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Lance Venta — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:39 +0000

Our friend Andy Bologovsky sent in more WAVZ material – this time, a great composite from July 1974. Among the many… Bill Rock and Bryan Phoenix make appearances on the best sounding AM station between New York and Boston!

Its three minutes of KHJ memories with a look back to 1971 with The Real Don Steele. Courtesy of Robyn Watts.

Like the above KHJ aircheck, this next QuickCheck comes via an edition of “East Coast Airchecks” that served a then-thriving radio industry back in the 90s. This is about 5 minutes of George McFly on KXXX X100 San Francisco (the predecessor to Oldies formatted 99.7 KFRC-FM) from 1988.



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Composite: WAVZ "New Waves 13″ New Haven | July, 1974

Steve West — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:10:34 +0000

Contributor Andy Bologovsky presents this sixteen and a half minute tour of the Kopps-Monahan studios of 13 WAVZ. Its mid-Summer and the New Waves is sizzlin’ with a lineup of jocks who all made it to major market stations after their stay in New Haven. It’s an Oldies weekend, but its not exclusively Oldies, with some 1974 blockbuster hits heard in here along with the classics. Sure, its scoped, but this moves along with lightning speed.

You’ll hear (in order): Mike Dean, Bill Rock (WNBC) and Brian Phoenix, along with plenty of commercials to make you wish you were back in the good old days when gasoline was still under 75 cents a gallon!

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QuickCheck: George McFly, KXXX X100 San Francisco | 1988

Steve West — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:20:35 +0000

“East Coast Airchecks” was one of those ’90s professional aircheck services that sent out tapes to radio stations and other subscribers. We’ve featured plenty of these before, courtesy of Robyn Watts, who sent us lots of these tapes back in ‘04. Now, from one labelled “Classics II” comes this almost 5 minute listen to one George McFly on San Francisco’s X100. It’s high energy 80s formatics and a station that’s long gone which we think you’ll really like.

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QuickCheck: The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles | 1971

Steve West — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:10:27 +0000

“…You can trust your car to the man who wears the star”

So begins this all-too-short, rare recording of RDS on 93/KHJ. We join things right in the middle of a commercial break (Texaco). We’re listening to KHJ in ‘71, and while the Bill Drake era is all but over, the format is intact with all the familiar Drake formatics.

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Composite: WINS and WMGM New York | October, 1961

Steve West — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:30:39 +0000

This is a great comparison between two competing Top 40 stations. 1961 was so early in the top 40 game that WABC was just in its infancy with its then-new format. This recording doesn’t include ABC.

WINS, of course, went on to become the nation’s first All-News station. WMGM simply reverted to the previous call letters on 1050, WHN, and then became synonymous with Country Music in New York for the next decade.

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The History of Black Radio in Milwaukee With Dr. O.C. White And Jim Frazier, WAWA 1590 | February 10, 1987

Steve West — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:00:38 +0000

Here is one of the most interesting airchecks I’ve heard in a long time. Dr. O.C. White and Jim Frazier talk about the history of Black radio from the days of 1590 WAWA about a year before the station went dark. The old jocks… where are they now and what stations were they heard? How did Black radio start? These questions are answered on this one hour recording.

it’s a MUST LISTEN for anyone who wishes to know about Milwaukee area Black radio!

* Information corrected as of 6/22/09

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Dr. Bob Show, WAWA-FM Milwaukee | 1966

Steve West — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:10:45 +0000

This goes way back to 1966. It’s a rare FM show, rare because there were very few FM stations that programmed popular music independently of a co-owned AM. Here, Dr. Bob mentions that some of the day’s programming is on FM only.

This show is what would probably be classified today as Urban CHR… but in 1966 there was no such format, so we’ll just say it’s a mainly R&B oriented Top 40. A purely Rhythm and Blues station surely would never have played The Beatles!

Courtesy of James Edwards

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Ken Gilbert, 1360 WDRC Hartford | January 1983

Steve West — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:10:06 +0000

I asked Mr. Gilbert what WDRC-AM sounded like before the flip to Oldies, and so here’s a 9 minute high-quality scope from 1983. While Ken didn’t say so, it sure seems like Buckley did more of a slow format turn towards oldies from Top 40 during ‘83. Listen to this, then the aircheck from later in 1983 to get a feel for where the station was going.

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Gary Evong, CFDR "780 Kixx Country" Halifax, NS | August 4, 1998

Steve West — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:20:56 +0000

Our first listen to radio in the Canadian Maritimes brings us to CFDR Halifax. Known as 780 Kixx Country, this is a fully staffed, full service station with all the programming elements that make up good radio. No jingles, but plenty of classic Country liners. A full news and sports report. As your webmaster recalls from listening to Canadian AM Country stations, the AC-ish approach was and maybe still is typical.

I know next to nothing about Halifax radio so perhaps one of our listeners can fill in the details.

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Ken Gilbert, WDRC-AM 1360 | July 1983

Steve West — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:10:42 +0000

Our friend Ken Gilbert sent in another goodie! WDRC (Big D, as it was affectionately known) was, by 1983, primarilly an Oldies station. This wasn’t some cheap imitation of an FM, however… as tape restorian Paul DiMarco (who provided the original copy to Ken Gilbert) wrote:

I know times have changed but this is (absurd) !!!
I’d listen to this type of radio before anything else on today’s dial….and it’s AM !!!
….not only is the DJ one of the best anywhere…..there’s some great commercial clips of other radio poineers like Friendly Floyd and Steve Skip.

The audio quality on this AM recording is fantastic. This really is a must-listen!

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