WODE Oldies 99.9 Air Check Legends Weekend - Part 6B of 10 Sunday Night Hall Of Fame Reunion

Air Check WODE February 28, 1999 - WODE Sunday Night Hall Of Fame Reunion - Part # 6 B of 10 parts - 9 PM to 10 PM. (This one has been blocked numerous times so if you want to watch later I suggest you download the video) Radio broadcast of The Sunday Night Hall of Fame Show on WODE “Oldies 99.9” covering the Allentown - Bethlehem - Easton, Pa. area. The Sunday Night Hall of Fame Show was broadcast from 1980 to 1992 on WAEB 790 AM and WKAP 1320 AM in Allentown, Pa. My show returned between 1999 and August 2001 on WODE Oldies 99.9 located in Easton, Pa.
Artists in this portion of the show include: The Brooklyn Bridge, Lou Christie, Connie Stevens, The Marvelettes and the Four Tops with a Northern Soul classic and B side of “Bernadette”. During late Spring and well into the Summer of 1967, that B side literally took on a life of its own. In particular, Philadelphia DJ Jerry Blavat was playing the song at all his record hops and his “Yon Teens” were doing a Line Dance like the Wagner Walk to the song. North of Philadelphia was the Lehigh Valley and I had also flipped over the record on my nightly rock and soul show on WKAP - AM 1320 in Allentown. WEEX in Easton was another station playing the flip in our area. Although the song never charted nationally, it was popular enough for Motown to include it in some of the Four Tops greatest hits packages. From my VHS collection, I have included the “Geator Gold Dancers” from a 1992 Jerry Blavat TV show on the Nostalgia Channel.
The weekend of February 26 through February 28, 1999, WODE - “Oldies 99.9” was a special treat for the Allentown - Bethlehem - Easton, Pa area listeners. WODE was able to bring back many of the Lehigh Valley’s favorite rock era radio Disc Jockeys. The DJ lineup included: Gene Kaye, Jay Edwards, Johnny Michaels, “Frantic” Freddy Frederick (aka Freddy Milander), Mickey Haggerty, Super Lou, Jim Lloyd, Barry George, Jim Reed, Bob Pharo, Guy Randall Ackley, Neil Stevens, Guy Harpo, Bill Sheridan and Jeff Frank. I was both honored and proud to participate in the special programming. Many of the commercials, station promos and jingles of the other top radio stations back then were aired by Oldies 99.9.
The “Legends Weekend” was an incredible success for everyone involved. Afterwards, I was contacted by Jeff Frank, Joey Mitchell and Program Director Bill Sheridan, and they asked if I would consider producing the Sunday Night Hall Of Fame Show again on a weekly basis.
If took a while to work out the logistics, but my show did return and was on the air again every Sunday Night through Labor Day weekend 2001, when WODE changed their music format. During those years, I produced the show in South Carolina on Re-Recordable CD Mini-Discs and would ship a couple of shows at a time to WODE. Discs would then be returned and I would re-record new shows on them.
However, the one-shot Legends Weekend show was recorded on (5) ten-inch reel to reel tapes and mailed to WODE. Apparently a short time after that weekend, all original reel to reel tapes were erased and re-recorded on by WODE production personnel.
For a decade or so, I thought the Reunion show was lost forever. Then I was contacted by a listener that had recorded most of the Legends Weekend off the air on cassette tapes. Included on the cassette tapes was my Hall Of Fame Reunion Show. I received a copy of the Hall Of Fame cassettes and digitally restored them for this set of CZcams videos. As far as I can tell, the only missing audio of the show is when the cassette tape would run out. Either the cassette tape had to be flipped over or a new one started.
I hope you enjoy listening to my Sunday Night Hall Of Fame Reunion show on the fantastic “Legends Weekend” at WODE - Oldies 99.9 !!
(Music in this video, which I produced, features my original radio broadcast from February 28, 1999 on WODE 99.9 FM, Easton, Pa. I was a contract employee of WODE: writing, producing and hosting The Sunday Night Hall of Fame Show. All shows were pre-recorded and mailed to WODE.)