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Post by sperrytops on Jan 27, 2019 13:41:58 GMT -5
Any radio station that carried Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM.
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Post by isett2860 on Jan 27, 2019 13:46:33 GMT -5
Clap for the Wolfman
He gonna rate your record high
Clap for the Wolfman
You gonna dig him 'til the day you die…
The Guess Who.Clap for the Wolfman.
And their are folks here I’m sure that have no idea who that is either!
KQ92 KQRS TwinCities
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Post by Mac on Jan 27, 2019 14:01:41 GMT -5
Wolfman Jack!!
For me, the favorite became WBBS in Chicago, Music Till Dawn. I'd fall asleep listening to Sky King, The Shadow, and other programs, and when I woke up early in the morning I'd be hearing that program, and became enamored with the theme- or frequently played- Air on a G string, JS Bach. Love it to this day, and maybe a reason I got into classical music.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 9:37:39 GMT -5
WNOP, Newport,Ky. Broadcasting from the Ohio river on an old converted barge, 740 AM , all day jazz, sure wish I could have ended up with their record collection.
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Post by trailboss on Jan 28, 2019 13:07:59 GMT -5
California had some great radio stations years ago.
KJAZ, Alameda. All Jazz, all the time. Straight ahead, man.
KFAT, Gilroy. "Subversive Country" from the mid 1970s. Carried the ball for Waylon, Emmy Lou, Townes Van Zandt, Jackson Browne.
And, of course, KSAN, San Francisco. What can I say?
Them are some excellent choices... loved KFAT radio back in the day... there are some archived audio clips online . archive.org/details/KFAT94.5 |
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Post by mel64us on Jan 28, 2019 20:47:56 GMT -5
In the 1960's, the station to listen to in Utica, NY was AM 1310 WTLB.
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Post by jackdiamond on Jan 28, 2019 20:50:23 GMT -5
WKRP in Cincinnati, of course.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 21:33:43 GMT -5
Clap for the Wolfman He gonna rate your record high Clap for the Wolfman You gonna dig him 'til the day you die… The Guess Who.Clap for the Wolfman. And their are folks here I’m sure that have no idea who that is either! KQ92 KQRS TwinCities Oh, I’m very familiar with Wolfman Jack. I’m originally from NY. Here’s a tribute to one of NY’s most favorite DJ’s |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 21:43:03 GMT -5
How many of you remember WABC 77 radio with Don Imus “ quack quack “!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 21:51:37 GMT -5
It's been a Loooooooooong time since I really listen to radio, mainly cuz there's just no interest anymore.
They just don't play the music I like much. One or two maybe in a row and then they drop off the deep end on to something that
just aint to my liking. But, there was a time I'd sit in front of my Aircastle radio and listen to endless music.........in the 60's.
And on that old radio all I had was Standard Broadcast (AM) and Shortwave (static and hum), no FM but, FM was only starting to play good music back then if I remember correctly.
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Post by swampgrizzly on Jan 28, 2019 22:31:15 GMT -5
My curent favorites are: Kenny Chesney's "No Shoes Radio"-Ch. 57, The Highway (Country Hits)-Ch. 56, and The Coffee House (Accoustic/Singer Song Writers)-Ch. 14 on Sirius XM satelite radio. While browsing forums, email, and the internet in general I listen to Radio Garden streaming radio. There are over 8,000 radio stations across the globe streaming their broadcasts at this website. When the web site boots up a spinning globe, anywhere a green dot is displayed there are one or more radio stations streaming broadcasts available at that green dot. You can find stations in cities/towns you used to live in, listen to foreign language broadcasts from foreign countries, listen to a remote sports broadcast, etc. Just click on the globe to move it around to areas of interest, then click on the nearest green dot to your area of interest to activate radio stations. Link below: radio.garden/ |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 22:56:18 GMT -5
