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Updated February 10, 2013.  The newest addition is item #70.

 

 

In no particular order.

 

  1. ABC Superadio Demo. With Dan Ingram. From 5/82. Demonstration of a new satellite-delivered top-40 format that was to have begun shortly after WABC became a talk station in May 1982. The format never made it to the air before ABC abandoned the idea at the last minute because they decided it couldn't be profitable. (14 minutes, scoped)

  2. WINS/WMGM DeGaulle Hoax. From 5/28/58. Bruce Morrow introduces to a broadcaster's convention a tape of the famous Charles DeGaulle hoax where "M. DeGaulle" plugs WINS. (6 minutes)

  3. Tribute to Alan Freed. A collection of snippets of Alan Freed, including his apology for the massive underestimate of the attendance at the "Moondog Coronation Ball" on March 21, 1952. He is heard imploring his listeners to call in to say that they will stick with him. Otherwise he will take his show off the air. No date is given. (40 minutes)

  4. WIXZ/KQV Montage. Of the Pittsburgh stations, from 1/71. (2 minutes)

  5. WKIP Promotion. From WKIP, Poughkeepsie, NY (1450 AM), this is apparently a 45 rpm record sent out by this station to advertisers and so forth promoting the station. No date is given, but I suspect early 1969 judging by the nature of the newscast samples given (for example, the "upcoming Apollo 11 launch"). (6 minutes).

  6. CKLW-The First 50 Years. This is a four hour, four part retrospective of CKLW discussing, as the title proclaims, the station's first 50 years. Included are airchecks, news excerpts, and discussions of "highlights" of the station's history, such as the time some hockey fanatic tried to cut down the CKLW broadcast tower when the station announced that it couldn't carry the hockey playoffs. Although I do not have the exact date, I believe this was put together in the early 1980s. (236 minutes)

  7. CKLW, a montage from American Airchexx. Features Dave Shafer (sp?) and Terry Knight. (19 minutes)

  8. Cleveland Radio Profile from American Airchexx - 1976. This is a tape of a British radio program that profiled pop music stations in various cities in the United States. In this particular edition, Cleveland radio is profiled, and the stations discussed are WGAR, WLYT, WIXY, WMMS, and WGCL. Featured are airchecks and interviews with station program directors, among other things. (44 minutes)

  9. Tribute to Dick Purtan and Tom Ryan. From 2/83. Dick Purtan and Tom Ryan, who were at one time morning personalities at CKLW, are profiled in this show prepared by an aircheck service (?). In 1983, they went to work at WCZY-FM (95.5) in Detroit. (27 minutes)

  10. WLS, A 25-Year Salute. From the Aircheck Factory. WLS became a top-40 station on May 2, 1960. This special was put together in 1985 as the station celebrated 25 years with a contemporary music format. Contains much detail on the history of WLS and its predecessors. (115 minutes)

  11. WBCS/WKLB Format "Switch." From 8/23/96 and 8/24/96. Before the switch (the first 7 minutes of this tape), WBCS (96.9, Boston, C&W) broadcasts through the left channel, and WKLB (105.7, Framingham/Boston, C&W) broadcasts through the right channel. At the midnight switchover, WKLB's signal (the right channel) merges with WBCS's (the left channel). The announcer then identifies them as "WBCS, 96.9, Boston, and WKLB, 105.7, Framingham/Boston." Both of these stations were country before the simulcast. What happened is that Greater Media, which owned WBCS/96.9, bought WKLB/105.7, another country station in the market, and decided to change the format of 105.7 in an effort to move Boston's entire country audience to one frequency. The ultimate result was that the WKLB calls ended up on 96.9, and 105.7 became WROR, with a "greatest hits of the 60s, 70s, and 80s" oldies/AC format. This tape is a portion of a simulcast that occurred for a week between all the format changes. (46 minutes, unscoped)

  12. 10Q on K-Hits 97. From 7/31/79. On this day KTNQ (1020 AM), Los Angeles began broadcasting as KHTZ over 97.1 FM. The full crew of KTNQ moved en masse to KHTZ, and for the hours leading up to the 12 noon switchover, the KTNQ signal was broadcast simultaneously over 1020 AM and 97.1 FM. KHTZ had been running a country format, and that died with the KTNQ arrival. KTNQ itself became a Spanish format station at the noon switchover. This aircheck runs from about 8:40 to about 9:40 a.m., so it does not have the noon completion of the switchover. It does feature Charlie Tuna, who continued on 'HTZ, and Bob Morgan, who had been announcer on the country version of 'HTZ. Also featured is a guest appearance by Wolfman Jack, and we get to see (hear?) a side of him that we don't normally see when he's a DJ. (61 minutes, unscoped)

