“Jukebox Saturday Night,” hosted by Mike Saffran, on “Oldies 98.9”/WKLX-FM (98.9), Rochester, N.Y. Originally aired 7 p.m.–Midnight Feb. 10, 1996.
Callers aired and other show highlights:
00:23 “Back home again!”—Subtle reference to having just finished up a few days filling in for Metro Traffic, where I did morning/afternoon traffic reports on multiple other stations (one of them often not WKLX—depending upon who I was subbing for)
00:32 Unidentified female (“Telephone Man”)
01:02 Ed/Wellsville (“City Of New Orleans”)
01:31 Unidentified female (“I Will Survive”)
02:20 “The ’70s at 7” (partial imaging)
02:35 Unidentified male (“Bluer Than Blue”)
03:05 “’70s at 7 Promo Flashback”—“Playing the songs that were great back when this station was WHFM–‘FM99!’” (including reference to “my buddy ‘Wags!’”—WBEE-FM DJ Dave Beck, who some called “Wags” because of his prior radio name: “Gary Wagner”; once again, I could kick myself for not letting the aircheck tape roll!)
04:00 Patty/Brockport (“If I Can’t Have You”)
05:17 Karen/Honeoye Falls (“I Love The Nightlife”)
05:59 “WKLX, Rochester” legal ID jingle — followed by snippet of Foreigner–“Juke Box Hero” (Note: This likely was the first time I used this song hook as show imaging—even though, as an ’80s song, it’s not part of the music era normally played on “The Jukebox”; because Foreigner’s Lou Gramm is from Rochester, I found it appropriate); and “Mike Saffran” customized name-shout jingle (including snippet of Donovan–“Mellow Yellow”)
06:37 Unidentified male (“Beep Beep”)
07:59 Renee/Attica (“Puff The Magic Dragon”)
08:49 Unidentified male (“In The Year 2525”)
09:59 “WKLX, Rochester” legal ID jingle
10:22 Unidentified female (“Cecilia”)
11:20 Rick/Rochester (“Return To Sender”)
11:52 Shelly (“Born To Be Wild”—dedication to Stephen)
13:11 Kim/Henrietta (“Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”)—including reference to “Mr. Holland’s Opus” (1995 movie)
13:55 “You were here before I was!”—I suspect a reference to letting the “crickets” background SFX play a bit while cueing up the next phone call and/or loading the requested song (using “crickets” as a fallback was better than having dead air! ;-)
14:06 Karen/Clarence (“Never My Love”—dedication to Mark)
14:51 Rick/Rochester (“Can’t Help Falling In Love”—dedication to wife, Jane)
15:17 Nicole/LeRoy (“My Special Angel”)
16:29 John/Irondequoit (“Whatever Happened To Old-Fashioned Love”—dedication to wife, Laurie)
17:06 Beth/Fairport (“Honey”)
17:49 John (“Unchained Melody”—dedication from Julie)
19:10 Deb (with Ro)/Corfu (“Precious And Few”—dedication to Larry and Roger)
20:04 Tara/Byron (“Sweet Pea”—dedication to cousin Heather)
20:28 Josh (“The Pied Piper”—dedication to Anna)
20:41 Kim/Henrietta (“Real Love”—dedication to Brian)
21:33 “Dim the lights, find a good parking space …” (partial “Backseat Memories” imaging)
21:42 David/Rochester (“Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie”—dedication to Melinda)
22:03 Reference to listening, as a kid, to Rochester Top-40 stations WBBF and WAXC—and sometimes waiting forever for requests that never aired (“Feels pretty good, doesn’t it? Getting your request played on the radio…. I’ve always been sincere about trying my best to get on the songs that you ask for”); including indirect mention to my first Rochester radio job (98PXY): “We didn’t play many requests at 98, and they still don’t … but I always would if I could … because I know it feels good!”
22:50 Eva/Irondequoit (“Earth Angel [Will You Be Mine]”—dedication to Greg)
23:16 Jessica (with Autumn)/York (“Come A Little Bit Closer”—dedication to Mike and Matt)
23:50 Joe (“Blueberry Hill”—dedication to Katrina)
24:19 Cassette tape ran out :-(
24:25 Erin/Webster (“Let Your Love Flow”)
24:50 Katrina (with Amanda) (“Lean On Me”—dedication to Jessica and Tony)
25:49 Charles/Bloomfield (“Green Tambourine”—dedication to wife, Stacy)
26:49 Mary/Rochester (“Teddy Bear”—dedication to Aaron)
All content (radio aircheck, audio podcast – all components, and show notes): © Michael J. Saffran