AJ Great thread addition! Living in Orange County, California in the early 50' to 1965, the big station was AM930 KHJ, which played all the good rock n roll, beach bopper, ballads music. Like others here at the time, I had a small transistor radio that would follow me to the beach in San Clemente when I would fish off the pier, or when mom and dad tucked me in to bed, that transistor radio found its way underneath my pillow, volume down low, enjoying the rich tone of the DJ and the tunes they would play. In the morning when I awoke, I would always find my transistor radio laying on my nightstand, turned-off. Good times. Living in the San Francisco bay area during the late 60'/early 70' finishing high school, there was the benchmark FM station known as KSAN "you basic jive 95." This was during the time of free form radio where you heard all of the good stuff (and cuts over 5 minutes in length). Anything that I heard on KSAN, I would write it down, and if I had the funds saved, walked, road my bike, or drove to the music shop on 4th and El Camino Real in San Mateo to purchase a LP, or maybe an 8-track (yes, I had a Blaupunkt 8-track player, with a FM converter cartridge)  KSAN had a wonderful program director by the name of Bonnie Simmons (she was a damn good looking young lady too) who ran the place, and a great line-up of on-air personalities that programmed their own shows. Ben Fong-Torres was a part-timer on the weekends, wherein his full-time gig was with Rolling Stone magazine (and some other paper which I'm vague on). It was simply a top-notch station 24/7. I believe it had a sister station down in Los Angeles at the time named KMET (which was very similar to KSAN). When I was stationed in San Diego during the Navy, and later while attending SDSU, the benchmark for the area was KGB-FM. Later in the late 70'/80', they went to hell in a handbasket as they were following everybody in the AOR formatting of radio stations. Pure madness. Hearing the same crapola over and over. Blah! While living in the Los Angeles area over the last 10 plus years (and prior to moving to my current location), I pretty much was listening to KCSN-FM which is the California State University Northridge radio station. Reminded me of KSAN with its variety of radio programming, air personalities, and so forth. Radio is good stuff, as long as you have the right folks running the station...
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Post by toshtego on Jan 29, 2019 0:32:37 GMT -5
California had some great radio stations years ago. KJAZ, Alameda. All Jazz, all the time. Straight ahead, man. KFAT, Gilroy. "Subversive Country" from the mid 1970s. Carried the ball for Waylon, Emmy Lou, Townes Van Zandt, Jackson Browne. And, of course, KSAN, San Francisco. What can I say?
Them are some excellent choices... loved KFAT radio back in the day... there are some archived audio clips online . archive.org/details/KFAT94.5Thanks for posting that. Brought a tear to me eye remembering those days. |
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Post by unknownpipesmoker on Jan 29, 2019 1:11:44 GMT -5
I only listened to university radio stations because they were the only stations that played music as weird as I am.
Every once in awhile I'll tune into a college station playing some indie rock I can get into today, but otherwise, I can't stand the radio.
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Post by longtom on Jan 30, 2019 12:51:57 GMT -5
Still my favorite... WFIT... college radio from the campus of Florida Tech in beautiful Melbourne Florida...
Back in the 80's WFIT heavily played New Wave, Punk, Avant Garde etc... by far the coolest radio station around... alot like WLIR (see below)...
Today they have several outstanding regular DJ's and play absolutely everything.
WLIR out of Long Island, when I was a teenager in NJ. I think it was Long Island University station, and had a lot of really varied content. New Wave, Punk, Post Punk, etc. It became WDRE in my later teens, and it wasn't as good. Then I listened to WFMU in my 20s, which was all over the map - and still is. These days, it's mostly NPR, local classical, or WTDK "The Duck" which is the local oldies station. The Duck sometimes plays really bizarre singles from the 50s and 60s, like:
CRAMP if you have not seen it already check out "New Wave: Dare to be Different" it is all about WLIR: |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 13:03:20 GMT -5
longtom Like your sand crab avatar photo. Used to use the soft shell sand crab a lot for surf fishing of Corbina along the shores of San Clemente years ago...
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Post by longtom on Jan 30, 2019 13:51:53 GMT -5
longtom Like your sand crab avatar photo. Used to use the soft shell sand crab a lot for surf fishing of Corbina along the shores of San Clemente years ago...
Do tell.. Corbina?
We call them 'sand fleas' but yep that's a sand crab/mole crab. Had no idea ya'll had them on the Pacific coast. This time of year in FL they are great bait to use for Pompano, one of the finest eating fish in all seven seas. I live real close to the beach and could go on and on about surf fishing but don't want to thread jack...
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Post by Legend Lover on Jan 30, 2019 13:59:29 GMT -5
longtom Like your sand crab avatar photo. Used to use the soft shell sand crab a lot for surf fishing of Corbina along the shores of San Clemente years ago...
Do tell.. Corbina?
We call them 'sand fleas' but yep that's a sand crab/mole crab. Had no idea ya'll had them on the Pacific coast. This time of year in FL they are great bait to use for Pompano, one of the finest eating fish in all seven seas. I live real close to the beach and could go on and on about surf fishing but don't want to thread jack...
