Larry Lujack remained at 'CFL after the format change because he had a solid contract and refused to quit. He hated the music, but he wanted the money, and kept on reading time, temp and station IDs four times an hour while he kept sending out resumes and airchecks every day, before WLS finally bought out his contract.

Reportedly midday jock Bob Dearborn was offered a morning drive position at the post-format-change 'CFL, and refused it.

In the airchecks of the final days of the Voice Of Labor, you can tell that everybody took Lew Witz's edict seriously after this incident. NOBODY mentioned anything about the upcoming format change (and demise of their jobs) until the very end of their shifts.

The aircheck of their appearance on WLS 890's morning program with Fred Winston is hilarious.

Ah that's ok, someone will ID it someday. :-)

Hey, do you know what specific version of The Oracle Speaks was used for the original WGN Presents theme? Well I do, because I contacted and spoke to the composer of the piece, Mr. George Roumanis - who helped me find the answer. One of these days I will post a video here with the full version giving the grand reveal of the answer. (or, alternatively you could just call up George yourself and ask him) ;-)

Forgot to mention that the voiceover introducing the movie was done by Jerry Golden.

Oh, man, sorry, but I don't know it! The sad thing is that I probably could've, if I'd been just a little bit braver when I was a teen. I decided to call the Record Librarian at WGN for such info (around 1981). Unfortunately, she was obviously annoyed by my call, so I didn't get through the entire list I had for her. She did give me info on Experiment in Terror, Take Five, Happy Feet (Saturday Matinee), and The Oracle Speaks (WGN Presents), but I didn't want to bother her further by asking about any more. Now I regret it, because, other than with the help of others in places such as this, the information is lost to history. I also used to think that this was performed by Herb Alpert, but I have a lot of his material, and have found no such thing. I did record a pretty long clip one time (closing The Morning Movie presentation of "An Elephant Called Slowly"), and the guitar work really starts to "get down!"

Paul Rogers it was. I always thought that this version of Over the Rainbow sort of sounded like it was done by Bozo's Big Top Band! Maybe it was custom-made?

RLaPorte - If you can ID the theme song used for the Morning Movie here, you will win the SuperFuzzyFan Award of the Month! :-)

Sounds like it might be Herb Alpert or someone similar but no one has any real clue.

You got it - done and done! Thanks Rick! :-)

Oh, man, I thought I was the only person in the world who remembered this! I still have a drawing I made of it for a daily class assignment in 2nd grade. THIS gets a sponsorship.

You're very welcome! RIck, it's been quite a while since I've perused the site; congratulations on finally obtaining permission to post WGN material! I can only imagine how much work it must be to put all of this together. You have done an absolutely amazing job--thank you!