WJOB "Region Bandstand"

08/30/2024

Sports will preempt RB tomorrow, folks.

We'll return next week with some great tunes, trivia, phone calls and more!

We'll catch all you BIG DOGS next week! :-)

08/20/2024

August 20.

Celebrating National Radio Day!

08/16/2024

Ditch the news, sports and politics!

Fill your ears with awesome music, trivia, lively chat, wisecracks and silly jokes instead! :-)

Some call it "old school radio", the way they remember it.

Four cameras add to the action online at jedtv.com for your viewing pleasure. :-)

Region Bandstand; Saturday 10 AM DST.

For your ears: AM1230/FM 104.7, tunein.com
For your eyes and ears: jedtv.com

08/05/2024

As featured on Region Bandstand. Heartsfield!

Some great musicians here! Fabulous song. Great arrangement. Soaring vocal harmonies!

Once upon a time, my former band shared the stage with these guys.

See Heartsfield.com The guys are still out there rockin'!

Provided to YouTube by CDBabyJust That Wind · HeartsfieldSignature Series: Heartsfield℗ 1973 HeartsfieldReleased on: 1973-07-01Auto-generated by YouTube.

08/04/2024

Play list 2024-08-03

"Sferruzza-Paloozza" kicks off the month with some of "Geno's Faves"!

How Do You Like Me Now? - Toby Keith
Carrie Anne - The Hollies "Live"
Something About You - The Four Tops
Just That Wind - Heartsfield
A Little Bit Of Soul - The Music Explosion ("One hit wonder")
My Oh My - Slade
Sea Of Madness - CSN&Y - "Live" at Woodstock
You Just May Be The One - The Monkees
The Salt In My Tears - Martin Briley
Run Runaway - Slade
Police Lineup - Bob Newhart ("Comedy Corner")
The Lion And The Lamb - Phil Everly
Gunslinger - John Fogerty
Let's Get Together - H.P. Lovecraft
Papa Jean's Blues - The Monkees
Baby Come Back - The Equals
A Good Feeling To Know - Poco
Rockin' Down The Highway - The Doobie Brothers

07/31/2024

"On this day in music history"........

60 years ago today The Everly Brothers rocked Indiana Beach!

$2.25 admission cost? Sounds like a deal! :-)

07/28/2024

Play list 2024-07-27

Omaha - Moby Grape (RIP Jerry Miller)
Geronimo - The Shadows
Ain't Livin' Long Like This - "Live"; Emmylou Harris (Frank Reckard, guitar)
Hushabye - The Mystics
Stoned Woman - Ten Years After
Theme from S.W.A.T. - Rhythm Heritage
Motorcycle Mama - Sailcat ("One hit wonder")
Wildwood Days - Bobby Rydell
Amie - Pure Prairie League (extended version)
Going Nowhere - Moby Grape
"Call to Eddie Sr." - Steve Allen "Funny Fone Call"
The Preacher - Larry Carlton
It's All Over Now - Molly Hatchet
Holiday - Nazareth
Good Rockin' Tonight - Montrose
American Ruse - MC5
Footstompin' Music - Grand Funk Railroad

07/27/2024

Play list 2024-07-20

- I'm Just A Singer In A Rock 'n' Roll Band - The Moody Blues (John Lodge's b-day)
- Ebony Eyes - Bob Welch
- Hush A Bye - Heartsfield (Happy birthday Fred Dobbs!)
- Song Of The Wind - Santana
- Lady In White - Tommy James
- California Sun - The Rivieras
- California Sun - The Ramones
- What It Feels Like - BoDeans
- Telstar - The Tornadoes
- Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport - Rolf Harris ("Comedy Corner")
- Sun Arise - Rolf Harris
- What A Day - Buffalo Springfield
- The Lonely Bull - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- I Want To Know - The Mavericks
- Rocky Mt. Breakdown - Poco
- Valerie - Marshall Crenshaw
- Deep Inside My Heart - Randy Meisner w/ Kim Carnes

06/26/2024

Hey! We'll be seeing you Saturday, June 29 for a special "pre-holiday" Region Bandstand!

And.... you'll be seeing us, too! Yeah, that camera in the background of the photo will be "on" as will the popular "WJOB Boulevard Cam", so proceed to jedtv.com for FREE in-studio video of our antics!

The 400 foot "tower of power" will still pump out our broadcast signal at AM1230 and FM 104.7.

