AM Radio Broadcast WKBW Buffalo, January 23, 1966
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- AM radio mostly stinks, but that wasn’t always so. Settle back and pretend it’s a stormy winter day in 1966. You’ve got your cocoa, and Buffalo’s WKBW is keeping you informed and entertained.
This was made from about an hour of airtime, recorded January 23, 1966 on a 1960s RCA Sound Cartridge player. To learn more about this fascinating device, please see my RCA Sound Cartridge series: • The Huge Cassette!
IMPORTANT NOTE: The original version of this video was removed from TH-cam due to music copyright violations. This version has no music except for what was used for station jingles and ads.
These are the songs played during the broadcast which were edited out:
• A Well Respected Man, by Petula Clark
• At the Scene, by The Dave Clark Five
• Waitin’ In Your Welfare LIne, by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
• You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice, by The Lovin’ Spoonful
• Elusive Butterfly, by Bob Lind
• You Tell Me Why, by The Beau Brummels
• Tijuana Taxi, by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
• It Was A Very Good Year, by Frank Sinatra
• I See The Light, by The Five Americans
• We Can Work It Out, by The Beatles
• Andrea, by The Sunrays
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I remember laying in bed after lights out with my earphone and my trusty Sears AM-FM pocket radio, scanning for midwestern and eastern stations drifting in and out of reception. My favorite thing was listening to obscure high school football games and their ads for local businesses on Friday nights. Halftime newscasts... I was a romantic at a young age - never grew out of it either....
9 transistor?
@@MrKnothead63 It was 57 years ago, so the details are a bit hazy, but it was about 3”x5”x 1” in size. I remember it had mercury batteries, because I used to harvest mercury from the cells using my dad’s bench vise to crush them. Maybe that’s why my memory is not clear! 😉
Sounds like what I used to do here in the North Woods of New Hampshire in the 70s. I was just a kid! I got WTOP in DC and KSTP from Minneapolis one night! I'm a driver now do the same thing as I travel cross country!
I used to DX too! I had an Admiral 8 transistor coat pocket radio, a bit later a 5-band Juliette that looked like a star Trek tricorder. My prize was a 1946 Hallicrafters S-38.
My grandmother used to listen to AM radio in the morning as she would prepare for work. It was still dark. She would have coffee and toast and make her lunch. The sound was muffled and had static, but I recall finding much comfort in this. I was having a melancholy morning, cried actually. Still don’t know why. Then I went to my phone and searched for vintage talk AM radio and found you. She would also listen to AM radio in her Lincoln Continental with suicide doors. I loved riding with her. She would turn up the music when it reminded her of her youth and she’d put on red lipstick in the rear view mirror. And of course a cigarette between her forefinger and middle finger. She was a legend as is AM talk radio. Listening to your channel and reading the comments had made me feel so much better. Thank you.
I grew up in the 70's. I lived in NYC, so I listened to WABC, WMCA, WOR, WINS. You can not beat old AM radio. Simple technology. No computers, no digital garbage, no internet! Just great talent on the radio.
I do remember those days on radio
I remember as a kid my my mother would call WMCA all the time and get in fights on the radio with Bob Grant and Malachy McCourt. They would hang up on her. We found it quite humorous.
I listened to Grant and McCourt. Great memories. No WOKE bullcrap back then.
14:09 The Origin of "Official Way" the Battle theme for my Deltarune OC Radiola.
Got here from the comments on the video
This was my station growing up!!
And I’m from Rochester NY so none of what he’s talking about is totally unheard of for me!
WKBW was the greatest radio station ever to be on the air. Most awesome announcers ever. Grew up in Connecticut, went to school in Philadelphia WKBW came in strong at sunset till sun up. Almost went to college in Buffalo but glad I didn't as Philadelphia never got snow but Whew did Buffalo ever get snow. For Buffalo a foot of snow was a flurry. Jackson Armstrong was my favorite as he was world famous for how fast he could speak and you would understand every word clearly. Those were the good old days. Kids these days listen to junk. How sad
Yep, we even had a nickname for it: “KB”
I remember falling asleep to the smoothe sounds of AM on my Panasonic "Ball" radio!!
