Alan Freed on
WJW
Live from Cleveland, baby, the Moondog Ball in living audio. Like all mind-blowing, life-
altering experiences, way too short.
New York City 1960s
Compilation
Speaking of too short. This is probably my favorite of the bunch. Some of the things I've
only heard about.
Alan Freed on
WINS
Where I probably would have heard him first if I'd been born, oh, 30 years earlier. From
1955.
NINE!
I don't know why this hit me like it did, but this was hilarious. It's about a fictional Top 40 station going from "900 WVWA Pound Ridge," through the logical progression, to simply "NINE!". The story on the page does it its full justice. Give it a listen.
Robert W. Morgan and Don Imus, 1973, rocking the airwaves on 66 WNBC.
Dan Ingram ripping on some of the early 1970s PAMS jingles. Funny stuff.
A 1968 clip
from an Ingram Flingram
It's Dan. Do I need to say more?
More
Big Dan Ingram, 1964-65
The clam commercial three-
quarters of the way through is don't-be-drinking-milk funny...
The 1989
WCBS-FM DJ reunion
An annual occurrence at 101.1 now, and even more
special back then when all those here were alive to be there. The quote on the
page under the link to part one, had I graduated a year later, probably would
have made it into my senior yearbook notes...
Mad
Daddy on WINS, 1964
Here we have solid radio. Most people who try to
do it like this sound like morons...Not Pete...
Bob Lewis on WABC, 3/67. I sometimes debate with myself who I'm sorriest to have missed, and Bob-a-loo usually wins...
Almost the last hour of
KHJ, 1/31/86, and The Last Hour of
KHJ, 1/31/86
The end of one of the great stations...
The Tom McMurray Collection -- included because at the bottom, under the nomination for Top 40 DJ of the year, is a clip of Big Dan. Included is the infamous "I read the ratings, and WABC is only the 13th-ranked station" bit -- that has to be heard.
Jim O'Brien on WOR-FM, 1969. O'Brien himself is pretty good, but this is priceless for the Drake-Chenault jingles -- the only place you could hear them in NYC. And this station is also the source, really, of my calling my hometown "The Big Town"...
Robert W. Morgan, KHJ 1966. Listen for Robert W., but listen also for the playlist...is there a bad song on this aircheck (well, maybe Dionne and "Message to Michael"...)? This was the time when the Top 40 was more or less 35 deep. The greatest year in the history of rock and roll, thank you...
Robert W. Morgan, KHJ 1969 -- RWM almost gets shot for carrying a hairdryer down the block. Classic radio...and scarily still relevant today.
Robert W. Morgan's return to the LA airwaves from Chicago (to KHJ from WIND) on a lovely Monday Morgan, 1/17/72. The Anita Kerr Singers line has to be a beauty of an inside joke, but the best I can come up with on limited knowledge is that the AKS did the WLS jingles...
The Murray the K
Collection
You talk about the classics.
Harry Harrison on
WMCA, 1965
The Morning Mayor, back in the olden days...
WDRC 16th
Anniversary
Hartford's Big D, the FM version of which still entertains the masses with (ahem) good
times and great oldies. The AM version still exists, but I'm way out of its range...
WNHC New Haven,
1970 promo
New Haven HAD Top 40 Radio????? :-)
The Marty Johnson Collection page has Dan Ingram from 1959 and Don Imus and Harry Harrison airchecks from the 70s. Enough said. Listen and love.
Machine Gun Kelly
on KTNQ-LA, 1978
This was some funny stuff. Enjoyable 10 mins.
Joey Reynolds on WGRQ
Buffalo
More funny stuff from a guy who was one of the classics -- hell, he's another one that got
the Four Seasons to do his theme song (COUSIN BRUCIE!!!!), so...
PAMS Series 18
You've probably heard this style of jingle, covered with the logo of an oldies station at
least, even if you're a young'n like me.
Gavin Jingle Presentation
Intro
A brief history of the radio jingle.
Drake's Jingles
"Ninety-three-K-H-J!" Ya really gotta love it. The jingles are a little too late (1970) for my
jingly tastes, but fun nonetheless. (For those who don't know, my understanding is that
KHJ Los Angeles was to the Left Coast what 77 WABC was to the Motherland. KFWB
and KRLA (like WINS and WMCA) were there first, but KHJ (and WABC) were and are
the ones that finally really mattered.)
Dave Hull on KRLA, 8/18/66 -- check out those jingles!
KHJ Time
Machine
Jingles upon jingles...though they get way too 70s-ish after the
first two minutes or so.