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Article: INSIDE TV & RADIO <> Clark Weber's book looks back on 'fun years' of music on AM radio
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 14, 2008
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There was a time when AM radio pumped out music that attracted
teenage listeners in droves.
In those long-ago days, Clark Weber was one of the names that
brought in the teens in droves.
His radio career began in Waukesha, before he broke into the big
time at Milwaukee's old WRIT-AM. But it was on Chicago's WLS-AM
(890) that Weber made his biggest splash.
The 78-year-old Weber talks about it all in a well-illustrated
new memoir called "Clark Weber's Rock and Roll Radio." His subtitle,
"The Fun Years," means 1955 to 1975.
"There were very few constraints," he recalled in a conversation
with Inside TV & Radio. "The jingles had to be played going in and
going out of songs, but other than that we ...
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