This page was last updated on January
9, 2007.
I first discovered WBAB during the 1971-72 school year, when I went to a school set up by the Suffolk Center for Emotionally Disturbed Children at the First Congregational Church in Bay Shore, NY. The bus driver who took me to and from school (I believe her name was Mrs. Clark) also had the bus radio tuned to WBAB, which had a Top 40 format at that time.
Here are some of the things I remember from listening to WBAB during that time:
-Great, fun pop and rock music
-Morning fishing reports
-A Plesser’s commercial that had an “It’s lesser at Plesser” jingle done to the tune of “Skip to My Lou”
-A commercial with a guy whispering “Selden Cycles,” followed by a rundown of what was on sale at Selden Cycles backed by a Moog synthesizer rendition of the Beatles’ “Day Tripper”
-Rockaway Playland commercials
-The “Original” Mark Alan frequently taking requests from “Jimmy in Copiague” and closing his show with Tommy James’ “I’m Coming Home”
Keep visiting this space as I plan to comment in depth on
WBAB’s Top 100 of 1972 list.
