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