Talent: MIKE DAROW
Station: CHUM
Toronto
Date: December
21, 1961
Time: 8:53
Memories, fading ones at that, are all we have to go by.
Even though it is recognized as one of North America's pioneer Top 40 stations, much of CHUM's early audio history seems to have simply vanished.
Relatively few CHUM airchecks from the pre-1970 period are in active circulation. While some may be in private collections, that isn't much good to the masses of us who want to hear them. Bob Laine and Doug Thompson have been finding plenty of CHUM airchecks in that station's archives and sending them to us, but we'd also like to uncover some of the ones listeners may have recorded.
A collector in Michigan named Tom Sanders sent us an aircheck of afternoon drive host Mike Darow at CHUM in 1961. This is one of only two airchecks of Darow that we know about and one of only a handful from the early days of CHUM. Not even a single aircheck of Al Boliska's CHUM morning show is known to exist. But we believe someone, somewhere, must have tapes of those early CHUM shows. Can you help?
Rock Radio
Scrapbook presents Mike Darow here. 
(The Tom Sanders Collection)
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