WCTS is a radio station licensed to Maplewood, Minnesota, and serving the Twin Cities metropolitan area with a non-commercial fundamentalist Christian format. WCTS is owned by the Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis, hence the call letters.
The history of WCTS (1030 AM) comprises two stations: One at 100.3FM and the other at the current 1030 AM.
The station that is now WCTS started with a 250 watt daytime-only signal at 1010 AM. The station's sign-on date as WGHB is unclear; the Broadcasting Yearbook of 1964 lists the date as November 30, 1963, while the publication's 1965 edition lists the date as May 18, 1964; "WRCR" is shown as the call sign by 1965. By 1968, the station carried the call letters WJSW, broadcasting polka music and other formats. When WMIN dropped its longtime call letters in 1972, WJSW grabbed them and became the new WMIN. By this time, it was airing a full service middle of the road format. The station's transmitter site was located for many years in Maplewood, the city of license, on South Century Avenue where the studios were co-located.
My Friends They Told Me Straight Into My Face
They Saw Her Coming Out From Some Old Dirty Place
Staring Right Ahead Never Said Hello
This Rotten World Is Cruel You Know
Knowing That He’s Taking My Baby Right To Hell
The Dealer’s Simply Smiling, He’s Doing Very Well
I Never Thought She’d Sell Her Soul This Way
I Warned Her Many Times But She Wants Him To Stay
If I Had Known This All Before
I’d Not Have Left Her Side That’s For Sure
Knowing That He’s Taking My Baby Right To Hell
The Dealer’s Simply Smiling, He’s Doing Very Well
Annabell Oh Annabell You’re Throwing Yourself Right
Into Hell
I Try To Help You, You’ve Lost Control Completely
Annebell Oh Annabell, I Help You Climb Out From This
Well
Just Drop The Dope I Care For You Believe Me
I Never Thought She’d Sell Her Soul This Way
I Warned Her Many Times But She Wants Him To Stay
If I Had Known This All Before
I’d Not Have Left Her Side That’s For Sure
Knowing That He’s Taking My Baby Right To Hell
The Dealer’s Simply Smiling, He’s Doing Very Well
Annabell Oh Annabell You’re Throwing Yourself Right
Into Hell
I Try To Help You, You’ve Lost Control Completely
Annebell Oh Annabell, I Help You Climb Out From This
Well
Just Drop The Dope I Care For You Believe Me
Annabell Oh Annabell You’re Throwing Yourself Right
Into Hell
I Try To Help You, You’ve Lost Control Completely
Annebell Oh Annabell, I Help You Climb Out From This
Well