Recently I came across a couple of cassette tapes which contained recordings of radio broadcasts from the '80s and '90s and was wondering if anyone else ever used to record songs or broadcasts off the radio back in the day.
In regards to the tapes I found, the first one I came across was stored in a box with several other cassettes. It contained a bunch of songs my mom recorded off a couple of our local radio stations sometime in the early to mid '80s. Unfortunately, she left out most of the DJ airchecks and commercials (more than likely just to preserve room for more songs), although it did contain a bumper for the now-defunct 1220 WGAR in Cleveland during a broadcast of "The Neil Diamond Special." After one or two of the songs on the tape, you could hear a DJ start to do his monologue starting with a station identification, and at least one of them sounded like he said "1-0" something before the next song cuts in on the tape. Obviously I don't know which station that was, but I'm wondering if it was 105.7 (WMJI) or 104.1 (WQAL) or something like that. All of the songs on that tape were '50s through '70s oldies.
The second tape I have of radio content was one I found at a flea market about a month ago. It contained songs, clips, and commercials from the "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" morning show (Jerry Shirley and Mike Trivisonno) on 98.5 WNCX and from "Dave and Lucy" (Dave Perkins and Lucy Grant, with Mark D. Marino [sp?] doing newscasts, Debbie Nichols doing traffic reports, and meteorologist Carl Nichols with weather forecasts) on 99.5 WGAR. The clips from both stations were from December 1990. Among the songs on that tape were "Hollywood Nights" by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, "These Eyes" by the Guess Who, "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas, "All of Me" by Willie Nelson, "Crazy in Love" by Conway Twitty, "American Boy" by Eddie Rabbitt, a couple of Christmas songs, and others.
I'm wondering if anyone else ever recorded radio broadcasts back in the day without cutting out the DJ bits, bumpers or commercials. What kinds of radio odds and ends do you have in your cassette collection?
In regards to the tapes I found, the first one I came across was stored in a box with several other cassettes. It contained a bunch of songs my mom recorded off a couple of our local radio stations sometime in the early to mid '80s. Unfortunately, she left out most of the DJ airchecks and commercials (more than likely just to preserve room for more songs), although it did contain a bumper for the now-defunct 1220 WGAR in Cleveland during a broadcast of "The Neil Diamond Special." After one or two of the songs on the tape, you could hear a DJ start to do his monologue starting with a station identification, and at least one of them sounded like he said "1-0" something before the next song cuts in on the tape. Obviously I don't know which station that was, but I'm wondering if it was 105.7 (WMJI) or 104.1 (WQAL) or something like that. All of the songs on that tape were '50s through '70s oldies.
The second tape I have of radio content was one I found at a flea market about a month ago. It contained songs, clips, and commercials from the "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" morning show (Jerry Shirley and Mike Trivisonno) on 98.5 WNCX and from "Dave and Lucy" (Dave Perkins and Lucy Grant, with Mark D. Marino [sp?] doing newscasts, Debbie Nichols doing traffic reports, and meteorologist Carl Nichols with weather forecasts) on 99.5 WGAR. The clips from both stations were from December 1990. Among the songs on that tape were "Hollywood Nights" by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, "These Eyes" by the Guess Who, "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas, "All of Me" by Willie Nelson, "Crazy in Love" by Conway Twitty, "American Boy" by Eddie Rabbitt, a couple of Christmas songs, and others.
I'm wondering if anyone else ever recorded radio broadcasts back in the day without cutting out the DJ bits, bumpers or commercials. What kinds of radio odds and ends do you have in your cassette collection?