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HITBOUND!
Fresh FAB 40
For The Week Beginning
June 2, 2019

Richard W. Irwin, WIXE July 1969

June 6, 2019, marks one year since the passing of Uncle Ricky. In rememberance, Reelradio looks back at his radio career with this special recording of a young, 18 year-old Ricky at the helm of WIXE in Monroe, North Carolina. Please enjoy and remember Richard in the comments.

REELRADIO
FAB 40!
3/8 3/15 3/22 NOW - Week ending March 28, 2020
2 1 1 1 Dick Biondi on WLS, Chicago, 1963
10 10 2 2 The REELRADIO Tenth Birthday Special
- - 24 3 The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles, March 28, 1968 3-4PM (RESTORED)
- - - 4 WLS Chicago Sign On 1967
1 2 4 5 Dick Biondi, WLS Chicago, May 2, 1962
- - 13 6 Ron Britain, WCFL Chicago, 1970
4 4 3 7 The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles May 3 1967
- - - 8 Bootleg Top 40, Volume 2
- - - 9 Christopher Lance, KKHR Los Angeles, May 9, 1984
- 16 35 10 Dr. Don Rose KFRC San Francisco March 10 1978
- 37 - 11 Big Steve Rizen on KQV, 1965
- 20 16 12 Dan Ingram, WABC New York, September 19, 1977
- - - 13 Jim Jackson, CKLW Detroit-Windsor, 1971
- - - 14 Big Ken Cocker WNDE Indianapolis 1978
37 - 25 15 The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles July 3 1967
- - - 16 Ron Lundy, WABC New York NY June 27, 1978
- - - 17 Robert W. Morgan, KHJ Los Angeles, May 28, 1973
- - - 18 Bill Drake, WAKE Atlanta, January 29, 1959
- 39 21 19 Banana Joe, Y-100 WHYI Miami FL March 25, 1974
- - 31 20 Chuck Buell, WLS Chicago, March 19, 1970
- - - 21 Captain John (Lodge), KHJ Los Angeles, August 1973
- - - 22 Daddy Dave Scott on KQV, 1965
- - - 23 Humble Harve, KBLA Los Angeles, October 9, 1966
- - - 24 Humble Harve Miller, KRLA Pasadena March 31, 1985
- - - 25 The Last Day of TenQ, Los Angeles - Part Zero
- - - 26 Larry Lujack, KJR Seattle November 1966 (restored)
- - - 27 Roger Christian, KHJ Los Angeles, 1965
21 13 5 28 The Real Don Steele, KHJ April 2, 1969
- - - 29 Shotgun Johnny Ringo, KAFY Bakersfield CA. May 11, 1977
- - - 30 Harry Harrison, WABC New York, March 11, 1975 Pt. 3
- - - 31 Jack Armstrong, WKYC Cleveland OH September 1967
- - - 32 Jack Armstrong, WKYC Cleveland, 1967
- - 39 33 Jerry Kay, WCFL Chicago, March 4, 1971
- - - 34 John Paul Roberts, WQAM Miami FL, December 18, 1968
- - - 35 Radio Recall Detroit Lee Alan WXYZ 1965
- 21 - 36 Long John Wade, WFIL Philadelphia, 1970
- - - 37 The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles March 21 1970
- - - 38 Ron Lundy, Dan Ingram, WABC NY October 14, 1970
- - - 39 Big Ron O'Brien, KIIS-FM Los Angeles, 1983
- - - 40 The Anita Kerr Singers WLS Jingles

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