I had a white one!
Nothing like driving late at night and scrolling through the AM dial to see what was happening out there. Not like that anymore. Sad.
I am from an hour south of Buffalo. I grew up listening to this station.
I remember the blizzard of 77. I was caught driving through Buffalo on my way home, which was about an hour's drive south. Had to stop at a small restaurant and wait. Others had to do the same.
I miss the simplicity of radio news.. when it was rote narration of the local events/events of the day/cold war developments... we don't need talking head conjecture, we just need to know, "everything is fine" "this is what to look out for" "this is what's going on" there is an eloquent simplicity in that that i miss.. even as an 80s baby.. thank you so much for posting this.. it's nice to be grounded in the past for a minute sometimes..
I was 11. We grew up with snow. Those plows were out ASAP cleaning every side street too! They were very efficient.
I lived listening to this channel on my transistor radio. I miss that area so much. I live in Virginia but think about the Southerntier of NY often.
I lived in Buffalo before going in the Navy and Buffalo was a friendly town with great restaurants.
I remember WKBW's Sunday Night Spectacular oldies show.
Loved it back in the 60s and 70s.
Then I moved to another part of the country, far away, and never heard it again.
Not sure when it ended.
Still miss it.
I was born and raised here in the Philadelphia area. And I remember hearing WKBW right down here in Philly at night.
January 23, 1966 was also my father's 37th birthday. And I was an 8-year-old third grader then.
Even though I was a kid in the '80's, I've always loved AM radio, the first sounds I heard besides humans were from a Victrola and a tube radio my grandad had that we liked to listen to when I stayed over his house on the weekends. I remember him telling me to be patient while it warmed up at the same time trying to explain why and how as best he could to a rambunctious eight year old. At home I always found weird stuff scanning the dial randomly on a transistor that my dad had given me, it was the first place I heard Dr. Demento, lol. And I loved listening to Art Bell with my dad later on in life. Thanks to the internet, I was able to relive that time as an adult as I cared for him after he got cancer four years ago, listening to AB was the one thing that took his mind off things and mine too. The happiness we get from such simple things is what really counts. Thanks from NYS, not NYC or L.I., lol.
In former times, these stations provided a public service, even saved lives. 56 years ago this week, I was trapped in my family's farmhouse in the heaviest hit area. Power was out for hundreds of miles. Nothing moved for about ten days. AM radio was the lifeline. Stations that normally signed off at sunset, would shut down for about 20 minutes, fire up their generators and get right back on. For several years, local advertisements for home and commercial building repair and fallen/damaged tree removal mentioned the "recent ice storm" like today they mention covid for health related ads.
Remember the AM radios from the 50's & 60's had the little Civil Defense triangles on two places in the dial - those were the channels we were instructed to tune to during the "This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System". I grew up between a Marine Corps base and a Navy base, and knew that the Reds had us in their crosshairs. Never have trusted the Russkies after that, and they haven't earned it yet!
I grew up in Buffalo, WKBW 1520AM was the greatest back in those days! Listened to them all the time
They certainly knew how to advertise back then. Today, in 2023, it is just white noise.
Mundane stuff from years long gone. I love it!
So that's where Rod Roddy got his start before the Price Is Right came along!
Yep. Mostly in Dallas, but he did this stint as the midday and overnight person.
I was in the fourth grade as this was being broadcast, living in a rented farmhouse outside of Rockford, Illinois. My older brother had just purchased his first cheap pocket transistor radio and he and I would set it on the window sill for best reception and listen to WROK Top 40 while we assembled plastic car models. Paperback Writer, On a Carousel, Bus Stop, Mellow Yellow, Hang On Sloopy, A Taste of Honey, My Generation... In the spring and summer ominous tornado warnings would interrupt the programming quite often and we would head for the musty dirt-floored cellar until we received the all-clear.
Thank you for sharing your memories. So great to hear.
My favorite station. Joey Reynolds was my favorite.
pulse beat news, dada dadadAA. brought back memories. kb radio, tommy shannon show. my how time flies.
