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Tony "The Tiger" Taylor on 79 WQXI Atlanta | April 1, 1965

Steve West — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:46:14 +0000

…You’ve got a tiger in your tank!

Now, just added to the world’s LARGEST collection of WQXI airchecks, this fabulous 30 minutes scoped recording of Tony ‘the tiger’ on Quicksie in Dixie and those wonderful PAMS jingles! This comes to us from our friend Matt Seinberg, a trusted source of classics!

It’s April Fools’ Day and Taylor says someone’s playing a trick since he can’t get the Beatles in for an encore performance… actually the record seems to not wanna play at the start of this aircheck but he gets it working with a perfect talkup. You’ll hear plenty of classic commercials and Taylor’s top 5 countdown.

Audio quality is quite good, it’s the reception that has a bit of noise on it, as it sounds like WQXI was received near a noisy power line… all in all very good sound however. This apparently came to us encoded right off the original source reel (credited to Ira Menaker…thank you.).

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QuickCheck: Mark Stewart on WZGC Z-93 Atlanta | 1986

Steve West — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:12:08 +0000

Courtesy of Karl Phillips, it’s not long and it’s not the best audio quality but here’s a bit of Mark Stewart on Atlanta’s longtime CHR leader, Z-93!

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Steve Davis on WARM the "new' Power 99.7 Atlanta | 1986

Steve West — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:23:53 +0000

Description by Karl Phillips…

Power 99.7 – when it was new, it was not WAPW, it was WARM “The New” Power 99.7. Here’s Steve Davis in Atlanta in 1986.

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Rhubarb Jones & the morning show on WYAY (Y106) Atlanta | December 21, 1987

Steve West — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:17:02 +0000

Listen to this great morning show! They really knew how to do Country right… but hey, this IS the south.

Included in this aircheck: two full newscasts, traffic and weather. All the full service elements you’d expect from a great station. Full length commercials included also.

Now, remember, this is 1987. Its a few days before Christmas, and these guys manage to be really funny without offending anyone. Too bad I had to scope this… “Merry Christmas Darling” by the Carpenters is great to hear again.

Thanks once again to Karl Phillips, who included some vintage 80s/90s cassettes in that box of old reels!

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Format Change: "New Rock" 99X Atlanta is Born | October 26, 1992

Steve West — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:53:20 +0000

Courtesy of Karl Phillips, who sent in a ton of airchecks on reel, here’s one on cassette captured when former Atlanta CHR WAPW “Power 99″ flipped to New Rock as 99X. On the tape you’ll hear the old call letters still in use (not WNNX, as this would become), buried in a legal ID buried in a stopset later in this aircheck. The 99X monikker launches just a few minutes into this scoped format change.

At about 12:45 in, you’ll hear… “and now, for posterity, this is the last time you’ll hear…” and the Power 99 jingle played. Very smooth!

Now, your curator has heard a ton of format changes, but this was very classy. They originally kept the CHR jocks during the transition to Rock. Only the name and the music changed. Of course, 99X has become somewhat of a legend in Atlanta radio, although of late has had it’s share of ratings troubles, just a week ago bringing it’s legendary morning team back to try to recapture ratings. You can read up on the new Morning X by clicking this link..

Now, don’t confuse this 99X with our tribute to the ORIGINAL 99X (WXLO) which was in New York City in the 70s and early 80s. That’s a totally different station and we pay tribute to it here!

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Mike Dineen on 79 WQXI Atlanta | July 20, 1969

Steve West — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:54:02 +0000

Return with us back to Mike Dineen’s morning show. Mike makes mention of the Apollo astronauts ‘floating’ back to Earth at 3,000 miles an hour. The news mentions Vietnam, Chappaquiddick and MLK Jr’s brother. This turns out to be quite an historic reel, judging simply by the news headlines.

Lots of old commercials on this one, too.

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Simon Trane on 79 WQXI Atlanta | May 1969

Steve West — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:14:56 +0000

Our second Simon Trane aircheck – we have lots of fans waiting for this. Less than a half hour in length but we think you’ll enjoy going back to the 60s, as WQXI played LOTS of Motown!

Another, courtesy of Karl Phillips.

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Gary McKee on 79 WQXI Atlanta | 1973

Steve West — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 13:30:17 +0000

WQXI kick the can time…… 8:47

Remastered for better quality!

Originally posted in June 2005, here’s one of our most popular recordings! It’s been completely re-recorded and encoded in our new player.

Aaaah for the days of AM top 40! Check out Gary McKee on WQXI. McKee claims to be the ‘mouth of the South’… a description Rick Dees would use later at WHBQ. Anyway, it was time for something totally different, and for those who’ve requested WQXI – this one’s for you.

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Don Cox on 79 WQXI Atlanta | 1972

Steve West — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:17:50 +0000

It’s the natural progression of the WQXI broadcast day – Don Cox following Gary McKee on WQXI! Actually, it was next up on the same reel containing Mr. McKee from the same day. More great audio quality, but a few splices from me because for some reason, the person recording decided not to tightly scope this one as was the case for the McKee portion of the tape.

No matter, this is great, albeit short. More Quicksie for the fans!

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Gary McKee on 79 WQXI Atlanta - Full Morning Show | 1972

Steve West — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:00:32 +0000

More McKee fun! Here’s one complete, scoped morning show from sometime in ‘72. This is courtesy of our old site pal Karl Phillips (and we thank him greatly!). Transferred directly from 7 1/4 inch reel played on an old Wollensack graciously loaned out to us by my good friend, voiceover guy Jack Parnell, this aircheck is presented in unbelievable, stunning audio quality!

It runs 58 minutes, and while there are pauses in the recording, this is so good I decided to leave this recording completely untouched by processing and digital splicing. Just listen, and see why both Gary McKee and WQXI are our most searched and played selections!

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