WHK Color Channel 14 Cleveland

28/07/2022

Here is a whole wad of Sande & Greene jingles that they created for WHK in the 1958-1964 era, which coincides with the years Johnny Holliday held court first in the overnight show, then morning drive and finally as the king of afternoons from 3-7 PM. The guys running WHK quickly figured out that JH as a rising star...which he became. https://soundcloud.com/user-870283533/d01-01-whk-sande-green-mono

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28/07/2022

Back in the early 1960s, Sande & Greene, the creators of the incredibly modern sounding (for the time) WHK Color Channel 14 jingles, was asked by an Oldsmobile dealer in the Cleveland area, to create a jingle for their dealership, Pelunis Oldsmobile. As it happens, a gentleman named Dave Peilunis, was a part-time jock on WHK using the name Dave Day. Here is that jingle just as it was heard on WHK way back when... https://soundcloud.com/user-870283533/d01-04-pelunis-oldsmobile-commercial/s-QhJqmrsByt3?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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10/07/2022

If you miss this you gonna kick yourself.

Johnny Holliday's career took off on Cleveland's WHK and as public address announcer for the Browns in the 1960s.

05/07/2022

Soon, there will be new audio on the WHK Color Channel 14 page! Files are being prepared as I type! Meanwhile, WHK newsmen used this mic to report to NE Ohio about what was happening. Honest. This very mic.

29/06/2022

Johnny Holliday is returning to Cleveland at The Music Box for a special event on Thursday, July 14th!

12/02/2022

While I was at WHK (1965-66), Hooper rated the station #1 in Cleveland. By mid-1967, I was in Dayton and WIXY was eating WHK's lunch.

10/02/2022

Here's WHK Good Guy, Bob Friend, in one of the studios. Probably the best studio set-up I ever had the pleasure to work in. All audio levels were in the hands of an engineer. We ran our turntables, carts and echo, time tone and other effects. All stand-up.

17/08/2021

Here's Ray Otis for August 1960...part 1:
https://app.box.com/s/scsoutz0ad03otw5qaqcgx2o7wkwe0z0

25/07/2020

I've managed to create a post (using Box.com) of some great (Bob) Sande & (Larry Greene) jingles that they wrote and recorded (using a singing group headed by Johnny Mann) in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Also, WHK PAMS Series 16 and 18, the S&G WHK Good Life jingles from 1967 and some great S&G jingles for WIP, Philadelphia, a WHK sister Metromedia station. As you will hear, S&G used many of the same basic concepts for both stations. However, they seldom sang new lyrics to an existing track. Most of their work was custom to each station. Hope you enjoy these wonderful jingles from when radio was a lot of fun. https://app.box.com/s/ivj0w8krto19t0uiuas05xy5w9lrgr8c

28/05/2020

Some great Top 40 jocks worked at WHK over the years. Including Johnny Holliday and Don Imus. Gary Dee. Etc. In the nine years (1958-67) of WHK's Top 40 format, in my view, Johnny Holliday's 5 year run was the best of the stations luminaries. Others who shone brightly were Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers, Ray Otis, Alan Michaels, Johnny Walters, Jerry Healy, Ron Riley, Scott Burton, Carl Reese, Bob Friend, Dave Day, Ken Scott, Ron Britain, Joe Mayer, Al James, Dick Clark's syndicated show and there were many more that I am forgetting. Plus the news team was among the most professional I've ever heard on a Top 40 station: Bruce Charles, Bob Engle, Milo Townes, Dave Buckle, Steve Fullerton, Bob Howick, Tim Taylor and many more I am not remembering. Feel free to ad your jock and newsmen names to the list. From radio buddy Ray Glasser, here is Johnny Holliday on WHK from August 1960! Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCzJY56NZHo

From over 50 years ago (OUCH!!), here is one of the oldest airchecks I have - Johnny Holliday, doing his Tunedex countdown show on WHK, the Top 40 powerhouse...

25/05/2020

Before he headed to WCFL Chicago, Ron Britain was PM Drive Jock at WHK.

14/05/2020

Sande & Greene created hundreds if not thousands of WHK jingles over the 9 years of the stations Top 40 format. This is a good example of the different approach they took. By the way, the singing group was assembled by and their leader was Johnny Mann. https://soundcloud.com/don-williams-762410369/every-night-every-day

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13/05/2020

This collection of PAMS Series 18 jingles for WHK was posted in 2013. I hope re-posting the link to the You Tube page where these great PAMS jingles reside will help increase traffic to that 2013 post! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kgV5-dYL_4

Well here is what may stand as the wordiest, most tongue-twistiest tag line ever to be sung in a series of radio jingles: W-H-K! / Color Channel 14 / Clevela...

13/05/2020

Welcome to my tribute page to WHK Color Channel 14. The years of primary interest here are 1958-1967 when WHK was THE Cleveland Top 40 Rock 'n' Roll Station! I'll post lots of photos, audio and information that I have collected since I was a weekender at WHK in 1965-66. Hope you have lots of fun stuff to contribute. Oh, only one thing you need to know. If you get political, off subject or turn unkind to anyone who visits this page, you will be censored. Here is a photo of me taken in 1962 while working at an AM daytimer (WGLD) in Chardon, Ohio.