I remember in 1976, when I was 15, listening to my transistor on a crystal clear starry night in Texas, I picked up WLS in Chicago clear as a bell. Listened for an hour before it suddenly faded out.
I am about the same age as you but I live in SW Ohio, I only had a AM radio in my car and WLS was the best music station on the dial, I found out about it in an ad in Circus magazine
@@woxyroxme I used to read Circus and Creem too
50000 watt clear channel. In Detroit I could listen to KRLD Dallas.
Ah, the Golden Days of Radio -- the 1950s and 60s! Live DJs in the LOCAL studio. In glorious medium-fi AM monophonic! Much more fun and entertaining than the impersonal satellite-fed music machines today that I heard a radio talk show host a few years ago call "Radio in a closet."
Late at night in Brooklyn after Murray the “k” & Brucie went bye bye I placed my Sony transistor under the pillow & was entertained by Joey Reynolds on KB
Living in Canada east of Maine I listened to all of those stations for years in the mid to late 60's. Loved Joey Reynolds
WKBW got me thru pharmacy school in Philly. Grew up in Connecticut and Philly was quite a shock. Philly was the city of brotherly love only if you were a brother. Studied after the sun went down and loved listening to Jackson Armstrong. Probably the fastest talker ever and you could understand every word. Even back in the late 60's I had a friend home on leave from Viet Nam and he said he felt safer over there than in Philly. WKBW was the best radio station ever and had Announcers that had no equal even to this day.
Great and fascinating memories. Thanks for sharing.
We were very lucky to have it
lol I just turned 67 years old I have a brother but I’m not a brother I never had a desire to leave…so much to do here and lots of history I hope you had a great career as a pharmacist.
I remember this on WKBW as I lived in Blair well for a number of years in the 60's. Lake effect snows would cover the Buffalo area, cancelling schools and work for days at a time. Wonderful for us kids !!!
Thank you for this. I was most likely listening to this live at the time. If I remember correctly, our school was closed for a week. We lived south of Rochester (boring DJs) so we listened to KB all the time. Especially at night while doing homework. Remember listening in probably 1967 to Bud Baloo. It was his birthday and my friends and I sent him a card and included letters to him and he actually read it on the air. At 13 it was exciting. All the DJ were like personal friends and we enjoyed listening as much as possible. Hope you have more clips, great memories of a bygone era.
If anyone is interested in listening to lots of oldies there is a station you can get online from Knoxville, TN that I found recently - WKCE 105.1 FM. Thanks again!
Rod Roddy?!!! Come on Dowwwwwwn!!! He worked overnights and mid-days at this Buffalo, New York radio station WKBW-AM (now WWKB), a clear channel radio station covering the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, and at other high-profile stations.
Do you write press releases?
I love this stuff. I'd have to go to the far end of the AM dial. The monotone quality cheap microphone or something would help me with migraines. I know it sounds funny but it really worked.
It really does!
This is awesome. Pure time warp
HOLY SHIT I WAS BORN ON THIS EXACT DAY JAN 23RD 1996
Mind blown 💥
Our favorite.. WCOG Greensboro!
Simpler things for a simpler time.
This is much better than anything on radio today!
you got that right back then they took their broadcasting work seriously. look at how few ads they had. now its about almost ten straight minutes of ed and pe blah blah blah blah forget it.
The music had the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Buck Owens, and Herb Alpert--a comparable genre combination would not happen today on the radio. That child (that was reported being born at home because of the snow storm) would be 57 years old today. I like to think of that person stumbling onto this recording on YT. Yes, they were ramping up the Vietnam War at that time. What a tragedy that was.
Although I never grew up with one because it was outdated by the time I came around I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the sound of an AM radio!
I'm just to be privelived..to own this and keep it alive
That was wonderful -what a relaxing broadcast. Oh, thank you for posting this.
loved AM radio as a kid, especially if there was a baseball or hockey game on. Had a pretty good idea of what teams played on what stations , which was probably about 8-10 teams for both the MLB and NHL teams. QTH is Cleveland Ohio
That Pepsi generation commercial made me think of women in go go boots and short skirts dancing 60s style with their semi bee hive hair. 😄
John Zach was the newsman. He just a few years back retired from WBEN AM 930
Outstanding footage! Working from home today. I can listen to this stuff for hours!
