WLOL AM & FM
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WLOL-AM (1330)
1944
Mutual's election night news coverage with Gabriel Heatter - 12 MB (provided by Todd Kosovich)
1946
WLOL-AM (1330) - Dance Jamboree with Leigh Kamman broadcast in September 1946 from the St. Paul Auditorium that also aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System. - 14 MB
3/1/1957
Steve Cannon and Leigh Kamman - 15 MB. (provided by Tom Mischke)
Includes commercials for Broadway Plymouth, Local Owned, and Smith Bros. Black Cough Drops. Plus, "Yuck for a Buck."
7/19/1957
Steve Cannon with the "Noontime Slump" - 16 MB. (provided by Tom Mischke)
Includes commercials for Farmers & Mechanics Savings Bank, Klein Supermarket at Sun Ray Shopping Center, Royal Crown Cola, Jell-O, Roberts Family Shoe Store, Instant Fels Naptha, Bachman’s, Ralston Rice Chex, and Neighborhood Theaters.
1959
"Dance Party Show" - Interview with Guy Lombardo - 14 MB (provided by Stuart Held)
1960 (approximately)
Montage of recordings taken from various transcription records, including commercials, station promo, and a portion of an interview with comedian Jack E. Leonard. - 4 MB
1971
Station ID - MOR Format - 229 KB (provided by Jay Philpott)
11/11/1971
Sam Sherwood Interview - 27 MB (provided by Danny Sigelman)
As a disc jockey, program director, and later general manager of KDWB-AM, Sam Sherwood was one of the key figures in the Top 40 era of AM radio, and eventually became vice president of parent company Crowell Collier Publishing. When KDWB was sold, Sherwood joined Entertainment Communications and pioneered the beautiful music format with WAYL-FM, where he spent ten years as general manager. (Description and photo courtesy of the Pavek Museum)
Includes commercials/promos for Mutual News, Robinson's Menswear, President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (voiced by James Brown), Lake Street Bootery, and US Postal Service.
1971
Current Line with Roy Fox and Ed Sharkey - 5 MB (provided by Curt Lundgren)
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)
8/12/1976
Beautiful Music format - 2 MB
1978
Easy Rockin format brief clip with jingle - .5 MB (provided by Stuart Held)
9/27/1978
Easy Rockin' FM 100 - Steve Shannon - 5 MB (provided by Jay Philpott)
1979
"Easy Rockin' FM 100" including Steve Shannon, Buddy Hollis, Karen Wong and Brian Acker - 6 MB (provided by Al Arneson)
1980s
"Get Me Up" Jingle Package
- 1982 Jingle (:60) 1MB Campaign Demo 1983 9 MB (provided by Jay Philpott)
- Jay 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. What makes the 'Get Me Up' package so memorable is that it was completely homegrown in the Twin Cities, and not a package acquired from a bigger jingle house of the era, like PAMS of Dallas or JAM Productions. The 'Get Me Up' package was written and produced by Kyrl Henderson of Reel Good Productions. Today, Kyrl is still One Creative Guy at www.kyrl.com."
- Jay Philpott tracked down another station that aired the "Get Me Up" jingle package and says, "Bill Shannon (who worked at WLTE from 1985-1988) sent me this group of jingles from WIXX/Green Bay (8 MB). I'm not sure if they bought the whole package - all of the shorter 'workhorse' cuts are here, but apparently they didn't buy the full sing version of 'Get Me Up.' Another 'Get Me Up' station found! This is from WRKA Louisville, KY from 1987. Bill Shannon found these as well. (3 MB)"
- Robyn Watkins provides the following additional stations that used cuts from Reel Good Productions WLOL package:
7/16/1980
Karen Wong - 7 MB (provided by Rick Schwartz)
1980
WLOL-FM (99.5) - "We're The Vikings" song that aired on the Hines & Berglund Show in the 1980s - 1 MB (provided by Lawrence Ronglien)
1981
John Hines and Bob Berglund with two contestants playing Happy Birthday on their music instruments from 1981 - 5 MB (provided by Mike Bares)
1982
Phil Huston and Jay Philpott - 5 MB
1982
Tac Hammer, Larry Linedecker, and Pete Thomson - 2 MB (provided by Bob Rivard)
1982
Profile including John Hines, Bob Berglund, Tac Hammer, Pete Thomson, Karen Wang, Brian Acker - 11 MB (provided by Dan Seeman)
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 (aircheck provided by Brian Carlson, image provided by Jay Philpott
5/7/1982
Tac Hammer, Pete Thomson & Karen Wong - 2 MB (provided by Brian Carlson)
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
Philpott photo from 1982 Click to Enlarge.
