***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.

These relatively recent air checks were recorded digitally back in 2008 and 2009. They are from Toronto’s 1050 CHUM and Q 107 and feature radio contests. The air checks were on a crashed hard drive which has now been recovered. All previous air checks on the site were sourced from analog tapes.

Very happy that the memory of the popular contest Riffer Madness, as heard on Q 107’s Psychedelic Sunday, has been preserved. You will also hear Gord James on 1050 CHUM.

The Q 107 content is relatively short but the CHUM air checks are longer and contain more than just the contests.

Please excuse the online goblins that turn up during parts of clip number 4. Also perhaps clip number 3 was originally a bad cassette recording that I digitized.

I was almost certain that the 1050 CHUM internet stream was in stereo but that does not seem to the case on these clips. Even though these clips are only 9 and 10 years old I don’t remember making them except the first Riffer Madness clip.

Facebook Likes and Share Button Update : were reset to zero for each blog entry when I added additional security to the site last week. A shame as there were literally more than a thousand but feel free to Like and Share again.

Two new audio clips uploaded to Radio Miscellany 

The first clip from July 1968 was made during a trip to Texas from Charlotte NC. This section has top 40 stations from Charlotte, Georgia,  Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas and more. A most fascinating snapshot of southern top 40 radio at the time.  This clip covers line 1 in the picture below with more to come in the future as I have 6 hours on the one four track mono reel to reel. I have not edited the tape at all.

Thew second clip is much shorter and  features Johnny Mitchell and Scott Carpenter on 1050 CHUM from early 1971. Recorded on cassette when that format was relatively new.

Both air checks are scoped.

***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 air check is from Detroit AOR station WLLZ FM  from 1982 and a program called Night Rocks  where local free form and alternative music is played including Bob Seger’s first national hit and also the Stooges and more.

The second clip is recorded off LP and to the eight track pictured below. The song is Looking at Tomorrow by the Beach Boys. I heard the track on Sirius XM Deep Tracks yesterday which prompted me to dig out  the album  to test the recording capabilities of the machine.

The final clip is from easy listening stations CKQT FM in Oshawa and CHAY FM in Barrie. This is from an eight track from 1979 and was  transferred to digital via the machine below.

I got lucky with two vintage thrift store purchases last week when I picked up the Pioneer eight track and the Akai cassette decks pictured below. Both were left for dead and had issues that were fixed without much difficulty and with the help of  some You Tube videos.

Part Three of the WKNR FM and AM double shot.

The first clip  from WKNR FM is from April 1969. The station broadcast in mono. You will hear “Uncle” Russ Gibb and Martin Bell. The air check is partially scoped because of an annoying percussive  sound that I believe originated at broadcast.

The second clip continues the countdown of the top songs of 1968 with song number 66 to 55.  Recorded in December of 1968. The DJ’s are Dan Henderson and Alan Bush.

https://youtu.be/jRsrDLkACTs

Interesting air check snippets mostly from a station in Springfield Ohio. WAZU ( The Zoo). A rather cool station in a college town. Interesting and playful ads and ID’s. You will also hear Graham Nash doing a promo for the No Nukes benefit LP.  Music played varies from Chuck Mangione, the Jags and Warren Zevon. The content is sourced from a 38 year old eight track tape.  Air checks are on the first two clips and the last clip is of the B52’s Rock Lobster from a factory recorded 8 Track. Not the best format in terms of sound but the air checks have survived.

Psychedelic Sunday has aired on Q 107 since the mid 1980’s and is now gone. Here’s a compilation of some material from the show through the years.

Clip One – From December 1987 featuring Andy Frost.

Clip Two – From March 2, 1986 featuring Andy Frost ( most of this one has been posted to the site earlier).

Clip Three – A short clip of Rory O Shea from 1995 ( recorded on a camcorder while we were making a family movie from the car and so the quality is as you would expect). Fortunately I captured Mr. O’Shea on much better audio on clip one here from the Six O’clock Rock Report. The two longest tenured hosts of the main block of the show from 12 to 6 PM were Andy Frost and Rory O’ Shea.

Clip Four – From earlier this decade and featuring Andy Frost and Al Joynes

Clip Five-  Riffer Madness Contest Aug 2009

Clip Six – Riffer Madness Contest Jan 2009

I have a lot of other Q 107 material posted to the site and you can use the search function to find it and fans of Psychedelic Sunday will also enjoy this clip with the legendary David Pritchard hosting the show. I posted this a few years ago. Almost two hours  of the show from 1992.

There was an earlier precursor show to Psychedelic Sunday called the Wax Museum and I have a tiny clip from that show on the site as well.

One regret is the fact that I don’t have any tape of the contest Riffer Madness. I played that many times but I only  remember recording it once and that was digitally and the computer it was on crashed. I may find a data recovery wiz to bring it back or maybe I will find some tape of the contest.

Postscript – Riffer Madness lives again on clips five and six above as the dead hard drive referenced above  was restored and I found two different clips with the contest.

***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 great air check of Detroit radio veteran “Doctor” Doug Podell  on WWWW FM (W4) from 1980. W4 started as a free form station and had morphed into an AOR outlet by the time of this air check. The show is 1060’s, featuring music from the 1960’s on 106 FM. I have more W4 content to upload.

***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.

Part Two of a great broadcast on Toronto’s Q 107.  Some excellent commercials and exceptional music by the Who at a time when Q 107 was a vibrant and creative rock radio station.

***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.

An interesting twin spin from Detroit  rocker WRIF FM.

The first clip is from 1982 and a show called The WRIF Rock Cafe where older FM rock along with new wave music is played. Sounds not necessarily covered by the regular AOR format. Somewhat like what you would hear on CFNY in Toronto at the time.

The second clip is from 1985 and features the regular AOR format of the station. They play the Mitch Ryder cover of the Velvet Underground’s Rock and Roll which was a top 40 hit in some markets.

Much more to come in the future from Detroit  rock radio.