Friday, December 9, 2016

CKLW-AM Big Jim Edwards 1969

 
Here is an aircheck of Big Jim Edwards on CKLW-AM from.December 1969. The recording lasts nearly an hour and includes songs, commercials and a newscast.

CKLW was a powerhouse top forty station in the late sixties and early seventies. It was located in Windsor, Ontario but reached Detroit, Toledo and Cleveland. I remember listening to CKLW as a very small boy in northeast, Ohio.

The aircheck includes a wide variety of music including soul, folk, bubble gum, rock n roll and even a reggae cover of an old Sam Cooke classic that I had never heard before. The commercials include advertisements for cigarettes and long forgotten beers. (Anybody, remember Black Label?) The newscast is with reports on Vietnam, peace protests and the death and injury report from the year's deer hunting season. (Talk about a bloodbath!)

Take fifty minutes and go back in time with Big Jim Edwards and CKLW.