Online listeners who don't want to look at our ugly mugs can still use the mighty Internet on jedradio.com and tunein.com :-)

NO news. NO sports. NO politics. NO "corporate play list". NO kidding!

"Saturday morning music madness" at 10 AM, DST.

Encore broadcast Sunday 10 PM.

06/17/2024

Region Bandstand: "Saturday tunes from ten 'til noon" returns Sat. June 22 at 10 AM.

Yep! Geno reaches deep into his personal library for some "hot" tunes for the summer season!

Cop an earful on all broadcast platforms: radio waves at AM 1230/FM 104.7.

FREE online studio VIDEO and "behind the scenes peek" at jedtv.com

More online at: jedradio.com and tunein.com

Encore broadcast Sunday 10 PM.

06/17/2024

A WJOB radio "Region Flashback".

"Back in the day" with Cosmo, Larry and John!

06/14/2024

Summer vacation! Hey, Geno deserves a break, too! :-)

Please enjoy the "Best of Bandstand" tomorrow, Sat. June 15!

RB returns "live" next week!

Listen to all past programs FREE at jedtv.com

06/06/2024

Baseball will preempt Region Bandstand June 8, so we'll lay back in the dugout and chill for a while. :-)

Hang in there! We'll return "live" soon.

Until then, you can listen online to ALL Region Bandstand past programs online FREE at jedtv.com.

Select "watch and listen", "watch all on demand" and type in "Bandstand" in the search box.

06/04/2024

Play list 2024-06-01

My Daddy's Cadillac - Delevantes
Live Close By (and visit often) - The Mavericks w/Nicole Atkins
Don't Drink And Drive - The Kingbees
The Only Time I'm Sober Is When You're Gone - Heartsfield
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry - Super Session LP
Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Backwards Upside Down - The Outsiders
Poison Ivy - The Coasters ("Two-Fer" tune)
Poison Ivy - Redbone
Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley
Devoted To You - The Everly Brothers
Two Hangmen - Mason Proffit
Beitlebaum - Spike Jones & His City Slickers
It You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby - Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five
Special Care - Buffalo Springfield
'59 Ford - Firebirds
May I - Bill Deal & The Rondells
Fall On You - Moby Grape
Boomerang - Poco

05/29/2024

Kick off the month of June the "right" way.........the "radio way"!

"LIVE", this Saturday, Geno cranks out unique music goodies from his personal library while "Big Dave" engages our callers and adds some "one-liners"! :-)

Listen on all platforms: AM 1230, FM 104.7, jedradio.com and tunein.com

WATCH the antics in the studio FREE at jedtv.com

"Saturday tunes from ten til noon".
"Broadcasting with class from the studio made of steel and glass".

Want more "promo poetry"? :-) Tune in Saturday morning!

Region Bandstand; Saturday, 10 AM, DST

Encore broadcast Sunday 10 PM for all you "night owls"! ;-)

05/26/2024

Play list 2024-05-25

Whatcha Doin' Tonight? - The Staple Singers
House Of Living - Heartsfield
Wanna Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star - Eddie Money
So Much In Love - The Tymes ("Two-Fer Tune")
So Much In Love - Timothy B. Schmit
Situation - The Jeff Beck Group
Sky Pilot - The Animals
Lupe & Joe - Tommy James
Superman - The Kinks
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
Lincoln Park Pirates - Steve Goodman ("Comedy Corner")
Wings of A Nightengale - The Everly Brothers
I Got A Line On You - The Jeff Healey Band
I've Never Been To Spain - Three Dog Night
Jumpin' Jack Flash - Johnny Winter and...
Closer To Free - BoDeans

05/20/2024

A great big congratulations to our sponsor, Freddy's Steakhouse for being voted #1 in the region!

04/29/2024

And now, a word about our sponsor.... :-)

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(BTW, a double quarter pounder, large fries and Coke at the "golden arches" will cost you $12.90. For about ONE dollar more, you get a real "meal"!)

A region favorite for many years!
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"Come for the food........stay for the fun!"

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04/22/2024

Do you like to watch? :-) Well, as if I don't have enough to do in the studio, now there's MORE equipment to operate! LOL!

Yes, WJOB "Region Bandstand" has now moved in to the 22nd century and added in-studio VIDEO for all you "viewers and voyeurs" out there!

Watch "live" at jedtv.com

Watch the back-and-forth quips and zingers between Geno and Dave as they blast their way through two hours of "Geno's Music Vault".

