Comments on: 105.1 WRFM flips from Beautiful Music to AC WNSR

By: Janice Losgar

Janice Losgar — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:31:56 +0000

Hi Wes,

My name is Janice Losgar and my dad, Joe Losgar, worked at WRFM. I remember you! Sadly, just found out Larry Yount passed away last summer. My dad passed in 2003. It’s amazing to run across this kind of thing on the Internet! Best to you.

Janice

By: mike marion

mike marion — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:26:59 +0000

Hi… I worked for WRFM from 1968 to 1971 as a station engineer and then for WTFM, a competing Beautiful Music station, first as an engineer and later as the music director.

You can find great Beautiful Music programming on Sirius/XM satellite/internet radio. I believe that the person who programs the music (oor at least the person who did it 5 yrs ago) is Marlin Taylor who was responsible for the format at WRFM.

The music never sounded better….but I wonder if anyone is still making these recordings.

By: John

John — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:52:35 +0000

I remember . . . WRFM, WTFM and WPAT from back in the day. It was music my parents listened to (along with some classical). But it was all solid stuff and the announcers were top notch. Yes, I read all the previous posts. I DO recall Jim Branch. I was searching for info about Jim Aylward and I happened upon this site. I still have some of the London Phase 4 vinyls of Ronnie Aldrich and Frank Chacksfield my folks bought back in the day. They sound as good as ever. I recently purchased a double cd of the Aldrich albums “Destination Love” and “Love”. Now, I can save the vinyl and play the cd in the house or the car. Yes, I mourn the loss of some music formats. This is one of them….I have a review of Ronnie Aldich’s “Two Pianos Today” on amazon; handle: Photoman D-76. (or some such thing). I regret that I did not record some of those long ago days and nights when I was listening. The difference is the music . . . WRFM.

By: Joe DiLaurenzio

Joe DiLaurenzio — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:32:24 +0000

Frank—–I’ve found a new way to share my two circa-700mB WMA files of WRFM airchecks from 1969 and 1970. All you have to do is write me at flametfan@hotmail.com and I’ll send you an invitation to pick them up. Mailing two CDs to you in China might be risky, but this method will deliver them to you, despite their size [1.36 gigs], over the internet.

This invitaion is open to anyone. Just write me at flametfan@hotmail.com.

Long live Percy, Bert, Billy, Ray, Norman, Ray, Johnny the Jingle Man, Andre K, Hugo, Henry, Frank C, Herb, Enoch, Tony, Chet, Tommy G, Al C, Carmen, Andre, Floyd, Ronnie, Roger, George & Ethel Gabriel’s Living Series on RCA Camden!!!!!! [To mention a few..............]

By: Frank Wu

Frank Wu — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:13:46 +0000

Hi Joe:
I was fifteen when I came to NYC from Taiwan. Right away, everyone in my family was hooked on WRFM. We’d only listen to this station and enjoyed the “elevator music” when we were at home or in the car. I still remembered the day that I drove to FDR High School in Brooklyn and fumbling the radio on the way home trying to hear the usual sound that I was so used to listen. At that time, I couldn’t understand how a station can suddenly change format just like that in the USA!
Ever since, radio is not the same to me anymore…Now, I’m an expat working in China, and I’m still trying to find the internet radio station that offer the same format as WRFM.
Boy, do I miss that radio station. Anyone can suggest internet radio stations that come close to WRFM besides WKTZ? Sometimes, I’m having trouble connecting to that flash player. Thanks.

By: Joe DiLaurenzio

Joe DiLaurenzio — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:39:51 +0000

Awesome post, Wes—–and thank you so much for your kind words. It means SO DARN MUCH to hear from someone who actually worked at the station. I tried contacting Marlin at his XM e-mail address but he never replied. I wish he could understand that although I’m a bit nerdy, I’m loyal to-a-fault and very appreciative of 20+ years of great programming. That’s all: there’s no hidden agenda. I lived vicariously through Mitch Lebe, Dick London, Joe Roberts, Al Turk & Ken Lamb, wishing I could have been a part of it. Maybe in another lifetime! Let me know if I can send you some arichecks! I can relate to your comment about typos and one’s eyesight in our advanced years. At least our minds are young and vital!

By: Joe DiLaurenzio

Joe DiLaurenzio — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:28:24 +0000

Drew—–Don’t know what prompted me to check back at this website, but I’m the guy with about 125 hours of WRFM airchecks transferred from the original reel to reel tapes to CD. From the CDs, I chose 25 hours of the best of the best, and loaded them into two circa-700mB WMA files, from which I can burn you two discs and mail them to you. My e-mail address is: flametfan@hotmail.com. I’m 58 years old, which is probably more than twice your age, but hey——I love your post. When I was in high school, and supposed to be grooving on the Beatles, the Byrds, Creedence, S&G, Blood Sweat & Tears, et al., I was chilling with WRFM, and oh so very occasionally defected to WPAT and WVNJ but NEVER to WTFM. You gotta make your own sunshine, a direct quote from Neil Sedaka, but so appropriate for free thinkers such as we.
Write me if you want those airchecks!

By: Drew NYC

Drew NYC — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:49:00 +0000

As a teen-twenty-something I used to listen to WRFM and WPAT esp. in the car. It was a guilty pleasure (and a few of my “cooler” friends knew about it.) Listened to a wide/eclectic range of music from hard rock to beautiful music to symphonic. It’s a shame the music is off the air. XMRadio brought it back with “Sunny” then “Escape” when Marlin Taylor was programming…too bad mean ‘ole Mel K merged XM and Sirius and ruined alot of the XM formats.

I found around 2 hours of 1969 WRFM content posted on the web last year..but darn if I can find it now.

Maybe someone can post some more content on newsgroups like alt.binary.sounds.mp3.easylistening ….it would be much apprecated!

By: David A. Smith

David A. Smith — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:13:17 +0000

I am 49 years old and I miss WRFM 105.1 FM, WPAT 93.1 FM Easy Listening Music Radio Stations. I grew up listening to this Beautiful Music and I wish it would come back. The FM Radio Frequency Band is quite large so there’s still plenty of room left for music variety for everybody.

Thanks,

David A. Smith

By: Wes Richards

Wes Richards — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:57:18 +0000

correction: News Director, not new director. My eyes ain’t what they used to be.