  13. Larry Lujack Highlights. From both WLS and WCFL. Snippets of him from the 1970s. (18 minutes, scoped)

  14. New York City Radio Montage. Clips from WABC, WINS, WMGM, and WMCA, featuring Charlie Greer, Herbert Oscar Anderson, Bruce Morrow, Dan Ingram, Bob Dayton (and his 20th-anniversary-of-the-Hiroshima-bombing stunt), Rick Sklar, Mad Daddy, Murray the K, and Bob-a-lu (Bob Lewis). Also includes brief IDs of WABC-FM, WCBS-FM, WNEW-FM, WSUV-FM, and WPLJ-FM. Also has WMGM switchover to WHN. (21 minutes)

  15. The History of PAMS Jingles. (46 minutes)

  16. KHJ Silver Anniversary CD. From 1990. A celebration of the Los Angeles station. (46 minutes)

  17. A Tribute to KHJ: 1965-1970. From the Aircheck Factory. Contains some great airchecks from the '65 to '70 time period. (107 minutes)

  18. WIXZ Jocks "Come Alive" on WIIC-TV. From 3/1/69. WMCK became WIXZ (Pittsnburgh, PA) at the end of February 1969. As a promotional stunt, the jocks for the new WIXZ were featured on the WIIC- TV program "Come Alive." (10 minutes)

  19. Toronto FM Band Scan. From January 1996. Contains samples of CILQ (107.1), CHUM-FM (104.5), CFNY (102.1), CKFM (99.9), CHFI (98.1), CJEZ (97.3), CISS (92.5), CJRT (91.1), and CKLN (88.1). (89 minutes)

  20. Radio Netherlands Media Network Weekly Communications Magazine Show. From December 27, 1994, this weekly half-hour program from Europe discusses radio station jingles. Featured is an interview with Jonathan Wolford of JAM Creative Productions. Lots of examples. (30 minutes)

  21. Radio Netherlands Media Network Weekly Communications Magazine Show. From February 2, 1995, this weekly half-hour program from Europe discusses radio station liners and sweepers. Examples are played. (29 minutes)

  22. Paul Barsky Reminiscing About Himself.  On WPLY-FM (100.3, "Y-100"), Philadelphia. Mr. Barsky began his radio career at WAXC-AM (1460), Rochester, NY in the late 1970s. On 10/25/96, unbeknownst to him, his engineer played on the air several scoped airchecks of him from his days at WAXC. This aircheck captures Mr. Barsky's reaction and commentary. (15 minutes for the relevant part, 28 minutes total aircheck, scoped)

  23. Amos 'n' Andy's DJ Show. A clip of a show from 9/23/54. (6 minutes)

  24. The Show of Stars-The Big Bopper. From 1992. Demo of a radio show that features recording stars of the '50s and '60s. This sample features the career of J. P. Richardson, "The Big Bopper," who, along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, was killed in a plane crash near Mason City, Iowa on 2/3/59. (51 min)

  25. Buffalo Radio Montage. From the early '70s to the early '80s. Features, in no particular order, clips from WGRQ, WKBW, WNIA, WYSL- AM&FM, WPHD, WBEN-FM, and CHUM (Toronto). Jocks featured include Dean Clark, Tom Adkins, George Hamburger, and Robert W. Taylor, among others. (55 minutes)

  26. Outrageous Radio. Collection of classic station comedy bits from the American Comedy Network. Radio stations from all over the U.S. are featured, including KBPI, "Y-95," WWWS, "Y-107," WKDD ("96-FM"), KISN ("Kissin'-97"), WASP, "KJ-103," "ACN," "I-95 FM," and "Q-102." From 1992. Portion of a CD. (26 minutes)

  27. Live to Air from the Whiskey Saigon. From the corner of Richmond and Duncan in Toronto, this is a weekly music show featuring music of the '80s. This particular installment is the 2nd anniversary show.  Date is unknown.  (92 minutes)

