… 22-02-1998 00:00 …
[ by Uncle Ricky ] I found this tape over Christmas, 1997, while looking through some
boxes in my parents’ garage. One of the boxes was full of unlabeled reel tapes – I had
hoped these might be forgotten airchecks from my adolescence, but no such luck.
However, one notable tape and a 3 inch box DID survive. It’s ” LOVE IN THE PLAYPEN “, a perfectly awful radio spot for an even worse (I gather) “B” grade “adult” film of the time.
I probably scored it from WEGO in Concord, N.C., sometime between 1965 and 1968, and played it on the air
on a rack-mounted Ampex 600. (We had carts, but we still played some spots from
tape on 3 inch reels.) And I bet the movie was showing at the Willis Drive-In Theatre . I remember keeping this for the wonderful “grittiness” and obvious lack of production budget. It’s now personally nostalgic. It may even be bad enough to be nearly good. It makes me laugh, anyway. As a teen, I worked only in small southern markets, so I tagged a lot of these kinds of spots, almost always “live”. ” LOVE IN THE PLAYPEN IN SHOCKING COLOR SHOWS TONIGHT, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AT 7PM AT THE WILLIS DRIVE IN THEATRE ON HIGHWAY 29! REMEMBER, FREE BALLOONS FOR THE KIDDIES AT THE WILLIS DRIVE IN THEATRE! ”
