Anyone who knows me well knows that the job I always wished I could have had was a Top 40 disk jockey in the 1960s, with the jokes, the patter, the jingles and the greatest pop music in history. In the 1960s a variety of radio stations employed the Top 40 pop format, among them WMCA, WINS and the greatest of them all, WABC, which stuck with it from 1960-1982, employing Harry Harrison, (Swing) Charlie (Swing) Greer, Ron Lundy, Herb Oscar Anderson and of course, Daaaaaaaaan Ingram.
At first WABC jocks were called “the Good Guys” but after WMCA pilfered the moniker, WABC switched to “The All-Americans.”
This painted sign from the mid to late 1970s has somehow survived on a building on St. Nicholas Avenue just south of West 145th Street.