The 1994 edition of WHFS Top 99.1 was the third in a series of top-notch retrospectives that included not just the Top 99.1 but also the two home-grown music retrospectives: Just Passin' Thru and The Best of Dave's Garage, at two hours each.
The retrospective begins with a montage of sounds of news stories from 1994, presented by Rob Timm.
The Top 99.1 of 1994 follows next. Gina Crash -- an alumnus of West Virginia University and WWVU-92 FM with arguably the coolest radio name in the business -- began the show with a locally produced 99.1th song. This song, "in its own category ... because it's special ..." was performed by Johnny Riggs (auggh!). It was entitled "Bitch Boy" and describes an encounter between Johnny and Henry in Henry's dressing room at the HFStival that "ruined his HFStival experience." In the song, Johnny admits he was being a jerk at the time, but he figured Rollins, a public figure, would be used to it ... evidently not so much, according to the song.
Crash carries the program all the way to Number 35 and then turns things over to Alan Scott, who will carry the Top 99.1 program to completion. As Crash and Scott discuss the upcoming Pearl Jam Voters for Choice concert program -- a fine old-school promotion in which listeners enter a drawing by mailing a phone number where they will be on a certain night so that drawing winners may be called and contacted -- a new word appears that will change so much so soon so fast ... Internet.
About an hour and a half after the Number One Song, Just Passin' Thru '94 begins. Bob Waugh and Pat Ferrise bring us two hours of the best recordings made at WHFS studios by musicians visiting the Baltimore/Washington area and playing live on the air on the Modern Rock Morning Show.
The final retrospective is the Best of Dave's Garage, another two-hour retrospective based on the Now Hear This program hosted by Dave Marsh.
The entire program ran some fourteen hours. What a day it was. If you enjoy this program, please post a comment with your nickname ... think if it as signing a guest book. Thanks!
--jkw
WHFS Top 99.1 of 1994 -0- 1994 Retrospective with Rob Timm.mp3
WHFS Top 99.1 of 1994 -1- Top 99.1 to 83.mp3
WHFS Top 99.1 of 1994 -2- Top 82 to 67.mp3
WHFS Top 99.1 of 1994 -3- Top 66 to 49.mp3
WHFS Top 99.1 of 1994 -4- Top 48 to 35.mp3
WHFS Top 99.1 of 1994 -5- Top 34 to 17.mp3
WHFS Top 99.1 of 1994 -6- Top 16 to Number One.mp3
WHFS Top 99.1 of 1994 -7- Alan Scott Radio.mp3
WHFS Top 99.1 of 1994 -8- Alan Scott Radio, Just Passin' Thru.mp3
WHFS Top 99.1 of 1994 -9- Just Passin' Thru, Best of Dave's Garage.mp3
WHFS Top 99.1 of 1994 -A- Best of Dave's Garage.mp3
WHFS Top 99.1 of 1994 -B- Best of Dave's Garage - Finis.mp3
These posts really are quite amazing. A whole day of HFS...It will literally take me forever to get through all this...a treasure!
ReplyDeleteI've listened to this straight through -- as in when I'm listening I'm listening to this -- and spent three days getting through it ... check out 1992, it's also 14 hours, and the after-hours stuff is classic vintage Kathryn Lauren Request-o-Rama.
ReplyDeleteI remember Riggs's song well, and was actually able to sing along to it just now, despite not having heard it in … wow … 20 years(?!). Fun, fun memories. Thanks for posting these!
ReplyDeleteMy path to finding this post: Watched Bob's Burgers, and it ended with the 20th Century Fox roll (you know, the one with the music and the spotlights and the big bronze letters). As the music played, I did what I do *every* time the music plays, and sang "10 o'clock news! 10 o'clock news! 10 o'clock … newwwwwws". Jumped to Twitter to see if anybody was namechecking HFS, and found a link to this.
Somewhere in my files I have the printout from HFS listing the Top 500 Songs of … hmmm … 95? And in my parents' basement, I have tapes where I recorded most of it. If you're interested I can try to dig those up.
HFS was so, so formative for me. It's great to have these MP3s available. Thank you thank you.
If you like the ten o'clock news, you'll love the 1992 edition. After Just Passin' Thru ends, there is a six-hour run featuring the entire Kathryn Lauren Friday Night request-o-rama, including a Spastic Plastic and a Ten O'clock News.
DeleteAw, yeah, Nose for Danger at number 91!
ReplyDeleteI'd really enjoy it if you could find that program, even parts of it. Spread the word ... let's keep those ZippyShare links fresh so that they don't auto-delete after 30 days.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see or hear about Henry Rollins, that song is in my head. Seriously.
ReplyDeleteI recently dug out some old WHFS mix tapes I made back in high school/college, reminded me of the Bitch Boy song. Dying to get an MP3 of that, but the files linked here are no longer hosted on the site. Any chance you still have them and can re-upload them somewhere? Thanks!!
ReplyDeleteHey, +1 to "please please please re-share Bitch Boy". I've been trying to find a recording of this since 1998, and apparently I didn't search quite often enough to find yours before it disappeared.
ReplyDeleteThird-ed, five years later, about the mp3 thing, I'd honestly pay for it at this point ^_^;
ReplyDeletehttps://archive.org/details/whfseoy1994/WHFS+EOY+1994/WHFS+Top+99.1+of+1994+-1-+Top+99.1+to+83.mp3 Here you go!
ReplyDeleteOUR FUCKIN' SAVIOR!!!! thank you! can't wait to track down Bitch Boy in these archives :)
Deleteoh man, front and center. love this. thank you anonymous person whom i now love.
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