I’m so glad I posted this video as so many people seem to enjoy listening to this kind of thing as much as I do.
I love vintage!
I would do radio station search on my Valiant 6 transistor am radio, at nights and KBW came in stronger that most stations, while living in Astoria back in 1966.
Yep that was so much fun, listening to distant stations.
Grew up in Buffalo and was thrilled to catch KB at night after we moved to the NYC metro area.
We listened to 55 WGNG in Pawtucket RI. Great AM radio station.
We only had AM radio in the 70s here. 5 or six top 40 stations. We got FM in 1980 and only one station for 10yrs until 2 more in 1990.
I really enjoyed this, now this is what makes time travel possible. Thank you for sharing!
My dad would commute to and from work in his 1965 Ford F-150. I remember one evening starting up the engine. I was greeted by a loud AM broadcast of a talk-show called "Gather 'round"... and the wipers sloshing at top speed. In 1972, the angry talk was all about Richard Nixon.
BTW, my son does a mean Richard Nixon impression. He was born many years after Nixon was president... and I was very surprised that he had the level of awareness of the former president to impersonate him.
Here in Europe AM radio is going down, lots of transmitters are already turned off. It is a shame. I love AM broadcast
Hardly anyone listens to AM in America anymore. FM or satellite radio.
Terrible, my car only has AM radio
Is longwave still being used in Europe?
@@woxyroxmeif you mean longwave (ca 150kHz - 300kHz) then yes, but only a very few stations. Some were closed recently. There is only strong polish radio on 225kHz
@@JAN70VThanks, I was wondering because I had lived in Germany for a few years and I spent the summer of 1979 and 1980 there, when I would be in a taxi the radio had buttons on them that said L M K U U on them and that band was on my Aunt and Uncle’s big Telefunken radio
KBW's Sunday Night Spectacular must have gotten thousands of listeners from the Greater New York Area in the 60's as both WABC and WMCA had public service hours late on Sunday.Many did their weekend homework in that time period.
Thank you for this safe escapism!
Thanks for posting this. I can't believe how shortsighted this copyright scheme is. Videos like these can lead to a purchase!
My thoughts exactly. I don’t think anyone should necessarily be able to do whatever they want with somebody else’s songs, but I can personally say that owning this tape and making the video led me to re-listen and download many of these songs for my personal collection. And as you said, that ultimately meant money in the copyright holders’ pockets.
@@FluxCondenser Great, Great, GREAT upload- and thank you! I agree too that even though these songs are x-amount of years old and still must be respected, it can only benefit the copyright holders when something like this is uploaded. I can't tell you just how much "new" music I went out and bought, just because I heard it on a post like this. Years ago, I'd never buy anything from artists like Donovan, Herman's Hermits or Don McLean, but after hearing things on airchecks posted on TH-cam- things I'd never heard on so-called oldies radio- I ended up buying these artists' CDs. Really, it's like the artists gain an entirely new audience they may not have had before.
@@FluxCondenser Agreed. I'm not against scoped airchecks, which is essentially what you ended up with here, but unscoped can give you even more of a feel for the place and time of the recording and I wish you'd been able to include the songs. For we old folks, they're the background music of our childhood and can revive memories. For younger people, they can be a revelation as to what music used to sound like, and if sufficiently impressed, buy it... or even be inspired to create music of their own.
@@FluxCondenser AMAZING that you had and currently HAVE a functioning RCA "sound cartridge" recorder! I saw @Techmoan once do a video about it.
Thanks man
No problem
You may enjoy this one, too: 1966 AM Radio Broadcast. War, Fire, Murder, Commies & Eight Feet of Snow.
th-cam.com/video/h0PD8QzkU18/w-d-xo.html
Here in Calif it was Wolfman Jack. When I was in navy training we we were allowed radio in the evening.
I listened to him back when I lived in California, he was on a Mexican station that broadcasts at 250,000 Watts and it reached everywhere
One thing I didn’t appreciate until I moved away was how accurate the weather predictions were. If they said a blizzard was coming, it always came. Somehow it was very easy to predict. Where I moved next, it was and is pretty random. Usually the opposite happens from what they say is gonna happen. And it’s never changed in 38 years! You’d think by now they could predict the weather!
I find AM radio fasinating. On WBBM AM at 1am or 2am they have "When radio was.". WBBM AM is a mostly all news station for people like me who dont have a chance to watch alot tv during the week for 10pm news. Am dial is mostly talk news alot of unfortunately is politics. You will hear NFL games hockey baseball etc.
Thanks for the info. Here’s another one of my old radio broadcast videos you might enjoy:
th-cam.com/video/h0PD8QzkU18/w-d-xo.html
AM radio was great for talk, which was in the 1930's & 1940's (radio programming) before TV. Then they began playing music on AM until FM took off and had better clarity, then AM was reduced back to talk and some music. Don't forget the electrical interference.
Better talk then. Sure has went down the drain now for the most part.
@@marka1986 too much politics...I refuse to listen to that crap....from either political party
I agree that all you get from AM now is talk or sports or religion there is only one station here that plays music but they are being taken over by all the politics. The newscasts suck too.
This was on just 6 months before I was born in 1966. A damn shame of what happened to AM radio. 😔
Perfecto y hermoso lo oiamos desde niños no me explicaba como el am recibía en México estaciones de estados unidos mi le entendíamos pero se oye formidablee
Great work ❤❤❤Namibia 🇳🇦
Good one! I remember GC Murphys (Pennsylvania)
Glad you enjoyed it!
We had them in Chicago too.
That was great thank you❤
Great old stuff, thanks!
I used to listen to a lot of AM radio back in the 60s play the American pit parade station they were good there wasn't many talk stations but the hit play stations was good the echo effect on WABC and wmca couldn't wait to get to New York city I'm listening to wmca 570
sounds great!
If anyone wants to know how the Golden era of AM talk radio sounded....watch the movie "Talk Radio" from 1988, it was based on a true story.
Great Recording! Love it!
Glad you enjoyed it! Here’s another video I made on the subject you might like: th-cam.com/video/h0PD8QzkU18/w-d-xo.html
Love these times❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I'd love an unscoped copy of this aircheck, shame that TH-cam is so shortsighted in removing audio history.
I didn't know that rod Roddy used to be a disc jockey in New York, but this was before he started announcing game shows 12 years later in 1978!
Rod went on to become announcer on Bob Barker's 'The Price is Right' on CBS-TV
loved loved loved joey
He was a real piece of work, wasn’t he? I still laugh when I’m reminded of him.
Like a BOSS! Thank you from your newest sub. ✌️
Welcome aboard!
I have fun memories of listening to this station when I was a teenager in the 60s how do you do in Virginia that time or also remember going home to West Virginia and listening to WKBW also to Ridgeway PA and hold up to New York Buffalo Niagara Falls Toronto Ontario but I do remember the station especially in the winter time when they were announcing all the school closings and factories were shut down because of the snow I still follow what goes on in Buffalo I find it to be a very interesting Station to listen to especially all the school closings and closings dish. And all that heavy snow used to hit
Nice RCA magazine loading cassette player. Is it restored?
I have a different model, and a few prerecorded tapes. I'll have to check them out. I never thought they could be this cool.
BTW my player needs a little help in the way of wow and flutter.
All Radiola Song Samples:
Official Way
14:04 Intro Bit
14:22 Secret Lyrics/Main Chorus
15:02 Secret Lyrics/Post-Radiola Motif
Better Way
1:42 Intro Bit
1:11 Midway Bit (Plays x2 in song, 2nd time pitched up)
Which Way...?
14:34 Beneficial Way Reprise
Get That Big Ol' Pay
11:23 "W... K... B... W...!"
2:49 "I'm Miss KB!"
13:56 "Muuuuusic...!"
17:30 Gum Commercial (The highly autotuned singing voice)
18:18 "Two and a half minutes" + "WOOH!"
7:55 "The Dodge Boys"
14:22 Secret Lyrics Reprise
3:35 "You Will Recieve A Penalty" (At the end of the lyrics reprise)
And as a final note, the Radiola-inspiration ad also plays at 32:45.
Let me know if I missed any and I'll edit the comment!
Is that Rod Roddy from The Price is Right voicing WKBW Radio?
Yes, that’s him.
6:42 Bro this is the Dream!
Was anyone else waiting for the tape reels to sync ?
You mean that TH-cam won't allow a scoped air check? I just played a kid's (who is in New Zealand) scoped air check and it's on here . . . oh well. Correction . . . that was on Facebook. Never mind.
It didn’t allow the music which was played during the broadcast due to copyright claims.
@@FluxCondenser I read that but I don't get it. TH-cam has almost everything ever recorded on it so why would a scoped (or not) aircheck not be allowed?
When TH-cam creators post videos which contain music they do not own one of two things can happen. The owner of the music can choose to allow the video to stay, but they keep any profits made, or they can block it completely. In my case, they blocked it completely. And while TH-cam may have “almost everything ever recorded” that’s because the copyright holders have licensed or allowed the use of that material.
There's nothing to listen to on AM radio these days unless you're into all talk.
WJEJ in Hagerstown, Md. still has live deejays playing music from the 1920s to 1970s weekdays from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. Try it on the internet or Tune-In. Morning man Lou Scally, 5 a.m. to noon, has the perfect friendly folksy style so common 70 years ago.
The only place to go anymore is online. Live 365 is about the best anyone does now. Most AM stations now are talk, sports, foreign language or religious. That’s it. All 50 states.
The AM band in the US is fading fast, as ad dollars migrate online. The prime targets of big advertisers are people under age 50, and they are the LEAST engaged with AM. Even the 50 kW stations struggle to sell ad time, so they’ve laid off nearly their entire news staffs and use automated DJs for music shows. The Right wing talk audience is aging out, as they average over 60 years- the least desirable to big advertisers.
Guess you don't have any upstate NY viewers, was this the blizzard of 66 broadcast ? something like 6ft of snow overnight
I have another video with broadcasts from the Blizzard of ‘66. Check it out here: th-cam.com/video/h0PD8QzkU18/w-d-xo.html
Buffalo Skyway & Father Baker bridge closed during a snowstorm. Well-duh!
Can I download this?
Sure. I have a newly released video of another broadcast you can check out as well. th-cam.com/video/h0PD8QzkU18/w-d-xo.html
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Rod Roddy sounds a lot like Dan Neaverth
Who dat?
@@FluxCondenser Neaverth was another DJ at the station who was on the air for many years. A Buffalo legend and member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Still with us as of 2023.
Hello can I use this radio for an ambience video I am making called 'Radio plays while you are in the kitchen' please
Sure just give a credit and send some viewers my way.
@@FluxCondenser Bro thanks so much. After so many months I found someone who didn't threaten to sue me just for bringing up this idea lol
Sure I will heavily promote your channel also
I thought they were going to say WKBRL 11:29
Good, but does anyone have airchecks of competitor Clint Buehlman, who was on for decades? I will trade from my aircheck collection of similar deejays.
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Flux Capacitor?
1.21 GIGAWATTS!!!
FM is pretty lame these days too. IMHO. I don't use my tuner on my system much at all. I think AM at night is still okay. I have bever seen that type of audio tape machine before.
10:31 what song is that?
14:10 14:35 32:59
Look how much more professional they were back than. No today it is all just a bunch on monotonous crap.
Glad you enjoyed it. Here’s another video I made on the subject you might like: th-cam.com/video/h0PD8QzkU18/w-d-xo.html
at 9:03 there is a cancellation for the ukraine independence rally............i found that very interesting considering the current global climate lol
10:25
You Tube sure is screwy about copyright nonsense. There are many other recordings that have music within their recordings on You Tube.
10:31 what son g is that?