Many years ago, someone gave me this cassette.
Probably it was handed to me by an attendee at one of my radio talent seminars.
Or maybe someone mailed it to me.
For a long time, I didn’t know who had the made the original recording of this radio aircheck tour of the United States.
Finally I learned it was the creation of Phlash Phelps in 1985-1987.
Phlash kindly gave me permission to share with you this first installment, which begins in the upper northwest corner of the U.S. — Spokane, Washington.
Enjoy the journey.
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did he really say “another hour of music power”?? OMG. I also heard “Monday nooner”.Was that supposed to be sexy or something?? Oooo…innuendo. How trite. All I hear on this aircheck is liner card after liner card followed by a mindless weather breaks. Hmmm… kinda like today’s
voice tracked garbage. So sad. PS-I’ve now heard ‘Stuck In The Middle With You” (???) THREE times in the past 2 days on 3 different local stations. WHY?
Why? Maybe they know what songs their listeners want to hear and they’re playing them.
I love hearing old radio airchecks. I try to ID the station imaging voice and just hearing LIVE DJ’s doing their thing is fun. Love this.
I still have airchecks on reel to reel!
I bought a huge boombox in Philly in Phebruary 1985 and started airchecking everywhere phirst in the east, then when I got my next job in Montana I got to drive across country the long way to get many markets, then got to cover the west in early 1987 3 times as 1 time phor a week vacation, then I lepht to move back east by way of driving to Phlorida, then by May 87, had to go drive back to Las Vegas and back. Brian Douglas at Z103 Tallahassee asked me to put this together so his jocks could hear what was going on across the country. Note I wasn’t making the edits tight at the beginning then realized I had to hurry to get em in on the 1st 45 minutes of the side of the tape. Since then I’ve made a number of these including England, Ireland and Australia and New Zealand, Japan, Guam, Saipan. I need to get out those tapes