The photos attached are screen captures of the various camera angles that you'll see during WJOB "Region Bandstand". During a song, watch the traffic action on Indianapolis Boulevard in Hammond, Indiana! :-)

Saturday 10 AM; DST.
Sunday encore 10 PM.

P.S. - All WJOB "Region Bandstand" programs are available 24/7 at jedtv.com
Select "watch and listen". Then, "watch all on demand"......type "bandstand" in the search box and you're there!

We'll see you Saturday morning.........and you'll see us, too!

Ciao!

04/16/2024

April 20, 1967 and the "Sound Ten Survey" from WCFL, "the voice of labor", AM 1000.

"Nancy and Daddy" holding down the #3 slot.

Three Chi-town groups made the cut in the top twenty.

04/04/2024

Yowza!

Before the Cubs play, WJOB "Region Bandstand" will play in the studio!

In addition to the tunes, Geno will present his telephone interview with Tommy Chong from 2013, so this will be a hoot!

Get an earful on all platforms: AM 1230 and FM 104.7 radio style.

People of the web and smarty pants phone users: jedradio.com jedtv.com and tunein.com

Saturday 10 AM, DST.

Night owls: Catch the encore broadcast Sunday 10 PM.

03/27/2024

"Returning to the scene of the crime..." :-)

Yeah, we'll be back "live" this Saturday March 30 at 10 AM DST!

Warning! It's still March and Geno has got some hot "March music madness" tunes cooked up!

Join Geno & Dave for a "one hit wonder", the "jazz junction", a "Two-Fer Tune", trivia, "Comedy Corner", YOUR telephone calls and much more.

Fill your ears on ALL platforms! Radio AND online!

AM 1230, FM 104.7, jedtv.com, jedradio.com and tunein.com

Studio phone line: 219-845-1100

Saturday 10 AM.
(Sunday encore broadcast 10 PM.)

03/21/2024

Easter break? Well, not really.

Another preempt this week due to basketball and "March Madness".

Please hang in there! We'll be back in a week..........or two?

Refer to this page for updates!

03/14/2024

Please click on the link to see the GREAT happenings at Freddy's Steakhouse this Saturday!

Celebrate St. Patty's at Freddy's Steakhouse and support our sponsor!

News flash! Dave "Hey, everybody" Innes and his lady "Helenka" will be in attendance! :-)

Musician Frank Rossi entertains!

THIS is gonna be fun!

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03/14/2024

Yes, it's that time of year again: "March Madness".

"Hoops" will preempt WJOB "Region Bandstand" Sat. March 16, but an encore program will follow after the game between 10:30 - 11 AM.

Hope to be back in the studio next week, but please refer to this page for the latest programming updates!

03/07/2024

"Throwback Thursday" video.

A station promo from past and present WJOB personalities.

WJOB AM 1230 "We are the Voice of the Region"

03/03/2024

Did you miss yesterday's WJOB "Region Bandstand"?

No worries! You can listen to ANY of the past Region Bandstand programs at jedtv.com

Proceed jedtv.com, select "watch and listen". Then select "watch all on demand".
Scroll down to the search box and type "bandstand" to pull up ALL past programs!

Boomph! Crank up your speakers and enjoy! :-)

02/28/2024

Popular region entertainer and multi-instrumentalist, Mr. Frank Rossi joins us via the telephone this Saturday, Mar. 2!

Frank has been on the music circuit for a good many years and we'll catch up with Frank's current gigs and activities.

A "one-hit wonder" a "two-fer tune" and "Comedy Corner" are still on Geno's play list along with debuts, "B" sides, YOUR telephone calls and a rockin' finale.

Ditch the news, sports and politics!
It's radio the way you remember it; music and fun!

Saturday 10 AM; CST on all platforms.

Radio style at: AM 1230/FM 104.7.
Online at: jedtv.com, jedradio.com and tunein.com

Encore broadcast Sunday 10 PM.

02/21/2024

Fair warning!

WJOB "Region Bandstand" returns "LIVE" Saturday, Feb. 24 at 10 AM, CST.

Music, music history, backstories, bric-a-brac, assorted sundries, trivia, "Mom's thought for the day", "Fact or Crap", YOUR telephone calls, data, wisecracks, stupid jokes, information, knowledge and anything but the "usual".

Blasting out the sounds renowned from the 400 foot "tower of power" on all platforms.

AM 1230, FM 104.7, jedtv.com, jedradio.com and tunein.com

Studio phone line: 219-845-1100

Encore broadcast Sunday 10 PM.