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Best signoff song

During the Top 40 days of WAAM in Ann Arbor, Mi in the mid-70's, we signed-off with the last half of the Mickey Mouse Club Alma Mater (beginning with "Now it's time to say goodbye..."). At sign-on, we used "Reveille Rock" by Johnny & The Hurricanes ("...Wake up!").
 
In 2004, when Houston's Rock 101 KLOL switched to Spanish, their last song was The Who's "I'm Free", which was the first song that they played when they switched to Album Rock in 1970.

KDOK-FM Tyler, TX played "American Pie" (The day the music died) when they switched from classic hits to news-talk in 2009.
 
FRR said:
Good Night - The Beatles
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KDUX 104.7 Aberdeen, WA in the '80s (as a CHR) used to sign-off at midnight with this (and "Carry That Weight").

Unfortunately, the cart they played this off of seemed to get s-l-o-w-e-r over time......Last time I heard it, Paul McCartney was sounding like Vaughn Monroe.......

I'm sorry, but if I were the last jock of the night, I'd have re-carted that thing myself if the PD didn't do anything about it.......
 
On April Fools Day 1983, after two and a half years with a country format, KHJ in Los Angeles went back to pop music (mostly oldies). The last country song they played was The Last Country Song by Ed Bruce---such an obvious choice!---and then came Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock. Many listeners thought the format change was a stunt. It wasn't.
 
This one tops my list. It's the sign-off that was used by WFAA-TV in Dallas beginning in the 1970's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUDi2Ocak9c

When the switch to digital happened that sign-off was the last thing that aired on WFAA-TV's analog signal.
 
About the nicest sounding sign-off I ever heard would be that of the now silent WOKW/1410 in Brockton, MA. back in the early 70's. It was voiced by a (very pleasant sounding) female announcer who left the station in 1970. The music was a truncated version of "Wonderland By Night" by Bert Kaempfert. After the announcer said "good night", the actual end of the song would be heard with that long note at the end. Then the carrier would drop very quietly. No "thunk", just a soft rush of skywave. I wish I recorded it back in '70.

http://grooveshark.com/s/Bert+Kaempfert/3lHudP?src=5
 
"It's time to pull, the shades on another day,
as a happy, en-ding nears.
May the good Lord, bless, and keep you,
Till tomo-rrow's sun, appears."

"Station Sign-Off", Pepper-Tanner Country & Western library 4400
Used off-and-on on WBCV, Bristol, Tenn. until the early 2000's
 
A lot of Urban/R&B/Soul and Jazz stations have used the smooth, beautiful harmonica instrumental "Velas" by Toots Thielmanns from the 1980 album "The Dude" by Quincy Jones.
 
...in the 1980s, WMTV/15 Madison would sign off the air with a wonderful short film of various images of Madison set to Ennio Morricone's lovely end credit theme to the movie Days of Heaven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AutRVp1Wv0o When I signed off the daytimer WXOL/690 Oshkosh WI in 1993-94, I used the recording of Alan Freed's farewell to his WNEW-TV/5 New York viewers (WXOL was an oldies station) going into Ray Charles' "America the Beautiful." And the last two records that were aired by WCFL/1000 Chicago on 15 March 1976 (played by Larry Lujack, naturally) before the format shifted from Top 40 to elevator music were "American Pie" and the custom edit made for the station of "Life Is a Rock (but 'CFL Rolled Me)" by Reunion. (The last record played by Bob Dearborn, the next-to-last disc jockey on WCFL on the Top 40 format, was "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me" by Gladys Knight & The Pips)...
 
I started another thread on this, but KHOK Hoisington, KS in it's AOR days would shut down at midnight with the Little River Band's "Shut Down Turn Off", which had a donut near the end for them to do their sign off business.
 
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