As an old radio dude, I can appreciate the tight crossfading in this air check. All done by humans. I remember jocking six-hour air shifts back in the day. Spinning records (later cds) and shoving carts in the cart machines to play spots. It is all automated now, so air personalities today have no idea what it was like back then. In the past, I have told many of them about those days and get blank stares back. I mean, we had to plan to go to the restroom. Now they voice track their whole show and then blog for the website for the rest of the shift. Thank you for bringing back some memories.
@@flarrfan I didn't start until the 80s. But, by that time, most music format deejays ran their own boards and would have to be doing something beyond the ordinary to need/want an extra set of hands (complicated live crosses, certain types of phone activity, etc.). It could go either way with morning shows. Some morning jocks liked running their own board, whereas others didn't. Some, of course, couldn't (often TV celebs who also do a radio show). Since there was usually someone else in the studio during mornings (even if they weren't on-mic), the main guy/gal would usually have the choice to run their own board...or not. I worked AC/Hot AC/CHR/CR and saw it go both ways. I did mornings and I always ran my own board.
I was 17 in 76. Had a summer job working graveyard shift, in an office environment. During the day it was hustle, bustle, bright lights, phones ringing and the standard office noise. But the night shift was eerily, silent. It was so nice to have a DJ on the radio during those early morning hours. Nice comfort to think there was another human with you. Radio and DJs were just so awesome back then. So glad I got to experience that. Great tape! Thanks.
july 1976 i was 8yrs old was a wonderful year to be a boy. lots of fun times and a everyone one was happy .the whole year of 1975 till the end of july 4th 1976 was in the Bicentennial spirit. every were you went it was red white and blue and uncle sam .lots of parades and bbq's and meeting Elvis Presley at a department store.
I was 7 living in Pennsylvania. Wish I could go back . Just to enjoy my parents, my family to go out on my Big Wheel and fiddle with my Am radio and dad's CB set. I think we just got our first color television 📺 too. I miss mom's cooking, dad was a meat and potato man so I recall eating shoulder and potatoes, pork chops and boiled chicken breasts. Pork n beans and dogs. The feel of my parents bed spread, had these little balls on it that I use to run my ✋ hand over. Felt sooo cool.. Six Million Dollar Man, playing with my Adventure People. Singing to Elvis records as a child. Dad coming home drunk and mom screaming, always fighting. Riding in 1972 Chevy Impala blue 🔵. My aunt making Halupkis on a kitchen coal stove . Lime Green Linoleum flooring . Big lamp shades. The smell of church on Sunday morning at Easter with the light coming through the church stain glass. Dapper Dan teaching doll for boys . My mother's Blessed Mother Statue . How I miss my family, I'm only 54 and alone with no one. I always hoped to find love and it never happened. Now it's over, dreams are for the young, just passing the time until death.
i was 6. my mom 's hospital co-workers and my dad's ibm co-workers had a party in the back yard. it was like a day at the beach. remember you should be dancing by the bee gees?
Me too. I was six as well when this was done. I remember 1977 better because of Star Wars, A Bridge Too Far, Saturday Night Live (Dan Aykroid, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, and all the others) and Jaws
the playlist... let your love grow - bellamy brothers 20th century fox - the doors rock and roll music - the beach boys born to be wild - steppenwolf beware my love - wings bennie and the jets - elton john fool to cry - rolling stones take the money and run - steve miller band respect yourself - the staple singers it keeps you runnin' - carly simon Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While) - doobie brothers midnight rider - allman brothers sara smile - hall and oates riders on the storm - the doors hot stuff - rolling stones all right now - free young americans - david bowie i'll be good to you - the brothers johnson spinning wheel - blood sweat and tears i wanna go to the sun - peter frampton
The best part about it, they didn't just play the singles from the albums, they played album cuts. Deep album cuts which were better than the singles from many of these albums....Being a Doors fan...... back then in 1976 and on into the early 1980's you were guaranteed a Doors song every hour and not just their 3 minute hits, but their 7 minute or longer epic FM hits. The same went for Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Stones, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, etc, etc. Deep album cuts from every artist that you never hear today. When Satellite Radio started it was deep album cuts from the 60's, 70's and 80's now it's just the same old classic rock tunes.....I mean why bother having Satellite radio if they play the same thing as commercial classic rock stations do? WTF? What happened? I mean there are no advertisers?
