Rick Dees on KHJ, June 12, 1979 

The man was a master. Watching him work, studying his technique taught me more about the execution of morning radio than 4 years of media and communications college courses could have ever taught me. It was the greatest learning experience I could have ever asked for. And I was getting paid to do it!

I'm on the east coast (also, in the radio business), but I do know what you are talking about

@Can't fix Stupid YES .. fo yo monkey as*

Yacht Rock is now an established genre

22 in 1979 thats what we call high value vintage.

Hacienda Heights in the house!!!

Good times, brother.

What year was this? I lived in Lincoln Heights just two blocks north of Lincoln Park from the 1973 to 1998 and would love to know when this happened.

Agreed on the garbage today's music is.

Today's Really is Gar-bage

It's total garbage, and for decades. It started getting bad towards the very end of the 80's and it became banal and unlistenable in the 1990's, so much so that I stopped listening to mainstream music. 60's, 70's, and 80's were the best.

Awesome song. Rick Dees was great in Memphis. I was 16. Memphis Prep was a power house in football in Memphis.

As much as I enjoy working with these soundchecks there is always some copy-write owner who wont let you use their song, and that takes the fun out of it.

+Doug Daniels Media I Wouldn't want to mislead anyone so let me explain that the recording i acquired of this air-check, probably a decade ago, had all the music save for the intros and endings cut out, using my own music collection I blended the music back in using "Cakewalk Pyro 2004" a now obsolete and unsupported software that I still use because I could never find another program as good. So you are correct that is a 45 record. I'm not sure what you mean by "dubbed to a cart", my radio work was on a non-professional level.

+candlefm "Dubbed to cart" means that radio stations, on the whole, didn't play "records" from turntables by 1979. The songs were "dubbed/recorded/copied" from the 45 or 33 to something we called a "cart" - which was radio's version of an 8-track. By dubbing the record/45 to a tape "cartridge" you would hear pristine audio over the radio station. The record/45 would be archived and shelved unless the tape broke somewhere down the line. That's why I was surprised to hear the clicks and pops of the song - because you wouldn't normally hear that. Thanks for the information - and the air check. Love it.

Some stations were not able to use carts on a regular basis. It depended on the format. If it was a Top 40 or any station that had a strict limitation on what was played, a station could have a couple hundred carts right there in the MCR. Now a station such as an album oriented station where the djs still had some say in what they played, whole albums would be impossible to have in Cart. There wouldn’t be enough room left for the DJ to work in. I remember whrn Beds Are burning was.huge, I remember the DJ saying that he hoped they would have a CD copy because they already had worn out 8 copies of the song. Lol Carts were mostly used on AM stations. Since most Top 40 stations up u til.the mid 80s were on AM, that worked out nicely.

@@candlefm Yup, I instantly "heard" the scenario you used in order to put the whole "Patchwork-Of-Radio-History" together; quite a crafty digital software morphing job!!! (And I REALLY mean; no sarcasm, good brother.) I started my career in broadcasting right about that same year, 1979 and "air checks" were just that, "telescoped snippets of ONLY the disc jockey's voice". In essence, there are two dynamics going on here. TECHNICALLY: Whenever the disc jockey keyed his microphone on, this would instantly mute the control room speaker system AND "remotely" start either a stereo cassette deck (sometimes wired to record dual-channel mono) or a 1/4" 2 track reel to reel recorder/reproducer deck, in the more higher profile network radio stations. PURPOSE: These "air checks" were used primarily so that the "boss" (programming manager or program director) could later listen to these tapes cassettes in his personal office...(in most cases, they used properly manufactured, retail grade cassette tapes, hence the VERY, VERY poor quality)...to constructively critique the on-air staff, make suggestions, recommendations & give praises...OR...critically admonish the personality, requiring changes in his/her delivery, or dismiss the disc jockey, if their delivery was either not up to par and straying away from the branding of the format of the radio station. So...there you go...boys & girls in radio history class...we learn something new everyday! (...that NOBODY under the age of 50, probably doesn't give a rat's hoot about, nor cares of it's significance or sees absolutely ANY importance of it's viability...) Thar ya have it...coming from an old radio fart like me! BolsaChicaRadio ============== Anthony Ochoa KRHC, KWST, KTSJ, KYMS, KWVE, KKLA, KUSC, The Salem Radio Network 1979-2019 (retired)

@@BolsaChicaRadio Thank you.

What station is he on now?

He is not on any station locally. He only has his syndicated weekly show.

Sure, why not? Of course I don't own the rights to any of it, the music is owned by its publishers and the air check is probably public domain.

Send me a link for your video when it's finished.

@@candlefm bro thanks so much man!

thats the coolness about it lmao this is literally what radios sound like

the program director at that time was Chuck Martin who brought Dee's to Los Angeles and was responsible for bringing K H J back from A bad slide down in ratings.

@@nooneheretoday2562 Thank you for filling in the hole. KHJ had gone through a number of PDs in the 70s, Charlie Van Dyke being one of them, and I couldn't remember who was at this point in time.

Songs were all missing from the recording I acquired.

I actually like the stereo fade in, then Fades back out to Mono so you can hear what it was like on the radio back then.