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A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

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Favoriting May 14, 2024: The Wiggle Room with MarkTime--Easy Listening WPIX-FM NYC 1969

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Listener comments!

Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
WR:

1969 was an eventful year for me. Wonder how I would be different if I had taken it easy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
Krys O.:

Hi, WR! I was 5 going on 6 years old in 1969 since I was born in November. I remember thinking how awesome it was going to be for the decade to change into the 70s. LOL!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
WR:

earliest year I recall thinking was special was 1961 because it could be rotated 180 degrees and read the same.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
Krys O.:

↳ WR @7:32
Yes!!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Krys O.:

Hi, Austin!
  8:00pm
Kat in the chat:

It’s MarkTime!
Avatar 8:01pm
Imaginos:

Ahoy
Avatar 👻 8:03pm
MarkTime:

↳ Kat in the chat @8:00
Ah, I guess it is
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Krys O.:

WPIX was on the cutting edge when I was in high school. They played The Clash, Joe Jackson, etc. We're talking 1979 or so.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Krys O.:

Hello, Kat, Mark, Imaginos!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Krys O.:

WPIX TV was a great local NY station. They had old movies and classic TV shows.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
Krys O.:

So WPIX from 1978-1980 was almost a rival of WLIR in Long Island and WNYU, New York University's station.

"1978–1980: New wave music/punk rock. At a time when other rock stations in New York were sticking with traditional AOR formats (WPLJ, WNEW-FM), adult Top 40 (WXLO) and oldies (WCBS-FM), WPIX staked out a groundbreaking format focused on new wave and punk but included older rock and roll as well, hence its advertising slogan: "From Elvis to Elvis" (meaning Elvis Presley to Elvis Costello.) It helped break in New York and nationally early records by Costello, The Police, Nick Lowe, The Clash, The Cars, Squeeze, Devo, The Kings, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Buzzcocks, Cheap Trick, Talking Heads, David Johansen, Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd, among others. The station was even featured in lyrics from the Squeeze song, 'I Think I'm Go Go' (P I X and rock and roll).[14]"
Avatar 👻 8:07pm
MarkTime:

Hello all! Prior to 1979, I only heard what few New York AM stations got into Chicago ... really only WNEW and WQXR. The other 50kw biggies were block by 50kw Chicago stations
Avatar 👻 8:07pm
Mr Fab:

Hi Mark, and fellow wigglers! Diggin this episode already. As someone once sang, nice and EZ does it every time.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:01
Nice to see you in the chat!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @7:48
Howdy! I hope you are well.
Avatar 8:09pm
Imaginos:

Nice musical selection tonight
Avatar 👻 8:09pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:07
Darn I missed WPIX-FM in 1979. I only had two days to hear what I could ... WOR, WABC, WNBC, WRVR, WPLJ, WNEW-FM,
Avatar 8:09pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @8:08
You as well
  8:12pm
Kat in the chat:

OMG from Bert Kaempfert to rats! πŸ€πŸ€πŸ€πŸ€πŸ€
Avatar 👻 8:12pm
Mr Fab:

Yikes, that rats PSA just reminds us that even in EZ-land, NYC in 1979 is still NYC in 1979.
Avatar 8:13pm
Imaginos:

Speaking of soft music, did you know that there are two lullaby versions of Don't Fear the Reaper
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Krys O.:

↳ MarkTime @8:09
My friend, Wm Berger who was a legendary WFMU DJ was the son of Larry Berger who was the program director at WPLJ from 1973 until the mid-1980s. Wm was really close to Zacherle.
Avatar 8:14pm
Imaginos:

↳ Mr Fab @8:12
Yeah. And now they get millions of likes on YouTube
  8:15pm
Kat in the chat:

Sweet version of Call Me
Avatar 👻 8:15pm
MarkTime:

↳ Imaginos @8:13
Did either one have soft cowbell?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Krys O.:

Ooh, a mellotron!
Avatar 8:16pm
Imaginos:

↳ MarkTime @8:15
Not sure. Haven't listened yet but they're on the Hoopla app
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
Krys O.:

Nice Cal Tjader cover of Dionne.
Avatar 8:17pm
Roberto:

I wuz twee yeewz owd
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
Krys O.:

↳ MarkTime @8:15
LOL!
Avatar 👻 8:18pm
MarkTime:

Ooh, a Burt Bacharach set
Avatar 8:18pm
Roberto:

