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First posted back in October of 2004 on this site, the original jingle montage ran 31 minutes and was in Real Audio format. This year, just in time for Independence Day, I’ve turned this into a July 4th Special! Welcome to the first ‘Weekly Special’ I’ve produced in several years. Its chocked full of jingles and special items, some of which have appeared in various forms on this website over the years, others are completely new!

Specifically highlighted are jingles from various sources including collector Joe Tedd from Long Island, several JAM Creative Productions packages (which I purchased), and various contributors over the years. Make note of some great, some OBSCURE cuts from WCBS-FM, WABC, WLS, WNBC, WNOK, WAKY and a boatload of individual cuts dropped in from other markets you haven’t heard jingles from in a long, long time!

This special is for the jingle lover… and the radio lover. I do say a few words, but mainly stay out of the way of this ‘aircheck’… if you can call it that.

Please… LISTEN, and enjoy this fantastic jingle montage that runs about 55 minutes long. Thats long enough to put on in the background while doing the household chores!

…Steve West

From Quebec & Nova Scotia to NJ, PA and even Turks and Cacos Islands, this seconf volume of assorted legal IDs will keep you riveted to the edge of your seat!

This covers mainly the northeast, but listen for an ID from KTNN Window Rock, AZ and some other faraway places in the mix. It covers just about every conceivable format on the air in the last 10 years, and much like Volume 1, this is all pre-9/11 stuff. So listen for your favorite station – yours is probably amongst the hundreds in this hour and a half collection!

Another, courtesy of Scott Fybush

First off, lets give credit where credit is due. This collection of legal IDs comes to us courtesy of Scott Fybush. I got this collection of tapes (there were 3 in a series) back in the late 90s.

This is part one of what I *think* is the entire collection (maybe a few extras) which is/was featured at the Boston Radio Archives website run by Garrett Wollman, and at the time, Scott Fybush. I think Fybush is still involved with the site although there’s not nearly as much new and relevant information there as there was years ago. The main difference between this collection here and what is posted there, is that first off, the fidelity here is much better, since I encoded this via source tapes. Also, we’re presenting this in 3 parts, each one edited to sound like one long aircheck, wheras at bostonradio the clips are presented one at a time in a very low fidelity, but you have the choice of listening to one id at a time. I invite you to visit www.bostonradio.org and peruse the information on New England/New York and southern Canadian radio.

Most of these ID’s were recorded in the 1990s, some from the ’80s. Its an impressive collection, to say the least, especially when you realize how much time is involved in collecting top of hour IDs for so many stations. There are HUNDREDS in this 3 part series, literally.

Also of note, not all these IDs are from New England, some are from Nevada, Oregon (and here in part one, one of my all-time favorite IDs from WBSB (104.3) B-104 Baltimore) and elsewhere. These are clips of AM stations, FM stations and even nighttime DX from the midwest & Canada. Very interesting, to say the least.

Lastly, if you are really into Top of the hour legal IDs, I invite you to check out www.tophour.net. Brian has just about the largest collection of TOH IDs in the world. When you go, be sure to email him and say you heard about it from airchexx.com!

Now, enough talk, lets just listen to some old legal ID’s. Here’s volume 1. Volume’s 2 and 3 are coming soon.

We’re going to assume 1967 for these bits of audio candy! It’s not often that we get REELS, and orginal PAMS reels at that. The ‘wow’ factor is very much off the scale!

So, here’s the scoop on these jingles. I asked our ‘official’ site historian, Jack Parnell, to listen to these and give his opinion.. so I gave him the reel last week – well, here’s what he said:

BTW, the tape I brought is indeed KONO & KLIF stuff, and most likely is
the
original. Levels are
kinda low though, so I can’t say for sure. Quality on it is not
good…very
“dark” sounding quality-wise.

Perhaps it’s the tape machine. On this Wollensak, while the right side is out (the RealPlayer recording is in mono from the left channel), I managed to get decent audio quality.

If those were from about 65 or 66, Drake didn’t do them; he didn’t take
over
RKO stations until about
mid-68.

Okay then! We’ll assume sometime between 1967-1968, only because of where they came from. These ARE in the original PAMS Box which leads us to believe that they are authentic.

Click HERE to Listen!

I’ve changed the name of this particular exhibit – ID Fever is the name that displays in my car CD when I load it. How appropriate!

Part one features mainly stations out west. It starts in Washington state and moves South and East. Part two picks up in Texas. Between the two parts, this hits nearly every market in the U.S., ending in Boston – where clearly the source tape ended before moving into Northern New England. Another point, while we nail the date as 1987 (As Tony describes below), I’ve found a few timeline inconsistencies. For instance, when this composite rolls into Chicago, there’s an ID for WYTZ Z95, then two IDs later, an ID for WLS-FM Z95. Hmmm… very interesting. Note on this exhibit how many similar JAM jingle packages these stations use. They are my personal favorite of all jingle packages in the 70s or 80s.

Tony describes this particular collection of airchecks:

“The origination of this is unknown. It appears to have been recorded in 1987. It was given to me by Bill James (one of your contributors) back in 1989. I checked with Bill the other day. He said he got it from David Neel who used to do overnights back then for us at WSUL. Dave went on to work in Brownwood, TX and Tallahassee FL as Dave Tyler.

I don’t know where Dave acquired it from. This composit has been my favorite all these years as I classify myself as a ‘jingle freak’.

There ya go. Thus describes the sometimes strange twists and turns that these aircheck collections take before they arive at Airchexx Central. Thanks to one and all for sharing!

Part 2 is now posted!

Part 1 – Click HERE to Listen!

Part 2 – Click HERE to Listen! 56kbps Connection Highly Recommended.

Post Date: December 19, 2004

Here’s something totally different. Instead of actual airchecks, I received this CD totally full of various legal IDs. These are recent, I’d guess between 2000 and today.

Click HERE to Listen!