Pure AM Radio Nostalgia: Vintage Aircheck Recordings from the 1970s by Dan Greenall

https://swling.com/blog/2025/04/pure-am-radio-nostalgia-vintage-aircheck-recordings-from-the-1970s-by-dan-greenall/

#Aircheck #AMRadio #CFBC #DanGreenall #KFDI #KFYR #KKJO #KPCR #KRLD #KWAM #Recordings #VOA #WANN #WBT #WCPC #WDBO #WDXR #WGR #WHN #WIBC #WINZ #WIRK #WJR #WKAQ #WKBR #WLW #WMAQ #WNOE #WOKY #WPDX #WPOM #WPTR #WRKO #WSM #WSMB #WVMT #XEMO #XERF #ZBMFM #ZBM1 #ZBM2 #ZDK #ZFBFM #ZFB1 #ZNS3

Three hours of Johnny Fever spinning the hits on Cincinatti's WKRP, constructed from his on-show breaks, with the full musical tracks. This is a fun listen! #radio #aircheck

https://www.awphooey.com/wkrp

My fellow DJ at Freeform Portland, Kim Paris, just broadcast this wonderful celebration of airchecks and music from the FM Radio Archive at @internetarchive, on the occasion its 4th anniversary. #radio #aircheck
https://www.mixcloud.com/pariski/melting-pot-with-kim-paris-10724-fm-radio-archive-4th-anniv-10am-noon-on-freeform-portland/

Here's a 12 hour aircheck transcript from CKLW from June 1973.
https://paste.debian.net/1295885/
Song titles/artists
Ads (beer, concerts, etc)
#cklw #cklwam #aircheck

#Airchecks, slightly tweaked, from the first day of WOR-FM in New York; #rock music hits the #NYC FM airwaves -- this was the forerunner of the #AlbumRock feast/famine (depending on one's point of view) of WNEW/WPLJ/WPIX in the '70s and beyond.

At this point (I'm only about 35-40 minutes in), there's little to differentiate it from #Top40 WABC-AM, aside from the absence of black music (Miss Dionne Warwick singing Bacharach/David doesn't count, and the Ramsey Lewis Trio is filler -- I'm talking, rather, Stax, Motown, and any small R&B labels crossing over into the "white" charts).

One other difference: No static at all.

This is great stuff, for those who celebrate the mighty oaks that grew from this October 1966 acorn; for more info, including the labor strife that followed the #labor strife that delayed this debut, I'm sure there are some old Bob Christgau and Richard Goldstein columns out there on the internets.

https://www.mixcloud.com/rob-frankel/wor-fm-1966-10-08-first-day-live/

#radio #aircheck

Opeens ontzettend veel zin om schoenen te kopen 🤔

#radio #localradio #delokaleomroep #lokaleomroep #olon #nlpo #aircheck #tavares

Bits are tight but could use a hint more colour. #AirCheck

From @PastDaily: the sound quality is often less than ideal in this Swiss #Radio #aircheck, but if you were curious about what happened to Hank Mobley after Miles moved further and further from Hard Bop, and #BlueNote fell into the hands of corporate owners, here you go....

Hank Mobley (tenor saxophone)
Kenny Drew (piano)
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (bass)
Albert "Tootie" Heath (drums)

#jazz #airchecks

https://pastdaily.com/2023/07/30/hank-mobley-quartet-live-in-copenhagen-1968-past-daily-downbeat/

Rob Frankel's #Aircheck of the Week: The Real Don Steele, from 1964.

#rock #radio #airchecks

https://www.mixcloud.com/rob-frankel/kisn-1964-07-23-the-real-don-steele/

The #radio #aircheck project is starting up again, starting with Chicago's WXRT from 1997. I was living in Chicago then; the quality of these tapes is just about perfect. At the tail end of one of them are spots for Marshall Field's and Dominick's...both gone a while now.

Forty-five years ago today: Two hours of music, commercials, and more as broadcast on KFRC San Francisco on December 28, 1977. At the #internetarchive

https://archive.org/details/KFRC_San_Francisco_12-28-77

More radio airchecks are in the Mike Schweizer Aircheck Collection:

https://archive.org/details/schweizerairchecks

#radio #aircheck #1970s #70s