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Late '80s/early '90s Airchecks South Florida Radio - Rare??

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RadioGuy2004

For the record, I just graduated college this week (24 years old), and I finally have some time to go through my room and clean up, straighten up, and I found my infinite collection of cassette tapes (remember those things with the ribbon inside? HE HE)

Anyways, I found one tape, started playing it......it was POWER 96 introing Chicago's "Just Say You'll Love Me", and later in the tape mentions David Bowie's newest (which according to Billboard was '87 as well.)

From my own collection, I found liners from WAXY106 circa 1993, a piece of a remote from Y-100 Summer 1993 with Al Chio live from Club Boca.

The oldest thing I have that I inadverently recorded as a 7 year old "just playing around with his new radio and tape recorder": a stopset from Love 94 "South Florida's Place for Mellow Rock", from the summer of 1989 seque from Stevie Wonder's "You are the Sunshine of My Life" to Benny Mardones' 1980 version of "Into the Night".

Is ANY of this stuff significant? Would it be wise to archive this and donate as airchecks/liner collections? If so, WHERE would be a reliable and credible place to donate to?

Let me know, folks.....who knew a little kid messing around with a radio and tape deck would get some of this stuff?! :)
 
hey

yea i have the same thing boxes and boxes of recorded music on tapes from the early years of Power 96/ y100/ Hot 105 and 99 jams i got tapes from 89-96. Id like to take time to listen to some of the airchecks and dj's like bo giriffen and jade alexander, tony the tiger etc.. i think i even got some snippets of Tanner in the morning from Power 96, i would tape from power 96 back then before going to middle school.
Also in 91 i went on a bus trip to N.Y for a day and my walkman was able to record off the air, i got recordings of Z100 ( This is the new sound of Z100 and also Z100 broadcasting from the top of the Empire State building to the univiverse.. or something like that was their airchaecks ) I also recorded airchaecks, freestyle and dance music from Hot 97 and Kiss FM those stations were AMAZING they all blew Miami's Power 96 away ten folds back then. The music they played was soo good i didnt want to go home i actually considerd running away LOL

But for me to somehow get them transfered from a tape player to a computer and then get them hosted online is impossible, im not that technologically inclined. if anybody has any pointers id appreciate it!
 
RadioGuy2004: First off, congratulations on graduating. There are too few college grads floating around this business! :)

It's unlikely that you would have taped a lot of (at that time "elevator-music") WLYF, but I know a call went out several months ago for any airchecks of 101.5 from the 70s and 80s. If you have anything from the old "Life" in your collection of cassettes, you might contact their programming department. They'd certainly reimburse you for any CD-R's or cassettes needed to dub that stuff off.
 
I know this guy who has hundreds of cassettes (c-90s & c-100s..both sides filled..2-3 shows on each side) with airchex of the original 96X, I-95, the 2nd coming of 96X and Y-100 ;D. He said he's going crazy because he has so little time to go thru them in order to make a great compulation CD of his time behind the mic. I'll try to get him to lite a fire under his backside. I'd love to hear the completed version it if he ever gets finished. He's only allowed me to hear bits and pieces. That dood was funny! ;)
 
oddly enough i still have some tapes i recorded when i was a kid. i still have airchecks from Rhythm 98 from 85...and i got hot 105 when they started as well.. but its only a Hot 105 Hot Mix Club from '86.

rest are mostly power 96..with gino latino, kramer the midday man, cox on the radio, and mork and mindy. all from 86. i got some bo griffin as well..

i got some in the 90s as well from other markets during road trips. i got bubba the love sponge when he was on XL 106.7 (orlando) got some from 99X(atlanta) and the old hot 97 in NYC (saturday night dance party live from the palladium nightclub..home of ClubMTV)
 
Hey Robyn, is there any way you could post those Y-100 jingles again? I apparently missed out on the file server's time window. I haven't heard those things in AGES!
 
RobynWattsV2.0 said:
No airchecks from me (I gave mine away ;D), but I did find this in my jingle collection. It's some old Y100 JAM jingles from the mid-80s.
Enjoy, Robyn
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Now THAT is some good stuff. Y-100 was apparently big on those 'music marathons' back in the day ! Those jingles sound very similar to those that were utilized by my local TOP 40 station up in the Washington D.C. area right around the same time period (1983-1985). They have that 'early-computer-tricks' sound to them. Perhaps the same company did them.