These and the ones on your other tape are the exact same songs I listened to 3000 miles away in L.A. when I was 16 in '76. I was shifting from AM (93 KHJ) to FM (KKDJ/KMET/KLOS) around this time. We had a huge bicentennial fireworks display at the Queen Mary in Long Beach. We were ALL proud to be Americans. What a great time to be alive! I remember it like yesterday.
@@remmymafia3889 I love BTO, especially "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet". That said, I've seen the following bands live, many in the front 10 rows or a catered suite, including: Pink Floyd (Twice), The Who (4x), Rolling Stones (3x), Fleetwood Mac, Boston, Bob Seger, Eagles (twice), Pat Benatar (3x incl Meet and Greet in her freaking dressing room), Eric Clapton, Robert Plant, ZZ Top (Meet and Greet), Van Halen (3x), Foreigner (twice), 3 Dog Night (Twice), America, Foreigner (twice), Ozzy Osbourne, Eddie Money, Elton John, Jimmy Buffett (4x), Ringo and McCartney, Police, Doobies, Blue Oyster Cult, Ted Nugent, The Outlaws, George Carlin, Aerosmith (twice), Toto, REO Speedwagon, Journey (5x), Pat Travers, Supertramp, Foghat, Alice Cooper, Duran Duran, Styx, Cheap Trick, Heart, Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Cheech n Chong, U2 (3x), Billy Idol, Def Leppard, Poison, Cinderella, Godsmack, Tool, Slipknot, Incubus, Evanescence, Judas Priest (5x), Kid Rock, Raconteurs, Killers, and many many more.
There was a great soccer constest as a tribute to the bicentennial in 1976. The final match was Brazil x Italy. Brazil won by 4x1, repeating the Mexico 1970 FIFA World Cup final score. I just keep dreaming how wonderful those years were. The 1970s was a great decade in so many ways. I was born in 1969. Eduardo Bastos. Sao Paulo City - Brazil
Thank you very much for this. These bygone days. 💚 Notice how DeeJays respected the audience, listeners by talking maturely to them. No screaming, no corney jokes, no gimmicks. Younger people should listen to this if only to confirm that pop culture media outlets thinks they are stupid (dumbed down) and leverage it.
Oh my God this takes me back! I listened to radio just like this down south where I grew up.... I miss those days very much, however, I own my own station now and I get to relive the 70's and 80's every day! I do not chain my jocks, they are allowed to play whatever they want and it sounds a lot like it did back then. No network and no pencil pusher at a corporate office telling us what to play and when. I am proud of my little independent station in our small town. I love our listeners and they love us... just like it used to be. Thank you for posting this, it is incredible!
Thank You for that nice pat on the back! And thanks again for your wonderful radio station, WSVM. My dad was an engineer at WOR TV in the late 60s and moved to WCBS in the 70s until his retirement. I visited both stations with him. You're Living The Dream!
I had just graduated from high school a month before, I remember feeling free, but apprehensive, because I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I had some minor plans that I discarded, and was fortunate that my part time job working at KFC turned into the manager offering me assistant manager that August. I remember going home that day from work and telling my Mom they wanted me to be the assistant manager, she cried and was so happy for me. I had a good job with benefits and a bonus. I was on my way!
The buildup of the Bicentennial went on for over a year with the Bicentennial minute broadcast on CBS every night up to July 4th. President Ford narrated the final Bicentennial minute. Each TV network dedicated the entire day to celebrating the Bicentennial. I was 16 years old and knew it was an important day to remember in my life. I celebrated it on a beautiful day in Dayton, Ohio. Picnics, Parades, Fireworks and a proud day to be American.
Oh God, I remember that day, we had a family get together with lots of food and fireworks, my mom and dad were alive then and I was SO Young and so was everyone else, and it was a time when you could turn on the radio and hear Joni Mitchell and the Doors and the Beach Boys and Steppenwolf one right after the other, and when was the last time that happened? What a great year 1976 was, and THANK YOU so much for bringing it back even for a little while. And thanks to Sy Syms too.
