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Tag: 1974
Barry Kaye, 610 KILT Houston | 1974
New Contributor John Hale writes, “…here’s the aircheck Barry Kaye cut at KILT back in ’74 that won him DJ of the year recognition. And no wonder he won the award. There should be an award category for the most high-energy personality! Compare Barry Kaye to someone like Jack “Your Leeeeeeeeeeeeeder” Armstrong, and you get…
Composite: 800 XEROK Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 1974
John Long (WAVZ) was the Programming genius behind this short lived but fantastic Top 40 format, leased from the Mexican government on XEROK. Located just across the Rio Grande, this station was a ‘Superpower’ AM like none other. Actually, the real history of this ‘Border Blaster’, as it was called, starts in the early 1940s.…
Composite: 68 WRKO Boston | 1974
Contributor Steve Bleecker assures us that “No one else has this”! One listen to this nine minute scope of the Big 68 and you’ll be instantly teleported into radio heaven. That is, if you were a fan of mid-1970s RKO General stations. This is almost a *perfect* recording which has held up well for nearly…
Chris Bailey, WAXC Rochester | 1974
This aircheck has a few surprises for our listeners. Not only is Chris Baily a talented jock, but a famous one, as it turns out – Charlie Tuna. No, not THAT Charlie Tuna, a guy in Cleveland. Actually, the real story is described by Contributor Steve Bleecker: This is Jim Rafte ! He now resides…
Bob Lang & Charlie Fox on 63 KDWB St. Paul | December, 1974
We have a number of the 90s, 101.3 FM CHR version of this station, but this is the first of the original AM Top 40 recordings! What a great morning show. This is what they called “The new sound of KDWB”… and it was memorable! Here’s the “Q” format done in the Twin Cities and…
Composite: 15 KSTP St Paul – Part 1 | 1973/1974
On a cassette which has typed (not computer-pritned) ’15 KSTP, MINNEAPOLIS, 1973-1974 airchecks’ on it, here is what appears to be a ‘professional ‘edit, with each small clip fading in and out appropriately… through 45 minutes! If you can take the obvious ‘chops’ in this, it’s a really wonderful collection of disc jockeys and each…
Composite: 1300 WAVZ New Haven | July, 1974
There’s very little WE can say that conveys the excitement generated by 13 Waves during it’s heyday of the mid-late 1970s. Some of the best and brightest broadcasters in Southern New England graced the air on WAVZ – and a few of them have posted comments about this recording below. If you read the comments…
President Nixon Resigns – CBS Radio Network Bulliten | August 7, 1974
The importance of history can never be over-stated. Nor can or should it be forgotten. President Richard Millhous Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. This CBS report aired after leaks from White House sources to the network revealed the 37th president’s intentions to resign in the face of almost certain impeachment over the Watergate scandal,…