Do you have anymore classic South Florida radio jingles that you could share with us ?

Stuart Elliott - Do you have any classic 96-X or I-95 jingles in your vast collection of audio memories on tape ?

THE MAJOR LOVES JINGLES
 
Probably the same company, yes. PAMS, I believe, did Y-100's package (which, as with the station's current jingles, use the Z100 signature), and they were the big guys back then. Given that DC is a top 10 market, it's very, very likely PAMS did the DC station's jingles as well.
 
Hi Josh & Major,

Just a minor correction, the jingles were from JAM Creative Productions (www.jingles.com) and were sung using a sonovox device (basically, it's a voice box that synthesizes the speech patterns of the vocal cords, giving it a electronic sound). Y-100 wasn't the only station to use all-sonovox jingles. Two other notable stations that were around in the 80s were Y-106/Orlando and Power 99/Atlanta.

By the way, was this the first time that Y-100 had used jingles?

I'm sorry, but I don't have any other jingle packages relevent to South Florida.

Best,
Robyn
 
RobynWattsV2.0 said:
By the way, was this the first time that Y-100 had used jingles?
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I've heard some really old airchecks of Y-100 from the mid-1970s on the web (some of them quite extended), and I remember some classic jingles included with them. They were the standard-issue type that were used at the time (a chorus of tuneful singers). GOOD STUFF !

Remember back about 15 or so years ago when Y-100 was identified as 'One World, One Station' ? Back then when a unified space station that could be shared by various countries was being envisioned by Presidents Reagan, Bush (41), and Clinton it was referred to by NASA as - you guessed it - 'One World, One Station'. A few radio stations picked-up on that out-of-this-world moniker (including of course our own Y-100). Nowadays we know that original station - as the International Space Station.

THE MAJOR LOVES JINGLES
 
RobynWattsV2.0 said:
Just a minor correction, the jingles were from JAM Creative Productions...
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That's right... I was thinking PAMS because I believe JAM has the rights to the old PAMS stuff.

I believe PAMS did do some Sonovox work earlier on, though, didn't they? I seem to recall having heard a few years back some jingles they did for WQAM (or was it WIOD?) back in the 50's or 60's with some really cool trombone slides and other effects on the vocals.

And Major, I remember seeing a ton of MetroBuses rolling around South Florida with the "One World, One Station" slogan plastered all over them. I also remember Clear Channel doing the same when Planet 103.5 first launched, then again with Mega 103.5.

As much as my father always ranted on his dislike of them everytime we saw one pass by, I miss those "billboards on wheels"! Hillsdale, Michigan, clocking in at a population of 8,233, quite obviously doesn't have the public transportation system South Florida does... nor the need to advertise much of anything on the sides of the shuttle buses we do have.
 
Josh C. said:
RobynWattsV2.0 said:
Just a minor correction, the jingles were from JAM Creative Productions...
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That's right... I was thinking PAMS because I believe JAM has the rights to the old PAMS stuff.

I believe PAMS did do some Sonovox work earlier on, though, didn't they? I seem to recall having heard a few years back some jingles they did for WQAM (or was it WIOD?) back in the 50's or 60's with some really cool trombone slides and other effects on the vocals.
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Hi Josh,

Sorry that I didn't see your reply much sooner.

Yes, PAMS did use the sonovox device first in the radio ID world. I believe it started in the late 50s, but became popular during the 60s (Most notiably on PAMS Series 18). WQAM had used that jingle series in its Top 40 heyday.

RObyn
 
The jam package was the "flamethrower" package. Z100 in New York had it, so did Y100, and we had it at WAIL. It was a great package. jam offered it as a classic package a couple of years back.
 
musiconradio.com said:
The jam package was the "flamethrower" package. Z100 in New York had it, so did Y100, and we had it at WAIL. It was a great package. jam offered it as a classic package a couple of years back.
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Hi Musiconradio,

This is a montage of JAM jingles that were sung for stations that use animals names as their monikers.

http://download.yousendit.com/878F095609545A76

At about :50, there is a version of Flamethrower cut 6 for a "Whale 95". Was that your station?

JAM's "The Flamethrower" jingle series (as well as TM's "Airpower" package) was what inspired me to collect radio jingles. (I know, I'm sick. LOL!!!)

Robyn
 
Robyn:

I tried to download the file; however, it says it expired. Any chance of retreiving this file? I would love to hear the old jingles!

Thanks!
 
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