Classic Top 40 Radio Airchecks Online

Subject: Classic Top 40 Radio Airchecks Online
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Aug 01 - 11:49 PM

Real and authentic broadcasts of Classic Top 40 radio shows. The only authentic one of its kind online. Museum for preservation of old radio. Thought some of you might enjoy it, esp. those who had so much fun in the 50's Tavern thread we had. Here ya go: AIRCHECK Radio

Subject: RE: BS: Classic Top 40 Radio Airchecks Online
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 29 Aug 01 - 11:22 AM

Thanks, kat, it's a fascinating site. I listened to the initial news reports on Dallas station KLIF on Nov. 22, 1963...and a clip from a different Dallas station with a report from a press car in the motorcade at the time the shots were fired. But I was a little frustrated with the clip from WFIL in Philadelphia from 1969. Apparently the person compiling that particular clip was interested in the DJ (Jim Nettleton) and the radio production aspects, and not the music...so all the songs are cut out. It was good to hear, though, that "Get Together" was number 15!

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Classic Top 40 Radio Airchecks Online
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Aug 01 - 12:35 PM

Kewl, Mark! I never thought to go back and listen to that particular broadcast.

Thanks,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Classic Top 40 Radio Airchecks Online
From: M.Ted
Date: 29 Aug 01 - 02:20 PM

Mark,

Did you listen to the Hy Lit last broadcast on WIBG. with Joe Niagra? Radio stations die, music formats die, artists come and go, but the DJ's keep going on and on--Amazing many of those guys on the site, from Dr. Don Rose to Elvis Duran, spent time in Philly--

Subject: RE: BS: Classic Top 40 Radio Airchecks Online
From: Wesley S
Date: 29 Aug 01 - 05:31 PM

Mark - I live near Dallas. A few years ago one of the local TV stations ran their original broadcasts of the Kennedy assasinations. They even interviewed some of the folks you see lying on the ground during the Zapruder film. None of them pointed to the book depository. They all said the shots came from the grassy knoll or the overpass. I'm not prone to believe a lot of the theories out there but it was interesting stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Classic Top 40 Radio Airchecks Online
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Aug 01 - 10:25 PM

Well, you can buy the records, but ya can't buy the DJ's so maybe that is why all of the songs were cut out, Mark.

Rog grew up in Nashua and remembers when his dad worked at WOTW. They had a live real country band in every morning to play on air. His dad was the only one at the station who had a tape recorder; he did a "man on the street" kind of newsgathering, so had some tapes of the live music. Unfortunately, none of them exist now. The recorder was a Webcore Wire Recorder; instead of a piece of tape, it used what looked like a big roll of piano wire to record on. The national commercials and some local commericals were all on records. The station had their own machine for cutting them. Of course a lot of ads were read live, too. Ah, those old days of radio....:-)

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Classic Top 40 Radio Airchecks Online
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Aug 01 - 10:34 PM

Good stuff katdarlin!!! Thanks!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Classic Top 40 Radio Airchecks Online
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 24 Dec 02 - 07:21 PM

I just found this website, and was going to start a thread on it, when fortunately I thought to check to see if Mudcat already had one.

Here it is again:

Airchecks Radio: The Reel Top 40 Radio Repository

When I first encountered this website, I didn't even know what an "aircheck" was. I eventually found a glossary of radio jargon that gave this definition: "recording of a live broadcast". The recordings at the above website include all kinds of things -- commercials, popular songs, intro and "patter" by DJ's, station ID's and jingles, bumpers -- and other things that I don't even know the proper jargon words to describe. They all come from top-40 stations. They have their own top 40 list of recordings, and they include recordings of Wolfman Jack from 1975, Alan Freed from 1955, Casey Kasem from 1972, and others you might recognize. Nostalgia galore!

Happy listening.