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104.3 Chicago WJMK Dick Biondi on top of a Pizza Greg Brown

Dick Biondi, Oldies 104.3 WJMK Chicago | 1993

By Steve West September 22, 2014

Courtesy of longtime Contributor Robyn Watts, Here's something from her collection of California Aircheck tapes. Tape #152 includes things from all over America and various formats. Towards the end of…

650 Nashville WSM Grand Ole Opry Opryland Ryman Marcia Campbell The All Nighter Eddie Stubbs Ernest Tubb Johnny Cash Pat Sajak We Serve Millions The Country Legend Dolly Parton Hank Williams

A Legend Lives: A Sample of 650 WSM Nashville | September 16, 2014

By Steve West September 18, 2014

WSM. Those three call letters bring up images, burned into the memory of past generations. An entire genre of American popular music essentially began right here at this radio station,…

Rodney Manning Fry (correction); Last Show, 550 KCRS Midland | October 8, 1967

By Steve West September 4, 2014

Longtime contributor Jeffrey Holland is quite familiar with the subject of this aircheck. Holland has been friends with Rodney Manning Fry (corrected) for a long time. Long enough to have…

MicroChexx: 1050 CHUM Toronto, First Day as Gold-Based AC | June 6, 1986

By Steve West August 14, 2014

What follows is all that could be salvaged from two sides of a C-60 cassette featuring music from the first day of the then-new AC format at 1050 CHUM. We…

Joe Pinner on 1230 WNOK Columbia SC | November 26, 1959

By Steve West August 8, 2014

From somewhere deep in the bowels of the airchexx archives (which consists of three crates with hundreds of loose cassettes) comes this excellent recording of one Joe Pinner with a…

The Chris Kelly Show, 1310 WXXX, Hattiesburg MS | 1963

By Steve West July 25, 2014

"...At 6:30, the brand new WXXX disc jockey. He goes by the name of the Silent Man" Not to be confused by a certain FM station in Burlington Vermont using…

Bwana Johnny, 1260 KYA San Francisco | 1969

By Steve West July 24, 2014

No serious discussion of the history of San Francisco Top 40 radio would be complete without acknowledging the contributions of 5,000 watt 1260 KYA. Nobody will dispute that 610 KFRC…

Dave Diamond, 610 KFRC San Francisco | 1970

By Steve West July 23, 2014

A KFRC original tape is featured this time around. The tape is worn, with a lot of white noise that even with noise reduction tools, I couldn't remove too much…