1976 was a fantastic year to be alive in the USA.

@workingtheworld68

Жыл бұрын

Bicentennial 🇺🇸

@F40PH-2CAT

Жыл бұрын

It only looked great upon retrospect. At the time it was universally awful.

@illostr8

Жыл бұрын

I was 1 1/2 years old going on 2

@donavonmacallister3101

Жыл бұрын

Amen. I was there. I got to see how beautiful the world was back then.

@donavonmacallister3101

Жыл бұрын

​@@F40PH-2CAT not to me. This time we live in has more technology but is very insane.

As an old radio dude, I can appreciate the tight crossfading in this air check. All done by humans. I remember jocking six-hour air shifts back in the day. Spinning records (later cds) and shoving carts in the cart machines to play spots. It is all automated now, so air personalities today have no idea what it was like back then. In the past, I have told many of them about those days and get blank stares back. I mean, we had to plan to go to the restroom. Now they voice track their whole show and then blog for the website for the rest of the shift. Thank you for bringing back some memories.

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure. Thanks for listening!

@flarrfan

Жыл бұрын

Didn't the top NY stations have union engineers who actually played the songs, or did that end by the '70s?

@tarstarkusz

Жыл бұрын

Either this cassette was recorded on a cheap deck or the radio engineers were terrible.

@SopranoPizzaJMFNJ

Жыл бұрын

@@tarstarkusz Tape is almost 50 years old. This stuff degrades over time. Hell, half the time tapes this old disintegrate!

@doogyob

Жыл бұрын

@@flarrfan I didn't start until the 80s. But, by that time, most music format deejays ran their own boards and would have to be doing something beyond the ordinary to need/want an extra set of hands (complicated live crosses, certain types of phone activity, etc.). It could go either way with morning shows. Some morning jocks liked running their own board, whereas others didn't. Some, of course, couldn't (often TV celebs who also do a radio show). Since there was usually someone else in the studio during mornings (even if they weren't on-mic), the main guy/gal would usually have the choice to run their own board...or not. I worked AC/Hot AC/CHR/CR and saw it go both ways. I did mornings and I always ran my own board.

I was 17 in 76. Had a summer job working graveyard shift, in an office environment. During the day it was hustle, bustle, bright lights, phones ringing and the standard office noise. But the night shift was eerily, silent. It was so nice to have a DJ on the radio during those early morning hours. Nice comfort to think there was another human with you. Radio and DJs were just so awesome back then. So glad I got to experience that. Great tape! Thanks.

I love this era, I was 6 going on 7 @ the time. Such glorious 😂 memories and a SUPER time to be a kid.💖

@ugaais

Жыл бұрын

I was born in 1970 great being a kid in the 70’s and a teen in the 80’s

@jonise2524

Жыл бұрын

and then you became an 80s teen, an awesome and unforgettable decade also

@rcgunner7086

Жыл бұрын

Me too. I was six as well when this was done. I remember 1977 better because of Star Wars, A Bridge Too Far, Saturday Night Live (Dan Aykroid, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, and all the others) and Jaws

We should be so thankful for the people that held on to this stuff.

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

Thank You for watching and for Your kind reply!

I think I'm gonna jump in my car and just drive around and listen to this one!

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

And I thought I was the only one who did that! Thanks for listening...

@red_ford23

Жыл бұрын

Got mp3s for when I'm offline

@tomrisar5492

Жыл бұрын

While driving a 1975 Grand Am...

@rcgunner7086

Жыл бұрын

@@tomrisar5492 Or my old 1970 Mustang.

july 1976 i was 8yrs old was a wonderful year to be a boy. lots of fun times and a everyone one was happy .the whole year of 1975 till the end of july 4th 1976 was in the Bicentennial spirit. every were you went it was red white and blue and uncle sam .lots of parades and bbq's and meeting Elvis Presley at a department store.

