NY Radio Station Aircheck July 4, 1976. Unedited with Commercials WPLJ WXLO WYFY92 And More...
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- I recorded this on the Bicentennial 1976. Lots of good music and commercials. A cool blast from the past! 90 minutes of the Good Old Days.
Unedited. Sit back and enjoy... Thanks for listening.
This is a great example of how fun radio used to be back in the day before the big corporate buyouts and takeovers. Now everything is just automated crap. The DJs' personalities is what made the different stations fun to listen to. From sitting on the beach to cruising in the city, you always had a great DJ keeping everything upbeat and fun. They played what the public wanted to hear and not the same programmed tracks over and over. I wish we could bring back independently owned stations that would cater to the local public and promote local events and businesses. Thanks for taking us back in time! 😊
Thanks for your comment. I agree! Thanks for listening...
I'm in Florida now, but there's always WFUV 90.7 as a listening alternative. I was in NYC 2 months ago and as soon as I got in the rental car, tuned the radio to 90.7.
> you always had a great DJ keeping everything upbeat and fun < "Put your hand on the radio and feel the warmth of my sincerity."
Yes! The DJ was the secret to success for a radio station to be popular. They all had their own personalities, different voices, and were not afraid to experiment with new sounds. I recently saw a group photo of all the “popular” DJ’s in my county and I could not distinguish one from the other; shaved heads, backwards baseball caps, tattoos, and board shorts. Give me 1976 any day.
Totally spot on ...
i was 16 and we celebrated Americas birthday it was a different world. we did not know how good we had it.
We do now...
I was 6 years old. It was a very worry free, care free and fun year for me.
1976. What an exciting time as a kid. Such a great summer of music and vivid memories of all the bicentennial celebrations everywhere on the east coast. We lived in Nassau County, NJ then. Thanks for posting🎉
I was 9 years old in Queens NYC awesome 😊 memories
i was 11 days old.. this is a trip
Enjoy the trip! Thanks for your reply. 🗽🧨📻
I was definitely listening to one of these stations this day.
I was all of 11 yrs old. After coming home from Huntington Harbour hoping to see some Tall Ships we all came home for the neighbourhood cookout.
This is so awesome!!
July 4th, 1976 was a great day for our country
It sure was. I remember as a teenager then, getting teary-eyed because for the first time ever, everyone hung their flags. The sight was so beautiful, it got me choked up. Never saw it again sadly until 9/11/01.
@@serenitypeaceandcomfort3669 I was 6 when 9/11 happened. I wish I had been older so i could remember the outpouring of patriotism. I remember when Osama Bin Laden was killed though. America was united for weeks after. People put their flags out. It didn't matter who you were voting for. We were 1 nation in celebration.
I was born in March 1976. Listening to this makes me wish I was at least a teenager back then! ❤
Oh the Memories Riding around the city in the summer of 76 as a ten year old with my dad listening to the radio, what I would give to have him back for one more ride !! 🙁
I really loved! Loved so much to have listened this music treasure. Thank you, thank you very much. I've listened to the whole recording. It's outstanding!
Eduardo Bastos.
Sao Paulo City.
Brazil.
Going on 47 years since that day, can't be true...! Anyway hearing this takes me back, made my day, thanks.
"I'm feeling lucky." Thank You...
99X out of NYC was a great station. They played a mix of rock and top 40. I listened to that station thru high school. It went to a talk radio format around 1980. Alot of great stations out of NYC. WNEW FM was a great album oriented station at that time.
Oh Carol Miller that you hear on WPLJ is still on the NYC airways today on Q 104.3 at night spinning classic rock. 😊
Best music ever!
I was 8 in 76. With a sister 4 years older then me, I remember a lot of the music. That being said, I did not know Carly Simon did a cover of It Keeps You Runnin!
Willie Nelson was playing music at this time and lol he is still playing, now that is crazy,.
I just want to hear Alison Steele on WNEW-FM again 😪 and all those delicious album rock midnights.
