More from that collection of tapes that I have written about on my last two posts.

This is the sitar and fuzz tone edition.

Small and medium market AM radio from Halifax, Nova Scotia and North Bay, Ontario from 1967 and 1970.

Before the spread of free form FM stations, some DJ’s such as B Mitchell Reid  were experimenting on the AM radio dial and that is  evident on these air checks. Regional hits, songs that barely made Billboard and lots of album rock.

You will hear Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane album tracks, a group called Joyride covering the Doors Crystal Ship, Rick Nelson in sunshine pop mode, garage rock by the Gants, Emitt Rhodes and The Merry-Go-Round, The Shocking Blue of Venus fame doing a song called the Acka Raga, Cream’s Swlabr, The Scaffold ( Featuring Paul McCartney’s brother), Dave Allan and The Arrows, The Youngbloods, soul, pop and more. The programmers at the stations certainly selected a diverse playlist.

The air checks are a bit fractured but there is a fair amount of DJ patter but very few ads but there are two for 7 Up which I think were left in by the person recording because of their psychedelic backdrop.

The first two clips are from CHNS, Halifax  from the fall of 1967 but I added a small snippet of WABC  at the end of the second clip as it was on the same tape.

The third clip is from North Bay station CFCH from 1970 and 1967, the fourth clip is from CFCH from September, 1967.

How cool is it that one station plays a Byrds B side from 1967  ( Don’t Make Waves) while the other takes a dedication for the group’s Feel a While Lot Better.

The fifth clip is a bonus from the same set of tapes and features a bit, probably recorded off TV of the 1964 NHL playoff games.

This is the set of tapes and case these recordings come from and which I scored at a thrift store

The Slightly Processed Version

The person who recorded this seemed to love the song Do You Know What I Mean by Lee Michaels as they capture it several times.

You will hear Mal Faris, Mike Williams  and a few seconds of Tom Fulton, all on CKFH. I believe that I hear Bob Magee on CHUM for a few seconds at 33:28 and Dan Ferguson on CKOC.

The tracks played are mostly very FM friendly like CCR. The Doors, Iron Butterfly, the Moody Blues, Leon Russell and The Who along with some AM only hits.

Glad I hung on to my CKFH chart collection.

In the mist of sassafras many things will come to pass.

Much of the content on my site comes from tapes that I personally recorded but throughout the years I have acquired some intriguing tapes. One such collection consists of about fourteen 7 inch reel to reel tapes recorded between 1965 and 1971.

The person who recorded these loved top 40 radio and also recorded a lot of TV and records. They liked the hits as well as off the beaten path stuff . They have albums by sunshine pop and orchestral pop/rock artists like the Cyrkle and early Bee Gees. Material recorded off the radio like the Hollies’ King Midis in Reverse and the Kink’s Waterloo Sunset. Two tracks that were barely if ever played on Toronto radio. They also liked blues, folk, Hendrix and especially The Beatles.

They recorded a lot of stuff off TV, music and otherwise.. There is an interview with Grace Slick, San Francisco promoter Bill Graham and the Grateful Dead from 1967. Have not digitized that yet but it was  a show based in Toronto and don’t think it’s available anywhere. The name of the show is not on the tape so that remains a mystery.

Most of the radio is small town (North Bay and Sudbury, Ontario) but there’s some bigger market material.

This is my first upload from that collection and it consists of three segments.Up to 18:17 you will hear CJCH from Halifax and then up to 27:18 it’s Jefferson Kaye on WBZ AM, Boston. Finally perhaps some small town radio or a pirate or a  very early Cable access show ? I had a friend who did an audio only show on Wired City Communications ( Cable)in the early 1970’s. Not sure where this comers from as there is no station ID. Don’t think its just a guy playing DJ on tape as they seem to have all of the varied material for a top 40 countdown from the summer of love 1967 at hand. I have not included the entire segment.

The WBZ content is DX’d as the station fades out for a bit but then you can hear Jefferson Kaye clearly.
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Also you will not be able to tell on the MP3 upload but I believe they were using a tube tape recorder and possibly tube radio. More to come from this collection.