1976. What great year and great music. We were coming out of 1974's deep recession. I was 23 in my last year of college. And to top it off, I was blessed for my beautiful son was born in April.
@williampovilaitis6951 that stereo set is a surreal artifact from that time, how it is well kept in excellent mint condition and all. This video is an aura of the 1970s. In fact, I remember a lot of men, especially the elite or middle class-type ones, owned these double audio tape machines. I don't know exactly the name of them, but I sure remember em' well.
I was listening to wplj on 7/4/76 at the Jersey shore in Asbury Park NJ and remember this day like it was yesterday this was amazing to find this recording All these years later thank you for posting this
I was 16 on July 4th 1976 with the girl of my dreams in Valley Forge, PA for the wagon train celebration after they crossed the country. Thanks for this!
Oh what a day! I had no idea of the far-reaching effects of that cassette I popped in the recorder back then. It's made the day for thousands of people. I'm so glad it didn't self-destruct like the Mission Impossible tapes... Thank You for watching and replying.
This is truly a treasure!!! Brings back so many sweet memories of a wonderful time in my life! Just married a year prior and I and my high school sweetheart will be celebrating our 50th in two years. Thank you for this most excellent post! I remember driving from CT on vaca to points south and going through NYC on our way we'd always tune to WPLJ!
These were my college days and while not EVERY tune was a treasure (there were some turkeys!) it was a great time. In Dallas the program that ended at 3:00 p.m. used exit music that blew me away. It was KLIF 1190, a top 40 station at the time, but the tune was Woody Herman's "My Favorite Things" from "My Kind of Broadway." I was a music student at the time and this was as much music education for me as anything else. I would literally race to my car on campus to tune in and hear that chart before 3:00.
The summer before my senior year in high school. It was a great time to be alive and to be young. The music was wonderful, the world made sense (or at least as much as it could). All my best times were still to come and all my worst mistakes still un-made... all my family and friends were still alive. Anything was possible. Thanks for the ride.
Class of 1977 here also. Thank you for allowing me read your magnificent post. 😊 and the biggest thank you to the person who shared this wonderful piece that we may hear back to our youth. ❤
At 13:00 min. in Paul McCartney and Wings "Beware My Love" is played even before it's release to the public later that month in 1976. I don't know what it is about it but sounds better than any version I have ever heard before. Totally amazing, especially the introduction.
Man, what a time capsule! Your Cassette deck is in great condition and just adds to the entire vibe of this video. I was born too late to experience the Bicentennial, but I'm sure it was a helluva 4 of July. Thanks for this blast from the past. Take care.
I love air checks - a snapshot in time. In the 70s, I bought a dbx-119 that could sorta undo some of the extreme compression FM stations used to get their signal to stand out on the old analog dial. I listened to WABC AM and WPLJ FM while in radio electronics school in the USCG in 1975 on Governors Island, NY. The call letters, WPLJ, may have come from Frank Zappa's cover of the original Four Deuce's song, WPLJ (White Port and Lemon Juice) - check the Wiklipedia book reference to FM The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio. Thanks for transcribing this to digital!
Well this is just what I needed. That whole year seems like we were all preparing for the bicentennial. Felt like the whole country was united, probably the last time for that. Thank you so much for the great big smile I'll be sporting the rest of the day.✌️❤️🎵🇺🇲
This was so great to listen to! I was born in Sept of ‘76. My parents were living in Washington DC when this was recorded. My dad had gotten out of the army in 1970 and was starting his career at Polaroid. We moved to Dallas, Texas in 1977, and I spent the next 10 years in Texas. I thought the late 70s and 80s were fantastic, but now I wish I could have been a teenager in 1976!
I remember loving 1976. For me it was a much simpler time and the top 40 radio was fantastic. I remember marching in a parade on July 4, 1976. I'm not going to give the reason for that, but it was a great time.
Probably was listening to WPLJ as this was recorded. Had to get up early the next morning to get to a friend’s dad’s boat to get out on NY harbor for tall ships. I mostly remember how huge the USS Forrestal looked up close from a small boat.