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

It surely was a wonderful year! Glad I was able to bring those memories back to you…

@stevencoffman

Жыл бұрын

@@williampovilaitis6951 yes you did thank you very much ☺

@46GarageUSA

Жыл бұрын

I was 7 living in Pennsylvania. Wish I could go back . Just to enjoy my parents, my family to go out on my Big Wheel and fiddle with my Am radio and dad's CB set. I think we just got our first color television 📺 too. I miss mom's cooking, dad was a meat and potato man so I recall eating shoulder and potatoes, pork chops and boiled chicken breasts. Pork n beans and dogs. The feel of my parents bed spread, had these little balls on it that I use to run my ✋ hand over. Felt sooo cool.. Six Million Dollar Man, playing with my Adventure People. Singing to Elvis records as a child. Dad coming home drunk and mom screaming, always fighting. Riding in 1972 Chevy Impala blue 🔵. My aunt making Halupkis on a kitchen coal stove . Lime Green Linoleum flooring . Big lamp shades. The smell of church on Sunday morning at Easter with the light coming through the church stain glass. Dapper Dan teaching doll for boys . My mother's Blessed Mother Statue . How I miss my family, I'm only 54 and alone with no one. I always hoped to find love and it never happened. Now it's over, dreams are for the young, just passing the time until death.

@karlhelm875

Жыл бұрын

i was 6. my mom 's hospital co-workers and my dad's ibm co-workers had a party in the back yard. it was like a day at the beach. remember you should be dancing by the bee gees?

@derekmyers3258

Жыл бұрын

I remember you. It was on the second floor by the stereo cabinets and equipment, wasn't it.

These and the ones on your other tape are the exact same songs I listened to 3000 miles away in L.A. when I was 16 in '76. I was shifting from AM (93 KHJ) to FM (KKDJ/KMET/KLOS) around this time. We had a huge bicentennial fireworks display at the Queen Mary in Long Beach. We were ALL proud to be Americans. What a great time to be alive! I remember it like yesterday.

@karlhelm875

Жыл бұрын

cool. some new songs sound good on am radio like beginnings by chicago.

@remmymafia3889

Жыл бұрын

Not to 'rain on your parade' "Chat", but July 4th, 1976, I was 21 yrs old, and taking in BTO at the old Craig Road Speedway. (lol)

@AiMR

Жыл бұрын

AM was a gateway drug to FM for kids 😂

@ChatGPT1111

Жыл бұрын

@@remmymafia3889 I love BTO, especially "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet". That said, I've seen the following bands live, many in the front 10 rows or a catered suite, including: Pink Floyd (Twice), The Who (4x), Rolling Stones (3x), Fleetwood Mac, Boston, Bob Seger, Eagles (twice), Pat Benatar (3x incl Meet and Greet in her freaking dressing room), Eric Clapton, Robert Plant, ZZ Top (Meet and Greet), Van Halen (3x), Foreigner (twice), 3 Dog Night (Twice), America, Foreigner (twice), Ozzy Osbourne, Eddie Money, Elton John, Jimmy Buffett (4x), Ringo and McCartney, Police, Doobies, Blue Oyster Cult, Ted Nugent, The Outlaws, George Carlin, Aerosmith (twice), Toto, REO Speedwagon, Journey (5x), Pat Travers, Supertramp, Foghat, Alice Cooper, Duran Duran, Styx, Cheap Trick, Heart, Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Cheech n Chong, U2 (3x), Billy Idol, Def Leppard, Poison, Cinderella, Godsmack, Tool, Slipknot, Incubus, Evanescence, Judas Priest (5x), Kid Rock, Raconteurs, Killers, and many many more.

@eduardobastos4609

Жыл бұрын

There was a great soccer constest as a tribute to the bicentennial in 1976. The final match was Brazil x Italy. Brazil won by 4x1, repeating the Mexico 1970 FIFA World Cup final score. I just keep dreaming how wonderful those years were. The 1970s was a great decade in so many ways. I was born in 1969. Eduardo Bastos. Sao Paulo City - Brazil

the playlist... let your love grow - bellamy brothers 20th century fox - the doors rock and roll music - the beach boys born to be wild - steppenwolf beware my love - wings bennie and the jets - elton john fool to cry - rolling stones take the money and run - steve miller band respect yourself - the staple singers it keeps you runnin' - carly simon Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While) - doobie brothers midnight rider - allman brothers sara smile - hall and oates riders on the storm - the doors hot stuff - rolling stones all right now - free young americans - david bowie i'll be good to you - the brothers johnson spinning wheel - blood sweat and tears i wanna go to the sun - peter frampton

