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WDRE 103.9 recently found aircheck

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In the goodwill recently, I came across an old boombox with a tape still left in it. I didn't want the radio so I just bought the tape itself, and took it home. Put it in my tape deck and I was so surprised that it was an off air recording of WDRE!

Sadly it's not a long aircheck, and the person (as was common at the time) cut most of the DJ talking, but it's still interesting to hear regardless.

Enjoy! 103.9 WDRE Aircheck : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
 
Hmmm, 1995, maybe?
Who were the DJs?
I wish there was more than 10 minutes of this, I have never seen any airchecks of WDRE before.
Did they always ID songs?
I hadn't started recording airchecks when this station was around yet.
If anyone has some I'm so open for a trade!
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JH_Radio said:
I wish there was more than 10 minutes of this, I have never seen any airchecks of WDRE before.
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I wish so too, but unfortunately that is all that this person recorded on an entire C-60 tape! What a waste of all that tape. I have no idea why they only recorded ten minutes of content but it's better than nothing.

And yes it's actually hard to find WDRE airchecks other than what is already up on youtube. But I'm glad to add this to the small collection of WDRE airchecks!
 
Timely. IIRC, tonight at midnight will mark 25 years from WDRE's demise.
 
Does anyone know who the jock was at the very end of the recording (he ID'd the Breeders song).
 
This aircheck is from before 103.9 WDRE was live and local in Philly. The date is possibly as early as 1993. The DJ on The Breeders backsell is Darrin Smith, who is now at SiriusXM. The brief female voice sounds like Donna Donna. Both of them did their shows from 92.7 WDRE in Long Island, which for a time was heard in several markets at once.
 
EasyBakeOven said:
The date is possibly as early as 1993.
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I have no way to verify that myself but if so, then this is an even rarer recording as I doubt many airchecks of WDRE before it was live and local exist. That also means that this wouldn't actually be when it was WDRE, but it's original call letter WIBF, since 103.9 signed on in 1960.
 
As mentioned by Donna Donna, the Soul Asylum cover of "Sexual Healing" was from the "No Alternative" benefit album
which was released in October 1993. The Breeders "Cannonball' was released in August 1993.
Eddy Grant's "Electric Avenue" was a US hit in the Spring/Summer of 1983.
 
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