Spoiler : Used to listen around midnight in 1963-4 to WCFL Chicago radio 1000...The Real Mccoy with Sid Mccoy. Wonderful late night jazz show from Chicago that was clearly received in Munnsville, NY. Sid inspired me to DJ a similar jazz show on WITR Rochester, NY called "Point of Departure". Sid was The Best interviewer and interpreter for jazz. Would love to hear a tape of one of Sid's shows. Sadly missed...never forgotten.

Spoiler : Like you, I listened to Sid on WCFL at night. The signal in State College PA was strong and clear from 1961 to 1964. He had a thing for Nancy Wilson. I was lucky, because I listened to Chuck Niles in LA from 1972 to 2004; does not get better than that

Spoiler : Totally agree. I was quite homesick when I went away to college in Ohio, and it helped me to listen to SM late at night. What shift it was. Went to see Adderly and Nancy Wilson at McCormick Place Theater and SM introduced them. What a voice!

Spoiler : Listened to Sid -- "The Real McCoy" and later when he teamed with Yvonne Daniels. Also, WTTR came through loud and clear in Chicago, Champaign and Indianapolis. A million years ago, sent James B. a letter saying how much I loved the show.

Spoiler : Have seen no mention of the many radio interview shows Sid did and produced for Pet Milk. The show was called "Pet Milk Showcase" and I was his engineer. We did location recordings in Chicago's South Side entertainment venues. Sid interviewed many of the then current musical stars. Back at Universal Recording we edited the location tapes and completed the fifteen minute shows, sponsored by Pet Milk.

Spoiler : I too was a late night listener to the cool, the urbane, the mellow tones of Sid McCoy on WCFL late at night as I was trying to go to sleep because I had to get up for work at 6.30 am. In Cleveland, OH after midnight was after 1am. But the music was so great and his commentary so soothing I went the staying awake route rather than the sleep route too often. Those years, the 1960s, coming off a golden decade of music and entering another one produced some great music until R&R edged it out and college students and graduates took up Bob Dylan and left Miles and the others behind. Miles tried to catch up some years later but it was too late for acoustic music perhaps until now. Sid McCoy like Ed Beach and others are too much forgotten in their contributions to the spread of great jazz and its impact. I also wonder if any Sid McCoy tapes exist. Also what about the Pet interviews?

Spoiler : Born in Chicago, Illinois. African-American that was known as, "the coolest disk jockey in the Windy City" on Chicago radio. Mr. Langford on The Bill Cosby Show for NBC-TV (1969-1971). Announcer for the syndicated television series os Soul Train, that originated from Chicago (1971-?).

Spoiler : Linda Ellerbee? If so, I remember you from radio in Chicago, WSDM(smack dab in the middle) 98FM, the station with the girls, and all that jazz.

Spoiler : The McCoys lived three doors down from us in the 60s. When I was 11 I found the LP of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on the sidewalk in front of their house. It had the "DJ Promo Copy" stamp on the cover, so I knew it had to be Sid's. I knocked and Mrs. McCoy opened the door. She always looked like a more elegant Diana Ross to me. She it might be his record, invited me to go down to the basement rec room where he had a SOA pro audio system and turntable. Sid came down and thanked me for bringing it in, then asked if I wanted to listen to some of the Vince Guaraldi pieces on it. We did and he shared some jazz knowledge about it, then said I could keep the record. Some of the neighborhood pals and I wore out "Linus and Lucy" - some more than others - trying to perfect it.

Spoiler : I used to listen to him before he was on WCFL but when he moved I kept up with him. In the summer of 65' I went into the Army and did basic at Ft. Knox. I used to stay up late because it was difficult to sleep in that heat before air conditioned barracks. A friend lent me a radio and I was playing around with the dial and up popped Sid McCoy and WCFL, faint but audible. It made my basic better to know that I could still catch Jazz from Chicago down in the boonies.

Spoiler : High school was not the best years of my life. But listening to 'the real mccoy' at midnight on wcfl relaxed me enough to eventually fall asleep. I'll never forget his deep soothing voice, "Hello Old Bean, and you too, Baby" and I can still sing his opening, song, 'Is it a cocktail, this feeling of joy, or is what I feel the real McCoy'. I never knew who sang it, but I can't forget it to this day, 55 years later. Wasn't there another Chicago personality, Mary Reed, associated with the show somehow?

Spoiler : Hello Mark: I was 17 years old in 1956 when I moved to Chicago and soon after found Sid McCoy on my radio at midnight. When he came on and said "Hello, Old Bean and you too, Baby" I fell in love. The voice was the most beautiful and sexiest that I had ever heard T. I could not sleep until I listened to the real McCoy and the cool music he played. What times those were!!!

Spoiler : Dear Carolyn, So well said! I had same experience. Many thanks for posting.I am a Native Chicagoan, South Side. Now living in Portland OR where there’s a good jazz station KMHD FM. Still, I so miss SM and would relish hearing him again. He was, indeed, the real McCoy. In gratitude, George

Spoiler : More than an earthquake, better than a shock. Sid McCoy gave me my college and grad school in jazz, every night from midnight to two. He produced many truly worthy musicians' records, guys like Billy Wallace who probably never would have been heard of except for Sid, and guys like the members of the MJT+3 who were launched into long, rewarding careers by Sid's early promotion. Sid was indeed the Real McCoy.

Spoiler : Listened every night he was on with my transistor radio under my pillow. Fond memories.

Spoiler : Remember Sid's theme song: The Love Theme from Spartacus by the John Young Trio

Spoiler : Midnight on WCFL with Sid was one of the most profoundly exquisite jazz radio shows ever!

Spoiler : I was a teenager in Columbus Ohio in the sixties and I was able to tune in Sid's late night show on my transistor radio. I can still remember the static as I tried to position my radio just right in my bedroom window to tune in the station. There was no jazz station then in Columbus and Sid introduced me to Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Barry Harris, etc. He had a classic voice and I can remember his show intro as if it was yesterday. He would open the show with Frank Sinatra singing "At Long Last Love" ... "Is it an earthquake or simply a shock, is it the good turtle soup or merely the mock, is it a cocktail this feeling of joy, or is what I feel the real McCoy ... and Sid would come in with something like "Hey, hey old bean and you too baby ... it's the Real McCoy! What I'd give to hear one of those broadcasts again!

Spoiler : I listened to Sid every night in the mid fifties. WCFL, 1000 on the AM dial. His music was wonderful and I always enjoyed the end when he would sign off with "Roses on your Pillow." and Frank would sing, "In The Wee Small Hours." I love Sid's background music which was always, "Moomlight In Vermont" by Johnny Smith and Stan Getz, Sid introduced me to so many great jazz artists. I fell in love with June Christy from show. Fond memories.

Spoiler : I found Sid on a low wattage station WGES back in the late 50s , I think it was 1390 khz am . Thats where I first heard Ahmad Jamal and many other Jazz Greats ,Sids Background music was by the Jacky Gleason Voices from an album entitled OOHH .The voices did just that to standard tunes just humming the songs with ooooh ! He moved on to WCFL and achieved a large national audience !

Spoiler : I can still hear his voice 70 years later. Back then, I would set my alarm to wake me up, just in case I fell asleep before his show came on. Today, without realizing I am going to do it, I find myself humming "In the wee small hours of the morning" and thinking, not of Frankie, but of Sid McCoy. Those of us who heard that mellow voice and all he had to say were so lucky! He's very much associated with my fortunate stumbling across the joy of jozz!