An XMAS set taped off Toronto’s Q107 and CFNY during December 1982. Taken from the same tape and the quality is not great. The CFNY segment was taken off two separate broadcasts.
You can listen to a longer and better quality CFNY XMAS broadcast on the site here and I still have part two of that one to post in the future.
Here’s a clean and longer segment of Q 107 from 1982 and some long stretches from the early 90’s here and here. There a bit more Q content on the site with more to come.
***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.
Another interesting air check from the Boston area AOR/Top 40 Hybrid WVBF FM from 1973. The first 17 minutes are all from one air check but the remainder consists of fragments. DJ’s featured include Ron Robin, Big John Gillis and Bud Ballou.
Listen for the commercial break starting at 9:30. I think that’s the Fortunes singing for coke and right after that you will hear an ad for the current Sly and The Family Stone album.
***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.
The third installment from San Jose’s KOME FM features DJ Laurie Roberts who is still flying the free form flag in the San Francisco Bay area on KPIG FM. You will hear a stellar set of music including some FM and Top 40 hits. Plus a few of the top San Francisco bands from the late 1960’s such as The Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, County Joe and The Fish and The Steve Miller Band.
Listen for a syndicated Direct News segment about The Police featuring WNEW FM’s Scott Muni. The bands’s first album had just taken off at the time of this broadcast from May 1979. The segment is heard at 11:48 on the second clip.
***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.
Two long clips featuring DJ Joe Kelly on San Jose’s KOME FM. The date of the clips is 1979 but most of the music featured is a throwback to the first wave of progressive free form radio. A veritable who’s who from the progressive era, including cuts by Dylan, Donovan, Moby Grape, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield. Kooper-Stills Super Session, Spooky Tooth, King Crimson and more . Listen for the Who’s version of Baby Don’t Do It, an outtake from their Live at Leeds album. David Peel and The Lower East Side provide some comic relief with “I like Marijuana.”
Stay tuned for more uploads from KOME FM’s weekend special “The LBJ Years.” Many more hours yet to come.
I will be uploading several hours worth of air checks from KOME FM 98.5 from San Jose, California. These were recorded during a weekend special called the LBJ Years featuring music from the time when Lyndon Johnson was president. The music played however stretches the boundaries well past December 1968 and some of it veers deep into the Nixon era. In fact the track Mexico by the Jefferson Airplane, heard on the first clip, is about Richard’s war against drugs.
KOME started as a Free Form station in 1971 and by the mid 70’s the format had tightened and morphed into AOR. The Free Form ethos was however revived at the station in 1978 continued during the time of these air checks and beyond.
The music featured on the air checks includes favorites from the original free form era plus many well known classic rock staples and some top 40 pop rock. These are complete air checks which include period piece commercials, clips from LBJ era TV and movies plus a resurrected president Johnson. Some of the extras will be heard on later uploads.
The first DJ is Dennis Erectus and he sounds at times like a shock Jock well before the genre came into being. He can be heard pushing the envelope of rock radio in 1979. The take off of the Berkeley Barb ads on the second clip for example. Jim Seagull takes over from him on the second clip.
Please note that the goblins that invade during the Janis Ian and Cowsill tracks are intentional interruptions.
Two new clips. The first is a fabulous set of oldies played by Dick Bartley on Solid Gold Saturday Night and the second, a compilation of radio contests from 1050 CHUM and CHUM FM. Uploaded to the Radio Miscellany Section – Scroll to the bottom of the page.
***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 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.
More WMMR FM from early 1974. The DJ featured during the first two breaks is the late Ed Sciaky. Some great music and interesting commercials are heard. WMMR was one of the early supporters of Bruce Springsteen and you will hear a bit of the Boss recorded live at the Main Point club in Philadelphia. The full concert was originally aired on the station in 1973 and may have been one of the first live broadcasts featuring Springsteen.
One of the ads is for Canadian singer-songwriter Murray McLaughlin’s album Sweeping The Spotlight Away which was given some promotion in the US.
***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.
I rarely repeat content on the site but I have combined two previous clips from WUWU FM into one post and both feature Gary Storm on air during the day and not on his all night Oil of Dog program. The clip also highlights two fantastic station ID’s which can be heard at 3:13 and 14:40. Gary Storm can be heard in between two off-kilter Led Zeppelin covers recorded on two separate broadcasts. You will also hear the late Bob Allen at 19:16 promoting his talk program called the Town Crier. There’s also a small snippet from Buffalo’s 97 Rock. All the content is from 1982.
WUWU was a truly gonzo outfit and legend has it that Bob Allen took over the station without authorization on it’s last day as a free form station. Some have said that was a stunt but I was listening that night and Mr. Allen sounded like a man who had become unhinged and more so when I called him up on the studio line when I heard what he was saying on air.
Search the site for a lot more content from WUWU and the earlier but related free form stations WZIR and WBUF.
***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.
This is a clip from WMMR FM Philadelphia. MMR was one of the best free form stations in America. The clip features DJ’s Michael Tearson and Ed Sciaky briefly. You will also hear some creative station ID’s and promos, plus comedy by Lenny Bruce and an eclectic music mix. I have a bit more from the station to post in the future but there are many hours of vintage air checks from WMMR available on the net. Google and you shall find.
New clips from CKOC, CHEX & CKPT uploaded here. Scroll to the bottom of the linked page