WKNR AM September 3rd, 1970 Full Six Hour Aircheck

Kip Brown
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Six continuous hours of unedited WKNR from September 3rd, 1970. Featuring Scott Regan, Dan Henderson and Bill Garcia.

This came from original WKNR log recorder tapes that I found many years ago. Commercials, jingles, newscasts, weather reports, it's all here!

 

reese packer

Absolutely LOVE these kind pop culture time capsules ..absolute GOLD! ...wow September 2 1970 was very close to my arrival in this world on Nov 1 that year. THIS was the world i was born into and i still cherish the memories of the whole decade of which AM radio was BIG part.

 

John Stevens

When I played in radio during the mid '70's the station I work at had log recorder tapes at 3 &3/4 speed. WKNR was a legendary Top 40 station. Thanks for sharing this blast from the past.

 

Alan Englander

Thanks for posting this epic time capsule of a major game-changing time of my life -- a week before I would start eight grade -- the year my childhood would move towards its end with the start of high school. This station is in the same market as CKLW -- the Big 800, a station that I was introduced to at night (listening to from New York) around this very week in 1970 -- when I began my AM Radio DXing hobby. AM DXing is listening to distant radio stations that are several hundred to several thousand miles away. I continue with DXing to this very day -- soon to be 53 years later -- and, these songs in this post bring me back to the start of my DXing !

 

Tom Foster

This radio broadcast was one day after I turned 20. Nearly all these top 30 list I have in LPs and/or 45 records. Great memories of the tunes and of so many things I went through in that year: 1970! I have a few "air checks" in my collection. Two of them come from my birthplace: Indianapolis...the other from Atlanta.

The stations were WIFE "Lucky 13 Radio" in Indy; the other was WQXI 790 "Quixie in Dixie" in Atlanta. I have a little of WLS 890 & WCFL "The Big 10"... both in Chicago. WLS was my all-time favorite of many AM radio stations I listened to in the 60's and early 70's. In fact...I had high hopes to have been a DJ in those days...even went to

radio school (Career Academy - Atlanta) but...didn't seriously apply myself to it for some reason or another. Oh well...I still love radio...especially listening to these types of radio memories of that era. Long live the old rock & pop of that era I love! The tunes were quite understandable.

 

Robert Hetrick

I was 11 years old but I remember all this music like seriously it's cliche like yesterday. Thanks for posting it's a lot of fun. It always comes back to remind me it was am top 40 radio then. Was better listen how diverse all this music was. Now it's like really all the same and it's crap.

No one could stack up to today except maybe Bruno Mars to the likes of a Gene Chandler. Or three dog night. It all sounds today like stuff I heard before which I probably did but it's bad.

And I know that town is still out there it just didn't disappear one day. It's not encouraged. I just got that form the same old junk