“The All-Request Rock ’n’ Roll Jukebox,” hosted by Mike Saffran, on “99 BBF”/WBBF-FM (98.9), Rochester, N.Y. Originally aired 7 p.m.–Midnight April 3, 1999.
Callers aired and other show highlights:
00:48 Ann/Webster (“Needles And Pins”)
01:09 Abbott’s Frozen Custard reference
02:24 Lacey/Pittsford (“[Just Like] Romeo And Juliet”)
02:49 First of many references to clock or watch on-air giveaway, from Images and Time (Village Gate Square), to mark “spring forward” (start of Daylight Saving Time)
03:23 Tina (with her husband, Bob) (“Mighty Quinn [Quinn The Eskimo]”)
04:10 Ray/Driving on I-490 (“Indian Reservation [The Lament Of The Cherokee]”)
05:27 Sharon/Spencerport (“Let’s Live For Today” — reference to her daughter Wendy’s 25th birthday)
06:00 Marissa/Hilton (“Sweet Pea”)
07:13 Jessica/Warsaw (“98.6”)
07:35 Live, call-in contest giveaway of a clock or watch, from Images and Time (Village Gate Square), in celebration of the start of Daylight Saving Time
08:11 Julie/Port Gibson (“American Pie”)
08:47 Dave/Fairport (contest winner)
09:32 Jerry/Rochester (“Red Rubber Ball”)
10:25 Kristin/Rochester (“Unchained Melody” — dedication to boyfriend, Matt)
10:57 Unidentified male (“I Can’t Get Next To You”)
11:29 Melody/UR (“In My Life”)
12:15 Terry/Batavia (“City Of New Orleans”)
12:25 Reference to doing taxes!
13:23 Laura/Fairport (“Jackie Blue”)
14:22 Warren/Canandaigua (“Turn Back The Hands Of Time”)
15:10 Leslie/Canandaigua (“Rockin’ Robin”)
15:33 Reference to “Fun Oldie of the Day” (aired earlier by fellow 99 BBF DJ Tom Noonan): “The Streak”
15:40 Sharon/Spencerport (“Poetry In Motion”)
15:50 “You know how tough it is to get through to this program?… When you get through, you better ask for your great oldie!” :-)
16:28 “Matchmaker Oldies Party” (with 99 BBF’s Mike Vickers) at Maxwell’s (Irondequoit bar) reference
16:53 Heather/Penfield (“Classical Gas”)
17:21 Tracy/Rochester (“The Way You Do The Things You Do”)
18:45 Douglas/Rochester (“I Can See Clearly Now”)
19:11 Marge (“You Are The Sunshine Of My Life”)
19:31 Reference to “sister station” WBEE-FM DJ “Big Daddy” giving me a Cadbury Creme Egg for Easter :-)
20:03 Bambi/East Rochester (“A Hundred Pounds Of Clay”)
20:41 Playing a “DJ’s Choice” (“Give Me One More Chance” — dedicated to Chris/Alden)
Special note: The above dedication undoubtedly was sent out to former 99 BBF DJ and program director Chris Whittingham, who had been inexplicably let go from the station a few days earlier. By then, I had known Chris, who was one of my first PDs (at WBTF-FM, Attica), for more than 10 years; and, in fact, a couple years or so earlier, I had tipped him off to an opening at what was then WKLX (a position he ultimately landed). I can recall giving serious consideration to quitting as host of “The Jukebox” over his firing; thus, I certainly wouldn’t have been inclined to be reticent, even on the air, in sending him well wishes over the airwaves.
21:13 Dave (“Girl”)
22:10 Reference to fellow 99 BBF DJ Chuck McCoy
22:17 Unidentified male (“Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop”)
All content (radio aircheck, audio podcast – all components, and show notes): © Michael J. Saffran
