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Calling hardcore B/EZ fans... need help identifying instrumental

C

ChrisInMI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pJ1q-3w-VU

This is an aircheck of WLW Cincinnati from November 22, 1963. Right after the first bulletins about the shooting of President Kennedy are announced, the station dispenses with normal music programming (a Broadway show program apparently) and switches to beautiful music before NBC News begins non-stop coverage. At 43:07 in this aircheck, the station begins playing an instrumental by Percy Faith. Does anyone know the title and/or name of the album? Although the piece gets interrupted by news bulletins several times, I really like it and would like to hear it in its entirety.

Thanks in advance!
 
Don't know what the song is, although I do have a Seeburg 1000 "Mood" record (1967, I believe) that has the song near the end of side 2. A Robert McNeil comes in at 47m 41s; is this the same Robert McNeil who used to be on the "News Hour" alongside Jim Lehrer, or somebody else with the same name?

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I love the version of "How High the Moon" that follows (52m 53s). Does anybody know who played it? Sounds almost like a Mantovani record.
 
Darth_vader said:
Don't know what the song is, although I do have a Seeburg 1000 "Mood" record (1967, I believe) that has the song near the end of side 2. A Robert McNeil comes in at 47m 41s; is this the same Robert McNeil who used to be on the "News Hour" alongside Jim Lehrer, or somebody else with the same name?
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At about 48:30 McNeil uses a term that, today, would get him fired! At the time nobody thought a thing about it.

Kind of interesting to recall what music stations threw on once the news of Kennedy's assassination broke. I had been away from the station (then WYNG, Warwick, RI) when the first UP bulletin hit. Quickly returned and found a Jackie Gleason Orchestra lp and cycled "Melancholy Serenade" in between new bulletins. Ultimately NBC allowed non-network stations to rebroadcast their coverage for the better part of the week, asking nothing in return. Would we see that kind of cooperation today?

Anyone else here veteran enough to remember what they personally put on the air for musical filler at the time?
 
Another thing to notice which floors me, is how wavery the pitch of the record playback is. For this kind of format, it is not forgiving of speed issues. And especially as this is huge budget, WLW. I wonder if it is more the tape used for the aircheck. Regardless of the waver on the music, this tape is important history. And a rare old school AM MOR Full Service aircheck.
 
Kent T said:
Another thing to notice which floors me, is how wavery the pitch of the record playback is. For this kind of format, it is not forgiving of speed issues. And especially as this is huge budget, WLW. I wonder if it is more the tape used for the aircheck. Regardless of the waver on the music, this tape is important history. And a rare old school AM MOR Full Service aircheck.
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Sounds like a recording made on tape with a cheap or very worn machine. It's called "flutter".
 
KFOX 1280/102.3 in Los Angeles went to NBC right away. KFI was the NBC affiliate. KFOX was the big country station in L.A. at the time, but went to beautiful music for a number of days after.
 
Vchimp, go ahead and pose the question. I'd still like to find out what this beautiful piece is called.

As far as musical filler goes, I was not alive when this happened (having been born in 1980), but I have heard one story about Detroit's WKNR, then a newborn Top 40 station (it had just switched to the format less than a month before the assassination). Once the first bulletins hit, "Keener 13" did not have any "appropriate" music in its library to play and had to send someone down to a record shop to get some albums of beautiful music to air. In the meantime, they played the song "Dominique" by the Singing Nun over and over between news bulletins, as it was the only song on their 31-record playlist at that time that wouldn't have been in poor taste to air. Eventually they did get some "appropriate" music on the air.

I've also heard an aircheck of WCCO Minneapolis from that tragic day, and the first piece of music when they went back local from the CBS network was a choral treatment of a hymn ("Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All").

Jon, so you're saying KFI allowed KFOX to air the same NBC network coverage KFI was airing?
 
VelvetR said:
Kent T said:
Another thing to notice which floors me, is how wavery the pitch of the record playback is. For this kind of format, it is not forgiving of speed issues. And especially as this is huge budget, WLW. I wonder if it is more the tape used for the aircheck. Regardless of the waver on the music, this tape is important history. And a rare old school AM MOR Full Service aircheck.
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Sounds like a recording made on tape with a cheap or very worn machine. It's called "flutter".
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Many stations used to have logger tapes record the station 24/7 to protect them from any kind of claims. The tapes were 10 inch reels, the speed was 15/16 ips, which is subject to a lot of flutter. Most were quarter track with auto reverse. Not the greatest fidelity but good enough to show you what was on the air.
 
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