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Classic Aircheck: 98.5 WKRZ Circa 1982/83

Wow! That was awesome. Looking at the date, that would have been about a week before I entered the seventh grade.

Love the GETTIN' IT ON commercial (a truly awful movie), and the classic FAMOUS FASHIONS jingle (it's all right here for you!)

Noticed that the stopsets were only two to three minutes long with only one tune between them. I must say though, I don't remember KRZ sounding that "AC." I guess the years block out the RITA COOLIDGE records.
And of course this was around the time when I was really beginning to leave the mainstream behind. I was 12 and already addicted to early MTV new wave (Northeast Cable had MTV from day one unlike all of my friends who were stuck with crappy VERTO)...and I had just discovered punk and those weird stations "left of the dial."

Great aircheck though. EVANS
Very cool
 
That was neat,especiall hearing the spots foir Famous Fashions and Jc Penney,and the Wolfman Jack appearence on the Idle Hour Lanes spot,
at the time Krz was running Wolfman overnites on Saturday into Sunday,he used to do customize intros and liners for them.
 
Speaking of the Wolfman on KRZ, Jay Daniels once told me a classic story about when the Wolfman was in town, and he discovered that Jim Rising used to sneak "currents" into his broadcast.

I'm not going to tell it, because the memory is a bit "hazy," and I wasn't there first hand. But perhaps Jay or PD James would like to chime in at this point.
 
...it sounds like that classic 'home brewed' DBX processing chain was still alive and well! (The one PD James described to me in this old thread)

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=148094.0

It sounded much better after I realized that the youtube audio was passing through "Breakway Broadcast" audio processing that is installed on my computer and bypassed it!... YIKES!

I have several airchecks from this era that I need to dig out... Some of them include my calls to the request line!

I can remember many AC songs on KRZ. One of my overnight airchecks included Neil Diamond's "Cracklin' Rosie", and another had "On The Radio" from Donna Summer.
 
Oh, to plug Yes.com into Archive.org and make some magic happen...
 
I also noticed a subtle 'thunk' about 3 1/2 seconds into Rita Coolidge... Probably the Jingle cart hitting its recue before it got potted out! One of those great "classic radio" sounds that I miss, like hearing audible "cue burn" on a record with a low intro that had been spun a gazillion times.

In Binghamton, I was still running BE cart machines when we were an all-manual station. The carts co-existed with music CDs until about 1998 when the just spots and liners went to hard drive at first. The cart decks were two triple-stacks with each set of three bridged to a single board pot. If you wanted to run spots the 'good' way, you would alternate decks and pot each one out until it recued. If you wanted to run them the 'lazy' way, (AKA: the 'weekend' way) you would just stack the whole stopset in the same deck and hope that the recue was buried in the audio of the next spot!

The record decks made a nasty bias 'thunk' at the point where the recording was stopped; usually a few seconds after the end of the spot, or worse, right at the beginning of the spot if the person producing it had allowed the record cycle to run right into the recue...
 
I once worked for a station that ran Wolfman Jack's show. We also brought him to town....in fact a whole weekend of events were centered around him...starting with a parade. He didn't want to ride in the car that we had for him....he wanted a different color. He showed up late for all the events as well....but other than that...he seemed to be a nice guy to work with....and the listeners had fun.
 
In later 1979 I ran the board for this thing called Super dance or something like it (I was a jok at 95X in Syracuse at the time). It was at the Syracuse Country Club...part of my DJ system and another local mobile guy, John Ott I think was his name...he had a great sound system...Crown amps and Klipsch speakers (big ones!). This was coordinated around the country at other locations and Wolfman Jack flew around to a bunch of them including our location. I'll never forget handing him the mike and potting him up with him standing next to me (what an honor). 30 seconds in he moved and the mike cable broke!.....ahhhh I had a spare with me! Had it hooked up in a jiff and got him back on. He was upset about the cable but was very nice and thankful after his appearance. I'd kill for a picture from that event (I'm probably in it!).
 
Did Wolfman really come to town? I remember calling the station and getting through to someone who claimed to be him. I didn't believe him and gave him a hard time. Did I really dis the Wolfman?
 
Yeah, Wolfman Jack performed a "LIVE" version of his oldies show along with his own engineer on the records from the Station nightclub. I think it was in the Gandy Dancer area of the Station. My memory is a little foggy from the 80's but I believe Jim Shea was the GM, Jim Rising PD, Mark Sinclair middays, John Hunter afternoons, Jumpin' Jeff Walker nights and Jerry Padden overnights. The railroad cars were very nicely styled with a lotta' mirrors and brass, and more mirrors...mirrors on the ceiling, the walls, the dresser. I only hung out for a short time, but I gotta give it to Wolfie, I met him in the nightclub, he invited me to stop by his room, a couple of hours went by as he was meeting and greeting people all night at the club. When I walked in, he was sacked out in a chair. Well, a few minutes had gone by. I helped myself to some sharp cheese and crackers, a brewskie, Wolfman arose from his snooze, and said that he was happy that I came over after the gig, and remembered who I was by name, and that I should help myself to the libations. He then resume his spot on that chair, zonked! I was impressed that he remembered my name. Can't say that about most of the rock stars back then.
 
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