590 MIGHTY MEMORY #568

PHOTO INDEX: THE ALL NIGHT SATELLITE RETURNED TO WARM RADIO IN JANUARY OF 1969. WOLOSON WAS FAMILIAR TO WARM LISTENERS FROM THE OLD DAYS AND GARNERED NEW FANS WHEN HE CAME BACK TO WARMLAND. OF COURSE WOLOSON WAS MET AT THE AIRPORT, PICTURED ARE WARM STAFFERS JOEY SHAVER AND GEORGE GILBERT.

TOP SONG

One of the up and coming songs that greeted Woloson was Dusty Springfield's "Son Of A Preacher Man".

A GOOD MEMORY

Recieved a great e mail from a fan of WARM. Here's what he said about the Mighty 590.

I'd like to briefly share some of my memories concerning WARM and the effect that WARM had on me many years ago. I grew up in Nazareth in the Lehigh Valley. We had some decent top 40 stations down there including WEEX in Easton and WAEB in Allentown. We also listened t o WABC out of NewYork, but none of those stations had the effect on me like WARM did. My mother and father built a cabin on Lake Wallenpaupack in 1952 and I've been boating, fishing, and hunting the Ledgedale area of the Lake since 1954. In 1964, when I was 10 years old, my Lake friends and I discovered WARM. We were at the cabin almost every weekend of the year, and needless to say, I got hooked on the area and considered the area my true "home".
Every activity I did in Nazareth was just a diversion until it was time to go back up to the Lake again. WARM fast became my link to that wonderful place at Lake Wallenpaupack. I had the radios at home in Nazareth tuned into WARM and more than once my parents got angry with me when they heard an odd weather report and realized that I was listening to WARM instead of a local station. I would listen to Harry West in the mornings getting ready for school and Joey Shaver in the evenings while I did homework. My Nazareth friends thought I was crazy. They had never heard of WARM, too bad for them!
One of my best memories was after a gruelling week of football practice in the summer, a Lake friend (who played for Parkland) and I (played for Nazareth) would head out onto the Lake in one of the boats and we'd just drift around and relax, all the while listening to the great music on WARM on the transistor radio. It didn't get much better than that! In the winter, we'd take the snowmobiles out onto the Lake and sit out under the stars listening to WARM. What great memories!
Some of my favorite WARM ads were "It's only WARM for me", "Rind-a -ding-ding (Stegmaier Beer ads)" and forester Manny Gordon's "Enjoy, Enjoy..."
I also remember Terry McNulty telling Winnie Bosco stories.
In 1972 and 1973 I was at the Penn State Hazleton Campus where I could still listen to WARM. Around that time I especially enjoyed the Ron Allen sports line. By 1974, I was at University Park and FM was taking over the airwaves. From 1964 through 1974, WARM was a constant companion that helped me get through the time I had to spend away from the Lake Wallenpaupack area. I'm glad I was young during those times!
When I'm at the Lake now I listen to the "new" WARM. I think that's what got me started on this rant. Anyway, thanks for reading this!

Scott Smith