I was in DC that 4th. 1.2 million on the mall. Now I know what I missed on the air that day from NYC - where you guys had REAL fireworks. Time travel via a straight unedited transcription, tape, air check is the best way to trigger those old memories (which will always be better in hindsight) Thanks for digitizing this!!
I was 7 living in Pennsylvania. Wish I could go back . Just to enjoy my parents, my family to go out on my Big Wheel and fiddle with my Am radio and dad's CB set. I think we just got our first color television 📺 too. I miss mom's cooking, dad was a meat and potato man so I recall eating shoulder and potatoes, pork chops and boiled chicken breasts. Pork n beans and dogs. The feel of my parents bed spread, had these little balls on it that I use to run my ✋ hand over. Felt sooo cool.. Six Million Dollar Man, playing with my Adventure People. Singing to Elvis records as a child. Dad coming home drunk and mom screaming, always fighting. Riding in 1972 Chevy Impala blue 🔵. My aunt making Halupkis on a kitchen coal stove . Lime Green Linoleum flooring . Big lamp shades. The smell of church on Sunday morning at Easter with the light coming through the church stain glass. Dapper Dan teaching doll for boys . My mother's Blessed Mother Statue . How I miss my family, I'm only 54 and alone with no one. I always hoped to find love and it never happened. Now it's over, dreams are for the young, just passing the time until death.
These days are tough plus getting older. Try to find some joy and gratitude every day. Sounded like you knew how to live and love. Stay well. God Bless!
Loving the mix between hits and album tracks. Good hybrid of AOR and Top 40 Rock. WPLJ was incredibly tight. My favorite moment is the segway from a Carly Simon cover of Doobie Brothers into the Doobie Brothers 1975 hit.
It starts with mentioning that Frampton was in the previous set. I knew there had to be another Frampton song in this time frame. And they played a deep cut. Hell yah, Frampton all day long!! Great video. Thx for sharing. ☮️
I was 14 living in Memphis at the time. My dad was home with us after being on sea duty in the USN. We had an insane amount of real fireworks for the night time. Plenty of 1/5 sticks and a few professional grade mortars my father had acquired. Great times except almost all the kids I grew up with are dead now. Lonely being one of the last 2 left.
I remembered around 1977, there was a (creepy) jeans ad on the radio. I don't remember the brand of the jeans but it went this way: There was a falsettoing "Stich stich stitch" and then a baritone "stich stich stich" and the ending went "Something new, from out of the blue".
I used to live in New York in the early 80's . WPLJ ...95.5 was my favorite radio ...pure rock !!! ... great music !!! Just history . I think now is a Christian radio .
I had just turned 6 and my family was living in Memphis when this was recorded. I remember all the fire hydrants being painted red, white and blue to celebrate the Bicentennial. I was a DJ in the mid '90's and have some aircheck cassettes of my own packed away somewhere, this makes me want to dig them out and see if they still play.
I was in high school in San Francisco in 1976 thanks for this aircheck never got to listen to WLPJ and Viv Roundtree and never got to hear Carly Simon's version "It keeps you running" what a treat thanks so much.
List of songs played in chronological order: 1. Let Your Love Flow (The Bellamy Brothers) 2. 20th Century Fox (The Doors) 3. Rock & Roll Music (The Beach Boys) 4. Born To Be Wild (Stephenwolff) 5. Beware My Love (Paul McCartney & Wings) 6. Bennie And The Jets (Elton John) 7. Daddy You're A Fool To Cry (The Rolling Stones) 8. Take The Money And Run (Steve Miller Band) 9. Respect Yourself (The Staple Singers) 10. It Keeps You Running (Carly Simon) 11. Take Me In Your Arms (The Doobie Brothers) 12. Midnight Rider (The Allman Brothers) 13. Sara Smile (Hall & Oates) 14. Riders On The Storm (The Doors) 15. Hot Stuff (The Rolling Stones) 16. All Right Now (Free) 17. Young Americans (David Bowie) 18. I'll Be Good To You (The Brothers Johnson) 19. Spinning Wheel (Blood, Sweat & Tears) 20. I Wanna Go To The Sun (Peter Frampton)
Seeing your stereo set up reminds of when I bought my first hi-fi. It was around that time in '76. I was 17 going on 18 and saved some money from my job during high school. Good times.
