Posted on 05/13/2006 5:48:48 PM PDT by Coleus
This was by far the greatest station that ever existed. I heard them sign off 24 years ago last Wednesday, and it broke my heart. The music, DJs and memories - plus their ability to unite an entire generation of listeners - made this a truly unique station.That's why, to this day, I refuse to listen to their replacement (and I know I'm going to catch flak for that on this board :-) Rock on!
ping-a-ling!
I know... hope we can catch the WABC Rewound show on Memorial Day weekend. We're usually running around somewhere, trying to catch the show up here in the "hinterlands" through heavy static on the car radio. It's nice to even catch parts of the show, with the old clips of Ron Lundy, Dan Ingram, et al.
If happen to be home at the computer that day, I'll try to stream it from WABC's site, like I'm doing now.
If anyone is in the Morristown NJ area, WMTR-am 1250 has a great oldies format and their playlist is pretty good. Problem is they don't have a very strong signal, but I think they do a webstream and their website is
http://www.wmtroldies.com
Oh wow... since I couldn't listen regularly to WABC back then I had no idea. It must have been awful to have witnessed that broadcast way back when... AM radio has changed SO much.
Awww... 10pm, they're signing off. :-(
thanks for the link.. I can't get in on my radio.
is there software where one can record a radio station on the net into your computer?
Apologies, I was going on info from hubby which was WRONG. MTR's website is
http://www.wmtram.com/index2.htm
doggone, I just missed it tonight.
doggone, I just missed it tonight.
Thanks for the ping!
"is there software where one can record a radio station on the net into your computer?"
Total Recorder
http://www.highcriteria.com
$11 and you can put it on all your PCs.
XM radio will sometimes do this on the 60's channel.
They did the old stuff from WLS Chicago radio.
For those of us in the midwest WLS had a range of about 400 miles.
I LOVE your tagline. Unreal, huh?
There are some good oldies shows out there, some of which are online. For example, Ron Dwyer's Sat night show on WCIB (Falmouth/Cape Cod, MA). A few weeks back he played a great ext. remix of "Reach Out I'll Be There" and a bunch of other
tunes you haven't heard in awhile...Also on WATD Marshfield MA
http://www.959watd.com/RonDwyer.asp
Once in awhile I get tapes of CHUM (Toronto) which has a good Sunday morning oldies show. He (Roger Ashby) does a behind-the-song feature and will play some songs that were hits on the Canadian chart but not US.
The one I have, AudioRecordWizard3 ($25 from NowSmart) can tape from an outside source (like a stereo hooked up to
the comp.--for a station that DOESN'T streamcast) or a
"wave out mix" (from a stream cast station). Use mp3 files
which are much smaller than .wav...
The other night I taped a 5 hour talk show on WBZ which was co-hosted by a friend of mine. I taped it all onto the comp.
them split it into smaller files (mp3 direct cut) which could either be burned onto CDs or transferred easily to an
mp3 player (MusicMatch)
but yes there's software out there which is cheaper than the AudioRecordWizard or even free. (the mp3 Direct Cut and
Music Match ones I mentioned have pretty good basic versions that ARE free.)
It was the 50s and early 60s when I was a kid in NY. I think it was another station that had "Murray The K and The Swingin' Soiree", but that and WABC were my prime source of American culture.
If you like old Carolina (shag)beach music, try http://www.949thesurf.com/
They play the Drifters, Tams, the Embers etc.
I used to listen to Cousin Brucie on WABC from the Metro DC area - WABC had a strong signal.
^^
D.C.? I'll be darned! I grew up in the Baltimore suburbs, and I never even heard of Cousin Brucie until my husband, a Jersey boy (but I married him anyway) told me about him. Of course, he had never heard of Buddy Dean. Now we catch Cousin Brucie sometimes on Sirius Gold.
BTW, for my crowd, WCAO out of B'more was the only station there was in the early to mid 60s.
I hope it lasts a looooooong time
^^
As long as we boomers are around, our "culture" will be out there. Drives a lot of the X'ers and Y'ers crazy, I guess.
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