This was before I knew what "Afternoon Delight" really meant.
$4 all you can ride. Boy those were the days.
I was 11 years old in the summer of ‘76. Going to 6th grade in September. The great old days! When my parents were still young and strong…
I read some of the comments here and I wanted to express the pattern of how society complains about the current generation and the good Ol' days during his/her childhood. For example, back in the 70's people who grew up in the 1940's said the same thing about how bad the world is getting & the same for someone who grew up in the early 1900's, etc. etc. Anyway I do enjoy the 1970's and 80's music & classical music in the mid 1700's.
As someone born in 87' is astonishing for me how little ads there were... i dont even turn on the radio today. I dont even use streaming Its all torrrented.
I have that same TEAC reel to reel on the left (the preamp, anyways)!
Any Top 40 radio station samples from the summer of 1985? One of my favorite summer years of music!!
In 1976 I was 6 years old. One night my parents had friends over and I think they were playing cribbage or something like that. They were drinking and smoking and the stereo was blasting good tunes. They started talking about a real cool song about a ship that sunk but nobody could remember the name of it correctly, Edward Fitz something, they were getting frustrated. Too buzzed to call themselves, they decided to pick up the phone and call the DJ, then handed me the phone. " yeah, give it to the kid, this should be funny". The phone rang a couple times and this guy answered and said "request line something something". I remember saying "my mom and dad wanted to hear a song about a ship sinking". Edward fitz something, i said. The DJ said, "
Oh The Wreck Of The Edmond Fitzgerald"? I said I guess so. ILL never forget this, the DJ said " COME ON KID...GET YOUR SHIP STRAIGHT and went right into the song. My parents screamed with laughter and all fell on the floor..I was very confused but was the star that night...
I love your story! It's priceless. I'm rolling on the floor laughing. Thanks for sharing this. Like Clint Eastwood said, "Go ahead make my day." You made my day! Shirley you did. And don't call me Shirley... Leslie Nielsen
Well my parents made me who I am today and im spreading the lighthearted madness to they're grandkids..lol..thanks for your channel and comment..😅
That song gives me chills whenever I hear it.
And amidst all that smoke and booze were patterned polyester shirts with collars that were way too big. And at least one room had wood paneling slapped on the wall. 😂
Lol
If I close my eyes I'm in 1976 again (and I never want to leave it!)
Ditto! Remember those? Kids don't know what they are...
For me, the best years of the 70s were 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, and, 78.
My dad was happy making good money in the 70’s…
IKR
Better yet , get your bells on your polyester button up and your even closer to ‘76 ! ✌🏽
I was only 8 that year but I remember the music, the air, smells, friends, cars, TV shows, school, vinyl and 8-tracks, the sounds of the world around me back then. My entire immediate family were alive then, even the really old ones that died soon after that. The first song on the video, Wings' "Silly Love Songs" was the first-ever foray into my lifelong love for anything and everything Beatles. That was the first 45 I ever owned and was the first of thousands of Beatles records and memorabilia. Wonderful video. Thank you.
The sole intention of my little time capsule is to help people remember what awesome times we all had... Thanks for watching!
That song and many like it made me want to play bass even though it took me years to know what a bass line and bass guitar were. That bass line moves and evolves throughout the song. Excellent pop music well written, arranged, performed, produced, engineered and mastered. Sounded great anywhere you heard it. So many songs back then hit all of the marks. We were spoiled with great pop music art. We didn't know it.
Same age , yes it’s a good time in music.
Me too 8! Now 55. Ughh. Lol
I loved silly love songs 🎵
My 16th year of age. Just got my driver's license. Just started working at Mickey D's. The world was my oyster, for sure!
I would trade 2000-2023 and beyond to relive 1970's 80's 90's
Absolutely 100%
You and millions of others.
Me too, with no hesitation.
