AM Radio in the 60's...

[WCGreen]

You could hear something like this right after a Stones or Yardbyrds song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS15ACUhTww&feature=related

[Capn Sunshine]

1. I had that exact record player!

lol

[WCGreen]

2. I love the way the guy take such care to adjust the sound...

[Capn Sunshine]

3. oh, and then you'd hear this tune on the old transistor for sure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLODhmjwA6Y

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Oh god, I remember that song!

I am officially old...

[Capn Sunshine]

5. make out tune, huh babe?

:rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Oh, right......NOT!

I was married in 1965!

No making out then...

:rofl:

[mitchum]

6. I remember my sister doing a dancing school recital tap routine to that song

[Capn Sunshine]

7. and then......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGRXe_e5S1Y
very progressive pre Beatles

[mitchum]

9. I dig that Ed Kemper looking guy standing behind Tommy

[MrScorpio]

8. Not on soul stations in Detroit

I don't think that even CKLW played it... and THEY'RE CANADIANS!

[kwassa]

23. CKLW!!! BYRON MACGREGOR AND 20/20 NEWS!!!

I grew up in Northern Ohio in the late '60s, and the only station we could get clearly at night was CKLW in Windsor, Ontario, all 50,000 watts of it.

This station played all kinds of different music, but you are right, it never played this horrible song. It did play other horrible music, but not this.

Later, FM stations started up, and we could get WMMS in Cleveland, the first progressive rock format in the region, where DJs actually played whatever they wanted for quite awhile.

[MrScorpio]

30. It was the sound of the city

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDCdbmwy9l8

[Capn Sunshine]

11. hey, AM radio was cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTY5qX0Fk7A
I was 12 when this was a big hit

[Frank Cannon]

22. The guys who gave us Last Train to Clarksville

Boyce & Hart were the best.

[Capn Sunshine]

12. and surf music, transistors on the sand!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQrQjNNZCAo

[WCGreen]

13. It's good memories

[Capn Sunshine]

16. another pre-Beatles surf tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G2_PTqXPJo

[Midlodemocrat]

14. Grew up listening to WELI - AM radio

and when I was little? I had no concept of tapes/recordings so I thought that it was SO cool that that little radio station was able to secure all those really cool groups.

LOL.

Of course, by the time I was five, I had discovered albums and music and I have been intimately involved ever since.

[Mike 03]

15. I love that song "Turn Turn Turn" and have heard other works by the Byrds that I probably would

benefit from hearing.

[Capn Sunshine]

17. well, there's this one

The early Byrds made a living doin Dylan songs, then one day.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH6UnvSlahc

[mitchum]

24. That song was hipper than anything the Beatles, Rolling Stones, or Velvet Underground...

were doing at the time.
Never mind the possible drug references, I am more astounded that they got modal soloing on the radio!

[Jade Fox]

46. The Byrds unique "chiming guitar" sound....

is well displayed in the break of this song, my personal favorite of theirs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaYqfI_tCkM

[Capn Sunshine]

18. This Byrds tune was monstrous around here

I had the pleasure of playing this with them (minus Crosby and Clark but plus Dobie Gray) once at a par-tay in Malibou Lake. Back in my musician days. The horn guy was in marching band with me and I had my stuff, mikes, coupla amps, a horn, with me. Nice confluence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prxkTbekrMQ

[tilsammans]

19. Ah, radio in the Sixties . . .

. . . good times! :hippie:

[abq e streeter]

20. Yup--one of the few things I appreciate about having grown up in Chicago

a great rock station; WLS, and for a short time, a second as good or better one; WCFL....and one of America's great soul stations too; WVON , and once again, briefly, an equally great one in WGRT. Plus when I was just starting to listen in the early 60's, WLS used to broadcast live church services on Sunday mornings and evenings from black churches on the south side, and even as a little white kid ( ten through twelve years old probably), I remember being totally blown away by the music I heard on those broadcasts......but yeah, AM radio in that era was incredible and not just because it was what we grew up with. I have many unpleasant memories of those years along with a few good ones, but the music was one of the few things that made it bearable.

[Capn Sunshine]

33. I remember being in upstate Michigan on Lake Superior and WLS came in crystal clear

Dick Biondi, every night, playin' the hits.
here's one now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc

[abq e streeter]

37. Rocknroll and Dick Biondi were synonymous terms when I first started listening

to WLS at ten years old in 1961. I did a post above about the great stations we had in Chicago at the time, including our amazing soul stations. On edit: DUH, the post right above....( sorry, short term memory loss. paid good money for it, might as well use it) But I can somehow vividly remember the very first time I tuned in...I was a pretty good baseball player as a young guy, and the 13 year olds in the neighborhood let me play with them. I remember them all raving about a guy named Dick Biondi and that I had to listen to him. I thought he was a comedian or something ( and he was a pretty damn funny guy). I finally figured out where you could hear this Biondi guy, and tuned the old brown radio in my bedroom to 89 AM, and the most Amazing sounds came out of it... Chubby Checker, Sandy Nelson, Dion....and 49 years later as time rushes by faster and faster towards 60 years old ( another year and a half), I'm as hooked on rocknroll as I was that night in 1961. By the way, I did some gigs with Joe Biondi, Dick's nephew, in the early nineties and passed along the same story to him, and he said that his uncle really does appreciate when he hears about how much he meant to the kids back then.

And glad you were able to survive your summer up there ...........despite all the amputations, you could just dance to the rock and roll station, and it was all right.