BRO!!!!!!!!! This is part of my Childhoods, my Pops use to bump all this entire List. I love this Mix, brother. Thank You for posting this. Good job!! From Chicago
My beautiful mother would have been 17, it's fun to see what she would have been listening to in high school. She passed away in 2021. Thank you for this.
Man, I got tears in my eyes while listening to this. Tears of joy from going back in time but tears of sadness because of the way things are today. Crime, inflation, impending war.. I feel so blessed to have been alive as a young teen back then. Thank you so much for sharing these gems! ❤
I was a 27 year old kid when I popped that cassette into the recorder. So glad I did it. Wish I had access to the Quantum Leap machine... Thanks for your reply!
I listened at work to PLJ in the 70s in south Florida! It helped that I worked at a Top 40 station at the time doing news, and I had a home-built board to use, and also that the ABC network feed on my board played PLJ between the net newscasts...
Fascinating. Back when The Rolling Stones would be played side by side with Joni Mitchell, and Marvin Gaye before marketing segmented everything. Wings' Beware My Love--a B side. Frampton's Go to the Sun--just an album cut, not a single. No way that outro of Spinning Wheel would get airtime in today's world without somebody talking all over the top of it. They'd be worried about people changing the channel. The advertisers! The interesting thing about these types of recordings is when they end in the middle of a song and leave you hanging in nostalgic limbo. I forgot that you always got a bit more than 90 minutes on a 90 minute tape, too! I had some tapes from the 80s when I deejayed. I recently did a huge house cleaning and this video reminded me that I must have thrown those all out by accident!
I wish you still had those tapes. I wish I had made more... She's gone, she's gone Oh I, oh I I better learn how to face it She's gone, she's gone Oh I, oh I I'd pay the devil to replace her She's gone, and she's gone Oh why, what went wrong?
@@williampovilaitis6951 - radio & LPs (my preferred format) were so important… dare I say they were the most important things in my life. I’ve still got all my 1000+ LPs but listening is hardly the same as it once was.
I don't condone drugs but in 1976 I was 16 and I loved drugs, still do, listening to Floyd tripping was my absolute favorite thing to do. Thanks for best memories. Don't do drugs, it'll catch up to you.
I was 17 years old and living in central New Jersey so I could have been listening to this because WPLJ was the station that I would have been listening to. I remember that day I was drinking vodka and orange juice and probably smoking pot if I had it. I remember I threw up later in the day at the side of my house so I guess I partied a little too much. Six days later I saw Kiss at Roosevelt field in Jersey City.
Back in the good old days! Bring them back. I just had a vodka and orange juice last night. They still taste good. Probably not a good idea to mix them with pot, though! Thanks for listening...
Drinking age was 18, everybody had an older brother or sister who could buy them stuff or used their older sibling's ID as Drivers Licences had no pictures on them. Going down the shore for the day to meet girls, get tan, but getting burned and smelling like sun tan oil and lotion. Trying to win albums down the shore on the boardwalk either at Pt. Pleasant or Seaside with Light My Fire, L.A. Woman, Kashmir, Stairway, Baba Oreily, Won't Get Fooled Again , Dark Side of the Moon, Frampton Comes Alive, etc, etc all blasting from the speakers and tossing down Quarters on numbers as the spinning wheel spun hoping to get lucky. Great times and great memories. Not a care in the world. Nobody on psyche meds either.
Hola,yo disfruté mucho ése año de principio a fin sobre todo las rolas de Noviembre y diciembre.....Do you feel Like we Do ,More Than a feeling,I Never Cry.Awesome Brothers!!😅😅😅
Thank you for sharing !!!! I was a Brooklyn NY 17 year old then. It was a fantastic time and that's when people loved and respected the USA !!!!!! Brings back SO MANY memories. You had WPLJ, WXLO (99-X), WCBS-FM and of course 92.2 WKTU