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@jjoe2662

Ай бұрын

The best part about it, they didn't just play the singles from the albums, they played album cuts. Deep album cuts which were better than the singles from many of these albums....Being a Doors fan...... back then in 1976 and on into the early 1980's you were guaranteed a Doors song every hour and not just their 3 minute hits, but their 7 minute or longer epic FM hits. The same went for Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Stones, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, etc, etc. Deep album cuts from every artist that you never hear today. When Satellite Radio started it was deep album cuts from the 60's, 70's and 80's now it's just the same old classic rock tunes.....I mean why bother having Satellite radio if they play the same thing as commercial classic rock stations do? WTF? What happened? I mean there are no advertisers?

There's something almost magical about this recording. Thanks for posting

From INDONESIA listening,......God Bless America...!!!!!!!

Oh my God this takes me back! I listened to radio just like this down south where I grew up.... I miss those days very much, however, I own my own station now and I get to relive the 70's and 80's every day! I do not chain my jocks, they are allowed to play whatever they want and it sounds a lot like it did back then. No network and no pencil pusher at a corporate office telling us what to play and when. I am proud of my little independent station in our small town. I love our listeners and they love us... just like it used to be. Thank you for posting this, it is incredible!

@williampovilaitis6951

28 күн бұрын

Thank You for that nice pat on the back! And thanks again for your wonderful radio station, WSVM. My dad was an engineer at WOR TV in the late 60s and moved to WCBS in the 70s until his retirement. I visited both stations with him. You're Living The Dream!

Without any doubt, the 70's was the greatest era for music. Some of the best pop, rock r&b, country, punk and new wave all came from that decade.

@d.a.elliottjr.367

Жыл бұрын

And back then you often could hear it all on the same station.

@georgebrown2175

Жыл бұрын

If you watch the Voice you realize everything sung is from the 70’s or earlier.

The cassette system sounds awesome.

I was 16 here. 63 now. Thanks for the memories! 😊

@bondoneill9606

Жыл бұрын

I was 13. 60 now. Great memories 😊

@mshell1959

Жыл бұрын

Same here. High school on Long Island?

I was born on this exact day.

Oh God, I remember that day, we had a family get together with lots of food and fireworks, my mom and dad were alive then and I was SO Young and so was everyone else, and it was a time when you could turn on the radio and hear Joni Mitchell and the Doors and the Beach Boys and Steppenwolf one right after the other, and when was the last time that happened? What a great year 1976 was, and THANK YOU so much for bringing it back even for a little while. And thanks to Sy Syms too.

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

"Those were the Days my friend. We thought they'd never end."

@worldoftone

Жыл бұрын

Amen to that! Remember it well!!

Thank you very much for this. These bygone days. 💚 Notice how DeeJays respected the audience, listeners by talking maturely to them. No screaming, no corney jokes, no gimmicks. Younger people should listen to this if only to confirm that pop culture media outlets thinks they are stupid (dumbed down) and leverage it.

1976. What great year and great music. We were coming out of 1974's deep recession. I was 23 in my last year of college. And to top it off, I was blessed for my beautiful son was born in April.

That is a true hi end Teac cassette deck and has been well taken care of ..

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I picked it up about 20 years ago. It was at the curb. I had to put new belts on it. A nightmare to work on but well worth it. I love it...

@cobaltmidnightoilamp6748

Жыл бұрын

@williampovilaitis6951 that stereo set is a surreal artifact from that time, how it is well kept in excellent mint condition and all. This video is an aura of the 1970s. In fact, I remember a lot of men, especially the elite or middle class-type ones, owned these double audio tape machines. I don't know exactly the name of them, but I sure remember em' well.

You cant have an aircheck from 1976 without Let Your Love Flow. 😉😂

@icecreamforcrowhurst

Жыл бұрын

Or ‘Afternoon Delight’.