Thank you William, I was 27 years old hitting every disco in the metro D.C. area in 1976. Playing softball in two leagues with plenty of young beautiful ladies watching us. Loving every young lady while doing the hustle plus every dance while wearing a variety of different leisure suits. Cruising in my 1976 Dodge Aspen Limited Coupe. A year full of hangovers, but well worth it 😊Met the girl of my dreams in December 1976, we married in June 1978. We celebrate 45 years on June 10, 2023. ❤I had too many real fireworks in Vietnam 1969-70. I just stayed as far away from them as I could, hitting disc clubs at night.
Thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service.
Thank you for listening and thank you for your service. Glad you made it back alive. I lost a few friends in country, although I wasn"t there. Hope you are now living the dream. I sure am...
Thank you for your service.
I envy the party times you lived thru.
I was 13 too. Radio during the daytime (with DJs who actually had good voices, playing songs with actually good singers, who sang actually-good songs). And TV such as "The ABC Monday (or Friday, or Sunday) Night Movie" at night. Everything was dependable: i.e., politicians were mostly for-real and sane, the people were mostly physically fit (not morbidly obese), and it was just a given that school was completely safe (and yet, wide-open), and school boards were sane professionals, and school had real food, all made from scratch, which we could smell cooking all over the building... It almost makes me cry... what the hell happened?!
13 too! This is great!
Who'd have thought back in 1976 that this tape would be listened to over 40 years later by thousands of people all over the world!? My father had that same reel to reel machine!
I can't believe it myself! Thanks for listening...
That's almost 50 years!!!! 😮😢
@@kristopherguilbault5428 Don't remind me.
thats not from 76 - that unit is all digital controlled. Early 90ies
@@levondarratt787 The tape, not the deck. The sound quality is pretty poor too.
Makes me feel young and old at the same time! Thank you for this treasure, William!
My pleasure. Thanks for listening...
I sure can relate as this ol body breaks down.
😂I thought the same thing. I feel fourteen listening to it until I saw my reflection in the mirror…
19 years old with my whole life ahead of me. What a summer! July 4, 1976 my sister and I drove around downtown Allentown waving flags out the windows of her ‘73 Gremlin.
We don’t search for old music we search for old memories. Thank you William.
Absolutely! We need the old music to bring them back. Thanks Michael.
Music is the vessel getting me there.
Wish it is 1976 NOW! Way better than today & future! Much better economic times than today, more innocent and carefree, miss them and my family.
Ditto!
I was only 4 year's old i do wish I was teenager in 1976 bet it was great time
@@derekalfano4431 I was 14...bro it was a blast!!
This is awesome, my dad owned the radio station in our town from 64 to 78 and I have all the old reel to reel tapes of every minute, sometimes I put em on and let it play all day
Wow a treasure trove for sure, it would be well received if you uploaded a couple, make many people happy, look at the comments on here ... worth a thought 💭
You know you're sitting on content, right? Put that on YT and get the views.
Upload them to TH-cam!!
Sometimes the spoils are just for u.
Very cool! My dream was to work at a radio station and I eventually did for many years. Best job I ever had. I was the happiest ever as an adult.
I’m almost 62 now. I was 14 turning 15 in September. Thank you so much for the trip back. This brings back such great memories.
And enjoy those great memories as they are priceless!
Turned 15 in August of 76 I'm a whole month older than you 😋
I turned 15 in June of that year, in Europe. I was in a choir from the U.S. and we performed in five countries for three weeks. We came home on July 6. Silly Love Songs was the first song I heard after deplaning in Wichita KS. That summer was amazing! The music was amazing! What a joy this brings to my heart! Thank you for making this tape!
That was my 15th birthday. You won't hear a mix of styles like that on any "pop" or "rock" station today ....
@@georgeford3687 Me. 17. May of 76
I just moved back into the 70s and I'm not leaving Thank you so much for sharing this gemstone💎
I listened to this station every day as a teenager🦅🇺🇸💕
I bet housing is affordable there. Thanks for watching!
