Get a Clu!

This is more Last Word material than 'Pail material, but this discovery is so exciting I can't wait another month to reveal it! If there ever was a Snuffleupagus moment, this is it!

I've insisted for years that there was a local AM station in the 1980s called WCLU that programmed a top 40 format. Briefly in the mid-'80s, its on-air personalities called the station Clu 132. Everyone said I was just making the whole thing up.

Well, now I've found some solid proof that the station was real...

https://musicofmylife.net/2020/05/25/the-cincinnati-am-rock-radio-blues

Peep that blog entry! It's from someone who says they regularly listened to WCLU in its heyday! It also includes a copy of a WCLU music survey from the week of May 25, 1983. These surveys were distributed at record stores. WCLU's playlist of currents at the time featured 60 records, so its format was really more of a top 60 than a top 40. If you're going to run a top 40 station, well, a top 60 is even better!

The #1 record on WCLU's playlist that week was "Let's Dance" by David Bowie. The rest of that week's playlist includes everything from Def Leppard to Gladys Knight to Robert Ellis Orrall. And I guarantee you the Mtume song was not about gum.

A part of local radio history that everyone denied has been preserved for posterity!