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Talk about great airchecks!!! We hit up the Radioinsight.com Aircheck Trader’s Board, where radiobruce was kind enough to contribute this absolutely AWESOME recording of your webmaster’s favorite Al Bandiero, doing his thing on the great 99X! WXLO kicks some serious Azz here, in what was surely the peak of 99X’s popularity.

It don’t get any better than this!

By the way, for those interested, Al Bandiero maintains his own website. You won’t believe the career he’s had… and your webmaster thought he was just a WKBW jock back when I was just 16 years old!

Fans got to hear Bandiero on 101.1 WCBS-FM in New York during one of their recent Radio Greats Weekends, which we plan to post sometime soon. Now, check out this GREAT, albeit somewhat short aircheck of the Italian Stallion on 99X!

This is a high-quality recording, so sit back and relax, as the top 40 days of 98.7 FM in New York come back to life! Warning: Disco music plays prominently!!!

NEWLY REMASTERED 12/2/06

Of all the recordings I kept over the years, only two have survived from the 70s. The first is a Chicago “Greatest Hits” cassette that I got for Christmas in 1976. The second is this aircheck that I recorded one cold winter night – from my home in Massachusetts, about 500 miles from the station.

One of the nice things about AM radio (what some would call annoying) was the nighttime propagation which with even a decent table radio would pull in these powerhouse AM top 40 stations at night. And, it was good quality, too. No computers to throw spurrious buzzes and whirrs all over the spectrum.

So it was that KB Radio was my favorite station, and Al Bandiero was definitely my favorite jock in 1979. It wouldn’t be till years later that I knew he was big at WIFI 92 in Philly, and a hit in New York at Hot 97 WQHT and even now at 103-5 KTU. Just goes to prove, good jocks outlive any consolidation attempts!

Audio notes… I’ve remastered this now, and the source tape has degraded much over the years. Nonetheless, I think it’s a good quality aircheck that scoped, runs 12 minutes. There was so much heavy fading the night I recorded this that I had to use some processing and eq on this, so there’s a bit of compression and white noise which just can not be helped. Sorry about that. I try to leave these in the same condition as they are on the tape but this one was recorded on the cheapest of Scotch brand recording tape and I’m quite frankly surprised it lasted this long.

Here’s a second serving of Al Bandiero on WKBW. The first, from February ’79 can be heard here..

When the archives are fully restored, you’ll be able to hear Bandiero on WIFI 92 Philadelphia and WXLO 99X New York – both airchecks were originally posted on this site in 2003.

Bandiero and KB are both your webmaster’s favorites, and if someone in New York City ever hears him on the air (Last I heard he was at 103-5 KTU doing Part Time), please remember to record him (or Bill Lee!).