Me too plus WNEW 102.7.
I was in 6th grade and had just gotten a portable bike radio. I was riding to the tunes.
@@williampovilaitis6951lol! Glad my phone is waterproof. Laughed so hard, just sprayed beer all over it. 😂
This time capsule is exactly what I needed. I was 9 years old & remember the Bicentennial fondly. Ahh, request lines...🤩
Bicentennial was nuts!! Anticipating the new coins! FM 1:11
I was 10, living in the Detroit area. Remember the crepe paper between our bike spokes?
Thank you so much for this! I was 8 years old and my parents took us to the East River to watch the parade of ships! I'm certain WPLJ was on the car stereo!
@@jaminova_1969 wings over america was thee tour that summer/fall
@@robertcarli1969 Elvis Presley and all 4 Beatles were still alive! And SNL was actually funny!
As a native New Yorker, I love this. I was alive and well on that day. SO many memories! Those commercials!
and the Yankees were on their way back!
Yankees won back to back World Series not long after this.
@@holtridge7337 Yes Champions in 1977 and 1978, and an appearance after that summer in 1976.
@@romelovesdan Oh yeah. Three World Series Appearances in a row. Just like 98, 99, and 00
👍👍👍😊
I was 13 years old in 1976. This is my absolute favorite year for radio hits! The DJ's, music and even the commercials were the best.
Those were the days.
Me too, what a wonderful and magical time! Happy 60th to you Kevin!
Same here 😊
Agree! I was 10 that year. I remember exactly where I was on July 4th. What I don't miss are the scratchy clothes and the cigarettes everywhere.
@@FrankButterfield Roebucks Toughskins... New pair every year... Whether you needed them or not!
Corduroy Levis were such a treat!
The Starland Vocal Band was the epitome of 1976. You can almost smell the time, it was so good.
An interracial couple was rare in a pop group in 1976.
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Their harmony was the best! ❤️🎶🎶🤩👌
It smells like wood paneling and polyester! 😄
Yes! And lots of Wings especially Listen To What the Man Said. Great year for music!
I smell cigarettes, pot , incense, and stale beer 😂
Oustanding! I converted 185 gigs of rock radio recorded from all over wisconsin between 1971 and about 1998. A lot of it is from Madison & Milwaukee (e.g., 93 WQFM Milwaukee). Maybe I should post them on my TH-cam channel? What do you think?
That would be cool. It’s awesome to hear these classics as they originally played on the radio.
You should do it! What the world needs now is vintage rock radio airchecks!
The commercials are the time machine to the past...
I was only 2 years old, but these songs are better than the trash they play today. Real music.
That 20 second lead up to Silly Love Songs was perfect for the radio of the day! Great bass in that song!
Wow! I remember listening to this. We had this station on. It was beautiful bicentennial day. I was 12 years old and we had an outdoor pool in the building where we lived. We had neighbors and friends gather to swim and getting food ready on the grill and preparing drinks to celebrate this holiday. I remember the laughter, joy and dancing. My friends and I had our own stash of firecrackers which we occasionally lit off. Later in evening, the adults had alot of big fireworks which they lit. Everybody was just enjoying themselves. It was a much simpler and carefree time.
I was 28 and did the partying, fireworks, grilling and all the rest. It was the best of times back then. I knew it was special and that was why I recorded this to share with all...
@@williampovilaitis6951 And that's why we're so grateful You recorded this. It really was different and better times, and this brings it back for us a little bit. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
I was 13. We always called WPLJ Peanut Butter and Jelly. Did you?
I was 8 back then
Missed the following:
Ktel records, 45s for a buck, Casey Kasum, relatives that were still here, landlines, real conversations, oversized cars, The Fonz, Welcome Back Kotter, playing outside and feeling 90 percent safe, the middle class, crazy straw, Quik, Buckwheats cereal, Saturday Cartoons, The Funnies, comic books that actually felt like comic books, baseball cards with the gum, bicycles that did not cost 5 k, etc
I predict in the future that Chicago will have a number 1 song in the fall of 1976 called If You Leave Me Now
CRAZY EDDIE….the best commercials!
