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WELCOME
Welcome to the WACI Mars site. Sunday is all Oldies with Mr. Record featuring ‘50s & 60s Doo Wop and Rock ‘n Roll. Wednesday is an Anything-Goes show, with an accent on Top 40 and Indie.
Show Time on Sunday and Wednesday is 10:00 PM ET to 1:00 AM ET. Any Special webcast times will be announced below.
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COMING UP
ROCKIN’ IN THE SPRING with Great Music and Mr. Record, 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM ET, every Sunday and Wednesday.
SPRING HAS SPRUNG
Little Richard
Sunday Oldies
10:00 PM to 1:00 AM ET
With Mr. Record
Taylor Swift
Anything Goes Wednesday
10:00 PM to 1:00 AM ET
With Mr. Record
HOSTS AND DJs
The WACI Hosts and Others who keep you entertained on the air and around town with the greatest hits of all time.
Mr. Record
The Man From Mars
He plays lots of great tunes to keep you entertained every Sunday and Wednesday from 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM, ET. Sunday it's 50s and 60s Doo Wop and Solid Gold. Wednesday, Anything goes with The Hits of Today and Yesterday.
Phil Lenz
Pittsburgh Oldies Channel
Listen to Phil every Sunday from 6:00 to 10:00 PM ET on The PGH Oldies Channel. Phil plays the Greatest Hits Of All Time on The Sunday Night Hall Of Fame.
Don Hall
West Coast Music Librarian
Our West Coast Music Librarian digs up those requests that we can't find in the WACI Vault. Also, Don and his crew brings us Pick-A-Pair every Sunday and Wednesday at 11:00 PM ET. Check out the Pick-A-Pair Archive below. Updated regularly.
Flipside Scotty
D.Jay about town.
Scotty's a young guy who digs the Oldies. You can catch him playing gigs around the town. Also, he's the Rockin' Host of The Flipside Scotty Flashback on radiocore.org every Thursday from 8:00 to 10:00 PM ET. He knows how to ROCK.
Check out Pick-A-Pair with our West Coast, Music Librarian, Don Hall, Sunday and Wednesday at 11:00 PM ET on The Mr. Record Show.
Don picks a couple of tunes that have something in common. Maybe the same tune by different artists or that cover the same theme.
Check out this week’s Pick-A-Pair from the Past.
MORE INFO
A little more information about these guys.
Mr. Record
He's the man from Mars, Lee "Mr. Record" Hollihan. He grew up in Gibsonia and went to Richland High School. It was way back in 1960 when he built his first radio station WACI in The Gulch. He was drafted into the Army in 1964 and soon went kicking and screaming to sunny Viet-Nam and promply started WACI Viet-Nam of the 125th ATC. After the Army, Lee worked at WHYP (a country station) in North East / Erie, PA. Moons later he worked at WEBG in Ebensburg, PA.
It was 1997 when WACI Mars hit the internet. It's still going strong thanks to our listeners around the world.
Don Hall
Don is originally from Chicago, Illinois. After three years in the Army, he moved to sunny California. He got tired of shoveling snow. While in the Army, Don became famous on WACI Viet-Nam of The 125th ATC with The Don Hall Hullabaloo.
Don is currently our West Coast Music Librarian. He digs up those requests that we can't find in the WACI Vault.
He and his Crew bring us the popular Pick-A-Pair every Sunday and Wednesday at 11:00 PM ET.
Phil Lenz
Phil is from a suburb of Pittsburgh, PA. He got his start as a D.J. at West View Amusement Park at the age of fourteen. Throughout the years he worked at a few Pittsburgh radio stations as an engineer and computer expert. Eventually he lost his mind and bought a radio station in Ebensburg, PA. He is now retired and running The Pittsburgh Oldies Channel on the world-wide-web.
Listen to Phil every Sunday from 6:00 to 10:00 PM ET on The Pittsburgh Oldies Channel. Phil plays the Greatest Hits Of All Time on The Sunday Night Hall Of Fame.
Flipside Scotty
Scotty Ashbaugh is a young guy from Vandergrift, PA. He has been a fan of the Oldies since he was 5 years old, which was not that long ago. He really digs the oldies and collecting 45 vinyl records. You can find him at the flea markets going through the old records every weekend. Scotty has made a few promos for WACI. Thanks, Scotty.
He likes to play the flipsides of his vinyl 45s. Yes, he plays records on a turntable the old fashioned way. You can catch Scotty playing gigs around the area. Also, he is the Rockin' Host of The Flipside Scotty Flashback on (radiocore.org) every Thursday from 8:00 to 10:00 PM ET.
NEWS
BILLIE EILISH
Billie Eilish’s current album, Happier Than Ever, released by Darkroom and Interscope Records, is now available. It follows her debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019). Eilish has cited self-reflection as the biggest inspiration for the record.
Primarily a subdued pop record, Happier Than Ever is characterized by sparse, slow-moving electropop arrangements infused with elements of jazz, techno, trip hop and R&B. Music critics widely acclaimed the album, underscoring its stylistic production and insightful lyrics.
Billie has announced that her new album "HIT ME HARD AND SOFT” will be released May 17, 2024. It will be available in Vinyl and CD.
For more information go to Billie's Website.
REMEMBERING
Mary Weiss, the former lead singer of the 1960s pop girl group The “Shangri-Las”, died January 19, 2024. She was 75 years old. Her husband, Ed Ryan, confirmed her death to NPR.
Weiss rose to fame with The Shangri-Las as a teenager, with hits about teenage love and tragedy including “Remember,” “Give Him A Great Big Kiss” and "Leader of the Pack."
For more info -NPR
Forrest Richard Betts (December 12, 1943 – April 18, 2024) was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer and founding member of The Allman Brothers Band.
Betts died from cancer and COPD at his home in Osprey, Florida, on April 18, 2024. He was 80.
For more info -Wikipedia