“The Big 89” Returns to "Musicradio WLS"!
This Saturday night, July 26th, you can hear WLS Unwound: Personalities of the Musicradio Years. A plethora of air talent from those legendary days of Top 40 Radio will gather in their Chicago lakefront studios to talk about the glory days of when WLS was the Midwest powerhouse for hits and known as “The Rock of Chicago!”
Scheduled to appear are: Tommy Edwards, Chuck Knapp, Catherine Johns, Chuck Buell, Jim Kerr and others who may just happen to drop by. This exciting radio event is hosted by WLS historian Scott Childers, who literally wrote the book on this legendary radio station.
Art Vuolo (naturally) will be archiving the show on video, while Ted Gorden Smucker, Bill Shannon, Tim Larson and Kipper McGee make it all work in harmony.
This promises to be the fastest two hours on radio. So, post a sticky note and tell everyone you know to tune to WLS-AM 890 Saturday night at 10:00 pm (CDT). Don’t forget that WLS is also available online, with no atmospheric static or inconsistent sky-wave fade at wlsam.com.
Lots of great audio clips will also be included. Click below to hear one of the many great promos that WLS is featuring this week. https://app.box.com/s/zyu3elud2u11zrlqy8gxdq3zyy5g80du
In other news ...
Billboard Magazine picks Ozzy Osbourne’s 20 Best Songs …
Thanks for using my pix. I would call the photos I have taken more like "Unpublished Forgotten Old Negatives"! 📸
When I took this of Ozzy, it was late at night in front of Le'Dome on Sunset. Nobody was around. No traffic. I expected Ozzy to do something crazy when he posed for me. Not at all, he was a gentleman. Only time I ever ran in to him.
Jim Roup
What went into your mind when you heard the news that Ozzy Osbourne passed away? Was it the bat? The dove? The tousled visage cooking breakfast in his kitchen? The bewildered man in a mansion, navigating contrived-for-camera family dramas to audiences in the millions? Or the wounded soul defiantly bringing the crowd one last bellow from hell, less than two weeks ago, with his Black Sabbath brethren (complete once more) from the stage at Villa Park in Birmingham, where the group once formed?
https://theseconddisc.com/2025/07/22/in-memoriam-ozzy-osbourne-1948-2025/
In an interview with Bill Maher, Billy Joel updated listeners on his health condition …
“My balance sucks … it’s like being on a boat.
“I feel good. They keep referring to what I have as a brain disorder, so it sounds a lot worse than what I’m feeling.”
With Part Two of his new documentary airing this Friday (7/25), we are all still very hopeful that Billy can recover from the Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus for which he is currently under treatment. (kk)
Don't forget ...
You can see TWO Rock and Roll Legends this Sunday at The Des Plaines Theatre ...
CHUBBY CHECKER and BRIAN HYLAND ...
Between them, they had 33 National Top 40 Hits!
And Chubby's on his way to The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame!
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
7/23/65 – Guitarist Slash (of Guns n’ Roses) is born
