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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!
6/16 6/23 6/30 NOW - Week ending July 6, 2019
4 1 1 1 The REELRADIO Tenth Birthday Special
8 11 3 2 Jim Wood, KROQ Los Angeles, October 31, 1972
- - - 3 Pat Patterson: Have You Heard This Man? 1975
5 3 8 4 Drake-Chenault Syndication and Jingle Demos, 1973
- - 2 5 Jerry Kaye, WING Dayton, OH August 9, 1966
- - - 6 The Tiger Twins, WQXI, Atlanta, 1965
- - - 7 The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles, July 4, 1968
- 37 15 8 Humble Harve, KHJ Los Angeles, January 29, 1970
- - - 9 Bootleg Top 40, Volume 1
3 8 18 10 Larry Lujack, WCFL Chicago, July 11, 1972
- - - 11 A Tribute to Wolfman Jack, Part Four
11 7 28 12 Casey Kasem American Top 40 March 10 1973 (Hour 1)
- 24 6 13 Bootleg Top 40, Volume 2
- - - 14 Charlie Van Dyke, KHJ Los Angeles, January 24, 1972
6 10 5 15 Robert W. Morgan, KHJ Los Angeles, May 27, 1968 (restored)
9 5 7 16 Charlie Tuna, KHJ Los Angeles, February 27, 1970
1 4 10 17 John Mack Flanagan, KFRC San Francisco, 1977
12 29 24 18 Steve King, WLS Chicago, June 7, 1977 (unscoped)
- - 14 19 Fred Winston, WKYC Cleveland OH Summer 1968
- - - 20 KAAY ComEx News, Little Rock, AR, 1963
- 2 4 21 The Last Hour of KHJ, 1986
- - 13 22 Tony Taylor, Jim O'Brien, WOR-FM New York, May 2, 1968
- - - 23 Boom Boom Brannigan, WPTR Albany NY 1969
- - - 24 Gary McKee, WQXI Atlanta Composite, 1974-1976 Part One
- - - 25 Johnny Holliday, WINS New York, March 1965
- - 21 26 Larry Lujack, Tommy Edwards, Fred Winston WLS-AM STEREO Chicago 1984
- - - 27 Mark Elliot, KHJ Los Angeles June 25, 1975 (Part Two)
- - - 28 Bwana Johnny, WWDJ Hackensack NJ May 31 1972 Part One
- - - 29 Billy Pearl, KHJ Los Angeles, June 24, 1975 (Pt. 1)
- - - 30 Charlie Tuna, KHJ Los Angeles Feb 23, 1969
- - - 31 Dave Diamond, KBLA Los Angeles, June 16, 1967 Pt.3
- 36 37 32 Dick Shannon, WCFL Chicago, June 21, 1975
- - - 33 Gus Gossert, WCBS-FM, New York, NY July 19, 1970
23 26 38 34 Gwinsound 5 & 9 Jingles for WIXE Monroe, N.C. 1969
- 9 11 35 Jay Stone, WUBE Cincinnati OH. March 28, 1969
- - 9 36 The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles, June 27, 1968
- - 12 37 Robert W. Morgan, KHJ Los Angeles, October 18 1968
- - - 38 WPIX-FM Casey Kasem American Top 40 July 4 1976, Part Two
- - - 39 Charlie Tuna, KHJ, 1969
- - - 40 WFUN, Miami, Fundamental News, 1961

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