Good Charlotte Good Morning Revival MP3 320 Kbps
Matt Dreher
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Jack Gale, WAYS, Charlotte, N.C. 4-1-70 (14:16). . . And there's a blue one! That must be lemon . . .UPDATED June 19, 1999.The first version of this exhibit was presented in Real Audio 2.0 format in February of 1996, and was less than 3 minutes in length. It's now been remastered in Real Audio 3.0 and includes the entire 14 minutes from the original reel. Featured: The Mighty Gale Players with Life Can Be Miserable, a bit of Howard Foster with BIG WAYS News, Helicopter Harry with a traffic report, and Lowell Pressure with the weather.UPDATE 2000: The Jack Gale Collection is now available.This aircheck is a snapshot of the morning show that held Charlotte N.C. and neighboringcounties captive for many years. Jack Gale was the morning guy and P.D. for BIG WAYS, (610 AM), the station that brought big-time Northeast radio to Piedmont Carolina for the first time in the mid '60's.This recording was made on a Lafayette 1/4" reel to reel recorder, with a vintage 1940's-model Hallicrafters Communications receiver set to "wide band", at 7.5 ips on April 1, 1970. There was some lightning in the air that morning, and you can hear it in this recording. The high frequency distortion is part of the original recording, and come to think of it, part of the original broadcast! The station had a 5KW signal that covered "35 North and South Carolina counties", and was expertly engineered, but it was equalized for narrow-band receivers.Yep, the reverb is real. That's how much they ran, on everything and everybody for at least 5 years of dominance in the Charlotte market. Gale's bits were as regular as clockwork: Every day was his birthday, Lowell Pressure always did the weather at 8:30, and Plummerville was always the warm spot. Gale had dozens of other bits he repeated over the years. Most of his voice characterizations were done live. April 1, 1970 was just prior to BWB #5 (Big WAYS Birthday #5). WAYS enjoyed an incredible run in Charlotte, but one year after this aircheck, 50KW WBT was well into the ultimately successful campaign that re-claimed the Queen City's AM radio crown.Return to the Repository
The Last Contest - And in Conclusion, 1972 (5:18)..My sister just had her baby on the living room carpet..This appeared on the second issue of Programmer's Digest (August 14, 1972). Narrated by John Young (at that time, at WMAK in Nashville), it includes an interview with Jack McCoy who explains what happened when the "secret phone number" was finally announced, and the changes that KCBQ initiated to avoid destroying the San Diego telephone system.Return to the Repository
Robert W. Morgan, KHJ, 1972 (7:31)..Actually, (Walt Baby Love) used to be one of the Supremes..Robert W. Morgan demonstrates his cutting-edge wit as he promotes unisex after-shave, does a phoner with a moaner, and wakes Walt Baby Love in this boss blast from Spring, 1972.Return to the RepositoryWAPE, Jacksonville Florida, May 1972 (10:09)"I'm So Tired of Being Alone - I mean - after you've seen Miss January once, you've seen her..."This composite aircheck of WAPE (690, Jacksonville, FL) from May of 1972 includes early morning host and PD Jay Thomas (who later became a TV star). Also featured: 9am-12N host Larry Dixon. I got this clip (many years ago) via Larry, who had worked with me at WIXE, Monroe, NC, in 1969. Hello, Larry! Another standout on this aircheck is PM driver Cleveland Wheeler, whom I never met, but this guy had preparation and pipes to the max!This clip is remarkable from another perspective. Note the reverb AND the Drake Jingles and the "Truckin" and "YOU JUST RIPPED ME OFF.." East coast (reverb) and West coast (Drake/McCoy) came together at WAPE in 1972.WAPE had a huge signal that covered the beaches from Jacksonville to North Carolina. The period represented here was a WAPE revival, of sorts. The BIG APE had been successful in the 60's as a very broad-based Top 40 station - with reverb, of course. It returned, in 1972, as a slick hybrid with hot formatics and outstanding talent. And they kept the reverb.Return to the Repository TOP STREAM 32Kbps (10Khz)
WFIL, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Summer 1972(14:38). . .and a $350,000 promotion budget that doesn't quit when the Arbitron or Pulse is over. . .