Broadcast during just 23 weeks of 1982, and reaching no more than WCIU’s Chicagoland perimeter, The Chicago Party conformed only to those codes that suited it. Taped live inside South Side nightclub CopHerBox II, The Chicago Party did feature smooth-talking hosts in veteran musician Willie Woods and his dashing best friend James Christopher. And it let lip-synching musical guests promote their latest projects, treating Chicago audiences to dynamic performances by unjustly local artists trafficking in sweet soul, disco, and emerging electronic R&B, the pop forms then wrestling for urban chart dominance
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