Yep. His prices were insane
@@williampovilaitis6951 A little too insane lol
Having the wood grain on the wall behind the tape player and turntable is the icing on the cake! Love this.
Thanks for your kindness!
It's weird to hear this and not have it called oldies or easy listening in the breaks. This was the music of the moment. Also, these versions of the songs seem a little different and longer.
Possibly some of the songs were sent out to DJ's as promo records?
Also no virtual DJ, real people probably DJing live. As for the music there were and still are radio edits, sometimes completely different recordings than the album version. All the ones I shazammed came up.
The oldies in 1976 came from the 40s and 50s.
I love time capsules like this. Video and audio are the only real time machines we'll have in our lifetime. They transport us back to a time when each of us can remember fondly those care free days of our lives.
Wow 😲. That is so amazing somebody recorded and kept these now priceless pieces of radio history. It sounds more energetic and enthusiastic than radio now both in the songs and the DJs. Fantastic!
Awesome! Can't express how much Im missing the 70s & 80s lately - things just don't feel right anymore.
I was a Júnior in high school. Grad in 77! What a different world it was back then!!!!! Would love to go back and really enjoy being young! That's what I regret! Time flies by WAY to fast!!!!!
Same here. Wish I had a Time Machine.
Me too! A great time in my life.
@@mshell1959 I sure enjoyed growing up back then. I was 12 in 1976, and the Reds were reigning World Champs and would repeat. Those days seem carefree and simpler in retrospect.
The good ol days of 1976 where you can go to a bar or night club and almost guaranteed to get laid before the night is over.
You could.... Me... Lol! Of course i was not old enough for any of that in '76!
I still have tapes somewhere from that timeframe. Used to sit by my stereo on the floor of my room just waiting for specific songs so I could tape them. So wish I could go back to those times. Loved the Bicentennial year most of all. I was 10!😊
I used to do that too! Tapes were expensive back then. Wish I had more bucks to buy them then. I was 27 then. My brain is still 18...
I turned 9 in June of 76. just moved to northern Virginia from Korea. Great memories! I did the tape recorder thing too😅
@@williampovilaitis6951 Oh they really were! And we didn’t care about the quality of the recording. I had one where a plane flew overhead and caused static on one of my favorite songs and I was mad. Loved AM radio back then. Thank God for those memories.
@@carlnorton2757 Wow what a year to have as your first year in the US. Things I remember most are the school pictures we took with us holding the liberty bell in front of a screen of the American flag and lots of parades.
The year I graduated high school! This makes me happy to hear now. Thanks for the memories!
Mind's flooded with the sights and sounds of the mid-70s...Jim Kerr on WPLJ, Scott Muni on WNEW...we were in heaven and didn't know it. Thanks for posting this!
Scottso Muni, The 5th Beatle lol 🤣
@@THEATREofPAIN270 Ive got his RIAA Gold Record Award for the 1st Foreigner Album...will always treasure it.
I was 11 years old in 1976. It was a magical summer! Thank-you so much for this! I still remember the huge backyard Bar-B-Q party we had on the 4th! Then staying up to watch the amazing fireworks!
Same here, same age. I probably had some of this on a cassette myself...looking forward to recognizing some of it.
Great memories! 🇺🇸💥
Me too!
I was also 11 years old. Great memories of school and the bicentennial.
A little older, but yes, absolutely correct! Anyone else recall the Bicentennial Liberty Train visiting their town?
Sounds just like the day I lived through in 1976 . 😊
I remember watching the Bicentennial festivities on tv on July 4
Ships from all over the world were sailing into NY Harbor 🚢
Oh! This is GOLDEN!!! The fireworks that night were EPIC!!! Thank you so much for sharing! 🤩✨✨✨ 21:55 Oh, man! That summer concert line up sounded amazing!!! ❤️🎶❤️🎶🥳🥳🥳holy cow!!!
