Rock Radio Scrapbook
AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of
September 3, 2006
Weekly issue #392
Talent:
CHARLIE GREER
Station: WABC New York
Date: December 30, 1964
Time: 25:41
Any discussion of the great all-night jocks in Top 40 radio history should
certainly include one of the greatest of them all - Charlie Greer.
While he also worked middays at WABC for several years, Greer is best
identified with the all-night show at the legendary New York station.
Greer was in fact the first midday voice when WABC debuted as a Top 40
station on December 7, 1960. He moved to midnights in 1963, then went
back to middays in 1965, before returning to the all-night show in 1966. He
stayed there until he left the station in August, 1969.
Greer's easy-going friendly style was perfect for WABC, a station that
emphasized personality. His live reads of the famous Dennison's commercials
(Route 22, Union, N.J.) are part of New York radio lore. And while several
announcers did the all-night show at WABC over the years, he's probably the best
remembered.
Greer jocked at WAKR in Akron, Ohio, before moving to WABC in 1960. After
leaving WABC, he moved to WIP Philadelphia in 1969 and in the 1970s returned to New
York at WCBS-FM (he also participated in that station's radio reunions
in the '80s and '90s.) Greer also worked at WRKL New York and WHAM
Rochester, N.Y.
Greer died September 30, 1996.
Enjoy Greer on WABC here.
(The Bill Dulmage Collection)