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	Jim O'Brien It's only fitting that our first WFIL offering be from the late, great performer during January 1977 (8:32).
	Dan Donovan Here is a short aircheck (:34 seconds).
	Brother Love Another short clip (1:15)
	George Michael (6/68) 6/68 George is REALLY COOKIN' tonight! I never realized he ever sounded this good. (2:52)
	Jay Cook 6/68 Our first offering from the late Jay Cook (3:13)
	Long John Wade (6/68) A rare tape...not too many airchecks of Long John (1:17)
	Jim Nettleton (2/68) This might be the BEST he ever sounded! (4:50)
	Jim Nettleton (3/67) (5:50)
	George Michael 3/69 It's a Million Dollar Weekend! (10:08)
	WFIL ID's A couple of Top and bottom of hour ID's

	WFIL Composite 1972 A composite of the station featured on Programmer's Digest, a series of albums for radio people, featuring airchecks of stations and disk jockeys. WFIL sounded GREAT on this profile!
	Dan Donovan Aircheck from 1972
	Jim Nettleton From 1969
	Jim O'Brien From 1972
	WFIL Pop Tops You remember the songs where they had 'sound-alike' people sing the call letters over the beginning of the song? Here are a few of them.
	Tom Dooley It's January 25, 1972 and Tom Dooley is on WFIL!
	George Michael September 6, 1968. King George is holding court on WFIL.
	Long John Wade From August, 1970, Long John Wade, one of the original Boss Jocks is still on the air and sounding just as good as ever.

WFIL Vignettes These are 2-2 1/2 minute profiles of The History of WFIL. Jim O'Brien did most of the voiceover work and they feature different WFIL personalities.
Banana Joe	Chuck Browning	Dan Donovan
Dick Heatherton	J.J. Jeffrey	J.J. Jeffrey
Brother Love	George Michael	George Michael
Jim Nettleton	Jim O'Brien	Dave Parks
Dr. Don Rose	Dr. Don Rose	Station Of The Year 1971
Long John Wade	Long John Wade

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