WLOL-AM (1330)
1944
Mutual's election night news coverage with Gabriel Heatter (1944) 12 MB (provided by Todd Kosovich)
1959
"Dance Party Show" - Interview with Guy Lombardo - 14 MB (provided by Stuart Held)
1960 (approximately)
Montage of recordings taken from various transcription records (approximately 1960) including commercials, station promo and a portion of a interview with comedian Jack E. Leonard. - 4 MB
1971
Station ID - MOR Format - 229 KB (provided by Jay Philpott)
1/28/1977
Top of hour ID - Country music format - .5 MB (provided by Bob Rivard)
February 1977
Michael O'Shay - Country music format - 2 MB (provided by Jay Philpott)
Undated
Tom Wynn Promo - 166 KB (provided by Mark Durenberger)
WLOL-FM (99.5 unless specified)
Late 1970s
Easy Rockin' format brief clip with jingle - .5 MB (provided by Stuart Held)
9/27/1978
FM100 - Steve Shannon - 5 MB (provided by Jay Philpott)
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1980s
Get Me Up Jingle - 1982 Jingle (:60) - 1MB Campaign Demo 1983 9 MB (provided by Jay Philpott)
Jay Philpott writes: When I left WLOL in August of '84, I went to KNBQ-FM in Seattle. Not long after I got there, I played the WLOL-FM Get Me Up demo for my PD and OM and they loved it and bought the package. Aside from those two stations, I don't know of any others that carried the package. Here is the KNBQ-FM "Get Me Up" full sing versions.
7/16/1980
Karen Wong - 7 MB (provided by Rick Schwartz)
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1982
Phil Huston and Jay Philpott - 5 MB
1982
Tac Hammer, Larry Linedecker and Pete Thompson - 2 MB (provided by Bob Rivard)
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4/29/1982
John Hines & Bob Berglund with Huey Lewis "and the news" - 5 MB (provided by Jay Philpott)-
5/6/1982
Brian Acker - 5 MB (provided by Brian Carlson)
5/7/1982
Tac Hammer - 3 MB (provided by Brian Carlson)
5/7/1982
Tac Hammer, Pete Thompson & Karen Wong - 2 MB (provided by Brian Carlson)
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10/3/1982
Jay Philpott - 7 MB
10/3/1982
Jay Philpott - "Hot Hits Countdown" - Songs 30 to 21 7 MB - Songs 20 to 1 15 MB
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March 1983
Jay Philpott - "Hot Hits Countdown" - 12 MB (provided by Drew Durigan)
Hot Hits Countdown format design by Jay Philpott - PDF
A Hot Hits Countdown ratings recap (KDWB aired Casey Kasem's AT40 opposite the Hot Hits Countdown) - PDF
1983
Bill Lee's First Show - 12 MB (provided by Jay Philpott)
1983
Tac Hammer - 2 MB
1983
Karen Wong - 1 MB (provided by Paul Bergly)
1983
Bob Lange including a number of classic commercials for Schaak Electronics, Sound of Music (explaining they are now also calling themselves "Best Buy Company," a WCCO-TV "News for Thinking People" spot with Dave Moore, WLOL "$100,000 Giveaway" and others. 13 MB (provided by Brian Carlson)
12/31/83 to 1/1/84
Countdown '83 with Jay Philpott - counting down the top songs of 1983. Songs 36 to 1 including "Year in Review" segments with Bob Berglund and a New Year's countdown at midnight - 30 MB (provided by Ron Gerber and Eric P.) - The 1983 Hot HIts Countdown list - PDF (provided by Jay Philpott)
1984
John Hines, Bob Berglund & Paul Douglas - 9 MB (provided by Jay Philpott) 
2/22/1984
Phil Huston with the "Top nine at 9:00" - 6 MB (provided by Brian Carlson)
7/22/1984
Bill Lee - 13 MB (provided by Stuart Held)
9/9/1984
Jay Philpott - "Hot Hits Countdown" Songs 35 to 20 13 MB - Songs 19 to 1 13 MB
8/3/1986
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Paul Westby - #1 (14 MB) - #2 (8 MB) (Part 1 provided by Jay Philpott and Part 2 provided by Dan Gulino)
Paul passed away in February 2010 due to
multiple sclerosis.
The photo was taken in Paul's beloved 1957 Chevrolet (provided by David Westby) - click to enlarge. |
1987
Get Me Up Jingle - 1987 Jingle (:60) - 1 MB
February 1987
Dave Thomson with Paul Magers, Paul Douglas, Tom Ryther, Don Shelby - 22 MB (provided by Jim Schrader)
1987
John Hines and Bob Berglund - "Kids Day" - 23 MB
1987
Denny Shaffer - 4 MB (provided by C. Vainio)
12/31/88
Countdown '88 with John Drew - counting down the top songs of 1988 (scoped). Featured are songs 99 to 31 - Songs 99 to 62 26 MB - Songs 61 to 31 26 MB (provided by Ron Gerber and Eric P.)
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1989
JJ Fly and Tiffany - 29 MB (provided by Tom Wollenberg)
1/30/1989
JJ Fly and Tiffany (1/301989) 29 MB (provided by Tom Wollenberg)
10/12/1989
John Hines & Bob Berglund - 26 MB (provided by Tom Wollenberg)
October 1989
John Hines & Pam Lewis - This aircheck was recorded a few days after the abduction of Jacob Wetterling and includes a message and song for Jacob that many Minnesota radio stations aired at the same time. 23 MB - (provided by Tom Wollenberg)
12/31/89 to 1/1/90
Countdown '89 with Denny Shaffer and John Drew - counting down the top 99 songs of 1989 (scoped) including a New Year's countdown at midnight - Songs 99 to 63 26 MB - Songs 63 to 27 28 MB - Songs 27 to 1 26 MB (provided by Ron Gerber and Eric P.) - Reference is made to the "Maximum Music Montage" after the countdown, which can be heard by clicking here.
Early 1990s
Jammin' in the 90s Part 1 10 MB - Part 2 11 MB (provided by Jay Philpott)
1/16/1991
Chris O'Connor, Alan Kabel - Evening Operation Desert Storm began - 6 MB (provided by Jeff R. Lonto)
1991
Composite - 11 MB (provided by Curt Copeland)
February 1991
Mike Miller, Eleanor Mondale & John Hines - one of their final shows - Part 1 15 MB - Part 2 9MB
February 1991
Final Two Days including switchover to KSJN-FM (Minnesota Public Radio) - 13 MB
2/26/1991
Final day / final hour of regular broadcasting - #1 13 MB - #2 28 MB (provided by Tom Wollenberg)
2/26/1991
After end of regular broadcasting ... including commercials for KDWB-FM - 7 MB (Note: After ending regular broadcasting, the station late came back on the air for a few hours with just music and KDWB-FM commercials)
8/5/1999
Debut of Classic Hits format - 100.3 FM - 4 MB (provided by Jay Philpott)
VIDEOS
WLOL-FM - 1982
Aired on KMSP-TV
(provided by Jay Philpott)

