The Peter Kanze Collection
Radio Historian, Archivist and Freelance Music and Radio Researcher Peter Kanze has made this collection available to REELRADIO via The Media Preservation Foundation. Our thanks to Peter and Tracy Carman for these important exhibits. A graduate of New York's Valhalla public High School in 1969, Peter's ongoing education and working involvement with radio and media spans decades, beginning with his position as Music Researcher and Assistant to Program Director Ed Salamon at New York's WHN, in August, 1975. WHN ranked Number Two in 25-54 Adults in The Big Apple, and Peter's intensive music research methodology was the acknowledged reason for their success. Peter went on to produce radio documentaries for the BBC in collaboration with Billboard magazine, (25 Years Of Rock) where he also managed The Billboard Radio Awards from 1981-1983. He wrote articles on radio related subjects before joining WARY-FM at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, where he served in supervisory and management roles until 2003. Peter has researched Pop Music Charts and media history for various book, radio, motion picture and television projects. He holds the unique distinction of having been called the "Undertaker of AM Radio" for New York radio stations. In 1999, Peter became involved with the production of WABC Rewound, a program presented annually for several years on WABC. The program won the 2002 AIR Award for Best Documentary produced for the New York City market.
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… It must be great, everybody is copying it …
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[Description by Peter Kanze]
One of great things about aircheck collecting is the “discovery” factor. This aircheck from Danny Clayton of KBTR, Denver, Colorado may be one of my all time favorite discoveries.
Here’s an aircheck from a totally forgotten radio station (it was only a rocker for a short time). The jock is not especially well known either. BUT….when you listen to this recording, everything that you rate an aircheck by, rates a “10”.
DJ compatability with the format, production, music selection, news (featuring a headline “Lenny Bruce found dead”), and contests… just everything comes up super. I’ve had this tape in my car for months and never get tired of hearing it either. Be sure to check out the great PAMS commercial spots, especially the O’Mara Ford jingle to the tune of “O Danny Boy”. This is The Sixties Channel, long before there was a need for a need for nostaligia
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… It must be great, everybody is copying it …
Description
[Description by Peter Kanze]
One of great things about aircheck collecting is the “discovery” factor. This aircheck from Danny Clayton of KBTR, Denver, Colorado may be one of my all time favorite discoveries.
Here’s an aircheck from a totally forgotten radio station (it was only a rocker for a short time). The jock is not especially well known either. BUT….when you listen to this recording, everything that you rate an aircheck by, rates a “10”.
DJ compatability with the format, production, music selection, news (featuring a headline “Lenny Bruce found dead”), and contests… just everything comes up super. I’ve had this tape in my car for months and never get tired of hearing it either. Be sure to check out the great PAMS commercial spots, especially the O’Mara Ford jingle to the tune of “O Danny Boy”. This is The Sixties Channel, long before there was a need for a need for nostaligia
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… Sock your soul to ’em, Fat Daddy, sock your soul to ’em …
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[Description by Uncle Ricky]
This Exhibit ‘SCOPED (09:05)
No music for you! Other material may have also been edited. Please remember that in addition to music licensing fees for the mostly UNSCOPED version, there are bandwidth and hardware costs for this ‘SCOPED version, and anything streamed from REELRADIO. We welcome your support.
I cried when I first heard this aircheck  they were tears of joy for music and radio that I hadn’t heard since I was a 15-year-old disc jockey in North Carolina. If you grew up in the South or in a major market where you were privileged to hear a formatted Sixties Soul station, you will share with me an absolute delight in hearing this wonderful aircheck from Fat Daddy (Paul Johnson), The Magnificient High Priest Of Soul, on Baltimore’s WWIN, July 14, 1966. And no, I can’t understand everything he says, but it’s so much fun to listen!
If you ever wondered where John Waters got the feeling for Hairspray  this is it! I considered this to be a type of “Free Form” Hit Music radio. Despite all the format and structure, Fat Daddy just talked over the vocals as he pleased. Damn, what a glorious time it was!
I asked contributor Peter Kanze for a comment on this one, and he offered this:
STAGING IS EVERYTHING.
I’ll add that we didn’t need one corporation to own eight stations in a market to have this kind of “diversity” on the air in 1966.
… Sock your soul to ’em, Fat Daddy, sock your soul to ’em …
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[Description by Uncle Ricky]
This Exhibit ‘SCOPED (09:05)
No music for you! Other material may have also been edited. Please remember that in addition to music licensing fees for the mostly UNSCOPED version, there are bandwidth and hardware costs for this ‘SCOPED version, and anything streamed from REELRADIO. We welcome your support.
I cried when I first heard this aircheck  they were tears of joy for music and radio that I hadn’t heard since I was a 15-year-old disc jockey in North Carolina. If you grew up in the South or in a major market where you were privileged to hear a formatted Sixties Soul station, you will share with me an absolute delight in hearing this wonderful aircheck from Fat Daddy (Paul Johnson), The Magnificient High Priest Of Soul, on Baltimore’s WWIN, July 14, 1966. And no, I can’t understand everything he says, but it’s so much fun to listen!
If you ever wondered where John Waters got the feeling for Hairspray  this is it! I considered this to be a type of “Free Form” Hit Music radio. Despite all the format and structure, Fat Daddy just talked over the vocals as he pleased. Damn, what a glorious time it was!
I asked contributor Peter Kanze for a comment on this one, and he offered this:
STAGING IS EVERYTHING.
I’ll add that we didn’t need one corporation to own eight stations in a market to have this kind of “diversity” on the air in 1966.
