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 Radio Station WKTS 45 RPM Recording. "Wonderful Town, Sheboygan, Wisconsin"

 

    This seems to be recorded as a kind of ad for radio station WKTS.  I don't know when this was done, but in the song they mention the zoo and the Milwaukee Braves.  So that places the song as before 1965.

    Here is some info, courtesy of Wikipedia.org:

    WKTS "Sheboygan's First Station."  950 AM.  The station was located first above Walgreen's at the corner of 8th and Niagara.  Later the studio moved to the corner of 12th and Union.  The station stayed on the air as WKTS until 1991, when the ownership group went bankrupt and the station went dark due to competition from WHBL and WWJR.

    The station's license was then picked up by Star Cablevision (unrelated to the larger Cablevision corporation), the city's cable provider and a precursor company to Charter Communications.  The station came back on the air on June 11, 1993 as WCNZ.

    In 1997, the station was sold to Mountain Dog Media, the owners of WXER (104.5).  On May 4, 2000, WCNZ changed their call letters to WCLB.

    Click on the picture to start the recording.