Thank you! On a whim I googled on KZread and found this!! I had a great day and was happy and smiling all day because of this channel. 🥰❤️❤️

@williampovilaitis6951

5 ай бұрын

Oh what a day! I had no idea of the far-reaching effects of that cassette I popped in the recorder back then. It's made the day for thousands of people. I'm so glad it didn't self-destruct like the Mission Impossible tapes... Thank You for watching and replying.

Thank you for posting this...I was 13 in 1976 and this really brings back some great memories!

@yannisgk

Жыл бұрын

you're 10 years older than me.

@Evil-Jesus

Жыл бұрын

Same here

@jess4metoo

Жыл бұрын

Me too…13.

@tfcooks

Жыл бұрын

Yep, I was 13 as well, living in Northern New Jersey and we had WPLJ on all the time.

@craigbusick9676

Жыл бұрын

I was 14. Big memories. I can remember what we did that specific day too.

I was listening to wplj on 7/4/76 at the Jersey shore in Asbury Park NJ and remember this day like it was yesterday this was amazing to find this recording All these years later thank you for posting this

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

Ah, the memories! Thank you for listening...

I had just graduated from high school a month before, I remember feeling free, but apprehensive, because I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I had some minor plans that I discarded, and was fortunate that my part time job working at KFC turned into the manager offering me assistant manager that August. I remember going home that day from work and telling my Mom they wanted me to be the assistant manager, she cried and was so happy for me. I had a good job with benefits and a bonus. I was on my way!

Man, what a time capsule! Your Cassette deck is in great condition and just adds to the entire vibe of this video. I was born too late to experience the Bicentennial, but I'm sure it was a helluva 4 of July. Thanks for this blast from the past. Take care.

@dopeytripod

Жыл бұрын

that deck of his came out in 1982

@Jeff_11B

Жыл бұрын

​@@dopeytripodso did I. 🤘😎👍

@dopeytripod

Жыл бұрын

@@Jeff_11B lol

Listening to this incredible radio broadcast on its 47th anniversary. 🇺🇸

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

So glad you appreciate it. Thanks for listening…

I used to listen to WPLJ when I lived in NY, what a great radio station.

This is truly a treasure!!! Brings back so many sweet memories of a wonderful time in my life! Just married a year prior and I and my high school sweetheart will be celebrating our 50th in two years. Thank you for this most excellent post! I remember driving from CT on vaca to points south and going through NYC on our way we'd always tune to WPLJ!

I turned 11 that summer, wow what a time machine. I was in Eugene Oregon and listened to KZEL "Oregon's best rock!" Liked and subbed!

When Radio Was Real....

@catrinahartz944

Жыл бұрын

For Real!❤🎉😂

Until I listened to this entire video, I never really thought about how most music today is garbage.

The buildup of the Bicentennial went on for over a year with the Bicentennial minute broadcast on CBS every night up to July 4th. President Ford narrated the final Bicentennial minute. Each TV network dedicated the entire day to celebrating the Bicentennial. I was 16 years old and knew it was an important day to remember in my life. I celebrated it on a beautiful day in Dayton, Ohio. Picnics, Parades, Fireworks and a proud day to be American.

Outta sight, man! Thanks for the Bicentennial memories when I was in my early twenties, each tune was a TREASURE for us, then and NOW. 🤩

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening and for your kind reply!

@aarondyer.pianist

Жыл бұрын

These were my college days and while not EVERY tune was a treasure (there were some turkeys!) it was a great time. In Dallas the program that ended at 3:00 p.m. used exit music that blew me away. It was KLIF 1190, a top 40 station at the time, but the tune was Woody Herman's "My Favorite Things" from "My Kind of Broadway." I was a music student at the time and this was as much music education for me as anything else. I would literally race to my car on campus to tune in and hear that chart before 3:00.

@Packyboy

Жыл бұрын

76 ….great year.was in London beautiful summer we had.☘️🎼🎼👏👏

Listening to music from the day I was born, in the city of my father. The internet is incredible.

