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Tons of cassettes with no labels

J

JH_Radio

Yeah. i've recorded a bunch of stuff and never put what is on them.
How do you people go about figgureing out when an aircheck was made?
Just to give you an example.
One I pulled out was 60's-70's Oldies "Big 92.9" WMFQ/Ocala, Smilin' Shane Finch. He mentioned the time as 10:08, had "Jackie's Blue", then"Summer In The City", then a break where he anounces that it doesn't feel like summer today. He then goes on to say yesterday their unconventional countdown was bread, but today its gonna be about country's. The first song heard was In the Country by 3 dog Night, then another about spain...
This entire bag is The Villages, Florida I'm sure, and considering WMFQ hasn't been Oldies in quite some time, this had to be what. end of the 2000's maybe? The liners are voiced by Shawn Codwell.
 
Look for the commercials used. Weather forecasts . Events mentioned. These days, there are reference materials like Billboard and Radio & Records that can help pinpoint dates of when radio stations existed.
 
Billboard and Radio and Records?
How would billboard help me?
I thought radio and Records was a paid subscription only available to the industry?
Thanks,
John
 
Google Books has free scans of (almost?) all Billboard Magazines ever published. And the Radio & Records chart data is available online as well, if you know where to look.

Sports reports are good benchmark because if it mentions the score in last night's game of Team X vs. Team Y, you can usually look it up.
 
World Radio History (DavidEduardo's website) is full of Billboard magazines, even those from the '00s. Keep that in mind as you try to track down the dates.
If you didn't pause out commercials, that would also help in identifying!
 
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