  28. Joe Garagiola and Harry Carey from 1955. A brief segment of a sports interview show featuring these two legends. (5 minutes)

  29. Solid Gold Summer Hits 1988. Syndicated radio program hosted by Bob Worthington. This was a special edition of "Solid Gold Saturday Night" that was to air over Memorial Day Weekend of 1988. As the title suggests, this show contains songs that are associated with summer. Interviews with several artists are featured as well. The tape also includes national commercial spots for Dr. Pepper. (259 minutes)

  30. CONELRAD DRILL. From April 1961. CONtrol of ELectronic RADiation. Remember the little triangles at 640 and 1240 on your AM dial? Most pre-mid-60s radios, including car radios, had them. In the event of a disaster (the assumed disaster at the time was a conventional or nuclear attack from the Soviet Union), all AM stations were to switch to either 640 or 1240 kHz, whichever worked best with their normal antenna system.  They operated at low power (a few hundred watts) in a rotating sequence (with each station transmitting for a few seconds at a time) designed to present enemy bombers with a large number of unidentifiable carriers on two frequencies that thus couldn't be used for direction-finding.  As part of CONELRAD, all other non-emergency radio transmitters--FM stations, TV stations, CB radios, hams, etc.--were to leave the air during the alert.  In late April 1961, there was full-blown test of this system in the wake of the Bay of Pigs incident. This tape is a sample of what you would have heard had you tuned in to the drill. The test was staged as if it were an actual CONELRAD Radio Alert, but it was scheduled far enough in advance to be listed in some newspaper TV and radio schedules.  During the test, all AM stations left the air.  I don't know if FM and TV stations did.  Contained on this segment is a brief speech of encouragement by President Kennedy. The CONELRAD system was replaced by the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS). (28 minutes)

  31. NPR Report on the Demise of MusicRadio 77 WABC. From 5/10/82. A report on National Public Radio about the end of WABC's Musicradio format that had occurred earlier this day. (7 minutes)

  32. "NBC's All Star Parade of Bands - New Year's Eve."  From KGRB - AM 90 NBC Radio - Los Angeles.  A December 31, 1994 recreation of a December 31, 1961 program aired over NBC radio at that time.  The network moved across the country from celebration to celebration as each time zone reached midnight on New Year's eve 1961.  This is a re-creation of that program by KGRB, the short-lived NBC station in Los Angeles.  Much of the original programming was retrieved and rebroadcast for the 1994 event.  Please see the program log for the 1994 broadcast, as well as a letter describing the station from the program director at the time.  (356 minutes, unscoped)

  33. Wolfman Jack and Roger Carroll on Armed Forces Radio.  From 12/74 (Wolfman Jack) and 11/74 (Roger Carroll).  Four 24 to 25 minute shows each.  Recorded from original vinyl.  Occasional scratches, but pretty good.  (197 minutes total)

  34. Robert W. Morgan with "Today's Army."  Four shows, each approximately 25 minutes, from 12/29/74, 1/4/75, 1/11/75, and 1/18/75.

  35. Programmer's Digest.  These are series of audio magazines designed to assist radio stations in programming.  Produced from late 1972 to about 1975 (although I have only through 1973), these contain interviews with radio people, station profiles, retrospective looks, and so forth.  What's on each individual program can be found by clicking on the links below.  I trade these only as complete programs.  The dates shown for programs 1 through 10 are the way the dates were presented to me when I acquired them.  The dates for programs 11 through 17 are given that way by the announcer at the beginning of the program.

