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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!
6/1 6/8 6/15 NOW - Week ending June 21, 2025
1 1 1 1 The REELRADIO Tenth Birthday Special
- 2 5 2 Wolfman Jack, XERB, 1968-1970
- - - 3 aachx1-1
- 30 4 4 The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles, June 27, 1968
- - - 5 Gary Owens, Soundtrack Of The Sixties, March 28, 1981 Pt. 1
- - - 6 The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles, September 1968
- - - 7 Gary Gears, WCFL Chicago, October 6, 1970
- - - 8 Close Encounters Promo and KFRC, 78-81
- - - 9 Tony Taylor, Jim O'Brien, WOR-FM New York, May 2, 1968
- - - 10 The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles, December 26, 1968 Pt.1
- - 8 11 John Records Landecker, WLS Chicago, June 7, 1977
- - - 12 Carol Miller, WPLJ New York, 1983
- - - 13 Chuck Leonard, WABC NY December 27, 1968 Pt.1
30 - 6 14 Robert W. Morgan, KHJ Los Angeles, May 28, 1973
- 31 - 15 The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles CA June 15 1968
- - - 16 Jim Stagg, WCFL Chicago, March-April 1966 (composite)
- - - 17 Cousin Brucie, WABC NY November 5, 1968 Pt.2
- - - 18 The Real Don Steele, Live From The Sixties, January 9, 1989 Pt. 1
- - - 19 The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles, July 21, 1969 Pt.1
- - - 20 The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles, July 4, 1968
- - - 21 rdskewb64
- - - 22 Leslie Stovall, KMEL San Francisco 1986
- - - 23 The Real Don Steele, Live From The Sixties, 1965
7 5 - 24 The Birth of KPLS, Santa Rosa, CA. April 19, 1964 Pt.2
- - - 25 Robert W. Morgan, KHJ HORR Hr.48,February 23, 1969
- - - 26 Jay Stone, KLRZ-FM Salt Lake City UT 1985
- - - 27 Dan Ingram, WABC New York, April 13, 1968
- - 38 28 Dick Biondi, WNMB-FM North Myrtle Beach, SC July 24, 1976
- 7 11 29 Charlie Van Dyke, WLS Chicago IL, July 26, 1973
- - - 30 Cousin Brucie, WABC NY November 5, 1968 Pt.1
- - - 31 Barney Pip, WCFL Chicago IL May 25, 1968
- - - 32 T.J. Evans, KISN-FM Salt Lake City UT, 1985
- - 13 33 Sean Lynch, KKRZ Z-100 Portland OR July 1985
- - - 34 The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles, March 15, 1968
- - - 35 The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles February 25, 1967
- - - 36 Peter Tripp on WMGM, 1960
- - - 37 KINT El Paso TX Composite, 1977
- - 23 38 John Driscoll, WCFL July 2, 1975
- - - 39 Humble Harve Miller, KRLA Pasadena March 31, 1985
- - - 40 The Golden Year 1967

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