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WLOL-FM - 1984
Aired on WCCO-TV
(provided by Jay Philpott)

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WLOL-FM
Aired on WTCN-TV (KARE)
1985

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WLOL-FM
Aired on KARE-TV
1987

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WLOL-FM
Aired on KARE-TV
1988

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PRINTED MATERIALS
WLOL-AM
1941 (41 pages / PDF 4
MB)
WLOL-AM
War Programming 1942 (4 pages / PDF 2
MB)
Newspaper ads from 1947 featuring Leigh Kamman, John MacDougal and others PDF File (2 MB)
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WLOL-AM - Top 40 Surveys 7/26/1959 9/20/1959 11/01/1959 (PDF files, approximately .5 MB each)
Sales kit that shows the date of the switch to Top 40 (or CHR): 12/12/81 PDF File (provided by Jay Philpott)
Top 99 1/2 Songs of 1982 PDF 3 MB (provided by Jay Philpott)
WLOL-FM (99.5) - Newspaper Scans - PDFs (provided by Jay Philpott)
Pioneer Press - 3/8/1982 - Part 1 Part 2
Pioneer Press - 7/9/1982 - Part 1 Part 2
Star-Tribune - 7/9/1982
Twin Cities Reader - 7/15/1982
R&R - 7/23/1982
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Jay Philpott writes: "In the Pioneer Press article on 7/9/1982, Rick Shefchick interviewed me after WLOL got the 10 share. It was because I had just gotten off the air at Noon and was literally the only person left in the building. Everyone (except the noon-3 pm jock) including the receptionist had gone to the bar across the street!" |
WLOL-FM - 1983 Music Surveys featuring Jay Philpott - Debbie Sturges - Sharron Tollefson - Bob Lange PDFs
Article about John Hines and Bob Berglund - Minneapolis Tribune in 1983 - 8 MB PDF
A look back at the 1987 WLOL-FM Incredible Prize Catalog Sweepstakes and the controversy it created including newspaper articles and a scan of the prize catalog. - 1 MB PDF
POSTER (click to enlarge)

(1980/Early 1981) |
Jay Philpott sent the following comment about the WLOL-FM poster :
"WLOL....99 and a half FM.....Almost Perfect Radio. I'm pretty sure that was the idea of then-GM Doyle Rose. That poster is actually a screen shot of the TV spot that was inspired by 1979's hit movie "10" and featured a Bo Derek look alike running down the beach, inter cut with a kid building a huge sand castle. The shots went back and forth as she came closer and closer to the sand castle, finally ending in a freeze frame of her tripping over and falling into the kid's creation! One of the most notable and memorable uses of that slogan on the air was how Bob Berglund used it to close his newscasts when he was paired with Phil Huston (Huston & Berglund). Bob would be doing the weather, and at some point when he knew Bob had enough left to fill the intro time, Phil would start the next song, and Bob would hit the post by delaying the slogan until the beginning of the vocals, no matter how long the wait (Berglund with the weather after the song started: "... and a high tomorrow of 75. It's 62 now at WLOL .... 99 And A Half ..... Almost ............................................ Perfect Radio" The station was still AC then, and did some get nice awareness from the campaign - it certainly set the stage nicely for the shift to straight-ahead Top 40 in the Fall of 1981." |
WLOL-FM T-Shirts from the 1970s-1980s - click on image to enlarge - provided by Bob Vesely
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