Yesterday I posted legendary AM pop DJ Dan Ingram’s broadcast during the Great East Coast Blackout of 1965. Today we’re digging excerpts of Ingram on his 77 WABC afternoon music show from February 26th, 1975. This is classic Ingram stuff–a lesson in pure DJ word jamming, a lost art (I fear) as DJs have become essentially obsolete. Ingram is both wacky and warm and his delivery is both dexterous and utterly nonsensical. What the hell is he saying most of the time? His constant interaction with the pre-recorded bumpers and commercials is pure inspired meaningless blather and yet somehow one listens hanging on every pointless word. The commercials give this compilation a time-capsule quality, complete with references to inflation (which was very much in the air in 1975) as well as a Burger King commercial that I remember well from my youth (my mouth was watering as soon as I heard this ad, an example of pure sense memory as I haven’t eaten at Burger King in 30 plus years). I especially like his snarky mention at 9:15 of the afternoon ABC movie, Steve McQueen’s ‘The War Lover’. “Wasn’t that the one McQueen denied ever having made?”,  asks Ingram innocently before spinning yet another piece of bubblegum that was charting on the day…