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![Ralph Kanna at WONS](jocks/kanna.jpg) |
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March
23, 1941
Radio's Moving Day
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Pre
POP
an undated photo of
Ralph Kanna
at WONS, WPOP's predecessor |
October
8, 1955
WGTH's Bob E. Lloyd |
July
20, 1956
WPOP's Top 40 Origins |
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![Hound Dog - January 5, 1958](popimages/jocklounge/hound/t_010558.jpg) |
![December 7, 1958 - WPOP Color Radio ad](popimages/jocklounge/ad120758.jpg) |
July
29, 1956
WPOP's Scott Kilgore
ad |
December
16, 1956
WPOP's Bruce Douglas |
1957-1958
WPOP's George Hound
Dog Lorenz |
December
7, 1958
ad for WPOP Color Radio |
![WPOP record hops montage](popimages/hops/blair%20copy.jpg) |
![WPOP's Bob Scott](jocks/scott_ms.jpg) |
![August 2, 1959 - 24 hour broadcast service](popimages/jocklounge/ad080259.jpg) |
![link to WPOP broadcast trade ads](popimages/ads/tradeads.jpg) |
1950s-1960s
montage of record
hops
emceed by WPOP Personalities |
January,
1959
Bob Scott and the
Children's
Marching Song marathon |
August
2, 1959
ad for WPOP's 24 Hour
Broadcast Service |
1959-1962
broadcast trade ads |
![WPOP's Augie Santana](neil/t_augie3.gif) |
![Profile of WPOP's Jack Brooks - July 1, 1960](logos/19600701.jpg) |
![March 25, 1961 - letter from WPOP's Ray Somers](popimages/jocklounge/19610325_wpop.gif) |
![WPOP's Joey Reynolds](jocks/reynolds2.jpg) |
December,
1959
Newington transmitter
building photos by former engineer Neil Fitzgerald |
July
1, 1960
Jack
Brooks Profile
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March
25, 1961
letter from WPOP's
Ray Somers |
1962
Joey Reynolds theme
song
by The Four Seasons |
![WPOP's Joseph C. Amaturo](jocks/amaturo.jpg) |
![link to article about WPOP's Jack Kelly](logos/logo3.jpg) |
![Summer 1965 - The WPOP Good Guys](jocks/goodguys.jpg) |
![](popimages/RamseyLewisTrio_small.jpg) |
February
5, 1963
Joe Amaturo buys WPOP |
July,
1964
Jack Kelly attempts
roller coaster
record at Riverside |
Summer
1965
The
WPOP Good Guys |
Summer,
1965
Kilroy & the Ramsey
Lewis Trio |
![WPOP's Lou Terri](popimages/jocklounge/t_terri_090265.jpg) |
![Beatdown for WPOP's Sam Holman](popimages/jocklounge/t_19660630.jpg) |
![1966 WPOP Good Guys ad](popimages/jocklounge/meet_g_guys.jpg)
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![WPOP's Ken Griffin](popimages/jocklounge/t_griffin.jpg) |
September,
1965
Lou Terri's Tune |
June
30, 1966
the kind of publicity
no
radio station wants... |
July
17, 1966
ad for WPOP Good Guys |
February,
1967
Ken Griffin in Teen
Life magazine |
![St. Jude's March](popimages/jocklounge/t_stjude.jpg) |
![Pictures of the WPOP Good Guys](popimages/jocklounge/t_jocks_may67.jpg) |
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May
21, 1967
Danny Thomas drops
Big D for WPOP |
1967
Pictures of the WPOP
Good Guys |
October
1, 1967
Fall Season |
Halloween
1967
WPOP Staff party |
![WPOP's Bill Winters](popimages/jocklounge/t_winters.jpg)
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![WPOP's Dick Heatherton](popimages/jocklounge/t_heatherton.jpg) |
![](popimages/jocklounge/t_19680726.jpg) |
![1968 Seasons Greetings from the WPOP Boss Jocks](popimages/jocklounge/t_19681222.jpg) |
January,
1968
Bill Winters in Profile |
July
12, 1968
He really is
Joey Heatherton's brother! |
July
26, 1968
Tracy joins the Boss Jocks
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December
22, 1968
WPOP Boss Christmas Edition |
![](popimages/jocklounge/t_greene_mail.jpg) |
![](popimages/jocklounge/t_driscartoon.jpg) |
![WPOP help wanted ad in Billboard Magazine - August 2, 1969](popimages/jocklounge/t_19690802_ad.jpg) |
![WPOP Boss Edition - Nov. 16, 1969](popimages/jocklounge/boss/111669.jpg) |
1968-69
WPOP's Mike Greene
catches up on fan mail |
Summer
1969
WPOP's Mark Driscoll
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August
2, 1969
WPOP help wanted ad
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November 16, 1969
WPOP Boss Edition |
![WPOP Bossketball team](popimages/jocklounge/t_bossketball.jpg) |
![early 1970 - WPOP Boss Jocks](popimages/jocklounge/t_1970bossjocks.jpg) |
![](popimages/1970_Love_Rap_in_tiny.jpg) |
![WPOP Crumpet Caper button](popimages/crumcaper/cc_button.gif) |
Winter
1969-1970
WPOP
BOSSketball team takes
on the faculty of Pulaski
High School in New Britain |
early
1970
WPOP
Boss Jocks |
August
11, 1970
WPOP's
Bill Love on Channel 30 Rap-In |
Spring,
1971
the WPOP Crumpet Caper |
![WPOP's Scott St. James and Hartford Mayor George Athanson](popimages/jocklounge/mayor.jpg)
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![WPOP's Coffeytime morning show](popimages/jocklounge/t_coffeytime.jpg) |
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November
3, 1971
Scott St. James and
the Morning Mayor |
March
22, 1972
ad for WPOP's Coffeytime
morning show |
August
16, 1972
Merv Griffin
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June
30, 1975
NBC's News &
Information Service |
![Steve Wildman Gallon](jocks/gallon2.jpg) |
![Link to WPOP Reunion photos](popimages/reunion/group.gif) |
![WPOP's Augie Santana](neil/lil_augie.gif) |
![WPOP's Jack Armstrong](jocks/armstrong4.jpg) |
September
1, 2004
read
more about the late
Steve "Wildman" Gallon
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June
25, 2005
The WPOP Reunion
(also the 2008 Reunion) |
August
10, 2006
Tribute to Augie Santana |
March
23, 2008
death of Jack Armstrong |
![WPOP's Lou Morton](popimages/jocklounge/morton_small.jpg) |
![](popimages/jocklounge/simms4.jpg) |
![](popimages/Woody_book_thumb.jpg) |
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November
11, 2014
death of Lou Morton |
January
28, 2015
Lee Baby Simms, R.I.P. |
Late
2020
Woody writes a book |
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