Chuck’s Classics, featuring Wings

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Silly Love Songs


Wings founded in 1971 by Paul McCartney and his wife Linda and others. In 1976 they recorded Silly Love Songs, which reached the #1 position on the Billboard 100.
Wings
1976


Chuck Benson – Started his broadcast career in 1960 as a writer at CKYL, Peace River, AB, where in 1965 he won the Gold Leaf Award (now called the Juno) for Top Disc Jockey for Canada. From there, a brief stint at CFRN, Edmonton, AB as Promotions Manager for AM/FM Radio. Then in ’62 helped open CKNL Fort St. John, BC. In ’68 Chuck and two others (Ernie Mushtuk and Ernie Mykyte) started up Yellowhead Broadcasting Ltd out of Edson, AB, eventually ending up with satellites in Grande Cache, Jasper, Whitecourt and Hinton, AB. He sold his interests and moved to Vancouver, ending up with CFVR, Abbotsford as General Sales Manager, then Manager of CHPQ, Parksville, and eventually as a Sales Consultant with CIGV-FM in Penticton. Chuck is retired from broadcasting and living with his wife in Parksville on an Island in the Pacific.

2 COMMENTS

  1. I must admit, to me, “Live and Let Die” was their most memorable song. A couple of riffs and I am straight into replaying episodes of that Bond movie in my mind.

    Used to get a kick out of the Vancouver radio station that apparently got the mike feed from Linda McCartney from a concert and would play the isolated vocals on the airwaves from time to time. Always begged the question from me if her singing ability was not really the thing that attracted Paul to Linda.

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