All Bacharach, all the time?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Krys O.:

I just noticed the New Amsterdam theater is showing 100 Rifles in the main photo. Across the street at the Rialto is Female and Extra Box Lunch.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Krys O.:

WPIX TV was channel 11.
Avatar 8:21pm
Imaginos:

↳ MarkTime @8:15
Also for Burning For You . strange choices for lullabies
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Krys O.:

Mel! I was just thinking of him today.
Avatar 👻 8:22pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:21
Darn, I was going to slip in some of the trailer for "100 Rifles"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Krys O.:

This is what that corner looks like today:
goguides.azureedge.net...
Avatar 8:26pm
Roberto:

↳ Krys O. @8:25
So, basically unchanged.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Krys O.:

The Brass Ring: Honey
Avatar 👻 8:27pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:25
Why am I not surprised Disney now owns the New Amsterdam theatre?
Avatar 8:28pm
Roberto:

Joe Buck and Rizzo must be somewhere nearby.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Krys O.:

↳ MarkTime @8:27
Disney owns most of that area.
Avatar 8:28pm
Roberto:

↳ Roberto @8:28
I mean, Rico.
Avatar 8:28pm
Roberto:

↳ Roberto @8:28
Wait no it was Rizzo.
Avatar 8:29pm
Roberto:

↳ Roberto @8:28
They're walkin' here.
Avatar 👻 8:30pm
MarkTime:

↳ Roberto @8:28
Joe Buck went on to do sports games for Fox TV hahaha. Too bad Ratso did not survive to do color
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Krys O.:

I used to walk down 42nd Street to get from Port Authority to Grand Central to visit my parents when I was in college in NJ in the early 1980s; the height of the porn era and street corner preachers. Later Jenny Holzer took over and used the marquees of the abandoned theaters for her concrete poetry.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Austin Rich:

"Weatherscope!" I sort of love that.
Avatar 8:30pm
Imaginos:

Do I even want to know about Extra Box Lunch?
Avatar 8:31pm
Roberto:

↳ MarkTime @8:30
Joe also morphed into a meshuggeneh MAGA type.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
Krys O.:

I love these photos before the Disneyfication:

anothereyeopens.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
Krys O.:

Very peppy for Easy Listening. Love it!
Avatar 👻 8:35pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:34
Cool!
Avatar 8:37pm
Roberto:

I just noticed it's quarter to seven, presumably in the PM, and assuming the clock on the Amsterdam is reasonably accurate.
Avatar 👻 8:37pm
MarkTime:

A Beatles cover I've heard often
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Krys O.:

This Hollyridge Strings doing All My Loving is awesome!
  8:40pm
Kat in the chat:

The Beatles bag, as they say
Avatar 8:40pm
Imaginos:

↳ Krys O. @8:38
The idea that these types of instruments can produce awesome versions of songs is a string theory I can agree with
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
Krys O.:

I don't think I've ever heard Eydie sing this way.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
Krys O.:

Si Zentner and His Orchestra doing Marie. Nice.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Austin Rich:

I really love these old air checks. Thanks for doing this, Mark Time! It's always a treat.
Avatar 8:47pm
Imaginos:

Its amazing how fast music like this can make time go by
Avatar 8:49pm
Imaginos:

I wonder who would win a battle of the bands between Burt Bacharach and Bob Crewe
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Krys O.:

That's a different outro. Wow!
Avatar 👻 8:49pm
MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @8:45
You're welcome!
Avatar 👻 8:49pm
MarkTime:

Pssssst ... there's a kind of hush
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Austin Rich:

Just one kind. All the other hushes were busy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Krys O.:

OOF! That'll wake you up!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:52
"Easy" does it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Krys O.:

Golly! It's Herb Alpert doing Carmen!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Krys O.:

Thanks very much, Mark for a great show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Krys O.:

Accurate time check!
Avatar 👻 8:56pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:55
You're welcome! And thanks again for the help!
Avatar 8:56pm
Imaginos:

↳ Krys O. @8:56
Indeed
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Krys O.:

↳ MarkTime @8:56
Always a pleasure.
Avatar 👻 8:58pm
MarkTime:

One of my short term goals is to have a spare show or two "in the can" in case of emergencies such as the 5th Tuesday
  9:00pm
Kat in the chat:

Thank you Mark, and Krys!
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