    1. Program 1 (mid-to-late 1972) (85 minutes)

    2. Program 2 (late 1972) (92 minutes)

    3. Program 3 (early 1973) (87 minutes)

    4. Program 4 (mid-1973) (84 minutes)

    5. Program 5 (mid-1973) (86 minutes)

    6. Program 6 (mid-1973) (93 minutes)

    7. Program 7 (late 1973) (91 minutes)

    8. Program 8 (late 1973) (88 minutes)

    9. Program 9 (late 1973) (84 minutes)

    10. Program 10 (late 1973) (74 minutes)

    11. Program 11 (Volume 1, Issue 12, spring 1973) (59 minutes)

    12. Program 12 (Volume 1, Issue 16, June 4, 1973) (61 minutes)

    13. Program 13 (Volume 1, Issue 18, July 2, 1973) (55 minutes)

    14. Program 14 (Volume 2, Issue 2, July 30, 1973) (57 minutes)

    15. Program 15 (Volume 2, Issue 12, December 17, 1973) (53 minutes)

    16. Program 16 (Volume 2, Issue 13, end of 1973) (57 minutes)

    17. Program 17 (Volume 2, Issue 14, January 1974) *61 minutes)

  36. "Skywave Rider:  Rock 'n' Roll Radio in the 1960s."  This is "a documentary about the interrelated worlds of Top 40 radio, the 1960s midwest rock 'n' roll band and ballroom scene, and changing cultural patterns.  It is a first-person account by Ken Mills of events that occurred between May 1963 and October 1967."  It was made August 12, 1999 by Ken Mills and was distributed on the NPR satellite on September 30, 1999.  Mr. Mills has given permission for the recording to be distributed freely to aircheck collectors as long as no fee is charged.  Here is a complete description of the program, written by Mr. Mills himself. (30 minutes)

  37. "Walkin' Talkin' Bill Hawkins." NPR "Lost and Found Sounds" segment aired 12/17/99 as part of their "All Things Considered" program.  Bill Hawkins was a black DJ on Cleveland Radio in the 1950s, and this piece profiles his son, William Alan Taylor, who returns to Cleveland in an attempt to learn about his father, whom he never knew.  Mr. Taylor has written a play about his father.  One thing Mr. Taylor searches for are airchecks of his father on the radio, because he never heard his father over the air.  None are known to exist.  (23 minutes).

  38. Civil Defense Collection.  A series of short civil defense public service announcements from 1959 and 1968.  There are 10 announcements from 1959, each hosted by long-time game show host Dennis James.  The titles of the announcements are Community Defense, Food Storage, Preparedness Card, Warning Signals, First Aid I, First Aid II, Conelrad, Fallout Shelters I, Fallout Shelters II, and Fallout Shelters III.  The 10 announcements from 1968 are entitled Emergencey Broadcast System, Shelter in Schools, Community Shelter Planning #1, Industrial Records Protection, Slanting the Design, Emergency Operations Center, Shelter Management, Fallout Shelter Spaces, Community Planning #2, and Personal Family Survival.  All together, these announcements total about 20 minutes (they're about 1 minute each).  (19 minutes total)

  39. The Cruisin' Series.  Histories of Rock and Roll Radio.  Each one highlights a particular disk jockey at a particular radio station.  I have the releases for the years shown below.  Recordings are 34-45 minutes each.  Click on the year to see the full listing of what's on the program.  Originally released about 1970.

    1. 1955 - "Jumpin'" George Oxford of KSAN, San Francisco.  (41 minutes)

    2. 1956 - Robin Seymour of WKMH, Detroit.  (45 minutes)

    3. 1957 - Joe Niagra of WIBG, Philadelphia.  (42 minutes)

    4. 1958 - Jack Carney of WIL, St. Louis.  (44 minutes)

    5. 1959 - Hunter Hancock of KGFJ, Los Angeles.  (45 minutes)

    6. 1960 - Dick Biondi of WKBW, Buffalo.  (42 minutes)

    7. 1961 - Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsburg of WMEX, Boston.  (41 minutes)

    8. 1962 - Russ "Weird Beard" Knight of KLIF, Dallas.  (42 minutes)

    9. 1963 - B. Mitchel Reed of WMCA, New York.  (39 minutes)

    10. 1964 - Johnny Holliday of WHK, Cleveland.  (42 minutes)

    11. 1965 - Robert W. Morgan of KHJ, Los Angeles.  (46 minutes)

    12. 1966 - Pat O'Day of KJR, Seattle.  (42 minutes)

    13. 1967 - Dr. Don Rose of WQXI, Atlanta.  (44 minutes)

    14. 1968 - Johnny Dark of WCAO, Baltimore.  (34 minutes)

    15. 1969 - Harv Moore of WPGC, Washington  (38 minutes)

    16. 1970 - Kris Eric Stevens of WLS, Chicago.  (41 minutes)

  40. Dick Biondi SuperGold Show Demo.  From 1976, this is a demo tape of Dick Biondi hosting the Super Gold Show, which was produced by WNMB, North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and syndicated to about 60 stations.  (14 minutes)