10/17/1982
WLOL-FM (99.5) Complete scoped Hot Hits Countdown from October 17, 1982 with Jay Philpott. - 25 MB (provided by the family of Raymond and Muriel Harrington)
Playlist provided by Jay Philpott.
1983
REMEMBERING BOB LANGE
"Bullet" Bob Lange passed away on March 14. Bob worked at KDWB AM/FM in the 1970s, followed by WLOL-FM, WWTC-AM, and KSTP-AM in the 1980s and 1990s. Following a stellar career in radio, Bob re-invented himself and was very successful in the financial world as a stockbroker and financial advisor.
WLOL-FM (99.5) Bob Lange from 1983 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)
WLOL-FM (99.5) Bob Lange from March 6, 1983 - 1 MB (provided by Jay Philpott)
KLCI-FM (106.1) Bob Lange Interview from June 19, 2020 - 2 MB
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)
September 1983
John Hines & Bob Berglund Anniversary Show Live at Grandma's Saloon - #1 (8 MB) - #2 (11 MB) (provided by Troy Woodruff)
Includes Karen Wong (at the studio) and commercials for Powers (JR Style), Twin Cities Olds Dealers, Eddie and the Cruisers (movie), Gregory's Bar, Powers (JR Style), Circus Entertainment Centers, Rapid Oil Change, Great Luggage, and Country Stores.
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
Profile with John Hines, Bob Berglund, Tac Hammer, Bob Lange, Bill Lee, Phil Huston, Paul Douglas, Karen Wong, Buddy Hollis - 19 MB (provided by Dan Seeman)
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)
4/12/1984
John Hines & Bob Berglund - 24 MB (provided by Troy Woodruff)
Includes newscast with Bob Berglund, weather with Paul Douglas, traffic with John Lundell, "Up Your News" feature, Breakfast Quiz, and commercials for Arby's, Zantigo, Budget Power, Dayton's/Levi Jeans, and Chrysler.
7/6 to 9/14/1984
John Hines, Bob Berglund, Paul Douglas & Sam (provided by Paul Douglas)
- 7/6/1984 (8 MB) Starts with Rocky Rococo commercial
- 7/19/1984 (5 MB) Starts with KITN-TV channel 29 commercial
- 7/26/1984 (6 MB) Starts with Amoco commercial
- 8/24/1984 (7 MB) Starts with Herman's World of Sports commercial
- 9/4/1984 (6 MB) Starts with The Gallery Restaurant commercial
- 9/9/1984 (7 MB) Includes Twin Cities Oldsmobile Dealers spot
- 9/14/1984 (4 MB)
7/22/1984
Bill Lee - 13 MB (provided by Stuart Held)
8/9/1984
Jay Philpott - "Hot Hits Countdown"
Songs 35 to 20 13 MB -
Songs 19 to 1 13 MB
8/25/1984
John Hines and Bob Berglund (and Roger, too) broadcasting live from the Minnesota State Fair. #1 19 MB - #2 20 MB (provided by Chad Huderle)
Includes commercials for Heineken Beer, McDonald’s, Best Buy, Foot Locker, Coke, Sunkist, Ground Round Restaurant, and the Minnesota Beef Council.
