Anyone know?
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lester-42 — 18 years ago(November 22, 2007 10:35 PM)
There used to be a very good singer who wrote his own songs named Harry Chapin.
One of his songs called (Cincinnati WKRP) is sung by a man telling the story of his life and he is a worker in various radio stations as on-air talent. I saw Chapin live in concert and apparently at every city in which he gave a concert he found out the call letters of a local station and substituted the local letters for WKRP. The song,by the way is about the ever-declining career of the singer. WKRP is where he ends up and he views this as the very bottom of the barrel. -
jersey-3 — 18 years ago(November 23, 2007 05:39 AM)
There used to be a very good singer who wrote his own songs named Harry Chapin.
One of his songs called (Cincinnati WKRP) is sung by a man telling the story of his life and he is a worker in various radio stations as on-air talent. I saw Chapin live in concert and apparently at every city in which he gave a concert he found out the call letters of a local station and substituted the local letters for WKRP. The song,by the way is about the ever-declining career of the singer. WKRP is where he ends up and he views this as the very bottom of the barrel.
You are remembering things incorrectly.
Harry Chapin wrote his semi-autobiographical song "WOL*D" in 1974 (a good three years prior to WKRP in Cincinnati premiering on television.)
It is a great and realistic look at life of a radio D.J. at the time. But it is hardly written about WKRP. -
Alek_Hidell — 18 years ago(January 26, 2008 06:00 PM)
Harry Chapin wrote his semi-autobiographical song "WOL*D" in 1974 (a good three years prior to WKRP in Cincinnati premiering on television.)
It is a great and realistic look at life of a radio D.J. at the time. But it is hardly written about WKRP.
Quite true, but I've always felt that Chapin's song was the basis for the series, and the resaon the show was made in the firet place.
I'm just a patsy! -
rexb-2 — 17 years ago(August 12, 2008 07:09 AM)
Amen!
Or Malibu or Miami! Ritzy or messy places. Good ole' Cincinnati was a great choice to focus more on middle America. I always thought it was cute to include Dayton as getting away from the city.
But as I have heard and said in the past, Hollywood doesn't really understand there is more to America than just LA, NY and Chicago most of the time. They are trying to entertain people they don't understand or even really like. -
rexb-2 — 13 years ago(October 13, 2012 08:55 AM)
Jay, you just showed your own ignorance. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_America_(United_States)
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javajuly — 16 years ago(July 15, 2009 08:02 PM)
It is a Northern city in Ohio
No, it is a Southern city in Ohio, probably the largest city north of Kentucky!
Cleveland, Canton, Akron and Toledo would be some of the best-known Northern
cities in Ohio. Then there's Dayton, my hometown, which is a mid-sized city
located between Columbus (Central Ohio) and Cincinnati.
Ignorance and apathy: I don't know
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jayframe2001 — 13 years ago(October 13, 2012 08:24 AM)
It has very metropolitan-ness, but does have the farming and small town feel right outside it. It is a Northern city in Ohio with a Kentucky southern feel. So it will appeal to all American viewers.
Just FYI, Cincinnati is in Southern Ohio. -
dd1946 — 16 years ago(July 13, 2009 05:59 PM)
I lived in northern KY and worked in downtown Cincinnati in those days and I always suspected that WKRP was based on the very real and wonderful Cincinnati station "102.7 WEBN" The station was total insanity in the 70s. It was the early days of FM and I had a converter attached to my '66 Charger so I could get the new FM stations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEBN