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Much better than the garbage that passes for music played in public places for the past 20+ years.

I did that equipment operator thing just north of Santa Barbara, at a country western station. Babysat a Cetec Sheaffer 903 running a triple stack cart puller, and four Revox A33 reel to reel machines. Between making sure the commercial/psa/station ident carts were all in place and making sure the reels of music/announcers were full and not going to run out. We pulled copy, cut commercials, pulled news off the api wire to condense for the “real talent” to read live or record as necessary. Did the grunt work and had a blast… oh, and the automation beast was called affectionately F.R.E.D. For F***ing Ridiculous Electronic Device, and was programmed using a terminal that had Nixie tubes in it.

It just makes no sense that they have basically decided to delete all stations like this! 😡 But I thank you for keeping it alive! 🥰

I worked there for the first couple of years. I wish I had more airchecks of myself and others that worked there.

Awesome! I was a 12-year-old girl in Buena Park, California when this was recorded. Very enjoyable.

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Hilly Rose 👍👍

Love 10:22 - reminds of the music played in Happy Eater family restaurants over here in the UK back in the 1980s and 1990s!

I love that music, it was the best time of KBIG, I have some recordings from the 80s, as soon as I can put them into digital format I will share them!

"Sleigh Ride" pops on 20 minutes in and it's only then that I looked at the date... I'm surprised there wasn't more Christmas music, or did they only start that playlist around the 15th in any case?

I don't like it when it sounds too much like annoying jazz.

⚜Ahh, "Old Santa Barbara." Now, that's a sweet thought. Imagine the splendor of the sea breeze caressing your face as you walk along the shore and back up to the sidewalk, where you admire the beautiful cars passing by. ...a bygone era of sheer elegance, indeed.

39:47 is smooth as silk

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Amazing! Thank you for posting this!

wow loving that staticyness on the announcements oh how i miss staticy goodness like this

OMG I thought I was weird for kinda missing these TeleTex community channels...it's good to know I have company. I always found them oddly comforting in a way. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Fun! I love seeing this~ Thank you for uploading it! Looks like Los Angeles with the 213 area code. I miss those days! 🥰

Flipped in 86, I Remember the Billboard Ad's on the Sides of then RTD Busses (Now Metro) Promoting KBIĢ in the 70's, 80's.

Fascinating archive! I can't imagine there are too many examples of this. i have to wonder if the Smithsonian might even want a copy? Or the LOC? (or the Estate of C W McCall?)

Recorded eastbound, or just down? Or just down, but not eastbound? Downbound? Downeaster?

It was true about Schwinn bikes back then when the bike racks in elementary schools were stuffed with bikes. Every suburban kid had one and rode it to school every day. In our neighborhood everyone got the AMF or Huffy for Christmas. When the lucky kid that got a Schwinn let you try it the difference was obvious. Those bikes rode like Lincoln Continentals instead of the golf cart feel of those wonderful AMFs and Huffys. That was a loooooong time ago.

Thank you for making this recording available. Very enjoyable....and this brings back memories of those old cassette days of recording from the radio...

Thx...that nagware has been driving me crazy!

Thank you for the wonderful channel, Ms. Misc! Steve Lawrence is an example of a great voice who had to compete with a transcendent singer. If Frank Sinatra hadn't have been on the same planet, Steven Lawrence would have been an all-time legend. His rendition of Misty is remarkable but if you then listen Sinatra's version you almost instantly say "oh, I get it."

Thank you so much for this recording. On December 25th 1980 I moved to Los Angeles. My family always listened to easy listening music in New york. Wpat, wrfm, and wtfm were constantly on the stereo. I found KBIG early that winter and enjoyed it so much along with KJOI. This brings back so many wonderful memories. Kudos to you for this.

