Gene Cowan's Cacophony: WAVA Jingles

And the final jingle heard before the transmitter shut down:
The Future Has Come to This


The 50,000 Watt Music Machine 105.1 WAVA Ain't They Creeps? Al Goodman! All New All Hit 105 All-Star DJ Weekend Be Sweet! Billy the Man Slave! British Beatle Weekend Broadcasting to 34 counties Captain Fogle Charlie and Harrigan! Charlie Stuangstabalac! Commercial Free Commercial Free Music Commerical Free Music (bed) Commercial Free (montage) Continuous All Hit 105.1 Don Geronimo! Don & Mike on WAVA Don & Mike Power Hour Don & Mike: The Morning Zoo Don & Mike! Earth Quaking! Elvis Presley Weekend Flash Phillips! Frank Murphy! George Michael! Going Downhill Fast Good Morning, DC! Good Morning from Don & Mike Having Fun in Washington Hottest Hits on the Planet If You Don't Succeed Jackson Tickets Jim Elliot! J.J. McKay J.J. Russ John Anthony Ken Parsons Liz Ryan Loo Katz The Lunchtime Blastoff Mark Mitchell More of the Best Variety More Fun, More Music The Morning Zoo The Morning Zoo with Don & Mike Music Power sting Music Power! Music that Warms Our Hearts News on WAVA News Theme Not the Same Old Music Ponderous Commercial Free Music Power 105 short vocoder Power 105 short Power 105 Power Up with the Zoo Crew Power Up (bed) Power! (acapella) Power! Praise the Brides Pressed into Paperweights Sandy Weaver! Serving the White House Shadow Smith Superstar Weekend The Capital Zoo The Morning Zoo! The Morning Zoo The Morning Zooooo The Truth And the final jingle heard before the transmitter shut down: The Future Has Come to This The next day: The New WAVA	The end of the 80s meant the decline of "Power" Top 40 radio, especially in Washington, DC. The radio station of choice for most high schoolers around Washington, DC - including myself - was WAVA, 105.1 FM, a heavily-reverbed source for Taylor Dayne, Prince, Culture Club, UB40... In the early 90s, WAVA was sold to religious broadcaster Salem. After a tearful farewell, WAVA's transmitter was shut down and reincarnated the next day as a right-wing religious station. These jingles were culled from various cassette tapes laying around in boxes here and there, a testament to the sound of the 80s. This site is an archive of sound. Snippets and samples of sounds collected over the years for no apparently good reason. It goes without saying that some - or most - of the sounds here are from sources that were originally copyrighted, so they are presented here only for personal use, as a historic record of popular culture in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.	Go to main site ©2004 Gene Cowan