Comments on: Old Gold 2 | Upper Midwest Sampler, 1971

By: John Fortmeyer

John Fortmeyer — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:18:34 +0000

Is this how to reach Steve West? I tried to connect with the Old Gold 2/Upper Midwest Sampler, and could no longer do so. RealAudio indicated that the server no longer exists. Correct? Any way to reestablish this file?

By: Eugene Ferraro

Eugene Ferraro — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:20:26 +0000

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

By: jim

jim — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:18:29 +0000

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

By: John Fortmeyer

John Fortmeyer — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:00:33 +0000

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…:-(

By: Steve West

Steve West — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:59:18 +0000

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!

By: John Fortmeyer in Newberg, Oregon

John Fortmeyer in Newberg, Oregon — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:15:37 +0000

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.

By: Dick Sigurdson

Dick Sigurdson — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:23:31 +0000

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.

By: Jim H ampton

Jim H ampton — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 05:32:55 +0000

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

By: Derrick

Derrick — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 04:13:57 +0000

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.

By: joe nerney

joe nerney — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 18:45:02 +0000

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!!