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Wednesday's Forgotten 45 "Don't Shed a Tear"
Paul Carrack is a voice you know, honestly you do. He started his career in the mid-70's with Ace (How Long) and did some work with Squeeze (Tempted), Mike & the Mechanics (The Living Years). Toda...
Mar 02, 2022 Spudgun67 / CC
Tunesday Forgotten is from Earth, Wind, & Fire!
On March 1st, 1975 Earth, Wind, & Fire released their album "That's The Way of the World". It was their 6th album and sold over 3 million copies and also featured their first ever #1 song "Shining...
Mar 01, 2022 Marc Flores / CC
Hit and Run Headlines 3-1-2022
The Waters Wake Up Call, in an attempt to stay away from all the heavy, doom and gloom stories by having a little fun with just enough to give you an idea of what else is going on in the world, while ...
Mar 01, 2022
Styx has the Monday Forgotten 45
On this date in 1983, Styx released "Kilroy Was Here" their 11th and final album with the classic lineup of Dennis DeYoung, Tommy Shaw, James Young, and the Panozzo brothers. It was a concept album an...
Feb 28, 2022 Mark Morgan / CC
What a weekend for College Basketball
As a big basketball fan, this is the best time of the year! The conference tourneys start soon followed by the NCAA Tournament. And of course the state tourneys in Des Moines as well. Well this past w...
Feb 28, 2022 Karl Baron / CC
Friday's Forgotten 45 is from Pat Benatar
On this date in 1981, Pat Benatar won her first Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Performance for her album "Crimes of Passion". It was her most successful album selling over 4 million copies in the U...
Feb 25, 2022 Jessie Pearl / CC
Throwback Thursday Forgotten!
Check out that dork! That blurry picture is from my senior year when I was a young man roaming the halls of Mid-Prairie High School in Wellman, today's Forgotten 45 was on the radio. From 1981, it's D...
Feb 24, 2022
I-380 Closures early next week
Interstate I-380 from Highway 100 to County Home Road northbound and southbound will be closed next week for the installation of new bridge beams. All northbound and southbound traffic will be reroute...
Feb 24, 2022
Wednesday's Forgotten 45 is from Kiss!
I grew up with cousins who were very much a member of the KISS army! The albums, the face paint, everything. Decades later we can see the marketing genius of Gene Simmons! Today's Forgotten 45 is a so...
Feb 23, 2022 Alberto Cabello / CC
2-22-Twenty-Tunesday Forgotten 45
Happy 2-22-22! Mike Waters played many of the "2" songs this morning on the Waters Wake-Up Call, but I still found one...or is that two? Too? To?! Today's Forgotten 45 is from superstar Dolly Parton a...
Feb 22, 2022 pipilongstockings / CC