1/4/1985
John Hines & Bob Berglund - #1 (30 MB) - #2 (27 MB) (provided by Troy Woodruff)
Includes newscast with Bob Berglund, weather with Paul Douglas, traffic with John Lundell, "Up Your News" feature, Breakfast Quiz, and commercials for Minnesota Strikers, JC Penney, Bermans, Giants Ridge, Chrysler, WCCO-TV 10 PM Report, Indian Head, Tom Thumb, Highland Hills, Dodge of Burnsville, Budget Power, Dial Lawyers, and Hopkins Dodge.
1/7/1985
John Hines & Bob Berglund - #1 (29 MB) - #2 (22 MB) (provided by Troy Woodruff)
Includes newscasts with Bob Berglund, weather with Paul Douglas, "Up Your News" feature, and commercials for Michigan Travel Bureau, Learning Tree, Twin City Tours, Burnsville Dodge, Burnsville Sports Center, Tom Thumb, Minnesota Strikers, KITN-TV (channel 29), WCCO-TV 10 PM Report, Giants Ridge, Budget Power, Nexxus Shampoo, and Dial Lawyers.
5/16/1985
John Hines & Bob Berglund - #1 (24 MB) - #2 (28 MB) (provided by Troy Woodruff)
Includes newscasts with Bob Berglund, weather with Paul Douglas, "Up Your News" feature, and commercials for Minnesota Beef Council, Valleyfair, OJ Orange Juice, Burnsville Sports Center, Big Wheel Rossi, Nautilus Swim and Fitness Center, The Connection, Levitz Furniture, Sea & Ski, Nair, Audio King, Coca-Cola, Plywood Minnesota, and News 11.
10/16/1985
John Hines & Bob Berglund - #1 (21 MB) - #2 (12 MB) (provided by Troy Woodruff)
Includes newscasts with Bob Berglund, traffic with John Lundell, weather with Paul Douglas, "Ask Hines & Berglund," and commercials for Minnesota Beef Council, Royal Nissan, Northland Divers, KITN-TV, Precision Tune, and Main Motors.
1985/1986
Profile including John Hines, Bob Berglund, Tac Hammer, Bob Lange, Buddy Hollis, Paul Douglas, Phil Huston, Karen Wong - 5 MB (provided by Dan Seeman)
8/3/1986
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.
August 8, 1986
WLOL-FM (99.5) - David Christian - August 8, 1986 - 8 MB (provided by Al Arneson)
Includes commercials for Brainerd International Raceway, California Cooler, Ragstock, Titus MacDuff, *A Fine Mess* (movie), and Sears.
Recent photo (as of 2015) of David Christian posted to the left.
1987
Get Me Up Jingle - 1987 Jingle (:60) - 1 MB
February 1987
David Christian with a portion of the "Hot Hits Countdown" from February 1987 - 6 MB (provided by Dave Olson)
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 Schaffer - 4 MB (provided by C. Vainio)
12/31/1987
WLOL-FM (99.5) 1987 New Year's Eve Music Montage (edited) - (12/31/1987) This was a popular New Year's feature consisting of
music clips through the decades - 28 MB (provided by Jennifer Foxhoven)
1988
Profile including John Hines, Bob Berglund, Karen Wong, Jon Drew, Dr. Dave, Denny Shaffer, David Christian, Pam Lewis - 14 MB (provided by Dan Seeman)
1988
John Hines, Bob Berglund, Paul Douglas - 1 MB
1988
Top of the IDS Center ID (provided by Dan Kroening)
1988
Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot (provided by Dan Kroening)
1988
Denny Schaffer including John Drew with the announcement of a $50,000 winner in the WLOL $100,000 Cash Scavenger Hunt live from Burnsville Center - 2 MB (provided by Danny Sigelman)
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.)