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Post by longtom on Jan 30, 2019 17:29:23 GMT -5
I may do just that!
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Post by Dramatwist on Jan 30, 2019 17:47:42 GMT -5
Any radio station that carried Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM. I miss Art Bell. |
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Post by Dramatwist on Jan 30, 2019 17:53:25 GMT -5
I own a very nice "transistor radio" (C. Crane) but it's primarily for when the power goes out.
Tosh and Charlie mentioned some of the stations that I listened to growing up in Northern CA, and I agree with their opinions.
In high school, for us, it was KFRC or KYA, AM. "All the hits, all the time..."
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2019 5:23:16 GMT -5
My favorite would be Denver's KBPI and their "Death to Disco" format in the late 70's.
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Post by toshtego on Feb 11, 2019 5:50:30 GMT -5
I own a very nice "transistor radio" (C. Crane) but it's primarily for when the power goes out. Tosh and Charlie mentioned some of the stations that I listened to growing up in Northern CA, and I agree with their opinions. In high school, for us, it was KFRC or KYA, AM. "All the hits, all the time..." I remember them both well. They were the place until the FM stations started up. KMPX was the one in the late '60s until the owners changed the music format from Rock to old timey Jazz. In the early and mid '60s, I listened to KYA every night while in bed. AM band just worked better at night. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2019 7:40:55 GMT -5
Back in the day one could pick up WLS Chicago (890-AM) about anyplace in the hemisphere. The range as unreal. WHAS 840 was our best local station. WQMF (95.7 FM) played classic rock. A lot of the old stations have either changed formats, canned local personalities or become generally meaningless noise.
My two CC Crane Radio II models have some great range. I can pick up a lot of stations between Cleveland and Atlanta but my dials are almost always set to NPR or ESPN these days.
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Post by JimK on Feb 11, 2019 14:16:36 GMT -5
I discovered FM radio about 1968 or 69, I think. I used to listen to KINK-FM out of Portland Oregon. My favorite listening pleasure was the weekly album preview, late on Friday night. I remember the nights when they previewed the Beatles' Abbey Road, and Crosby, Stills, & Nash "Deja Vu"
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Post by sperrytops on Feb 11, 2019 14:20:51 GMT -5
It's been a Loooooooooong time since I really listen to radio, mainly cuz there's just no interest anymore. They just don't play the music I like much. One or two maybe in a row and then they drop off the deep end on to something that just aint to my liking. But, there was a time I'd sit in front of my Aircastle radio and listen to endless music.........in the 60's. And on that old radio all I had was Standard Broadcast (AM) and Shortwave (static and hum), no FM but, FM was only starting to play good music back then if I remember correctly. A lot of those old recordings are on the internet now. You can even listen to short wave on the internet. Times have changes. |
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Post by sperrytops on Feb 11, 2019 14:22:38 GMT -5
Any radio station that carried Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM. I miss Art Bell. I remember the vegetarian werewolf that called in one night. And the guy that tried to fly a light plane into area 51. Some great shows. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2019 14:36:33 GMT -5
It's been a Loooooooooong time since I really listen to radio, mainly cuz there's just no interest anymore. They just don't play the music I like much. One or two maybe in a row and then they drop off the deep end on to something that just aint to my liking. But, there was a time I'd sit in front of my Aircastle radio and listen to endless music.........in the 60's. And on that old radio all I had was Standard Broadcast (AM) and Shortwave (static and hum), no FM but, FM was only starting to play good music back then if I remember correctly. A lot of those old recordings are on the internet now. You can even listen to short wave on the internet. Times have changes. I have most of them on Vinyl, tape or disc |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 11, 2019 14:41:46 GMT -5
Any radio station that carried Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM. The Truth is Out There. Insert Theme for the Twilight Zone. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 11, 2019 14:47:41 GMT -5
I used to listen to the local Pacifica station. They had some interesting music. I listened to the Texas Prison radio show for several years when my brother in law was the best lead guitar in the Texas prison system. He is an amazing guitarist. He is back in, but he can't play anymore because of his health complications.
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KSAN had a wonderful program director by the name of Bonnie Simmons (she was a damn good looking young lady too) who ran the place, and a great line-up of on-air personalities that programmed their own shows. Ben Fong-Torres was a part-timer on the weekends, wherein his full-time gig was with Rolling Stone magazine (and some other paper which I'm vague on). It was simply a top-notch station 24/7. I believe it had a sister station down in Los Angeles at the time named KMET (which was very similar to KSAN).