I was 16 on July 4th 1976 with the girl of my dreams in Valley Forge, PA for the wagon train celebration after they crossed the country. Thanks for this!

Well this is just what I needed. That whole year seems like we were all preparing for the bicentennial. Felt like the whole country was united, probably the last time for that. Thank you so much for the great big smile I'll be sporting the rest of the day.✌️❤️🎵🇺🇲

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

They were great times. So glad to cheer you up. Thanks for your reply and Thanks for listening!

This one doesn't have the bad print through like the other tape. Thank you for preserving this for us!

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure. Enjoy...

Thanks a lot William 🙏 for bringing this magical radio station life ✨️ again ❤

I want more. Excellent recording! 💜🙏🏻🦋

I was 20 yrs old listening to the same songs and music living in Greece!

The summer before my senior year in high school. It was a great time to be alive and to be young. The music was wonderful, the world made sense (or at least as much as it could). All my best times were still to come and all my worst mistakes still un-made... all my family and friends were still alive. Anything was possible. Thanks for the ride.

@SportsKnowItAll11

Жыл бұрын

Class of 1977 here also. Thank you for allowing me read your magnificent post. 😊 and the biggest thank you to the person who shared this wonderful piece that we may hear back to our youth. ❤

My Lord, this was 'thee' day back then- July 4th !976- our country's Bicentennial ! How cool.

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

It was. O what a day!

@cobaltmidnightoilamp6748

Жыл бұрын

@someone4683 that coin 🪙 should be worth some BIG BUCKS! Especially in this economy.

Thank You so much for these WONDERFUL SONGS IN THIS BAD WORLD IN 2023!🎉 God bless all.❤🙏🙏

Thank you so much, I really needed to hear this today. ✌

Yes, 1976 was a fantastic year!

I was in DC that 4th. 1.2 million on the mall. Now I know what I missed on the air that day from NYC - where you guys had REAL fireworks. Time travel via a straight unedited transcription, tape, air check is the best way to trigger those old memories (which will always be better in hindsight) Thanks for digitizing this!!

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it...

Thank you so much for doing this. You can't imagine what it means to me. God bless you.

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad I could help...

That 1970s audio compression on the radio... the sound alone brings back memories

I love air checks - a snapshot in time. In the 70s, I bought a dbx-119 that could sorta undo some of the extreme compression FM stations used to get their signal to stand out on the old analog dial. I listened to WABC AM and WPLJ FM while in radio electronics school in the USCG in 1975 on Governors Island, NY. The call letters, WPLJ, may have come from Frank Zappa's cover of the original Four Deuce's song, WPLJ (White Port and Lemon Juice) - check the Wiklipedia book reference to FM The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio. Thanks for transcribing this to digital!

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

And some called it the Peanut Butter and Jelly Station. It was my pleasure to transcribe it. Thanks for listening and Thanks for your reply!🎧🎙📻

I really enjoyed the two unedited radio broadcast that you put out, I wish there was more old radio broadcast from the seventies, thanks for sharing!

This was so great to listen to! I was born in Sept of ‘76. My parents were living in Washington DC when this was recorded. My dad had gotten out of the army in 1970 and was starting his career at Polaroid. We moved to Dallas, Texas in 1977, and I spent the next 10 years in Texas. I thought the late 70s and 80s were fantastic, but now I wish I could have been a teenager in 1976!

I just can imagine how much FUN it was during this era. I was born in 72, too young to enjoy the era as a older person at the time.

this is excellent! i played this at work for my team while working❤

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed it

11 years old, and groovin with my stereo, in my own room, every day! Ty!

Summer '76 I was 14 and in a teen travel camp. Summer Bicentenial year and Olympics so memorable.

It starts with mentioning that Frampton was in the previous set. I knew there had to be another Frampton song in this time frame. And they played a deep cut. Hell yah, Frampton all day long!! Great video. Thx for sharing. ☮️

Six years before my birth. I would love to be able to go back and experience this time.... seems just magical.

I always had WPLJ on. Chances are I was listening to this very broadcast back in NJ when you recorded it. Thanks.

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I think everyone was listening...

