MUSIC - PORKY PLAYS DUSTY DISCs

WAMO-AM, which signed on in 1948 as WHOD, licensed then to Homestead, before changing its call letters in 1956 (The AMO referring to the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers), has served the area for over 50 years, although the Urban contemporary format it started with is now on its FM sister station. It was also a daytimer until the 1990s when its signal was upgraded, and its city of license was changed from Pittsburgh to Millvale.  For a time during the 1990s, the station bounced back between the call letters WYJZ and WAMO.

What put WAMO on the map, though, was in the 1950s, when WAMO disc jockey Craig "Porky" Chedwick, started playing a variety of what then came to be known as "the first oldies", scouring record bins for lost R&B recordings, building up a library for such material and creating through his show what came to be later known as "Pittsburgh's Oldies", a show and style later imitated by many DJ's in Pittsburgh, as well as across the country. Many credit Porky Chedwick with being the "Father of Oldies Radio".

Porky's Greeting & Theme Song "Bongo Blues - Dee Williams Sextette"

Please make a selection of your choice or pick the first song and the other tunes will play automatically.