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Where are people getting all these vintage radio airchecks from?

weegee

weegee

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Some sellers on eBay say they have thousands of hours of radio broadcasts on CD. Are there radio archives where you can download for free?

Some have old country from the 40's. Others rock and pop from the 70's.

Dr. Demento has an archive where you can stream for $2 a show. (I think.) I got a R/R tape the other day in an eBay lot that had a Dr. Demento show that was previously on the reel but title had been scratched out and audio copied over with garbage.

I had forgot about Dr. Demento. I used to listen to him in the 70's / 80's in my darkroom in L.A. Seeing the R/R tape reminded me of him.
 
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weegee said:
I had forgot about Dr. Demento.
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I remember Dr Demento. I used to stay up late with a small transistor radio to listen before I bought my first stereo. From him I learned the eternal truth that dead puppies aren't much fun.

To your original point I have bought a couple of Genesis live concerts on multi-record sets that were designed for radio airplay. They are great, but the ads at the beginning and end of each side are annoying.
 
Not sure, but I do have a sizable library of vinyl-format BBC Radio Transcriptions (mostly mid to late 1960s), U.S. Armed Forces Radio Transcriptions (1940s-1970s, but specializing in programming formats aired during The Nam), and a few hundred various & sundry "digital format" transcriptions of "old time" radio programs that flew, in some cases for years, under the sponsorship of X product and featured certain key performing artists, including musical (e.g., Hank Williams) and variety (e.g., Jack Benny).

Note: Several of the BBC Transcription "discs" are (for me) unplayable as they are intended for playback @ 16 RPM. I haven't had a record "changer" that could play back material @ "16 speed" since I was 10 or 11 years old, @ which time I had no 16-RPM discs in my possession.
 
^^ P.S. Almost forgot, also have several (100-ish?) hours of Westwood One Radio Transcription programming, also vinyl format.
 
Aptone said:
I remember Dr Demento. I used to stay up late with a small transistor radio to listen before I bought my first stereo. From him I learned the eternal truth that dead puppies aren't much fun.

To your original point I have bought a couple of Genesis live concerts on multi-record sets that were designed for radio airplay. They are great, but the ads at the beginning and end of each side are annoying.
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I like the ads as well as the music.
 
I used to have around 70 of the American Top 40 with Casey Kasem. They were 3lp or 4lp boxed sets and apparently were supposed to be destroyed after air play.

I also had found 50 r2r tapes by Armed Forces Radio Shows of Superman starting with episode 1 in 1939 through the early 50's. They were 15 minute shows with advertisements/commercials. During the WWII war effort these commercials ask the boys and girls to donate their allowance to the war effort. Saying that 10 cents would buy 6 bullets to kill the Japs. A real flashback in history.
 
Aptone said:
Why weegee? Because they are blasts from the past?
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I know I also enjoy the old advertisements in some of the Old Time Radio shows that I've heard.
Sometimes a blast from the past and sometimes before I was born. Its a lot of fun to hear the way advertisements were , sort of like an advertising history lesson. Heck, I even know what cigarettes are "Best for You"!
 
I bet you can find a bunch of YouTube. I’ve seen tons of old TV station bumpers when looking around.
 
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