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Memories.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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Did you listen to WLS during the time Dick Biondi was there? Lots of stories about his knock-knock jokes. Some of them possibly even true. ;^)
"The only cats worth anything are the cats who take chances. Sometimes I play things I never heard myself." Thelonious Monk
There is a record "Cruisin' 1960" series that features him. It is part of a series 1955 - 1970; I have most of them.
Later Gator,
Dave
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"Trying is the first step towards failure."
Homer Simpson
CKUA radio is still playing vinyl (as well as CD's) and has one of the worlds largest collections of vinyl and shellac records. Many shows highlighting old records. You can sample it over the internet anywhere in the world at CKUA.com
Included a Magnum Dynalab tuner. I used to listen to the local FM classical station. Often I could hear the print through from the records they played.
No so today. I have several LPs from flea markets which are labeled "property of XXFM" :-(
Community radio station KXCI in Tucson has some DJ's that still play vinyl.
One of my favorite FM stations was out of Montreal, Quebec: CHOM FM 97.7
It's no longer an independent station but for a time in the 70's it was the go-to station to hear new album releases. Especially late at night and into the wee hours of the morning when they'd play both sides of an LP. I remember on more than one occasion hearing the runout groove repeating over and over and over while the DJ was out smoking another joint. :-)
Tom
Yes and the FM radio stations were much higher sonic quality vs today. Back in the 1960s and early 1970s most radio stations used tubes for low signal amplification. In Detroit the competition was fierce for rock & roll stations.
KALW 91.7 & KPFA 94.1
Two SF Bay area stations that do play music and lots of it on Vinyl-
KPFA - Especially Saturday from noon to 5:00 PM - Blues, Jazz - F($#^(g Fabulus
Happy Listening
I remember WHFS progressive rock from Silver Spring, Maryland. A week ago there was a PBS TV segment on a documentary (in production) about the radio station (link). I can remember listening when the DJ ("Weasel") had miscued a track, overshooting the lead-in grooves and had to apologize and ("Let's get this right") do it again. I remember long monologues where he could give band trivia about when a group formed, which group members played in past bands or arcane meanderings like how the emergency broadcast system test is two-tone and it was such-and-such note over that note.
a friend is a DJ and they kept the vinyl and also play everything else depending on circumstance and bathroom trips. They still have small FM stations here and there, so why not spin a few when they know how and before they dump the collections. It's still a ritual to some.
KSHE in St. Louis has "Vinyl Exam" on Sundays at noon and they usually credit the cuts from vinyl loaned by a local record store. Lots of talk about the featured bands and also concert memories from the hosts.
. . . when one of our local classical stations (KDFC? KKHI?) made the transition to CD's, the announcer came back on the air after playing a CD and reported that he'd just had a call from a driver who'd been listening on his car radio and was so amazed at the sonic improvement (again, on his car radio!) that he pulled over to call from a pay phone in order to congratulate the station on their their sonic advancement! He didn't know what they'd done, but he sure heard the change for the better! ;-)
I remember that time frame and remember hearing just the opposite.
Tre'
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. . . that the transition to CD's never happened. ;-)
Or Course, I even played it on the air in the 70's.
If you want to hear some airchecks of 60's on the air, check out the WQAM
tribute website, they have hours of air checks from the 50's, 60's
and 70's.
I listened to that station a lot in the 60's.
KSHE95 - real rock radio
Sunday nights as I recall. The DJ would drag out the K...L...O...S... to give you time to cue up your tape deck to record.
There was a Jazz station above the super market my buds and I would visit ca. 1960. The DJ taught us how to cue for airplay. Our fav station a little later, WMMS, was "underground" AOR and a mainstay throughout college when ay home as was WLS for me when on campus.
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had one DJ playing classical vinyl well into the 2000s.
When he retired in mid 2000s the TT and vinyl went off the air. A lot of the studio gear was tube as was the older FM transmitter.
Great sounding station when received on a Kenwood KT-8300 FM tuner.
When I co-producing a show on KCSM we were still using records.
CDs would have been MUCH easier for laying down music under voice tracks.
When the the DJ's needed a bathroom break or a smoke break the go to was
always "My Favorite Things" from Afro Blue.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Yes I do. That's all they played back in my day on the radio. Cart tapes looked like 8 tracks and that is what radio stations put commercials on. Some station even transferred the songs from albums or 45's to cart tapes to make it easier to play music on the air. Growing up on vinyl could be why it sounds "right" to me now.
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