@Scott Luther ouch! Right??!!😣😄
Imagine turning on the radio and hear all these great songs on the air.
If you have Sirius XM, you can still do that. Tune to either the 70's or Classic Vinyl channels. I've had them in my cars for the past 15 years and can bring them up on my cell phone.
Big deal. We got WAP today.
This was one of the greatest years of my life - you had the Bicentennial going on and all the pomp that goes with that, plus it was my first year of Cub Scouts - many a day spent listening to 99X and having my Mom freak out because I kept answering the phone, "99X is my radio station"! 😄
93.3 KZHP plays this type of music
Don't have to. I remember it vividly. And as all my friends can contest to, I've never really gotten over it. Lol.
I was 10 in 1976. Frampton Comes Alive was everywhere. Silly Love Songs was great on the summer radio. McCartney tix were $10 not $500.
Back in the day when we used to record songs off the radio.
So what made you decide to do this? This is a great time capsule.
I was 27 at the time and had just bought my first decent stereo equipment. Everyone was hyped up about the Bicentennial, including me! I decided to record a few hours of audio for posterity. I'm so glad I did it. It's like taking a trip in a time machine. I'm hoping it makes a lot of people feel happy...
I was 20 just home from Korea in time for the bicentennial!!!! Good to be home!
I was 22 years old 1976 is my favorite year of the seventies I grew up in Brooklyn and this day holds a special place in my heart. The bicentennial was a great day for me and this whole summer as well, wish I could travel back in time this is the date I would set the time machine dial to,and I would never come back the world was a much better place.💯❤❤💥💥💥👍
Just try and tell me there is no such thing as time travel... (too bad there is a temporal distortion
causing the music to go in and out of phase) Can you get on that Mr. Spock? Seriously, this is a sensational mood lifter. Thanks
Thank you for listening! And time travel exists... Live long and prosper.
You can never go back , but you just helped me .. for a few minutes . What a feeling .
Oh , to be young again ! Thank you ...
I wasn't even alive back then, but I love stuff like this. Everything just seemed more carefree and easygoing. If you have more to share, I'd love to hear it!
I was 3, I'm sure it was a great time, but I don't remember it. I do recall "Spirit of '76" items hanging around here and there into the early 80s.
I was 8 and I remembered it all, and I am glad to have experienced it 1st hand.
You have good taste.😊
Humans tend to romanticize the recent past. I was a stringy-haired, zit-covered, flunk-out High school junior, carrying a draft card, bong, and 1.9 GPA. Looking for a job, so I could buy some gas for the car. Ended up walking to work and washing cars for $1.94/hr. College? I was hoping for a GI bill. Fond memories? One of my best friends committed suicide that year. Best time ever? Hell no! ...but it was life.
@@gretalaube91 That's true. In 30 years, I'll probably be saying the same things about my younger years
What a great gem from the past. I remember every one of the songs I heard.
The Golden Days of AM radio, summertime, going to the beach, barbecues, Paul McCartney and Wings, Elton John. Rocky was the 1 no. One movie and Jaws was still playing a year later. Hard to believe we have come so far. Thank you for posting, brought a smile to my face 😊.
Thanks! I just wanted to bring some joy to the world with this...
@@williampovilaitis6951 you sure did, I forgot to mention on Friday and Saturday nights we had the Midnight Special and Don Kershners Rock concerts. Incredible.
AM radio have been eliminated by most auto manufacturers this year….
