Top 100 of 1970

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(Special thanks to Walt Bailey of oldradioshows.com for the audio above).

This aircheck shows 'Good Guy' Davy Jones just a few years after his arrival at WPGC in May of 1967 as a much hipper 'Dave Jones', paralleling a discernable lean toward more rock material (e.g., Liquid Smoke's 'I Who Have Nothing'). He would leave the station within a few months for crosstown WMAL-FM, (AOR).

The station's adventuresome spirit with new adds led to numerous songs on the countdown which while popular locally, barely made the Hot 100 nationally (e.g., Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell's 'The Onion Song').

The Washington area had suffered a major blizzard the night before, explaining why Morning Man, Harv Moore can be heard doing a newscast in the afternoon - he was still at the station with nowhere to go!

Other things to listen for:

- A Soundoff featuring 'Mr. Soundoff' (General Manager, Bob Howard), complaining about the Draft (not the beer kind!).

- A live spot for A&M Records, sponsor of the countdown.

- The abrupt ending of the Beatles 'Long & Winding Road' at 5:15PM, the January sign off time for the AM daytimer (the FM only ID follows immediately).

- A spot for Sears' record dept., featuring Three Dog Night.

- A Casey Kasem tease for 'American Top 40'. WPGC was one of the original seven stations to carry the show on July 4th, 1970.

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