I’ve been told this was created by Phlash Phelps, but I haven’t yet been able to confirm that.
I think you’ll find the title to be self-explanatory. Here is Part Two of a wonderful radio journey across the United States.
RADIO COAST-TO-COAST: Mystery Station ID’s, Part Two
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Hello Dan,
Just got a google alert on my name and saw your post about my radio ID airchecks. Yeah, I made this and many more aphter it too. This was only the phirst one. Not sure iph you know how many radio stations I’ve worked phor, but it’s 17 now and at that time I’d already worked in Jacksonville, N.C. and was out of work phor 13 months…January 1985-Phebruary 1986 bephore going to KOJM Havre, Montana. So I bought a boombox…big one in Center City Philadelphia and on that time ophph I went and airchecked most of the east, then when moving to Montana and living there phor a year, got almost all the rest…a ton of that I did phor the west coast starting in Spokane with KVXO was done in Phebruary 1987 when I took my two week vacation aphter working in Mt. phor a year.
So aphter that gig, I was home and Brian Douglas at Z103 Tallahassee asked me iph I’d edit together some of my airchecks so he could play it phor the guys…I started win Spokane, not realizing how big the project would turn out to be. It took a couple weeks and had to make the airchecks tighter and tighter together to phit on the tape. Only gave it to Brian, but when I worked phor KHI Ocean City…I met Mike Abrams…who I now work with ophphically and he dubbed it…that’s the one that got to everyone.
I made 6 or 7more of these no one’s ever heard that are even better.
Phlash
XM 60’s on 6
Thanks for the info, Phlash. I’d love to hear those other 6 or 7. That’s exactly the type of project I love: Tons of work, no way to profit from it financially, but resulting in something fun to share with others.
(I’d prefer that it also made a profit, but usually that doesn’t happen.)
It probably was Brian Douglas who gave me the cassette, at one of my seminars in Cincinnati in 1990.
Wow. That was a lot of harmonized call letters and LAZERS!
AWESOME!!
Pt. 1 highlights (for me) include: Rick Dees, and inclusion of the stations that made me think radio was so cool when I was a kid, KKSS Albuquerque, KAKS Amarillo, Z93 Amarillo, and KATP.
I do miss the kinetic energy of live human DJ’s (24-7) running a live board in real time with carts and stuff.
Thanks for posting!