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Chuck Southcott Archives

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Can someone help me find an archive of his program, as heard on MOYL radio affiliates from April 20 of some year between 2004 and 2008, but not including 2005?

It's an odd request I know, but maybe someone knows. I have a ~20 minute aircheck of his show as heard on KXBX Lakeport, but not much else.

I did find an aircheck of his much more recent show from 2021 on KKJZ Long Beach. It's definitely him, as the voice resembles the one on my aircheck (he IDed himself).

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Chuck is an old friend of mine, and we go back far enough that I know how the Music Of Your Life format was being done back then. Unfortunately, you're not going to like this, because I am about to explain to you why there are no archives of his shows ... no airchecks at all, in fact.

In the late 1990s, ownership of the format was transferred to Jones Satellite Programming, right before it changed names to Jones Radio Networks. Chuck programmed the station from here in L.A., but it was all voicetracked and Chuck's son Karl (Hampton) was responsible for executing the format from the uplink facility in Colorado. None of the programming was in real time.

I can further verify that because both the late Wink Martindale and the late Gary Owens were also good friends and we talked often about the MOYL days. Gary and Chuck, in fact, used to cut their voicetracks at the studios of L.A. affiliate KGIL, on the Westside of the city. (Wink used his own home studio.)

So the odds of there being any airchecks, of any of them, are slim to none ... much less a specific date. I think it's a miracle that 20 minute recording you referenced actually exists.
 
Ah, it doesn't bother me. It's the way it is, I suppose.

It is a bit disappointing, though.

That said, someone, somewhere probably has the master tapes of at least a portion of this material? Of course, the public will probably never see any of it....

Oh, well. I guess my 20 minute snippet will have to do! I wish I had been more aware back then when I apparently made that tape, or I would've rolled it longer and made a more conscious effort to preserve what I was hearing.

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cc333 said:
That said, someone, somewhere probably has the master tapes of at least a portion of this material? Of course, the public will probably never see any of it....
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Well, it won't be part of archived JRN programming. They eventually became part of Westwood One, and under Cumulus the archives are completely disorganized with little (if any) documentation of where any specific content is archived.

Case in point: Back in the 1980s, Westwood One used to produce a weekly program for CHR and AC stations called "StarTrax". It was a combination interview/greatest hits hour, and every fourth week it was a recording of a major artist in concert instead. I once suggested to WWOne that those concerts could find new life on Classic Hits stations if repackaged; their answer was that they had no idea where in the archives those shows' master recordings were.

I think you can guess what I think the odds are of even Chuck's voicetrack masters being locatable ...
 
I see. What a shame. I would've thought that such a relatively large corporation would take better care to organize their archives!

I guess all we can do is assume that they probably do exist somewhere, until proven otherwise.

That said, I'm liking his show on KKJZ which, aside from the imaging and lack of commercials, isn't much different than his presentation on MOYL (and his voice sounds pretty much the same).

Is he still doing that show? The aircheck I found is dated 8/1/21, and I didn't find anything more recent.

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cc333 said:
Is he still doing that show? The aircheck I found is dated 8/1/21, and I didn't find anything more recent.
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The show ("Swing Time with Chuck Southcott") is on the KKJZ schedule on Saturday and Sunday mornings, 7:00 to 10:00. I do not know if he does new shows every week or if some are replays, as I haven't talked to him in a while; IIRC, he produces those at his home studio in Mission Hills.

KKJZ streams at this link.
 
K.M. Richards said:
The show ("Swing Time with Chuck Southcott") is on the KKJZ schedule on Saturday and Sunday mornings, 7:00 to 10:00. I do not know if he does new shows every week or if some are replays, as I haven't talked to him in a while; IIRC, he produces those at his home studio in Mission Hills.

KKJZ streams at this link.
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I'll have to check that out. I always enjoyed his 'This Is Music' program. Do you know if new shows are being done? I cant find any current stations that are airing it.
 
This thread is taking me back to my first on air job 45ish years ago. I worked for a suburban AM daytimer that ran Chuck’s “This Is Music” format in the very late 1970s. can still clearly hear in my mind his very dramatic “This… Is Music!” read on sweepers and IDs.

