The first clip features Bruce Heyding on CFNY from June 1980. He was the music director at CFNY and made the transition from the David Pritchard era to the David Marsden era at NY. In fact I have a recording of him with David Pritchard on the first day that CFNY increased their power and could be heard all over Toronto.
He is hosting the import show and playing the new Kevin Ayers album. Ayers was one of the founders of the Canterbury prog rock band the Soft Machine. What I always remember about Heyding’s Import Show is the fact that he once played the prog rock band Grobshnitt and the times he played Hawkwind and related bands.
You will also hear the Late Night Andre on the first break and Brad McNally on the second break.
The second clip features the Unknown DJ on WUWU FM from 1982. I recently found this on my prerecorded reel to reel copy of the Rolling Stones Through the Past Darkly. I taped it at the blank part at the end of the tape and probably had not heard it since I recorded it but the Unknown DJ sounds like I remember him.
The third clip is from an eight track tape recorded in 1974 and consists of a snippets from WPDH FM and WGRQ FM Buffalo. Rufus Coyote can be heard briefly on WGRQ . There’s also some dial twisting and I hear what sounds like Brian Master on CHUM FM for a split second. The tape did have content from CHUM FM but unfortunately no DJ’s and so I did not include it except for a brief segment featuring Hawkwind at the very beginning which perhaps David Marsden played on CHUM FM.
The fourth clip is really short and also taken from an 8 track tape and has what sounds like Rock 102 from Buffalo and 1050 CHUM from 1980.
The final clip is taken from a cassette of Rock 102 from 1984 and is mostly music and it’s great hearing the Style Council played on a top 40 station. The only announcer heard is at the end where they speak about the fact that they have laid off the compression in processing the station audio.