@athos1974

Жыл бұрын

WPLJ was my favorite station, and Carol Miller was my fav D.J. I loved her playlist at night. And she had such a beautiful voice.

@catrinahartz944

Жыл бұрын

So cool

@patricemanhart6186

Жыл бұрын

Me too on Long Island.

I used to listen to WPLJ as a young kid and probably listened on July 4th, 1976 as well! Love that I can hear this now!

These are all the songs i used to hear on that little yellow ball shaped radio on a chain my mom had when i was a little kid 😊

At 13:00 min. in Paul McCartney and Wings "Beware My Love" is played even before it's release to the public later that month in 1976. I don't know what it is about it but sounds better than any version I have ever heard before. Totally amazing, especially the introduction.

@leivabernie

Жыл бұрын

For real man!!! This is the peak of McCartney’s voice.

@d.a.elliottjr.367

Жыл бұрын

Today's corporate radio would never ever play Beware My Love! They'd play Let Em In or Silly Love Songs instead.

That is a beautiful cassette deck.

Hey, yo man, thank you for these both of them.tremendous to be in the atmosphere of the experience once again. Good, looking out dude

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind reply. Enjoy!

My beautiful mother would have been 17, it's fun to see what she would have been listening to in high school. She passed away in 2021. Thank you for this.

@williampovilaitis6951

4 ай бұрын

She just gave you a gift. She made you smile!

I was 25...living in DC and celebrating that the Grateful Dead was touring again....

I remember loving 1976. For me it was a much simpler time and the top 40 radio was fantastic. I remember marching in a parade on July 4, 1976. I'm not going to give the reason for that, but it was a great time.

Good music shuts out the craziness of the world for a bit. Thanks. Oh man...Sims "where an educated consumer is our best customer."

I don't condone drugs but in 1976 I was 16 and I loved drugs, still do, listening to Floyd tripping was my absolute favorite thing to do. Thanks for best memories. Don't do drugs, it'll catch up to you.

List of songs played in chronological order: 1. Let Your Love Flow (The Bellamy Brothers) 2. 20th Century Fox (The Doors) 3. Rock & Roll Music (The Beach Boys) 4. Born To Be Wild (Stephenwolff) 5. Beware My Love (Paul McCartney & Wings) 6. Bennie And The Jets (Elton John) 7. Daddy You're A Fool To Cry (The Rolling Stones) 8. Take The Money And Run (Steve Miller Band) 9. Respect Yourself (The Staple Singers) 10. It Keeps You Running (Carly Simon) 11. Take Me In Your Arms (The Doobie Brothers) 12. Midnight Rider (The Allman Brothers) 13. Sara Smile (Hall & Oates) 14. Riders On The Storm (The Doors) 15. Hot Stuff (The Rolling Stones) 16. All Right Now (Free) 17. Young Americans (David Bowie) 18. I'll Be Good To You (The Brothers Johnson) 19. Spinning Wheel (Blood, Sweat & Tears) 20. I Wanna Go To The Sun (Peter Frampton)

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

Thank You!

Nice!!! big thanks

I was 7 living in Pennsylvania. Wish I could go back . Just to enjoy my parents, my family to go out on my Big Wheel and fiddle with my Am radio and dad's CB set. I think we just got our first color television 📺 too. I miss mom's cooking, dad was a meat and potato man so I recall eating shoulder and potatoes, pork chops and boiled chicken breasts. Pork n beans and dogs. The feel of my parents bed spread, had these little balls on it that I use to run my ✋ hand over. Felt sooo cool.. Six Million Dollar Man, playing with my Adventure People. Singing to Elvis records as a child. Dad coming home drunk and mom screaming, always fighting. Riding in 1972 Chevy Impala blue 🔵. My aunt making Halupkis on a kitchen coal stove . Lime Green Linoleum flooring . Big lamp shades. The smell of church on Sunday morning at Easter with the light coming through the church stain glass. Dapper Dan teaching doll for boys . My mother's Blessed Mother Statue . How I miss my family, I'm only 54 and alone with no one. I always hoped to find love and it never happened. Now it's over, dreams are for the young, just passing the time until death.