The music was a 50/50 mix of non-rock pop hits from the 1950s/60s/70s, along with easy listening instrumentals.

Each tape segment had a vocal and an instrumental, and we backsold like this: “Alfie from Dionne Warwick, before that, the Living Strings with Hey Jude”
 
Chuck also had a show on Armed Forces Radio back in the 1980's; "Musical" as I recall. I remember hearing it on Armed forces radio 1224 AM at Kwajelien Atoll in the Pacific, and also on the Alaskan Forces Radio network Sunday mornings back in 1984/85.
 
Well, I should have known....

Chuck Southcott's ' This Is Music' reruns air on Sundays from 12-6 pm on WJEJ, a favorite station of mine!

wjejradio.com

Programs - WJEJ 1240-AM

Programs WJEJ Daily Programs Monday through Friday The Lou Scally Show 5:45am – The Old Farmer’s Almanac6:06am – Local News 6:11am – Regional News 6:15am – CBS Sports Brief6:30am – Headlines & […]
wjejradio.com wjejradio.com
 
KilowattKat said:
Well, I should have known....

Chuck Southcott's ' This Is Music' reruns air on Sundays from 12-6 pm on WJEJ, a favorite station of mine!

wjejradio.com

Programs - WJEJ 1240-AM

Programs WJEJ Daily Programs Monday through Friday The Lou Scally Show 5:45am – The Old Farmer’s Almanac6:06am – Local News 6:11am – Regional News 6:15am – CBS Sports Brief6:30am – Headlines & […]
wjejradio.com wjejradio.com
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Neat!

I assume you're lucky enough to hear it over the air? I'd still be listening myself, but earlier this year, they downgraded their stream's bitrate such that it's basically unlistenable. Not that it was great before, but at least it was tolerable. Now it sounds like an old 64kbps MP3 from the 90s.

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cc333 said:
Neat!

I assume you're lucky enough to hear it over the air? I'd still be listening myself, but earlier this year, they downgraded their stream's bitrate such that it's basically unlistenable. Not that it was great before, but at least it was tolerable. Now it sounds like an old 64kbps MP3 from the 90s.

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Oh no I listen to them streaming, I'm on the west coast.

Are you listening through their website? I use either TuneIn, or Simple Radio, and the sound quality isn't too bad (could be better). I know Simple Radio uses the securenet system feed.

They are very responsive to emails. I'll send one over asking about the bitrate, and see what they say.
 
KilowattKat said:
Oh no I listen to them streaming, I'm on the west coast.
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Ah, OK. Same here (SFBA).

KilowattKat said:
Are you listening through their website? I use either TuneIn, or Simple Radio, and the sound quality isn't too bad (could be better). I know Simple Radio uses the securenet system feed.
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I don't remember. I mined the direct URL to the stream from somewhere.

KilowattKat said:
They are very responsive to emails. I'll send one over asking about the bitrate, and see what they say.
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OK.

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cc333 said:
I assume you're lucky enough to hear it over the air? I'd still be listening myself, but earlier this year, they downgraded their stream's bitrate such that it's basically unlistenable. Not that it was great before, but at least it was tolerable. Now it sounds like an old 64kbps MP3 from the 90s.
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Good ears. That's precisely what it is.

Here's their stream's status page: http://www.ophanim.net:7900/index.html?sid=1
 
cc333 said:
I did find an aircheck of his much more recent show from 2021 on KKJZ Long Beach. It's definitely him, as the voice resembles the one on my aircheck (he IDed himself).

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This was good.
cc333 said:
Neat!

I assume you're lucky enough to hear it over the air? I'd still be listening myself, but earlier this year, they downgraded their stream's bitrate such that it's basically unlistenable. Not that it was great before, but at least it was tolerable. Now it sounds like an old 64kbps MP3 from the 90s.

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After it finished I was sent to another one that sounds like it's on AM radio on a windy day. Music is still good. I'm used to sound quality like that in the car. Worse around power lines.
 


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