***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 first clip features the wildly eclectic San Francisco station K101 FM from San Francisco from 1973. Not progressive, not AC or top 40. The segment features station owner James Gabbert plus another announcer near the end.
The second clip is from 1980 and Detroit s WWWW FM. The segment features mostly Doug Podell and the alternative music show W4 Play but there is some other station content as well.
The last clip is from 1982 and features Jim Monahan on progressive WNEW FM from New York.
The K-101 is May or June of 1972, based on “Taxi”, “Outa Space” and “Alone Again, Naturally”.
A shame this was recorded by someone who wouldn’t let us hear the disc jockey and the commercials, which really complete the picture of what the station, and society, sounded like at the time.
You are correct about the date Mike. I think I dated the tape going by a faulty memory of when Alone Again was released. I just looked it up and it was Gilbert O’s Get Down which was released in 1973.
I have another tape from the same lot with K101 as well as another station from Berkeley Cal. The Berkley station was doing a quad broadcast and the person recording cut out Poco, Miles Davis and Santana but kept the Ray Conniff Singers and Percy Faith. Also thankfully they left on Walter Carlos.The K101 portion of that tape does have a segment that is mostly in tact with some nice commercials.
…and they cut out “Tumbling Dice” but left in Gallery’s “Nice To Be With You” ?
Yikes.
Fortunately, from that point, it seems largely intact.