Bills, Bills, Bills

Been slacking off, so here's a quickie post of the Bill Cartwright version of WIMZ's Waves. This show is from June of 1981, based on "Stand and Deliver" being at the top of the UK charts for five weeks (thank you Google!). A couple of songs that are in my list of favorites by those artists are on these shows (PIL, John Cale) and which were probably my first exposure to those specific tracks.

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New Wave, Old Waves

For the past 25+ years I've had it filed away in the back of my brain that Jeff Huggins was not the first host of WIMZ's WAVES program, but I had no confirmation until this week, when I repaired the terribly abused cassette pictured below. A little splicing tape, a little re-applied masking tape, and a digital transfer leads us to today's audio.


Turns out that little brain worm was correct - Bill Cartwright (presumably not the 90's Bulls' center) was the initial host of the program. I know even less about Bill than I do about Jeff, so if you have any info please pop in on the comments and fill us in. This show is from 1981, and my memory tells me that this was the first time I heard (or at least the first time that I taped) WAVES.

Since it's Tuesday (even though it's not midnight EST), it's the appropriate time to post this show.



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