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Jan 14, 2019 · Audio of the Big Bill Hill Radio show 1967.
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May 8, 2008 · If you do, check out this great show from “Big Bill Hill” off of Oak Park’s WOPA in 1967. This show is primo R&B, Stax, and blues from the late ’60, which is the last of the golden era of the blues. Check out the show from this post here. WOPA had a wide range of time-brokered programming.
WOPA (1490/102.7) - Oak Park Big Bill Hill aircheck (1967) https://app.box.com/s/82d30ay18zvoid17pdnvvajnltdng90h
May 14, 2000 · I used to listen to "Big Bill Hill" in the late 50's when I was in high school (Lane Tech). He was broadcasting live from the beautiful CoPa CaBana on west Roosevelt Road. As A blues fan I...
Jan 13, 2011 · Does anyone remember an old local WCIU dance show called "Red Hot and Blues"? It was kids dancing to R&B, and the host of the show was a DJ named "Big Bill Hill"...this show is widely know to be the inspiration for "Soul Train".
Aug 8, 2013 · But 1490 was short spaced between WXRT-AM and WMOR-AM, so it was never going to have much more juice. The solution in 1953 was 102.3 WOPA-FM . WMOR had gone bankrupt and they bought the license at 3,600 watts.
Does anyone remember Big Bill Hill, he ran the Copa Cabana Club in Chicago and was the DJ on blues & gospel radio station WOPA in the 50s and 60s, there was an album recorded at his club "Folk...
