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 Rock & Roll Radio DJs' Aircheck Quotes - presented by Blast from Your Past! - Inspiring great memories and moments through the magic of music!(tm)
Quoted (with permission) from the archives at Reel Radio-the Authentic Aircheck Museum.
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August 2011 - DJ quotes week #1
Monday, August 15, 2011 - DJ quote #1
Radio DJ aircheck-quote #1, Alan Freed, WJW/Cleveland 1954,
ReelRadio.com, courtesy of Blast from Your Past!:
"Hello everybody! How
ya-all tonight? This is ALAN FREED, the ol' King o' the Moondoggers and it's
time again for another of your favorite Rock & Roll sessions, Blues and
Rhythm records for all the gang in the Moondog kingdom, from the Midwest to the
East Coast!"
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/ricky/index.html#afwjw54
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - DJ quote #2
Blast from Your Past! Radio DJ aircheck-quote #2 KYA/San Francisco 1961,
Tom Donahue, self-described "300lbs of solid sounds"-from Reel
Radio.com:
"This is your Big Daddy, Tom Donahue ... this is how it all
began, with Hank Ballard and the original 'Twist' ... the 300 or so records we
receive every week, I'd guess about 250 of 'em are Twists ... most of them ...
baaaaaaad."
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/bft/index.html#tdkya61
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - DJ quote #3
Blast from Your Past! Radio DJ AIRCHECK QUOTE #3, Bruce Morrow, WABC/New
York (1968) from ReelRadio.com:
Cousin Brucie @ 9:25a - "Coffee's the
think drink ... remember cousins, when you brew coffee at home, always start
with a clean coffee maker ... heehee ... make sure she washes her hands
..."
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/dj/index.html#bmwabc68
Thursday, August 18, 2011 - DJ quote #4
Blast from Your Past! Radio DJ AIRCHECK QUOTE #4
(Reel Radio.com); KFRC/San Francisco-Dr. Don Rose, November 1973:
"I'd
like to do more for ya, but I gotta get outta here before my deodorant quits.
Gonna leave you with a natural high, because friends, there's something better
than L-S-D, it's S-E-X ... if you've got a good pusher!"
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/ks/index.html#ddrkfrc1173
Friday, August 19, 2011 - DJ quote #5
Blast from Your Past! Radio DJ AIRCHECK QUOTE #5, WKTQ (13Q)/Pittsburgh
PA, 1980-Reel Radio.com, DON BOMBARD:
"It's Sunday, August 3, 1980. This
is Don Bombard and THIS is Rock & Roll! Good Evening and welcome to the
Sunday night Oldies Party!"
Oldie of choice - launched into "Mickey's
Monkey" by The Miracles (1963) ... Lum de lum de la ey ... @ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/da/index.html#dbwktq080380
August 2011 - DJ quotes week #2
Monday, August 22, 2011 - DJ quote #6
Blast from Your Past! Radio DJ AIRCHECK QUOTE #6, WIBG/Philly PA,
1957-Reel Radio.com, JOE NIAGARA:
"And just when we thought that one
passed its peak, it's starting all over again-Marty Robbins' 'White Sport
Coat.' ... Do ya really wanna wake up in the morning? Have the clock radio set
at 99-WIBG-Tom Donahue, MR. Top o' the Morning-he'll snap you out of it in a
great big hurry!" [huh?] @ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/lw/jnwibg0757.html#jnwibg0757
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - DJ quote #7
Blast from Your Past! Radio DJ AIRCHECK QUOTE #7, WLS/Chicago Dec 10,
1967-Reel Radio.com, RON RILEY:
"2nd biggest climber this week-for some
reason-'Snoopy's Xmas.' Snoopy's record we play quite often on Clark Weber's
show, as you know. They used to be good ol' buddies-Weber & Snoopy-they
used to share a fire hydrant together up in north Evanston!"
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/dr/index.html#rrwls67
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - DJ quote #8
Blast from Your Past! Radio DJ AIRCHECK QUOTE #8, KFWB/Los Angeles CA,
June 2 1965-Reel Radio.com, WINK MARTINDALE-remember TV's
"Tic-Tac-Dough"? Before that:
"The discovery sound 1963 on
KFWB/WinkMartindale program Wed morning-'Ruby Ann'-Marty Robbins time, 12 'til
Hal Pickens time @ 9 o'clock ... instant survey of songs ... part of the
'Winker' program every mornin'"
... whew! Slow down, dude!
"Winker"-really?! @ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/jeff/index.html#wmkfwb65
Thursday, August 25, 2011 - DJ quote #9
Blast from Your Past! Radio DJ AIRCHECK QUOTE #9, KFMB/B-100, San Diego
CA, 1976-Reel Radio.com, SHOTGUN TOM KELLY:
"Shots in the morning--get up
& boogie! ... Far out, man ... some carpenters on Emerald in El Cajon wanna
hear 'Hoochie Coo'.* By the way, who'd you guys coo last night,
baby?!"