  41. Television Network Newscasts.   Some are complete, some aren't.

    1. From March 12, 1968, NBC late-night (Johnny Carson's show is delayed by one-half hour) coverage of the 1968 presidential election campaign's New Hampshire primary. Eugene McCarthy pulls out an unexpectedly strong second-place showing. Frank McGee is host. Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Paul Duke, Ray Cohen, and Douglas Kiker report from New Hampshire and elsewhere. President Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and Richard Nixon are heard. (23 minutes)

    2. From October 25, 1967. "The Peter Jennings News" with Frank Reynolds sitting in. ABC News newscast. Correspondents Roger Sharp, Dan Hackle, Sam Donaldson, and John McBain are heard. (14 minutes)

    3. From October 25, 1967. "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite." (9 minutes)

    4. From January 19, 1981.  "NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor."  End of the Iranian hostage crisis.  (28 minutes)

    5. From January 20, 1981.  "NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor."  Iranian hostages released; Ronald Reagan inaugurated.  (27 minutes)

  42. NBC Monitor.  Hear the Monitor Beacon!  If you were born no later than about the late 1950s, you were old enough when Monitor left the air in 1975 to probably remember it.  As soon as you hear the beacon, you'll say to yourself, "oh yeah, I haven't heard that in long time!"  Not since January of 1975, to be exact, because that is when the last Monitor broadcast occurred.  (Many of these recordings were obtained from the Monitor Tribute Pages at www.monitorbeacon.net.  The host of that site has made many of these shows, as well as many other Monitor sound clips, available for download for free.  I can't do that here because I do not have the server space.  But I invite you to check monitorbeacon.net to see what's currently available.)  Check here for what I have.

  43. Coast to Coast with Art Bell.  Two shows from September 1998.

    1. Portion of a show from September 18, 1998.  Mr. Bell interviews "Seth" at the Aericebo National Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.  Occasional references are made to the movie "Contact" starring Jodie Foster, which had been released the previous year.  (68 minutes)

    2. Portion of a show from September 19, 1998.  Mr. Bell features an encore appearance by "Single Seven" and a discussion of spy satellites with Ronald Regier and Daryl Simms.  (123 minutes)

  44. Monday Night Football opening sequence.  With the December 2005 passing of Monday Night Football on ABC, I dug this out of an old collection of cassette recordings I made as a teenager back in the early '70s.  Not sure of the exact date of this, but I'm certain it's pre-1975.  It's only 50 seconds long (785 kb mp3), so you can hear it right here!

  45. Power Line.  Rock and roll with a religious theme. Rock music interspersed with the occasional inspirational thought.  Hosted by John Borders.  I have four half-hour shows from the early 1970s.

    1. Show #2.  (29 minutes)

    2. Show #6.  (29 minutes)

    3. Show #17.  (29 minutes)

    4. Show #38.  (28 minutes)

  46. NBC Radio's First Fabulous 50.  The National Broadcasting Company was founded in 1926, and a celebration of NBC Radio's first 50 years of broadcasting was held in 1976.  It was a total of five hours of programming, each devoted to one of the five decades.  Each hour has been scoped down to about 40 minutes.

    1. Part 1, 1926-1936.  Broadcast 10/10/76.  Hosted by Ben Grauer.

    2. Part 2, 1936-1946.  Broadcast 10/17/76.  Hosted by Bob Hope.

    3. Part 3, 1946-1956.  Broadcast 10/24/76.  Hosted by Bing Crosby.

    4. Part 4, 1956-1966.  Broadcast 10/31/76.  Hosted by Arlene Francis

    5. Part 5, 1966-1976.  Broadcast 11/7/76.  Hosted by John Chancellor.

  47. Bob and Ray.  An undated segment originally aired on NBC.  (15 minutes)

  48. Wolfman Jack for the United States Air Force.  The Wolfman plays Top 40 songs of the day.  Recorded in Hollywood.

    1. Four shows from February 1972.  Each 25 minutes.  (100 minutes total)

    2. Four shows from May and June of 1974.  Each approximately 20-22 minutes.    (87 minutes total)

  49. "Guest Star" radio shows.  Provided by the U.S. Treasury Department.  One nine-minute show from late 1957 hosted by John Milton Kennedy and four five-minute shows from early 1971 hosted by Mike Douglas (the talk show host).  These were short programs provided to radio stations around the country "in the public interest" to promote U.S. Savings Bonds.  The 1971 shows were called the Treasury Department's "new weekly pop music series."  All of these particular shows feature Rick Nelson as the guest, and in each show he is interviewed and then plays one (for the 1971 shows) or several (for the 1957 show) of his songs.  (approximately 30 minutes total)

  50. "Words 'N' Music" radio specials.  With host Dave Prinz.  Two shows from 1978 as described below.

