Transferring cassettes to CD. Found these...
http://www.4shared.com/audio/NG4ZtwFE/WJML_79-82.html

http://www.4shared.com/audio/603YQfpu/WJML_79.html

http://www.4shared.com/audio/_g-QlhDS/WJML_79_II.html

http://www.4shared.com/audio/toHz3Zy3/JML_77.html

http://www.4shared.com/audio/qIV6Qbbu/J ... racks.html

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Mike Sommers

Art Morrison, if this was a 79-80 aircheck, was at the ripe old age of 19! Damn, what a set of pipes...still has 'em to this day.

Tim Achterhoff did have an ear for voices. In those days, JML was co-owned with WMUS in Muskegon...formatics right down to the logos were duplicated...the difference? MUS was Country, JML was top 40.

And CW Smith & Sons in Scottville spots aired on both stations...a footprint from South Haven to Sault Ste. Marie!

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TONY: I'm back on the wagon again!

Hey FoxFM - this is what you should sound like with the music you are playing.


Tim

Art started in West Branch. Made his way to Henderson's 3,000 watt Kilt 98 Kalkaska in the summer of '79. I believe Ted Stevens hired him away from WKLT for nights at JML in late '79. Then I think he replaced Mike Daniels in mid-days when Mike went to KHQ in the spring of '80.
He then replaced Nick Scott in morning drive in the summer of '80. Went back to college at CMU that fall. Was there about a semester. Eventually ended up as the production director at WDRQ.

CW Smith and Son's in Scottville. That's how big JML was. They didn't even reach Scottville with the signal. But CW knew if they wanted people from Northern Michigan to come buy cars they should advertise on JML.

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Mike Sommers

That's cool. I was wondering about the Scottville thing. I was thinking man don't remember jml going that far. And the Sagebrush plug was cool. My brother has tape recordings from jml from the whole day when John Lennon was killed. Brings back alot of memories.

Ah those were the days. Art Morrison at 19? Hell, Mark Cage did afternoon news after he got out of high school for the day. If Ackterhof was a genius he obviously hit his head on something pretty hard after that. When KHQ came in JML laid down and died. Lite Rock, Less Talk. Today we call it the ipod. Back then it was the Walkman.

Dang! I forgot how good that station sounded back in the day. Those airchecks are definitely goin' on the iPod. Thanks for sharing!

These are fabulous! Growing up in Alpena, it was this station I first discovered music on. It turned me on to American Top 40 and Casey Kasem. I remember my dad worked with Jeff Peterson's dad, and got Jeff to send some JML stuff to me. which I think was signed. I was only 9 at the time. Ah, those were the days!

Adjusted for inflation, I wonder what the air talent payroll would be today.

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In 2010 dollars, probably more than many major market stations pay their staffs.

I heard that Tim Moore paid his air talent very well. KHQ, in its heyday, could have easily gone up against any Detroit station.

He paid a little better than JML, but it was ok. Yes, that station for it's time could rival a Detroit station.

Here's an 8 minute clip of JML July 15, 1980 taken from an hour cassette recording. Check out the STL link liner; The Captain (Bill Vogal) doing an Alice Cooper spot for Castle Farms, and the seg from Barracuda into Air Supply "All Out Of Love".

http://www.4shared.com/audio/qKfYe9yk/J ... _Cage.html

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Mike Sommers

Cj's warehouse and Puff's. These clips bring back alot of great memories.

LOL fitness dancing at WNMC.

Mark Hayes?... I can't believe that the overnight guy sounded better than most of the day time talent in markets 30+

I remember doing overnights in Detroit in the late 80's and I don't think we had a sound this strong at 1am.

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If memory serves (which it doesn't always) correctly, Mark Cage's younger brother (name escapes me) worked for us at WMKC for a short time after we put WMKC on the air.

Tim