@johnnytacokleinschmidt515

Жыл бұрын

These days are tough plus getting older. Try to find some joy and gratitude every day. Sounded like you knew how to live and love. Stay well. God Bless!

@franklinmills1756

Жыл бұрын

I'm right there with you. I was 13 then. I really miss the 70s so much. I'd go back in a hot second, and I wouldn't miss a thing from the present.

@catrinahartz944

Жыл бұрын

Me in Delaware, now in Florida for 9 yrs. Love it here. Better times , time of my life as young child in 70s

@cobaltmidnightoilamp6748

Жыл бұрын

@vulcanlogic544, life is way too short to let life just pass by. You should go out and make friends or try your hand @ love. 😢

@jrh11254

Жыл бұрын

@## LOGIC ## - I’m hoping you don’t give up!

Loving the mix between hits and album tracks. Good hybrid of AOR and Top 40 Rock. WPLJ was incredibly tight. My favorite moment is the segway from a Carly Simon cover of Doobie Brothers into the Doobie Brothers 1975 hit.

@d.a.elliottjr.367

Жыл бұрын

I never knew Carly Simon did It Keeps You Running before I watched this.

Already off to a fantastic listen starting with the Bellamy Bros❤❤❤ 🙌🙌🙌

BRO!!!!!!!!! This is part of my Childhoods, my Pops use to bump all this entire List. I love this Mix, brother. Thank You for posting this. Good job!! From Chicago

I wish I was born in 50’s and enjoy this era

I was 17 years old and living in central New Jersey so I could have been listening to this because WPLJ was the station that I would have been listening to. I remember that day I was drinking vodka and orange juice and probably smoking pot if I had it. I remember I threw up later in the day at the side of my house so I guess I partied a little too much. Six days later I saw Kiss at Roosevelt field in Jersey City.

@williampovilaitis6951

2 ай бұрын

Back in the good old days! Bring them back. I just had a vodka and orange juice last night. They still taste good. Probably not a good idea to mix them with pot, though! Thanks for listening...

@jjoe2662

Ай бұрын

Drinking age was 18, everybody had an older brother or sister who could buy them stuff or used their older sibling's ID as Drivers Licences had no pictures on them. Going down the shore for the day to meet girls, get tan, but getting burned and smelling like sun tan oil and lotion. Trying to win albums down the shore on the boardwalk either at Pt. Pleasant or Seaside with Light My Fire, L.A. Woman, Kashmir, Stairway, Baba Oreily, Won't Get Fooled Again , Dark Side of the Moon, Frampton Comes Alive, etc, etc all blasting from the speakers and tossing down Quarters on numbers as the spinning wheel spun hoping to get lucky. Great times and great memories. Not a care in the world. Nobody on psyche meds either.

You better believe I'm gonna d/l this for my next road trip! Many thanks, friend!

Seeing your stereo set up reminds of when I bought my first hi-fi. It was around that time in '76. I was 17 going on 18 and saved some money from my job during high school. Good times.

Dig it brother. You found another great tape in your historical collection! Happy 4th my friend!

@williampovilaitis6951

28 күн бұрын

Much appreciated🧨👌🧨🗽

More good stuff! I just watched your other 7/4/76 aircheck video.

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! A less stressful time back then. I wanna go back...

@cobaltmidnightoilamp6748

Жыл бұрын

@dfc99nyc, I just found 😂 part 2 as well!

@jrh11254

Жыл бұрын

@@williampovilaitis6951 - radio & LPs (my preferred format) were so important… dare I say they were the most important things in my life. I’ve still got all my 1000+ LPs but listening is hardly the same as it once was.

Fascinating. Back when The Rolling Stones would be played side by side with Joni Mitchell, and Marvin Gaye before marketing segmented everything. Wings' Beware My Love--a B side. Frampton's Go to the Sun--just an album cut, not a single. No way that outro of Spinning Wheel would get airtime in today's world without somebody talking all over the top of it. They'd be worried about people changing the channel. The advertisers! The interesting thing about these types of recordings is when they end in the middle of a song and leave you hanging in nostalgic limbo. I forgot that you always got a bit more than 90 minutes on a 90 minute tape, too! I had some tapes from the 80s when I deejayed. I recently did a huge house cleaning and this video reminded me that I must have thrown those all out by accident!

