Radio's Greatest Hits!
From new contributor Julian Porter, who resides in the U.K., here’s a genuine original recording he made on 09.09.1978. The recording is well preserved and sounds just like it did on a typical FM stereo
In summer 1984, I made a trip to Boston… with my boombox. One morning I got up early, and started recording morning drive from up & down Boston’s radio dial. This aircheck features clips
**LISTENING OPTIONS FOLLOW DESCRIPTION BELOW** …don’t bring any kind of fire water into the city! Salvaged from my personal collection, here’s Mike DeM’ambro on a somewhat subdued WVBF toward the end of the ‘F-105’ era.
On June 19, 1984, I was walking around Boston, from the Harbor, to Copley Place. I had never been to Boston, so I was soaking everything in, from the historical sites, the city’s architecture, to
George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton have agreed to a presidential debate, Clinton leads the polls by a fairly wide margin and Ross Perot is mentioned as being included in the upcoming debate.
Moe Howard was one of the infamous “Three Stooges”, whose short black and white comedy skits in the 1930s and 1940s made millions laugh.
Here’s a super clean recording of WVBF. In 1975, the station was heading away from Album Rock cuts and becoming far more mainstream Top 40.
Loren Owens & Wally Brine were a Boston radio institution. The two were first paired together at WVBF in the early 1980s, and managed to continue on the morning show, through management changes, ownership
