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Here's an old aircheck... Who remembers this mess on 1470???

Lets see, there was Tedd Webb and the fake Tedd Webb and Rick Robbins (Joel Bush) and many other very talented people who passed thru that little station.

I remember the "Greatest Hits Of All Time" week with a contest that would allow you to win the greatest hits with a tape recorder to play them on. Any one remember what song came out NUMBER 1?
 
Thanks for the memories. This must have been around 1971 -- I remember listening to this station on my transistor radio while walking to Dunedin High! The station was housed in a small house near Curlew and US 19 (nust NE of that intersection) I went over there to see if I could get a tour , but the DJ didn;t want to let me in.

It was a great little station -- only a daytimer then

Thanks again

Tom Stoeckle
 
There were many great "training grounds" for air talent "back in the day". Back when you paid dues. The old warhorses (like Webb, Hewes, Laurence, me, and many others) can tell many tales during the dues paying period of our careers. Sad to see these training grounds vanish. It's like a guy skipping the minors and learning how to play in the major leagues. Some never do.
 
Thanks. I really enjoyed that aircheck, since I didn't move to Florida until 1980.

I'm in New Port Richey, and 1470-WDCL was sort of the local station for New Port Richey before WGUL came on the air on 1963.

This picture

http://fivay.org/images/ghs1316.html

probably shows the WDCL remote vehicle since the microphone on the floor stand says WDCL on it. This photo was probably taken at the Chasco Fiesta in the late 1950s or early 1960s.
 
THAT'S reverb baby! Good lord! The little station cooked didn't it? The Peppermint Rainbow huh? Let's see I was hiding at CKFH Toronto in 1971..we played that a lot (must have been Canadian Content)..They were just a bad Spanky and Our Gang knockoff. And they couldn't hold a candle to Lenny Dee..making his "Hammond B3 Bark like a train" (whatever that meant) at the old King's Inn on Gulf Blvd in Treasure Island.."Home of the One Pound Pork Chop"

Frank's right as usual. The lack of local radio is drying up the pool of real "hungry" radio kids who eventully turn into the Greaseman's, and Lujacks, and (sigh) Sterns of the world. There is no place to allow mistakes to be made for benefit of the jock..no place for any type of creativity or room for an upstart young-un to cut his/her teeth on a Spotmaster 505, or Gates 16" transcription turntable with tape on the shaft of the motor to speed up the music..ah the good old days.
 
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