    1. 5/22/78.  Interview with Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys.  Show features a stereo recording of the LP version of "Help Me Rhonda.  (4 minutes)

    2. 8/21/78.  Interview with Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys.  Show features complete versions of "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and "Sloop John B."  (14 minutes)

  51. "Rama Lama" Radio Special.  With host Dan Carlisle interviewing Carl Wilson and Mike Love of The Beach Boys.  From 1979.  (7 minutes)

  52. Classic and Classy Radio Commercials.  Sixty-two of them from the early 1950s to the early 1970s.  The list is here.  (57 minutes total)

  53. The 1981 History of Rock and Roll Timesweep.  About ten seconds worth of every #1 song "on the pop charts" from November 1955 to February 1981.  (45 minutes)

  54. ABC Network News Coverage of the Kennedy Assassination.  A compilation on two LPs produced by ABC News in the months following the event.  (96 minutes)

  55. Bob ("Vernon with a V") Vernon's comedy bits.  From Mr. Vernon:  "The Adventures of Buzz have always been my favorite bits. The original episodes [five are included] ran a minute or more in length.  Originally I used sound effects and pulled people from around the station into the studio to play the roles.  You'll hear [Don] Imus as Mrs. Wallace and as Arnold Grunge the janitor.  Buzz's original girlfriend (Mary Jane) left the station to become a flight attendant so I began writing Juggs into more episodes.  By '74, with the tighter format, they were just too long, so I rewrote them, cutting them back to 30 seconds and hired an actress to play the Juggs role.  At about the same time, I began negotiating with WNBC so—with my fingers crossed—I had Juggs do a bit of a NYC accent.  [Five of the revised Buzz episodes] are included along with a couple of phone bits."  (10 minutes)

  56. Armed Forces Radio and Television (AFRTS) broadcasts.

    1. Roger Carroll from 1974.  (40 minutes)

    2. Charlie Tuna from 11/79.  (16 minutes)

    3. Mary Turner from 1980.  (56 minutes)

    4. Wolfman Jack rom 3/20/81.  (54 minutes)

  57. Armed Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN).  Army Specialist Pat Sajak, of Wheel of Fortune fame, and 22 years old at the time, hosts a morning program ("Dawnbusters") in Vietnam from December 9, 1968.  This is the first 43 minutes of the show, which began at 6 a.m., that day.  Excellent quality.  (43 minutes, unscoped)

  58. Armed Forces Network featuring Wolfman Jack.  From August 19, 1975.  (45 minutes, unscoped)

  59. "In Search of the Wolf."  A special from the BBC on Wolfman Jack.  From 2008.  (55 minutes)

  60. NBC News Coverage of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.  Approximately 24 hours of coverage of the July 1969 landing of Apollo 11 on the moon as recorded off of the NBC station in Providence, Rhode Island, WJAR-TV, Channel 10.  Recording is unscoped and includes all of the Gulf Oil commercials.  The recording is continuous beginning at 11 a.m. (Eastern time) on July 20 and running to 4:30 a.m. on July 21.  The actual setting by Neil Armstrong of his foot on the moon took place around 10 p.m. on the 20th.  The recording then resumes about 12 noon on the 21st and runs to 6 p.m.  Also included is the July 21, 1969 NBC Nightly News broadcast with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley ("Good Night, David--Good Night, Chet").  Originally recorded on 1/4-inch reel tape and transferred by me to mp3 format.  The quality is not bad considering the age and the recording equipment.  I believe the recording was made by simply holding the recorder's microphone up to the TV's speaker.  (1426 minutes, unscoped)

  61. K-Mart in-house radio, "KMRT."  From December 1991 when K-Mart still played tapes throughout the day in its stores.  A tape like this would have been played continuously for 12 to 14 hours per day, 7 days a week.  A new tape would be sent to each store each month.  In the mid-1990s, the system changed, and in-store music arrived via satellite.  The cassette system was no longer used.  Because this is a December tape, there's lots of Christmas music plus the occasional in-house ad.  Because the tape had been played many times, the sound quality is a little worse that it would be if the tape were new, but it's still quite listenable.  (91 minutes)