I listen to this and it brings me solice; the sounds from a world that was so much saner, kinder and less cray-cray than the whacked-out place we call home today. BTW William, you were way more sophisticated at recording things in 1976 than I was. In 1975, I received a hand held cassette recorder, and at age 13, I would just put it next to the radio in order to tape songs. And, like the geek with a white pocket protector, I would also tape national weather foracasts from TV and then study the US map to see where all the weather was happening. I think that's why I'm still so good as US geography LOL !!! And oh, I can't forget spending a few August days in a hotel in Delaware with my family, including my Grandmother, Belle, during Hurricane Belle, August 1976! Us kids were so excited about being in a hurricane! This is just a great Yout Tube post ... thanks.
I feel good that I was able to bring back those interesting memories of your younger days. Thank you for sharing them with me...
I was only 3 in '76, but I have very early memories of listening to the radio in my dad's VW Bug. This is so great to listen to!
Thanks! This will be my soundtrack for Summer 2023!! Love it!
Thank you for listening!
Where are you, my long lost Pet Rock?
They get around and they live for millions of years! Thanks for listening!
Do you still have your mood ring? Remember those crazy things along woith shag carpet and bell bottoms LOL..
This is awesome. loved the 70's. Was not quite 9 yet. As someone else mentioned, can still remember the sounds, smells, the feelings, the friends, endless days. Everyone was still together/alive. Makes ya a bit sad sometimes Great recording, great year, greatest decade! Thank you!!
I was 19 that summer, happy times, living in Brooklyn. WXLO! '99X', actually 98.7FM. WXLO owned a disco somewhere in Manhattan for a short time, maybe down near Astor Place. I remember the Bicentennial 4th of July. I was at a barbecue at a friends house in in Canarsie, Brooklyn that day. Andrea True's big disco hit 'More, More, More' was all over the radio that summer. WPLJ 95.5FM was NYC's other 'progressive rock' station after WNEW-FM 102.7.
Thanks for the reply. Every time I hear Andrea True's More More More, it gets stuck in my mind for hours! It is one of my favorites.
WPLJ was my favorite.
Best tunes at night with Carol Miller.
She had such a beautiful voice.
Common back in the day to round the frequency to the nearest "cool" number ... because there were (basically) zero tuners with digital frequency readouts then (started early 1980s, maybe very late 70s). Once that started, stations had to be precise ... AM, too. CKLW-800 in Windsor (across the river from Detroit) could be "The Big 8" when all you had to do was move the pointer to the, um, big 8 on the dial but once it was "800" on the display ... well, here we are. Now, you just let your phone connect to your car and play what you want.
And it isn't as good in any way.
Now radio is unlistenable due the amount of commercials
Is that your stereo and record player? That's freaking awesome
Yep, and still working. Blessed to have them. Thanks for listening!
I turned 21 on that day, celebrated ALL day long.
Thank you so much for sharing this!!! I was just shy of 10 on July 4th, 1976, it was an awesome Bicentennial and summer!
I was 17 that year and working at Playland in Rye. Listening to New York radio inspired me to get into the business....I have been in radio for 36 years, though it is not the business it once was....
Thanks for your kindness. Thanks for your service to the kids. Remember Palisades Amusement Park?
My sister lives around there. We stopped at the Pharmacy last October. What excellent and friendly service. Nice area.
Wow, a piece of radio history from America's bicentennial! Thanks so much for the upload! 🙂👍📻🎆🎇
Thanks for watching!
Omg! This was my childhood, 1976. I was 11 years old listening to this music on my two older sisters' radio balls that were on a chain and their dynamite 8-track portable players. Great music, (put together here) great tv shows from Emergency, Baretta, Barney Miller, Good Times, The Jeffersons, MacMillan & Wife, Cannon, Barnaby Jones " 🗣️ A Quinn Martin Production 😀" .......endless memories from a beautiful time to grow up in ♥️ Great times and a great era, the 70s.
I was 11 also. Bi-Centennial and the big ships were coming through the harbor. Maybe someone got excited and decided to start recording?
I've never loved the commercials as much as I do right now. lol
They get better with age like a fine wine or cheese. Thanks for commenting!