[Iggo]

21. 93 KHJ Los Angeles.

[Bertha Venation]

25. Tina Delgado is alive! ALIVE!

That station was the soundtrack of my childhood.

[Iggo]

26. Did you sing the call letters as you were reading it?

'Cause I was singing it as I was typing it...lol.

[Bertha Venation]

31. Yes, I did!

Compadre!

[BuddhaGirl]

41. yes. I did!!!!! wow, I so remember that station

good tunes indeed...thanks for the memory! :hi:

[BuddhaGirl]

42. LOLOL

omg...such a trip down memory lane :-)

[LibDemAlways]

28. Gotta love the boss jocks - Sam Riddle, Robert W. Morgan,

the Real Don Steele. This should bring you back.....

http://93khj.blogspot.com/

[Born_A_Truman]

58. Had a drink with the Real Don Steele at a radio station party

in the early 90's. Nostalgia!!!

[Born_A_Truman]

55. I worked at KHJ TV when KHJ radio was in the building ...

Loved that radio station!

[LibDemAlways]

27. Everything from Frank Sinatra to Louis Armstrong to

Peggy Lee to the Beatles, Stones, Yardbirds, etc. Very eclectic back then.

[RagAss]

29. 77 WABC New York

[WinkyDink]

39. That would be: "W-AAAAA-BC! Cousin Brucie! Cousin Brucie! Cousin Brucie!"

[kayakjohnny]

32. And that zoom between 1:19 and 1:29 is to die for. It brings the whole piece together in one

masterful stroke of cinematic genius.

It's brilliant, I tell you, just brilliant!

It brings the viewer so close to the music.

Like it's pulling me in to the magic that is happening.

[Capn Sunshine]

34. This was the Seattle Sound at the time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P56gRNZanUI
Paul Revere and the Raiders- based in the PNW

[Mari333]

35. WLS, Chicago. on a little transistor radio.

[Capn Sunshine]

36. I first heard this tune on WLS

I was a California surfer kid marooned in a tiny upper penninsula Michigan town for the July and August of 1967. After experiencing the Monterey Pop Festival, I jetted off with the parents to visit Grandma. It seemed like a gulag. It seemed only WLS kept me in touch with the outside world. Now I really treasure that summer in that tiny town.
From WLS , first heard this then
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Nq48sHF8M

[Mari333]

38. wow I would think it must have been like a gulag after surfing in CA

funny thing is, I was with my parents doing the Route 66 thing about that time, visiting my aunt and uncle in Redondo beach, and caught my first wind of what CA was all about..boy was i impressed, as a dumb kid from Indiana...


I was like, WOW SO THIS IS CALIFORNIA

never wanted to go back to the Midwest again

but now I sorta like Michigan.

WLS kept us all sane as teenagers. they played the hits back then. now, they are just some right wing radio spin.

[hippywife]

40. WCOL-AM with Wes Hopkins in Columbus, OH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDntUxPN2PQ

[abq e streeter]

43. despite all the amputations, you could just dance to the rocknroll station, and it was ALL RIGHT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2duFNff_ArY

[carlyhippy]

44. I love old record players, but the person who invented these should be sainted:

I hated the old holders that would hold a stack of 45's, they would drop 2-3 at a time

[Ikonoklast]

45. I grew up listening to Cleveland AM Radio...

WIXY 1260, KYW 1100, WGAR 1220, WJW 850, WAKR 1590 in Akron, and CKLW out of Windsor/Detroit.

And then WMMS on the FM side.

MMS was light-years ahead of the curve and remained there for years. They created the modern prog/rock format.


http://www.grayco.com/cleveland/books/2899X/sampleChapter.shtml

http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=RR

[Jade Fox]

47. KYA San Francisco......

http://www.kyaradio.com/

[Tikki]

48. "Midnight In Moscow"....Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen....

and only on the internets will you find
this song in a video from Moscow at midnight..

http://video.mail.ru/bk/ofira27/100/229.html

Excellent

Tikki

[Capn Sunshine]

53. !

I used to love that song so much! It inspired me to join the band.

[Capn Sunshine]

49. I used to put my transistor radio under my pillow at night

and hear things like this. It seemed like things got cooler somehow after 10 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLuA7H2RiV0

[Capn Sunshine]

50. I just scored these on EBay. AM radio went together with small transistor radios

[Tikki]

51. I used to fall asleep with one of these under my pillow...

Old GE 60's tube-type...miracle I didn't set my bedroom on fire..


Tikki..turn it way down low...

[Capn Sunshine]

52. wow- how did you get any sleep?

I think somehow, the radio under the pilow thing added to our love of the music at the time...it added a forbidden aspect.

I'm surprised how much I remeber musically from back then; here's another one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qeGaZK34ic

[WCGreen]

54. Yep, the transistor radio under the pillow...

One night was caste your fate to the wind...

[Blue_In_AK]

59. How cute!

I used to have a little turquoise-colored one. I listened to KOMA out of Oklahoma City, which we could only pick up at night in Colorado.

[Born_A_Truman]

56. Dick Dale!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gdG7TZUqY0

[Born_A_Truman]

57. KHJ, KRLA, WLS!

Then FM came along. Sigh.

[InkAddict]

60. DJs I listened to: JerryG, Jay Lawrence, Jim Runyon,

Larry Morrow - KYW 1100 AM & WIXY 1260 AM - Cleveland OH

Alligator watching - late night live call-in requests

Heavy competition w/CKLW - Detroit (Motown)