1/30/1989
JJ Fly and Tiffany - 29 MB (provided by Tom Wollenberg)
1989
WLOL Go Twins with John Hines and Bob Berglund - 2 MB (provided by Dan Seeman)
1989
John Hines and Bob Berglund – 4 MB (provided by Jeff Sibinski)
1989
Pam Lewis – 2 MB (provided by Jeff Sibinski)
6/20/1989
John Hines and Bob Berglund - #1 19 MB - #2 22 MB - #3 20 MB - #4 13 MB (provided by John Hines)
July 1989
Buck McWilliams and Chris O'Connor reunited for a Saturday morning show in July 1989. 17 MB (provided by Chris O'Connor) - Buck & O'Connor were hosts of a popular morning show on KDWB-FM in the mid-1980s.
10/12/1989
John Hines & Bob Berglund - Includes news and sports with Bob Berglund, weather with Paul Douglas, conversation with Billy Bob of Billy Bob's Road Kill Café & Auto Body, and commercials for Great Clips and Musicland - 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 Schaffer 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.
1990
Kick-off of the "New WLOL for the 90s" - 11 MB (provided by Dan Seeman)
1990
Profile - including Mike Miller, Eleanor Mondale, John Hines, Pam Lewis, Jeff St. John, Greg Thunder, Alan Kabel, Kelly Fox - 11 MB (provided by Dan Seeman)
1990
"Vote" Election Spot - 1 MB (provided by Dan Seeman)
Early 1990s
Jammin' in the 90s #1 10 MB - #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)
1991
Mike Miller, Eleanor Mondale & John Hines - Winter Carnival - 2 MB (provided by Steve Ketelaar)
1991
Mike Miller, Eleanor Mondale & John Hines - News of the Weird - 2 MB (provided by Steve Ketelaar)
February 1991
Mike Miller, Eleanor Mondale & John Hines - one of their final shows - #1 15 MB - #2 9 MB
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 later came back on the air for a few hours with just music and KDWB-FM commercials)
8/5/1999
WLOL-FM (100.3) - Classic Hits 100 - Debut of Classic Hits format - 100.3 FM - 4 MB (provided by Jay Philpott)
September 1999
WLOL-FM (100.3) - Classic Hits 100 - Jingles - 3 MB
September 1999
WLOL-FM (100.3) - Classic Hits 100 - Jay Philpott - September 1999 - 5 MB (provided by Jeff Butler)
1999
WLOL-FM (100.3) - Classic Hits 100 - Alan Kabel, Lee Valsvik and Governor Jesse Ventura - 1999 - 13 MB (by Jeff Butler)
WLOL-FM VIDEOS (CLICK HERE)
PRINTED MATERIALS
WLOL-AM (1330) - Station programming and staff booklet ( 1943 ) - PDF 3 MB
WLOL-AM ( 1941 ) - 41 pages / PDF - 4 MB
Newspaper ads from 1947 featuring Leigh Kamman, John MacDougal, and others PDF File (2 MB)
WLOL-AM - Top 40 Surveys 12/15/1957 7/26/1959 9/20/1959 11/1/1959 ( PDF files, approximately 0.5 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)
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, intercut with a kid building a huge sandcastle. The shots went back and forth as she came closer and closer to the sandcastle, 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 get some nice awareness from the campaign - it certainly set the stage nicely for the shift to straight-ahead Top 40 in the Fall of 1981."
Audio to WLOL-FM "Almost Perfect Radio" TV commercial.
WLOL-FM (99.5) - Newspaper Scans - PDFs (provided by Jay Philpott)
Pioneer Press - 3/8/1982 - #1 #2
Pioneer Press - 7/9/1982 - #1 #2
Star-Tribune - 7/9/1982 - 7/9/1982
Twin Cities Reader - 7/15/1982 - 7/15/1982
R&R - 7/23/1982 - 7/23/1982
Jay Philpott writes: "In the Pioneer Press article on July 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!"
(1980/Early 1981)
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 - 2 MB PDF
WLOL-FM (99.5) - Introducing meteorologist Paul Douglas with John Hines and Bob Berglund ( 1984 ) - JPEG File
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
WLOL-FM (99.5) - Prince for Governor bumper sticker ( 1990 ) - JPEG File (provided by Alan Freed)
WLOL-FM T-Shirts from the Early 1980s - click on image to enlarge - provided by Bob Vesely
