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WJPC AM 95 With Sammy Davis, Jr. (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 3322

Here's another commercial for a long-gone Chicago radio station - WJPC AM 95 (950 AM) - where Tom Joyner got his start in Chicago. (Along with LaDonna Tittle and BeBe D'Banana)

Featuring Sammy Davis, Jr. doing an impression of Humphrey Bogart.

Is that Tom Joyner doing the voiceover at the end?

WJPC was apparently owned by Johnson Publishing Company, who put out Jet and Ebony magazines.

This commercial aired on local Chicago TV on Su...

WYEN FM 107 - "Request Radio" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 3214

Here's a commercial for WYEN FM 107 ("Request Radio," licensed to neighboring Des Plaines - and today Spanish-language WPPN, "Amor 106.7"), featuring snippets of such tracks as "No Tell Lover" by Chicago, "Last Time I Saw Him" by Diana Ross, "Forever In Blue Jeans" by Neil Diamond, and "Too Much Heaven" by the Bee Gees.

The "Request Radio" slogan referred to the station playing music requested by listeners.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, September 22...

WLS Channel 7 - The 3:30 Movie - "The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman" (Bumper Promo, 1979)

Views: 578

Here's a brief bumper promo for The 3:30 Movie presentation of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" on WLS Channel 7, which aired on Monday, January 22nd 1979.

Voiceover by Art Hellyer(?)

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, January 21st 1979.

WFLD Channel 32 - The Addams Family - #1 (Break #2 & Ending, 1971)

Views: 3146

Here's the last full commercial break (in mostly black and white) as well as the ending credits from The Addams Family on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

Zestabs chewable vitamins animated commercial featuring Mighty Mouse

WFLD Sci-Fi Cinema promo - Saturdays at 1pm and 6pm and Sundays at 1pm.

Chicken Unlimited Family Restaurants - "We're Not Happy Until You Are" (Just like FuzzyMemories!) ;-)

Ending credits of The Addams Family (no voic...

The 24 Days of Christmas - "England" with Michael Caine (1979)

Views: 1445

Here's another installment from the recurring 24 Days of Christmas one-minute featurettes, here with Michael Caine (just a few short years away from becoming "The Hardest Working Man in Hollywood") describing the Christmas traditions in England (five years before WBBM Channel 2's Bob Wallace travelled all the way there to find them out in person). Caine starts off by invoking the names of key characters from Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" before listing holiday traditions that d...

Emergency Broadcast System Test (Tiny Excerpt, 1977)

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Here's a clip that's very short but also very rare. On the 1977 WSNS tape, between the two episodes of Superman there was a quick switch to something that might have been recorded previously - a small excerpt of an Emergency Broadcast System test. You can see the slide used for it and make out a word or two of the announcement "Broadcasters...(in your area, probably)"

Slide says: "Emergency Broadcast System - Official Government Information - Civil Defense Instructions"
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Richard J. Daley For Mayor - "Good For Chicago" (Political Ad, 1975)

Views: 2299

Here's something really cool - an original political ad for the re-election of Richard J. Daley held on Tuesday, February 25th 1975.

Boy, after recently reading "Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago" by Mike Royko, I don't know if you could say he was all that good for Chicago. But it certainly was a political dynasty the likes of which we will never see aga- oops, never mind.

Paid for by The All-Chicago Citizens Committee to Re-elect Richard J. Daley, Mayor.
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WGN Channel 9 - Bozo's Circus - "Frazier's Pledge" (1978)

Views: 2373

Here's a segment from Bozo's Circus on WGN Channel 9, featuring Frazier Thomas reciting an uber-patriotic dissection of the Pledge of Allegiance. (which came from an old Red Skelton record, apparently, as Frazier notes, "on Columbia Records...and Published by Valentine Music").

You can see Red Skelton reciting this piece himself, here.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, July...

WJPC 95 AM - "The Station All Your Friends Are Listening To" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 1035

Here's a commercial for WJPC 95 AM, with celebrity endorsements from Michael Jackson (wearing a London police constable's hat and sporting his first nose job as would be seen on his breakthrough album Off the Wall) and his pet parrot named Ricky, Muhammad Ali, Redd Foxx (with Tom Joyner holding the microphone - and being KO'd by him), the Commodores, Soul Train host Don Cornelius, and Slappy White. Also seen with Joyner at the end are fellow WJPC air personalities Jo Jo Bell Wi...