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Old Gold 2 | Upper Midwest Sampler, 1971

tower.jpg Old Gold Volume 2 features more of the same stations as in Volume 1, plus a few extras.


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Note the amount of music stations on AM. So much better than things are today where AM is a virtual vast wasteland of useless chatter.

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9 Responses to “Old Gold 2 | Upper Midwest Sampler, 1971”
  1. joe nerney says:

    It was hard for any station to match the power and talent of the Big 8. It was interesting to hear the FM aproach of WCAR with some of those legendary voices such as Dave Prince and Joey Rion. Fun to hear all of it!!

  2. Derrick says:

    This is a very cool aircheck.

    I like the “Old Gold” automated aircheck from the early 1970s. The “Old Gold” format comes from Draper-Blore.

    I also hear a very interesting WJR-FM jingle on this aircheck.

    This is a good aircheck to hear.

  3. Jim H ampton says:

    It was fun to hear the Olde Golde format, which i was proud to have produced at Programming DB in the 70’s. It was ahead of its time, especially the jingles which i loved doing. If anyone has some airchecks of this I would love to get them. Thanks, Jim Hampton

  4. Dick Sigurdson says:

    Listening to the CKLW clip, the jock calls himself
    Bill Gable…. he sounds VERY much like Bill Wade who was heard on KFRC-San Francisco in 1968… also heard is newsman John Belmont, later of ABC Radio Network News.

  5. John Fortmeyer in Newberg, Oregon says:

    Thanks VERY VERY much for making this Draper-Blore Olde Golde aircheck available! I have long been trying to see if ANYONE had posted one of these on the Web, but had no luck until now. This brings back FUN memories of listening to Olde Golde WAAAAY back in the early 1970s on KISM-FM in Bellingham, Wash.

    It was a great format. I also greatly enjoyed the old Drake-Chenualt automated Hit Parade and Solid Gold formats on stations in the Seattle area. I have found several airchecks for that, but this is the ONLY one I have found on the Web for Olde Golde. If there are any others out there, I’d love to know about it.

  6. Steve West says:

    John, I’ve started going through the large pile of airchecks I have here and maybe there’s another one. I’ll look specifically for KISM.

    Glad you enjoyed it!

  7. John Fortmeyer says:

    Thanks very much, Steve! I would be interested in airchecks from any station that carried Olde Golde, but especially KISM.

    I managed to contact Chuck Blore himself by e-mail this week and he told me that, unfortunately, he has none of the Olde Golde tracks…:-(

  8. jim says:

    hi dick, that is indeed brother bill gable, he is now 3 to 7pm weekdays at am740 toronto..

  9. Eugene Ferraro says:

    Hi,I grew up and still live here in Phila. I’m 51 years old and as a teen enjoyed listening, not only to WFIL and WIBG, but out of town stations, such as, WNBC, WABC, WLS, CKLW, WCFL, WKBW, among others at night. CKLW was probably my favorite because, of the djs and their jingles, especially the top of the hour ones. I now enjoy listening to old airchecks, I can find on the internet. I just heard the composite Midwest sampler– Volume II from 1971. Near the end of it, there’s an aircheck from Don O’Brien on CKLW. I don’t ever remember hearing him there. Do you have any info about how long he worked there, and what time slot he was on. It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time and consideration.

    Eugene F

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