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WXLO Labor day weekend 1973 Aircheck

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LinoNYC

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http://www.sendspace.com/file/zb92v9

I'am stuck here redesigning a circuit for some of my machines and came across this 'check from WXLO formerly WOR-fm.

Be forewarned, the quality is mediocre at best, but it is stereo. This labor day show was a countdown of the top hits of 1970-three years earlier, the station's sound had changed alot since then, it had gotten steadily more compressed and had dropped the old Drake era jungles in favor of what in a few months would be further scaled back to just the famous "shotgun". This tape clearly shows the transistion between the two styles.

If you can tolerate the grainy audio you'll also notice how wide the stereo separation was in comparison to today's heavily processed signals. At the end of the tape you'll hear a cart that failed to fire and a "CYA" filler song from 1972 somewhat awkwardly segued instead, the unexpected thrills of the Fidelipack era.

Lino
 
Lino...great memories and a great find!

Thanks for the post. Quite a change since then for sure.
 
The WXLO did a Top 100 for each year from 1969 to 1973 for Labor Day weekend back in September 1973. I actually purchased this show back in the 1980s building my collection.
See my website for all radio shows. Thanks...

Http://musicradio2005.ecrater.com/






LinoNYC said:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/zb92v9

I'am stuck here redesigning a circuit for some of my machines and came across this 'check from WXLO formerly WOR-fm.

Be forewarned, the quality is mediocre at best, but it is stereo. This labor day show was a countdown of the top hits of 1970-three years earlier, the station's sound had changed alot since then, it had gotten steadily more compressed and had dropped the old Drake era jungles in favor of what in a few months would be further scaled back to just the famous "shotgun". This tape clearly shows the transistion between the two styles.

If you can tolerate the grainy audio you'll also notice how wide the stereo separation was in comparison to today's heavily processed signals. At the end of the tape you'll hear a cart that failed to fire and a "CYA" filler song from 1972 somewhat awkwardly segued instead, the unexpected thrills of the Fidelipack era.

Lino
 
MusicRadioUSA said:
The WXLO did a Top 100 for each year from 1969 to 1973 for Labor Day weekend back in September 1973. I actually purchased this show back in the 1980s building my collection.
See my website for all radio shows. Thanks...

Http://musicradio2005.ecrater.com/


You are charging $65.00 for an AIRCHECK?
 
Not sure what your referring too...First the radio shows are not airchecks..these are complete AM-FM
Radio Shows as heard back then with full music, jingles, commercials, news, etc.
All radio shows are priced at various prices depending on how many CDs per show listed.

AM-FM Radio shows start at $20.00 per CD if the radio show is packaged for more then 1 CD then these shows are discounted. For example the WXLO 99X Rick Shaw-Dave Thompson 12-30-73 4 CDs for
$55.00 a savings of $25.00. Larger orders can be discounted by request.
I also started a soundbited page where you can sample my radio shows...

Thanks,

Dave -

http://www.davesairchecks.com




sp113 said:
MusicRadioUSA said:
The WXLO did a Top 100 for each year from 1969 to 1973 for Labor Day weekend back in September 1973. I actually purchased this show back in the 1980s building my collection.
See my website for all radio shows. Thanks...

Http://musicradio2005.ecrater.com/


You are charging $65.00 for an AIRCHECK?
 
dgendvil said:
Hope you post more 99X airchecks of the past!

I do have a countdown of 1972, done in 1975 w/Jo Jo Kincaid which I recorded on RtR back then. When I find it I'll post.

The current one that aired on Labor Day weekend '73 does have a particular memory for me. My family and I had just returned from our place in Mountaulk Pt and planned on staying in the city 'till school started the following week. The Saturday that this show aired, we awoke to find that there had been a water main broken on our block. We were told that there was a "few hours" water left in the roof tank, they didn't know when service would be restored and it was going to be in the 90s that day.

When I brought up this news, all four of us looked at each other and decided "back to the beach". So, this show was running while we were enroute. It was great being out there instead the usual long death march toward school's opening.

Lino
 
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