  62. U.S. Army Reserve Presents Nightbird and Company - Cosmic Connections with Allison Steele.  Four shows:

    1. March 9, 1975 with guest The Guess Who (25 minutes)

    2. March 16, 1975 with guest Bobbi Humphrey (25 minutes)

    3. March 23, 1975 with guest Eric Burdon (25 minutes)

    4. March 30, 1975 with guest Peter Allen (25 minutes)

  63. Classic Radio Bloopers by Kermit Schafer.  (59 minutes)

  64. Underground radio from Vietnam and Iraq.  Dave Rabbit, the Radio First Termer, on 69 MHz FM with underground music and information for U.S. troops.

    1. from Saigon, South Vietnam from January 1971 (203 minutes)

    2. from Baghdad, Iraq from September 30, 2006 (180 minutes)

  65. Kraft Music Hall Specials on NBC Radio.

    1. Kraft Family Reunion Special from February 12, 1978.  This special aired on NBC Radio in honor of Kraft's 75th anniversary. Singer Eddy Arnold and long-time NBC -- and Kraft -- announcer Ed Herlihy co-hosted this  retrospective of the long-running "Kraft Music Hall" on NBC, which had been hosted, over the years, by Bing Crosby, Paul Whiteman and Al Jolson, among others.  (53 minutes)

    2. Summer Radio Picnic with Kraft Family from June 24, 1979.  Co-hosted by singer Eddy Arnold and NBC's Ed Herlihy, this was a follow-up to the successful 1978 Kraft special, and featured more highlights of the "Kraft Music Hall."  (52 minutes)

    (Note:  both of these programs can be downloaded for free from www.monitorbeacon.net.)

  66. XM Satellite Radio Tribute to Jack Armstrong.  Mr. Armstrong, a long-time disk jockey who probably appeared on more stations than any other over his career, died at age 62 on March 23, 2008.  This tribute, hosted by Terry Young, was apparently played several times over several days in late March of that year.  (239 minutes)

  67. Radio and Television Bloopers.  Collections as noted.  There is some overlap among the various recordings in bloopers featured.

    1. Pardon My Blooper by Kermit Shafer

      1. Vol. 1  (29 minutes)

      2. Vol. 2  (24 minutes)

    2. All-Time Great Bloopers by Kermit Shafer

      1. Vol. 1  (29 minutes)

      2. Vol. 2  (28 minutes)

      3. Vol. 5  (25 minutes)

      4. Vol. 6  (24 minutes)

    3. Radio Yesteryear

      1. Part 1  (29 minutes)

      2. Part 2  (29 minutes)

      3. Part 3  (29 minutes)

      4. Part 4  (29 minutes)

    4. Blooper Yesteryear

      1. Part 1  (45 minutes)

      2. Part 2  (44 minutes)

    5. Dick Clark's Uncensored Bloopers  (55 minutes)

  68. The Adventures of Congo Curt.  These are short (about 3 minute) stories heard on WKYC, Cleveland.  I do not have exact dates.  (43 minutes total)

  69. Alan Freed's Rock 'n' Roll Dance Party.  Program from 1955 produced for Armed Forces Radio.  Twenty-three shows, each about 24 minutes in length.  Click here for a list.

  70. Thomas Jefferson Symposium.  From May 1971.

    1. Claude Lewis of the Philadelphia Evening and Sunday Bulletin speaks on  "Writing the Column."  (44 minutes)

    2. Jess Gorkin of Parade Magazine speaks on "Communicating with a Mass Audience."  (45 minutes)

    3. John Carmichael of the Chicago Daily News speaks on "Reporting Sports."  (42 minutes)

    4. John Chancellor of NBC News speaks on "News Reporting."  (41 minutes)

    5.  Mort Walker, Beetle Bailey cartoonist, speaks on "All You Ever Wanted to Know About Cartoonists and are Sorry You Asked."  (35 minutes)

    6. Robert Keim of the Press Advisory Council of New York speaks on "New Trends in Communication."  (62 minutes)

    7. Tom Campbell of KLOK radio, San Jose, California speaks on "The Youth Scene."  (34 minutes)