(*'Rock & Roll, Hoochie Coo,' Johnny Winter, 1973) @ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/tt/index.html#tkkfmb76
Friday, August 26, 2011 - DJ quote #10
For you, Melanie Rigney! Blast from Your
Past! Radio DJ AIRCHECK QUOTE #10, WLS/Chicago, March 17 1983-Reel Radio.com,
LARRY LUJACK:
"Here's me, your charming & delightful ol' Uncle Lar!
... letter from some guy listening to us down in Watertown TN ... sent us a local
TN paper w/a big 2-pg article on GOATS ... lotta goat pictures ... musta been a
real slow newsday in TN." :-)
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/peba/index.html#llwls031783
August 2011 - DJ quotes week #3
Monday, August 29, 2011 - DJ quote #11
Blast from Your Past! DJ AIRCHECK QUOTE #11-Reel Radio.com, August 1959,
KYA/San Francisco, JOLLY ROGERS:
"Jolly Rogers with a reminder that there
is more cash for Social Security game players that listen to KYA every day ...
50 Social Security numbers listed in the 'Examiner' ... your Social Security
number may be one of the 5 additional cash awards!"
Imagine--using our SS
numbers for radio contests! @ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/db/index.html#jrkya59
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - DJ quote #12
Blast from Your Past! Radio DJ AIRCHECK-Reel Radio.com, QUOTE #12,
December 25 1965/Xmas Day, KCBQ/San Diego, JACK VINCENT:
newsman Jeff Crane
ends his report with, "... and Merry Christmas, Jack. [Jack] And a Merry
Christmas to you, Scotty ... I mean ... Jeff."
Hmmmm, perhaps the eggnogg
was a-flowing! @ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/pmaestro/index.html#jvkcbq65
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - DJ quote #13
Blast from Your Past!(tm) radio DJ AIRCHECK-Reel Radio.com, QUOTE #13,
January 1960, WKDA/Nashville, RONN TERRELL (aka Terrell Metheny/Mitch Michael):
"Hello Nashville, ladies & gentlemen, guys & gals. Welcome to the
Ronn Terrell show on radio 1, radio 1-derful, WKDA. Out now in your favorite
record gallery, Big Sound Survey--the official pulse of Nashville's muuuusic
taste."
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/teme/index.html#rtwkda0160
Thursday, September 1, 2011 - DJ quote #14
Blast from Your Past!(tm) radio DJ AIRCHECK (ReelRadio.com), QUOTE #14,
1971, KING/Seattle, CHINA SMITH:
"Respect yourself, because if you don't,
no one else likely will--Staple Singers on the Big 11 ... Sit on down, take a
look around, turn on the radio & dig what's comin' down, on K-I-N-G, like
Stephen Stills for instance ... ['When I get restless/what can I do?/When I
need someone/I think about you ...']."
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/slowe/china.html#csking71
Friday, September 2, 2011 - DJ quote #15
Blast from Your Past!(tm) radio DJ AIRCHECK (ReelRadio.com) QUOTE #15,
August 1985 WNBC/New York, WOLFMAN JACK:
"Hey if you're thinkin' about
addin' the ol' Wolfman into your book of best friends you make sure you put my
name in INK ... 'cause you & I gonna be around for a long time together and
we're goin' to continue the wonder of our relationship with the music of our
years. Here's Dionne Warwick & The Spinners ..."
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/doc/index.html#wmjwnbc0885
September 2011 - DJ quotes week #4
Monday, September 5, 2011 - DJ quote #16
Blast from Your Past!(tm) radio DJ AIRCHECK (ReelRadio.com) QUOTE #16,
August 10 1960 KEWB/San Francisco-GARY OWENS coming off the crooner tune,
"Devil or Angel":
"Bobby Vee on KEWB wearing his v-neck t-shirt
made out of his brother ... Devil or Angel ... take your choice! Grand old man
of football will be here between 9:00 this morning [9:00 & what?!]--Ted
Randall--as he slithers down from his tree hut in Marin County."
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/mh/gokewb60.html#gokewb60
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - DJ quote #17
Blast from Your Past!(tm) radio DJ AIRCHECK (ReelRadio.com) QUOTE #17,
June 9 1964, WOKY/Milwaukee, MIGHTY MITCH MICHAEL (Terrell Metheny):
"Hey,
come on in, we're dottin' the I's and crossin' the T's if you please, with our
li'l ol' flat friends--the records ... and this is #1 in Waukeeland ... 'Goin
to the Chapel/an' we're gonna get marrrrried' ..."