First Song: Probably the ending of "Summer Of '42" Second Song: Embraceable You by David Rose Third Song: Lover by Manuel Fourth Song: Hopelessly Devoted To You by Ferrante And Teicher Fifth Song: The Twelfth Of Never by Mike Sammes Singers Sixth Song: Weekend In New England by Frank Chacksfield Seventh Song: Honey by Paul Mauriat Eighth Song: If I Only Had Time by Johnny Mann Singers Ninth Song: Help Me Make It Through The Night by Percy Faith

Wonderful recordings! Thanks for posting! I remember listening to radio station KFOG in San Francisco during that time and they played SRP music too! By the way, here's a listing of the artists and music titles that you recorded from KBIG-FM. SRP had the best quality recording and they also required those stations to keep their radio transmissions to the utmost performance. "Embraceable You" - David Rose (KBIG Aircheck/Delta Airlines/Time & Weather) "Lover" - Manuel "Hopelessly Devoted to You" - Ferrante & Teicher "The Twelfth of Never" - Mike Sammes Singers "Weekend in New England" - Frank Chacksfield (KBIG Aircheck/Western Airlines) "Honey" - Paul Mauriat "If I Only Had Time" - Johnny Mann Singers "Help Me Make It in the Night" - Percy Faith Orchestra I also formatted our streaming music station KOZEY Radio to play hundreds of these beautiful music selections with tender loving care. Many of the phonograph albums are out-of-print. So if you like to hear more of these selections as well as some easy listening vocals from the 50's through the 80's, please check it out... thebreez.com/listen-now-to-kozey-radio/

I Love Welcome to my World

Love 0:41 - reminds me of simpler happy days!

I was a 21 yr. old fella who would enjoy this station on the s.s. catalina sailing into Avalon Harbor in 1978 unfortunately the easy listening format changed in 1987 I had my first legal drink straight off the Greyhound bus in San Francisco Jan.1979. Lived in West Covina back then. Nice to wax nostalgic. Thank you for sharing this.

This is great. Nearly 44 years later - and it's beautiful. World class listening. Thank you America.

Cloning is evil 😮😮

Thanks for posting this wonderful gem

Always a blast to hear a new station go on the air with a staff that has fun with their work!

There is still a market for this format. It does need to be updated though.

An awesome example of one of FM Radio’s greatest formats!

you did recording like i did as a kid in 1980 bonzaroo m8

i do hear that sweet fm fuzzyness in the recording it feels so good to hear that like my moms big floor model by zenith she had it on a nice station for me back when i was a lil one, oh it sounded so good n staticy sounds so heavenly

Awesome instrumental/orchestral version of "More Than A Woman"...does anybody know who's playing it?

Wow, i look for this kind of music & I’m from Ventura

Excellent stereo recording! And I love the sung jingle at 4:04.

Does anyone know what service they subscribed to? Bonneville? Schulke? Peters? KALA?

oooo loving that crackly static i love am radio so much i did the same thing a lot in my life so much fun i loved the dxing warping the monkey chatter and lispyness of off frequency stations

ohhh a lil staticy how i like the radio to be was this September what a beautiful and what a beautiful year, what a treasure i loved listen to my moms car radio like this hers was very staticy at time but i loooved it like that ever so much, thank ya m8 for sharing this and on recording this in the way ya did you do what ya can do with the items at hand you did very great job and noice recordings too, hey a little Dxing around 9:50. oh i love heart he is a magic man, and loving that static im sorry but i really love staticy fm,

ya did a bonza noice job m8 good recording i miss beautiful music format music a lot too you would love Fardemark he plays a lot on his cool fox videos

Spectacular

54:00 Day They Drove Old Dixie Down, Anita Kerr Strings (Susquehanna) project. These were rejected by Shulkie but used extensively by TM Communications and B’ville and were exclusive for radio and like most of the custom libraries they were destroyed or so we think. We’ve never found her masters. We have most of her catalog of custom tracks but harvested from non-masters sources. We do have her original license agreements which is an interesting piece of Beautiful Music history. Some have remained those of us committed to its survival maintain archives, we have since the 1990s. Other KRUZ air-checks here represent TM Communications (Tom Merriman) which were IBMA (international Beautiful Music Association) investors like Kalamusic and WGAY radio, however at 1:00 Just The Way You Are is by Norm Geller an FM100 exclusive later used by Bonneville Broadcast Consultants which may suggest KRUZ at this date was rolling B’Ville. Stations frequently cycled syndication during these years with minimum contract length commitments, however some research in this area with Shulkie and SRP will yield some rather contentious legal battles cutting loose from contracts early. Wonderful air-checks and my thanks for preserving these.

Love it

Anyone know who performed the version of Listen To What The Man Said near the beginning? It's a great version. Shazam was no help. I'd love to find it and download it.