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… one of America’s great radio stations, it’s bound to be, it’s the only one we ever mention …
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[Description by Uncle Ricky]
What great fun to surprise another REELRADIO contributor with an aircheck of himself that he probably forgot long ago! If you want the full story on Gary Edens, please visit The Gary Edens Collection.
Maybe Gary can tell us something about how and why this aircheck ended up in New York. But it really doesn’t matter, because this exhibit is THE REEL THING featuring classic PAMS jingles, spots for Pepsi, the Yellow Pages and a sponsored time and temperature feature (twice!) And what better name for an Exterminator than “Kill-O”?
A full newscast and “The Kill-O Bulletin Board” is included in both the ‘scoped and unscoped versions of this exhibit. This is total Carolina! The station ID after the news is amazing… I don’t know how to write phonetically what is substituted for the letter “I” in W-K-I-X, but that’s the way many said it down South in those days. Maybe they still do.
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… one of America’s great radio stations, it’s bound to be, it’s the only one we ever mention …
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[Description by Uncle Ricky]
What great fun to surprise another REELRADIO contributor with an aircheck of himself that he probably forgot long ago! If you want the full story on Gary Edens, please visit The Gary Edens Collection.
Maybe Gary can tell us something about how and why this aircheck ended up in New York. But it really doesn’t matter, because this exhibit is THE REEL THING featuring classic PAMS jingles, spots for Pepsi, the Yellow Pages and a sponsored time and temperature feature (twice!) And what better name for an Exterminator than “Kill-O”?
A full newscast and “The Kill-O Bulletin Board” is included in both the ‘scoped and unscoped versions of this exhibit. This is total Carolina! The station ID after the news is amazing… I don’t know how to write phonetically what is substituted for the letter “I” in W-K-I-X, but that’s the way many said it down South in those days. Maybe they still do.
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… Outstanding, AND he is Wild …
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[Description by Uncle Ricky]
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No music for you! Other material may have also been edited.
1962 Newspaper ad for Robert E. Lee on WJBK (courtesy David Carson, “Rockin’ Down The Dial”)
Robert E. Lee was born in Detroit and graduated from Cooley High School in 1950. Claiming to be an actual descendant of General Robert E. Lee, (and apparently not the Robert E. Lee heard later on WCFL), Lee is remembered for opening his afternoon drive show on WJBK with a rebel yell. According to David Carson’s excellent 1999 book about Detroit radio, Rockin’ Down The Dial, Lee later moved to Denver and worked at KHOW and KLZ, and is retired.
It’s Fender Bender Jumper Bumper Time with Lee, PAMS jingles and some decidedly Detroit Soul classics from The King Pins and The Olympics in this PM drive hour from The Motor City in July, 1963. The unscoped version of this exhibit features a full newscast reported by Allan Thayer.
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[Description by Uncle Ricky]
This Exhibit ‘SCOPED (08:49)
No music for you! Other material may have also been edited.
1962 Newspaper ad for Robert E. Lee on WJBK (courtesy David Carson, “Rockin’ Down The Dial”)
Robert E. Lee was born in Detroit and graduated from Cooley High School in 1950. Claiming to be an actual descendant of General Robert E. Lee, (and apparently not the Robert E. Lee heard later on WCFL), Lee is remembered for opening his afternoon drive show on WJBK with a rebel yell. According to David Carson’s excellent 1999 book about Detroit radio, Rockin’ Down The Dial, Lee later moved to Denver and worked at KHOW and KLZ, and is retired.
It’s Fender Bender Jumper Bumper Time with Lee, PAMS jingles and some decidedly Detroit Soul classics from The King Pins and The Olympics in this PM drive hour from The Motor City in July, 1963. The unscoped version of this exhibit features a full newscast reported by Allan Thayer.
… this is the sleepy Sandy Shore radio program …
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[Description by Uncle Ricky]
Another unbelievable aircheck with more tasty nuggets than you could ever bag at a drive-in, Sandy Shore, featured here in morning drive on KIOA in Des Moines, Iowa in 1964, is better known as Marc Elliot, a hired voice for Disney, CBS and many others in the modern era.
And how much talent could they afford to pay at KIOA in those days? Newscaster Bob Burlingame, featured at the beginning and end of this exhibit, is a genuine stand-out with a precise and stylized news presentation.
We might provide a ‘scoped version of this in the future, but the overall fidelity and the refreshing music selection is just too good to cut. (Gotta love The Impressions!) Every minute should be savored, this was undoubtedly among the very best of Mid-America Medium Market Top 40.
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[Description by Uncle Ricky]
After The Peter Kanze Collection presented the rare aircheck of Gary Edens on WKIX, we received several serious requests for an aircheck of the late Mike Reineri in afternoon drive, also recorded in August of 1964.
Gary wrote a bit about Mike’s radio career. “He was really the first personality to host the WKIX morning show. He left WKIX for co-owned WPDQ, Jacksonsville, then went to Cleveland’s WIXY, and finally to Miami, where he spent the rest of his career as a talk show host on WIOD and other stations.”
Gary also wrote that Mike was a participant in the September, 2001, WPTF broadcast of the WKIX reunion. “That is the last time most of the ‘KIX Alums talked with Mike. He passed away in January of 2003.”
Despite Reineri’s flawless performance here, this recording was technically challenged, which is why it wasn’t an earlier choice for exhibition. It *is* an “off-the-board” recording, but it was recorded pre-processing, and the high-frequency distortion is unfortunate. Be assured a few hours were devoted to making it an effective online presentation, but the distortion remains on some program elements. Fortunately, all of Reineri’s work was spared the splatter.
At least two great Beer spots are featured, several PAMS jingles, and Jerry Kearns delivers news of the infamous Gulf of Tonkin incident.