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

I wish you still had those tapes. I wish I had made more... She's gone, she's gone Oh I, oh I I better learn how to face it She's gone, she's gone Oh I, oh I I'd pay the devil to replace her She's gone, and she's gone Oh why, what went wrong?

I remembered around 1977, there was a (creepy) jeans ad on the radio. I don't remember the brand of the jeans but it went this way: There was a falsettoing "Stich stich stitch" and then a baritone "stich stich stich" and the ending went "Something new, from out of the blue".

@adaml1519

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like it could've been The Gap.

@pajamamar2011

Жыл бұрын

@@adaml1519 Thanks. If someone finds it can I be directed to it?

exciting journey through time !

That Teac z7000 is one of the best tape decks ever.

I had just turned 6 and my family was living in Memphis when this was recorded. I remember all the fire hydrants being painted red, white and blue to celebrate the Bicentennial. I was a DJ in the mid '90's and have some aircheck cassettes of my own packed away somewhere, this makes me want to dig them out and see if they still play.

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

Wow! Get those babies out. They are priceless time capsules...

This aircheck album is hot❤❤❤❤

I listened at work to PLJ in the 70s in south Florida! It helped that I worked at a Top 40 station at the time doing news, and I had a home-built board to use, and also that the ABC network feed on my board played PLJ between the net newscasts...

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like you had some fun there!

@ivanabear8824

Жыл бұрын

what station did you work at? i’m curious. my granddaddy worked at WFUN. after they shut down it was Y-100 all the way for this kid!!

@flarrfan

Жыл бұрын

@@ivanabear8824 I had friends that worked at FUN and QAM, and I was in both studios back then. I actually worked over in Naples and Ft. Myers.

Probably was listening to WPLJ as this was recorded. Had to get up early the next morning to get to a friend’s dad’s boat to get out on NY harbor for tall ships. I mostly remember how huge the USS Forrestal looked up close from a small boat.

@sjmuffler1

Жыл бұрын

I was there and watched them lift the elevators. It was so much fun and yeah had to get up way early. Came in from Reynolds's Channel.

Man, I got tears in my eyes while listening to this. Tears of joy from going back in time but tears of sadness because of the way things are today. Crime, inflation, impending war.. I feel so blessed to have been alive as a young teen back then. Thank you so much for sharing these gems! ❤

@williampovilaitis6951

8 ай бұрын

I was a 27 year old kid when I popped that cassette into the recorder. So glad I did it. Wish I had access to the Quantum Leap machine... Thanks for your reply!

Thank you for entertaining me with this fine Tape Deck

Blasting this on the deck July 4th 2024!

@williampovilaitis6951

28 күн бұрын

Glad to be of service! You just brought a smile to my face...

I was in high school in San Francisco in 1976 thanks for this aircheck never got to listen to WLPJ and Viv Roundtree and never got to hear Carly Simon's version "It keeps you running" what a treat thanks so much.

Super, Brother Johnson ❤

Love these videos & I love your stereo equipment!!! Thanks very much for these!!

I was 14 living in Memphis at the time. My dad was home with us after being on sea duty in the USN. We had an insane amount of real fireworks for the night time. Plenty of 1/5 sticks and a few professional grade mortars my father had acquired. Great times except almost all the kids I grew up with are dead now. Lonely being one of the last 2 left.

When all music was great!

Holy carp this is an awesome blast from past. Childhood all over again. Can see myself riding in car with mom and these songs on radio

In 1990 William Povilatis was once asked: "What are you going to do with all these old cassettes?"

@williampovilaitis6951

Жыл бұрын

I said "Keep them because someday people will need to know". Thanks for listening...

@Tyrell_Corp2019

Жыл бұрын

@@williampovilaitis6951 I'm glad you did. I was there in NYC in '76 as a kid. Your recordings brought back a lot for me. ✌

This is terrific! Thanks for sharing it.