(The Dixie Cups) @ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/teme/index.html#mmwoky060964
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - DJ quote #18
Blast from Your Past!(tm) radio DJ AIRCHECK (ReelRadio.com) QUOTE #18,
July 3 1967, KHJ/Los Angeles, REAL DON STEELE:
"Apple blossom time with
the Real Don Steele ... Hello, Holiday Hippies! ... Every Mother's Son, come on
down to my boat, baby ... float ... on the boat ... if you love me!"
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/rdsc/airchecks.html#rdskhj070367
Thursday, September 8, 2011 - DJ quote #19
Blast from Your Past!(tm) radio DJ AIRCHECK (ReelRadio.com) QUOTE #19,
April 1976, WHYI/Miami, BILL TANNER:
"This is the way my day went ... I
got up this mornin', the shower wouldn't work, I went to my car an' the car
wouldn't work ... could be the shower wouldn't work 'cause it's so seldomly
used ... I wouldn't get too close to me if I were you! ... Sunny and funky
today, with a high of 82."
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/rs/index.html#btwhyi76
Friday, September 9, 2011 - DJ quote #20
Blast from Your Past!(tm) radio DJ AIRCHECK (ReelRadio.com) QUOTE #20,
1981, WHBQ/Memphis, CHUCK BROWNING:
"'Big Girls Don't Cry' ... but they
sweat a lot! ... 56 WHBQ--don't forget to join Don Roberts Monday mornin' @ 10
o'clock with Lou Wright. Give 'em a call and find out if you're pregnant ...
and ... whatever! 'Havin' My Baby' [Paul Anka 1974] ..."
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/ks/index.html#cbwhbq81
September 2011 - DJ quotes week #5
Sunday, September 11, 2011 - Sunday Special #1
Blast from Your
Past!(tm) radio DJ AIRCHECK (History.com) QUOTE #Sunday Special-1, September
11, 2001, WPLJ/New York, Scott & Todd:
"... huge hole in the World
Trade Center & there's not a weather condition relating ... Oh! Oh! Somethin'
else blew up! Oh my God! Did you see the plane?! [The pain heavy in their
voices.] If you just put the radio on, it's a little after 9 o'clock ... a 2nd
building is under attack!"
LR note: There wasn't enough space on Facebook for the next line said with urgency by the DJ: "I'm thinkin' 'bout gettin' the hell outta here!"
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.history.com/audio/wplj--two-world-trade-center-is-hit#wplj--two-world-trade-center-is-hit
Monday, September 12, 2011 - DJ quote #21
Blast from Your Past!(tm) radio DJ AIRCHECK (ReelRadio.com) QUOTE #21,
Nov 29 1956, KLIF/Dallas TX, ART NELSON:
"Available right now on these
11-hundred & ninety kilocycles of beautiful thing from Pat Boone and very
popular 'round town, here's 'Friendly Persuasion.' [Not exactly Rock &
Roll!] ... Let's see, I had something else to thrust on you before we go on
..."
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/ca/index.html#anklif56
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - DJ quote #22
Blast from Your Past!(tm) radio DJ AIRCHECK (ReelRadio.com) QUOTE #22,
June 1962, WTIX/New Orleans, ED RIPLEY: Okie dokie-do-baboon, right now on the
more music side of our fence, this comes Ray Charles ['I Can't Stop Loving
You'] ... 'Lovers who wander' Dion wandering down the mighty 690 line here on
TIX ... Checking our weather, the forecast reads like an old carbon copy here,
these days ..."
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/jay/index.html#erwtix62
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - DJ quote #23
Blast from Your Past!(tm) radio DJ AIRCHECK (ReelRadio.com) QUOTE #23, June
1966, WMEX/Boston, DAN DONOVAN:
"It’s 6:26, WMEX instant news headlines,
it’s no sooner done than said … on a million dollar weekend with the Good Guys
… ‘what the world needs now is love, sweet love’-Jackie DeShannon here
appearing exclusively with your Tiger Dan man …”
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/dasm/index.html#ddwmex0666
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - DJ quote #24
Blast from Your Past!(tm) radio DJ AIRCHECK (ReelRadio.com) QUOTE #24,
1972, WFIL/Philly, DR. DON ROSE: This is positively your last day to send your
name & address & $5 to cover the cost of living ... DDR here! Since
you're from Nebraska, why do cowboys wear the brims of their hats turned up on
the side? That's simple--so 3 can ride in a pickup truck!"
[cue the
moo-cow!] @ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/ricky/index.html#wfil1972
Friday, September 16, 2011 - DJ quote #25
Blast from Your Past!(tm) radio DJ AIRCHECK (www.ReelRadio.com), QUOTE #25, 1982, KXOK/St.
Louis MO, PAT RILEY:
"... hope we can do something about the unemployment
problem we have here in the United States. Unemployment's really gettin' bad. I
heard a guy ... I was downtown yesterday afternoon & some guy was talking
about getting a nose job ... and six people applauded!"
@ ReelRadio.com, http://www.reelradio.com/pr/index.html#prkxok82
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