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Frank Kingston Smith, WBZ Boston | December 28, 1979
Date of Recording: 12.28.1979 Station: 1030 WBZ Boston Format: Full Service Adult Contemporary Branding: “WBZ Radio 1030” Featured Air Personality: Frank Kingston Smith (Bobby Mitchell) (WFIL/WIBG/WICE/WRKO/WABC/WHDH/WVBF/WBZ/WRKO/WKKT/WODS) (Wikipedia) Contributor: Big Apple Airchecks Total Time: 9:48 (telescoped) Airchexx Entry: 1,545 Don Kent likes to keep the weather secret… Curator’s Notes: Considered the first commercial radio station in…
New England Sampler #2 – Composite: 68 WRKO Boston | March 31, 1980
Date of Recording: 03.31.1980 Station: 680 WRKO Boston Format: Top 40 Featured Air Talent: Various. See Description below. Contributor: Big Apple Airchecks Total Time: 6:06 Post Date: 11.30.2017 Airchexx Entry: 1,528 … Presenting Elton John at the Music Hall… This has not been posted elsewhere so THANKS to our contributor! Curator’s Notes: Audio: This came…
Composite: KYA San Francisco | March 1965
Date of Recording: 03.xx.1965 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 1260 KYA San Francisco, California, USA Format: Top 40 Featured Air Personality: Various Comments: Long dramatic jingles, disc jockeys who comment about everything with lots of talk between songs, outdated news sounders and reverb on demand all highlight this first San Francisco top 40 station. This is…
Ken Gilbert; Dean Richards, 102.9 WDRC-FM Hartford | March, 1988
Date of Recording: 03.1988 (exact date unknown) Station: 102.9 WDRC-FM Hartford, Connecticut Featured Air Personality: Ken Gilbert, Dean Richards Contributor: Ken Gilbert Date of Contribution: 8.12.16 Aircheck Entry: 1,432 “…here comes Cher – I think this before she had tatoos and a big flamed bird on her backend!” Comments: Some radio recordings should never be…
Jim Washburn, KYA San Francisco | March, 1965
When many people think of Top 40 radio in San Francisco in the 1960s, the first station that comes to mind is usually 610 KFRC. But, before KFRC, there was 1260 KYA, and for a time, both stations duked it out on the AM band until the battle was clearly won by KFRC. From early…
Mason Dixon, 95.7 WMTX “Mix 96” Clearwater FL | March 1993
Judge for yourself, but is this the same Mason Dixon we hear on KCBQ San Diego from 9/24/77? WMTX has changed frequencies since this was recorded back in 1993, but this does have at least one historical marker – Bill Clinton was president for only a few weeks, as he mentions in the beginning of…
Bobby “The Wizard” Wayne on 101 WCBS-FM New York | December 16 1972
WCBS-FM 101 New York – Bobby “The Wizard” Wayne – December 16 1972 On July 4 1972, WCBS-FM dropped the Rock format it had had for a few years, and flipped to all Odies. The move was inspired by it’s sister station, 98 WCAU-FM Philadelphia, which had flipped to oldies one years earlier. The…
Pervis Spann on 1450 WVON 1450 Chicago | 1965
WVON 1450 Chicago – Pervis Spann – 1965 This aircheck features Chicago R&B radio station, 1450 WVON. The station became a powerhouse, when in 1963, it started playing Soul records ignored by most of Chicago’s big radio stations. On this recording, you’ll hear Chicago radio legend, Pervis Spann. Spann was born and raised in…
