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WLTT Sunday Jazz Brunch Airchecks

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armandoiazz

For people in the Washington, DC metro area the Brunch was one of the longest running NAC/Smooth Jazz programs on DC radio.

Al Santos was the host of the Brunch and did the programming as well. The Brunch was first heard on WLTT (Soft/AC) and then moved to WJZW when they programmed Smooth Jazz full time.

The airchecks are of the original Brunch on WLTT and are from the late 80's to early 90's. You will also hear Josh Cohen who used to fill in for Al during the early years of the Brunch.

As I convert more tapes to MP3, I will continue to upload. The Brunch files are in the same shared folder as my WBMW files and you can clearly distinguish between the two.

http://www.4shared.com/account/dir/15090269/3ff69695/sharing.html?rnd=44

Enjoy,

Armando
 
Armando, I cannot imagine the amount of work it took to upload these. I cannot thank you enough!!! Just hearing the first 5 minutes of the first aircheck, I envision sitting out in my backyard with the tunes pumping soaking up the sunshine while enjoying a tall glass of OJ. I was under the legal drinking age and living with my folks at the time...otherwise it would have been a Mimosa :D.

As D.C. area listeners know and Armando has noted, 94.7 FM's Sunday Jazz Brunch had incredible longevity and was essentially the only game in town back in the mid to late 1980s. It was a TREMENDOUS program (instrumental-heavy with very selective NAC vocals), and it made me fall in love with this music. Al Santos (much like Keith Riker) was made for this format. His personality will forever be attached to this music. Josh Cohen also had a very smooth delivery. WLTT was my favorite station back then, the ONLY station I listened to. I always loved their "Three-fer Thursday" programming, but the Sunday Jazz Brunch is what I lived for every week.

For those outside of the D.C. area who never had the pleasure of listening to the Sunday Jazz Brunch like Armando and I had (the jilted listeners of KKSF's Sunday Morning "Oasis" program come to mind), I urge you all to check out these airchecks. The program epitomized what was great about this music on radio and could be again.

Chris
 
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