Same❤
It is so cool to listen to not only the songs but hearing the commercials, adds more to the experience..for some reason I think of the 70s as an innocent and fun time..but that's because I was just a little Rugrat..back then riding my bicycle with my radio Shack walkee talkee trying to interrupt truckers or any cb users out there...When I hear Summer Breeze I think of my mom watering all her plants and cleaning...or when I hear Silly Love Songs I think of picnicking...of course Saturday in the Park
Thanks for your reply! Memories sure are great!
What a great time capsule! I was only 2yrs old at this time, but i still remember the essence of the late '70s. It was so much more laid back and sophisticated. No screaming and no shock value for the sake of shock value.
I was five when this aired. The only thing I remember about this particular day was the Bicentennial festivities.
I participated in a Bicentennial pageant and parade and was the little “Queen” of the parade, riding on the top of my father’s Police car. 🤣
Good times.
this takes me back. remember the summer of '76 fondly. what a great time to be a kid. soundtrack of our lives. thank you for having the good sense to record and preserve this! and for this post.
Thank you for your kindness in replying and thanks for listening!
The Great Bicentennial year. I can’t help but notice almost every song played has staying power. They’re almost timeless. The music of today is basically disposable. Aside from that it was s great time to be fourteen living in a world without computers, laptops, and cellphone social media. You had to actually leave your house to experience life for real, and NOT on a digital screen.
"Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing". Thank You for listening and replying!
@Mario, Ain't that the truth
Kinda with you on the music, but aside from the sonics, screw all that. The darkest of the Dark Ages, we were just getting hand held radios in parks, the tv had fewer channels than your dick has inches, you had to go to a library to look up anything. And here you are, some crusty old fart, maligning the new frontier - on one of those digital screens you hate, no less.
Hypocrite much, dude?
I was 7 years old but this music never left my soul.
I WAS 6
WPLJ 95.5 FM was album oriented rock & starts at around the 58:00 min. mark, prior to that was 99X 99.1 FM which was a top 40 pop hits oriented station with a few older hits thrown in.
99X was previously 98.7 WOR-FM.
WPLJ was my favorite.
I loved Carol Miller's playlist back then.
And she had a beautiful voice.
The best 4th of July I’ve ever experienced. The upbeat and excited mood from everyone was awesome as was all the red, white & blue clothes and swimsuits.
Shocked that the DJ didn't play Elton's "Philadelphia Freedom" on this Independence Day!?!
I'm sure they probably did. Wish I had more tape back then. Thanks for watching!
I don’t know how it worked in the ‘70s, but today “Philadelphia Freedom” usually gets played during the final few hours of July 4th so that people can use it as a soundtrack t9 the fireworks displays. This seems like it was recorded earlier in the day.
Groovy, man - appreciate the upload.
I remember that day too. We used to live in Montreal. I am half American, so we went down to Burlington VT for the celebrations that day. Better times indeed! I was getting into radio hits in the mid 70s and have a lot of those songs on cassette still. Edit: Wow it makes me so sad. My whole family was alive and well that day. Now they're all dead and gone. I am not totally alone now, but I am kind of depressed thinking about back then.
Amazing how all these songs were brand new and even the groups were current...We listen to it all now and its like one big Oldies or Classic rock collection...I like a lot of this music today and was always wishing I recorded radio from those days but was too young. Listening to this now is like more than awesome! Never thought I would ever hear something like this. Also 99X was like the precursor to Z 100 .
So glad I could provide this little blast from the past to you. Thanks for listening!
Hell even 90s are considered retro today... i was born in 87 and even i feel like old fart😂😇
If I could wake up and hear this waking me up on my alarm clock and it actually be 1976 again……😢
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I was 9 in 1976 as well. Magical year for music to a child's ear.
I was 17 going on 18 in summer of 1976. I remember the spirit of the bicentennial. Flags everywhere, cookouts, concerts. Now our flag triggers snowflakes who hate our country. I mourn the death of our nation. This brings back good memories though.