Bob's Audio Archive

• NEWLY ADDED! The first half hour of Bob's first afternoon drive show, approximately 2-2:30pm. The segment includes Roy Leonard, Jim Loughman, Orion Samuelson and a clip from Bob's very first WGN Radio show from April 1, 1974. (This segment is included as it exists on the tape. There are a few jumps in the recording where a newscast and some commercials were removed at some point in the past.) (6/1/1981) (:24:37)
• Bob and the morning crew on the Three Men and a Baby "ghost" (8/21/1990) (:11:22) [background on this urban legend]
• Turn Your Knob to Bob's Christmas Special (12/25/1999) (:55.12)
• Bob Young's: The Yacht Lyle Dean (:02.56)
• Spike took Bob's car to pick-up fish (2/10/1996) (:02.36)
• Bob on helping find a missing adult (2/3/1996) (:02.20)
• Woman with 21 children (1/6/1996) (:06.15)
• Spike's new hair (1/28/1995) (:04.28)
• Bob on Versacci and Ian Punnett's new outfit (1/21/1995) (:07.32)
• Bob's "Three 'To's' in the English Language" riddle (11/26/1994) (:09.17)
• Bob's tribute to Howard Miller (11/19/1994) (:07.18)
• Bob on keeping weight off on vacation (10/1/1994) (:02.24)
• Wayne Messmer and Cook County States Attorney Jack O'Malley on crime shortly after Wayne was shot during a robbery (9/17/1994) (:13.07)
• Television news anchor Mary Ann Childers (8/20/1994) (:11.46)
• Bob on Ron Santo with Chuck Swirsky (8/13/1994) (:02.02)
• Bob's "I Tell You the Story, You Name the State" game, transvestites edition (8/6/1994) (:01.54)
• Bob talks innie and outie belly buttons (:02.26)
• Bob has a long winded answer for "How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?" (:04.10)
• Bob talks about a sad child custody case (:04.21)
• Bob talks to Lee Daniels re: education (4/96) (:05.49)
• Bob, Orion, and Mary go through an unbelievable job application (2/2000) (:03.21)
• Bob talks to Time Magazine's Jeff Birnbaum about the 96 election campaign (3/96) (:05.06)
• Bob talks about being naked (:03.35)
• Bob interviews former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle (7/96) (:05.26)
• Bob discusses why the chicken crossed the road (3/97) (:02.28)
• Bob talks to Kap and Waddle before they were to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" at Wrigley in August 1999 (:08.13)
• Bob and Tom talk about the death of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin (:03.45)
• Bob talks about the real estate tax hike, increasing real estate tax transfer costs by 1500%. (:06:13)
• Second grader, Patrick, turns to Bob for help on his weather report (:02.15)
• Bob talks with journalist Carol Marin about her interview with Gwen Garcia on death row (:05.57)
• Bob and Spike talk to Ray from death row (1/27/96) (:06.55)
• Bob talks about ways to avoid direct marketing (8/22/98) (3:52)
• Bob and listeners discuss Shannon Faulkner - the first woman accepted into the Citadel (8/13/94) (:12.02)
• Bob talks with Bears great Gayle Sayers (9/10/94) (:07.01)
• Bob talks with David Foster about a motorcycle exhibit at the Field Museum (11/10/94) (:06.57)
• Former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar joins Bob to look back at his career as a public servant (:07.24)
• Mother's Day Tribute - Bob reads Lewis Grizzard column about calling your mother and plays an appropriate BJ Thomas song (5/8/1998)(:07.25)
• Remembering Bob - Production Director Todd Manley produced this tribute program to Bob from the archives and from calls received in the aftermath of Bob's passing (2/12/2000)
  • segment 1 (:29.30)
  • segment 2 (:18.43)
  • segment 3 (:28.59)
  • segment 4 (:18.26)
• Theme Sports - David Kaplan's tribute to Bob with John Williams and Anne Maxfield (:06.04)
• Roy Leonard introduces Bob to the WGN audience for the first time (:01.13)
• Production director Todd Manley's musical montage he appropriately entitled Bob's Trilogy (:04.27)
• John Williams' Voice Mail Highlights for the week of February 8, 2000 (:03.41)
• Furtive Family of Fine Frogs (:05.42)
• Tyrone F. Gendelman Radio Hour - Bob Talks to a guy who can call dogs (:01.08)
• Bob reads an essay from the Internet entitled "Things I've Learned as I've Aged" (from his final show-2/8/2000) (:03.32)
• Bob's near accident on a plane (:07.22)
• Bob helps a listener with her beeping VCR (:03.08)
• Bob acting w/ Carl Greyson (:01.42)
• A boy with 50 Reptiles in his Basement (:07.03)
• Bob reads "Darwin Awards" (:03.59)
• Bob struggles through an ad read for "Rex's Cork & Fork" with Jim Loughman in the studio (:01.30)
• Bob reads about a neutered rabbit named Binky (:02.25)
• Bob reading an e-mail about things teachers are supposed to do (:03.31)
• Bob with Reverend Jesse Jackson (:05.41)
• Bob in Cuba with Dan Rutherford on the humantiarian cause (:04.54)
• Bob talking with William Zackman about how IBM is falling out of the competitive market (:05.40)
• Bob with Larry Thomas on Chicago water (:05.44)
• Bob talks with Chicago Tribune Columnist Eric Zorn about the Chicago Marathon (:05.51)
• Bob talks with Patty Sellars from Fortune magazine (:05.10)
• Bob on the politics of more flights at O'Hare (:06.01)
• Bob ponders the question, "Do animals think?" (:05.29)
• Bob on the tollways (:05.29)
• Bob on trying juveniles as adults (:06.18)
• Bob on the Illinois Commerce Commision and ComEd (:06.23)
• Bob welcoming new Cubs manager Don Baylor (:06.20)
• Cubs Convention 2000: The "Management Report" session where Bob Collins and David Kaplan look at the state of the Cubs with manager Don Baylor and general manager Ed Lynch. 1/22/2000 (:57.46)
• Optobionics Radio 720 Revue Segment (:06.29) (9/16)
• Gun crime sentencing with Governor Ryan Radio 720 Revue segment (:06.15) (9/16)
• Airline movies and children Radio 720 Revue segment (:06.07) (9/16)
• Listen to Bob's 1999 Cubs Convention Management Report with Ed Lynch and Jim Riggleman (:34.00)