls rozner once in awhile.

The host got busted for embezzling or a Ponzi scheme. Anybody remember the host? Problably mid 80s.

Oh the sportwriters. That was sports talk at it's best. All old pros. Lots of hovering cigar smoke. A must listen, then a must watch on my pirate sportschannel box.
Chet coppock was the most pompous arrogant guy. But the city loved him. If it had anything to do with Chicago sports I was in.
Wgn had a sports anchor named Sid Garcia. Chet opens his radio show saying I don't want to hear anything negative from you people tonight unless it's about Sid Garcia. I think Mac borrows some of his delivery from Chet.

Wgn radio had a late night sports rap up show on about 1030 weeknights.vince Lloyd would do it a lot.

Driving in the car wbbm 780 would be switched on I believe at 15 and 45 each hour for sports updates.
Wmaq 670 pre Chet had a sports call in show with Pat Sheridan weeknights. It was before they were all news.

remember the coach and the kid. the kid was like mike north wannabe. wonder if those 2 are still in radio.

Seems they had a brokered show on CBR that went to the Score after CBR flipped to Kiss FM.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998 ... eve-ramsey



Get a load of Gleason low-key shitting on the popularity of his new hires before they've even gone on the air! There will always be an England when it comes to the Score, huh.

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