***A note to air check traders. Please do not record these air checks and try and trade. I have the original tapes many of which I recorded myself and thus the authenticity can not be in doubt and can be easily traced.

A double shot of 1980’s oldies radio.

The first two clips feature Norm N Nite on WCBS FM  playing the hits of  March 1968 and then counting down the Top 20 from March 3 , 1968. I first became aware of Mr Nite by way of his encyclopedia of rock.  Nice to hear songs rarely played now like Sweet Inspiration by the Sweet Inspiration and The Four Season’s version of Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow.

The top 20 countdown is not quite complete on this tape but I may have the rest somewhere and I definitely have more “Mr Music” Norm N Nite to upload in the future.

The third clip is from Burlington Ontario’s FM 108 from 1983.  The clip features Wes Atkinson and Julius Brown. Interesting that Atkinson mistakenly plays the B side of a Dion hit taken from a DJ promo 45 that was mislabeled. Dion was actually played on some free form stations  with his new sound as heard on this B side.

I enjoyed listening to Julius Brown because he played things like Hurdy Gurdy Man and Neil Young, not necessarily the usual oldies heard on FM 108. I  have more tape of JB to upload in the future.

My favorite stations at this time were CFNY and WUWU both of which still had some semblance of a free form format but oldies in stereo on FM was a good second choice. The quality is good on both air checks.

News paper article below about the oldies revival on the radio from 1985 from the Toronto Sun