[GAB-1955]

I remember the good days at WMAL: Hardin and Weaver in the morning; Felix Grant with real jazz at night; Larry Krebs on the police beat; Terps and Redskins football. That was the classiest station on the dial.

Then, in their ‘silver period’, my wife and I loved John Lyons and Trumbull and Core. I still smile thinking about the taxi driver who reviews movies FROM THE TITLE ALONE; Jackie Bill; W-HAPPY announcer Dennis Clayton; the Hump every Wednesday at 5 p.m., and of course, Andy Parks and his guest flight attendants.

I haven’t been able to listen with the same sense of enjoyment since. I like Rush, but a little of him goes a very long way, and I am not driving long enough to listen anymore.

This, and Bill Buckley died. Darn.

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I remember the good days at WMAL: Hardin and Weaver in the morning; Felix Grant with real jazz at night; Larry Krebs on the police beat; Terps and Redskins football. That was the classiest station on the dial.

No arguments there FRiend, Hardin and Weaver were among the best ever to crack open a microphone and I remember Felix Grant too.

Do you perhaps remember a somewhat 'rogue' broadcaster by the name of Barry Richards on WHMC-AM in Gaithersburg?

As Lou Costello might have said, "he was a baaaaaad boy!" lol

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I remember the good days at WMAL: Hardin and Weaver in the morning;

In the 60s, I drove to work listening to them. Miss Janitor, Phil Dirt, Chuck Roast were Weaver's character voices (he also did the Smokey the Bear PSAs). Even the commercials were funny- The Lotus Chinese Restaurant was always introduced with the "Wong" time, because Sam Wong owned it.

Those were the days! Not the Sturm und Drang of today. They were followed by the Don McNeil Breakfast Club for years. But Paul(the pause) Harvey is still there!