Dan Daniel WMCA New York Blackout November 9 1965 (0:09:20)

… the records we play on WMCA, why don’t you sing along with ’em, huh? …
[Description by Uncle Ricky]

Contributor Chuck Simms recorded this aircheck of Dandy Dan Daniel and newsman Frank Stickle on WMCA from November 9, 1965. Chuck writes:

“The recording was made under difficult circumstances. I was using an old Wilcox-Gay monaural half-track recorder with a homemade microphone. I wired a telephone mouthpiece to a 1/4 inch phone plug and placed it next to the radio speaker. WMCA was broadcasting on auxilary power. This setup was all I had at the time, after all, I was only 15 years old.”
Chuck saved this recording for 37 years before graciously offering to share it with REELRADIO. We thank him fo

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