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Don Bayley

November 1968

Don sent along an aircheck of himself on Modern Country WOLF which was more a mix of country and Top 40 crossovers. This from November 10, 1968 just weeks before the switchover to the Drake format.
Don says, " It is of my weekend show (I was 18 years old then!).  A few weeks later, "WOLF 1-4-9-0" became The BIG 15! I will always remember Jim Sims telling me we were doing a "Slim Whitman Weekend" on the last weekend we were Country to make WNDR (Dave Laird) think we were going deeper into C&W when in actuality we were changing over to Top 40 the following morning." "I did the last WOLF country show that Sunday night (playing a heavy mix of Slim Whitman records!).
While a student at S.U. (1967-1971), I did deejay and news shifts at both WOLF and WNDR. It was the most fun I've ever had in this crazy biz called radio."
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Big John Allen

May 1969

A great sounding smooth jock! Recorded May 20th, 1969 John replaced Sonny LeDet in 1968 and stayed on to kick off "The Big 15". But (I'm told) country music was his true love and he left on Memorial Weekend 1969 to be replaced by Jerry "Good" Morgan.
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Jerry Morgan

July 1969

Jerry replaced Big John Allen in June of 1969 and remained until August 1971. He left for WHEN and was replaced by Chris Kaye "The Sugar Bear". Jerry had been in Syracuse radio for a number of years including WNDR (early 1969 here) and "Hot Hits" WFBL.
Jerry became a prominent attorney in Syracuse but retired in 2001. He is now a Teacher and coaches in Aiken, South Carolina.
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Howie Castle

July 1969

Howie came to the Big 15 from Radio Caroline off the coast of the UK.  http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/djsb.htm  This link has a very nice story of Howie (who used Bud Ballou on Caroline) as well as an aircheck from 1967. What the story dosen't mention is Howie was program director of the very successful 94 Rock (WSYR-FM) until he left Syracuse in 1981. He is currently the weekend news anchor on KOGO San Diego, California.
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Don Bombard

1969

Don was first heard on WOLF in 1962 while attending Grant Junior High as a Teenage Guest DJ winner on the Marv Albert show (click here). The following year he began compiling his Big 50 song list and placed it in local record stores, competing with WOLF and WNDR's charts. In 1964, he was asked by Bud Ballou to help compile WNDR's year-end Top 100. Don ran a pirate radio station on the city's north side called WQBR (he was actually getting record service from many labels and the call letters stood for "we quite buying records"). At Syracuse University in 1965, he joined the staff of WAER-FM, and in 1968 hosted their first-ever pop music show, playing current Soul hits. The year before, he had been hired at WNDR as a weekend DJ. and newsman. In '68 he went full-time on WOLF as the night DJ during the station's country period, but soon the shift became "All Request Radio" and played all types of music-- paving the way for WOLF's return to rock in 1969. He was the Music Director for the new Big 15 but was soon lured back to WNDR, where (as Assistant Program Director) he did afternoon drive and the "Saturday Night of Gold". In 1976 he returned to WOLF part-time and then became Program Director upon the departure of Howie Castle. Leaving Syracuse in 1977, Don went to Pittsburgh and 13Q (WKTQ) where he originated the highest-rated show in the city's history: "The Sunday Night Oldies Party". From there, he moved to New York City, working simultaneously part-time at WYNY (as Don Bombard) and WCBS-FM (as Bob Shannon). He began full-time nights on CBS-FM in 1982 and continued with the new Shannon name. In 1986 he became their afternoon drive DJ until the stations unfortunate format change in 2005.
"Bob" has been nationally syndicated with the shows "The Oldies Countdown", "Keepin' the 70s Alive" and "Behind The Hits"; the latter two were heard in Syracuse on WSEN-FM. "Behind the Hits" is also the book he co-authored as an in-depth chronicle of the stories behind hit songs.
This aircheck is actually a compilation of several on WOLF from 1969.
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The "Real" Bob Sherman

October 1969

Bob (Lowry) Sherman who attended SU from 1967-1971, spent a short time at WNDR before moving to WOLF as a once a week overnight part timer Sun/Monday (12m-6am) in 1968-9.  After doing various shifts on the station finally took over evenings replacing Don Bombard, then later Johnny Mack in 1970.
In March 1972 he drove Syracuse home after returning from a 6-month leave for Army Reserve Training.
Bob left Syracuse the final time for Lowell, Mass. in the summer of 1973. He currently resides in Scottsdale, Arizona and retired from full time consulting in 2001.
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Jerry Morgan

February 1970

Jerry replaced Big John Allen in June of 1969 and remained until August 1971. He left for WHEN and was replaced by Chris Kaye "The Sugar Bear". Jerry had been in Syracuse radio for a number of years including WNDR and "Hot Hits" WFBL.
Jerry became a prominent attorney in Syracuse but retired in 2001. He is now a Teacher and coaches in Aiken South Carolina.
*note to former WOLF jocks. Ain't It Funky Now by James Brown must have been playing on the left turntable, because you can hear the distintive sound of the headphones being placed on the counter. "Thump!"
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The "Real" Bob Sherman

April 1970

Thanks to Bob (Lowry) Sherman for these great airchecks of the Big 15.  This recorded on a WOLF Million Dollar Weekend the Sunday before Earth Day April 19, 1970.

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Ron White

May 1970

Ron White filling in for Les Howard. Ron left WOLF for Rochester; WHFM and WBBF, later to become Pete McKay and return to the Big 15 in 1973. The name actually came from WGRD in Grand Rapids, Michigan, WOLF's sister station where the "real" Ron White was the P.D.  Not bad though for his first night on WOLF.
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Johnny Mack

September 1970

John's stay was short at The Big 15, not even long enough for a picture of him to ever end up on the Hot 30. After his stay in Syracuse he landed at WHFM99 in Rochester.

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