The Scott Lowe Collection
Scott Lowe at 16 
Scott Lowe & his vinyl, 2007 
Scott Lowe, 2009 |
Scott Lowe's interest in radio took off in the mid 70s (at age 4), while he was glued to a transistor radio listening to Top 40 WEEX in Easton, PA. A few year's later, his parents moved closer to Philadelphia and his favorite stations included: Hot Hits WCAU-FM, WMMR and Rick Carroll's "Rock of the 80's" format on WIFI.
While in the eighth grade, he started hanging out and doing shows for the campus station at Trenton State College, WTSR. His professional radio career started at WBUX Doylestown, PA and WPST Trenton, NJ, both while still in high school. In the mid 90s, Scott went to Philadelphia to join the airstaff at WXPN and did both on-air and production for rock outlets WPLY and WYSP. He also spent fours years in Los Angeles, hosting a free-form music program at FM 89.3/KPCC, and he was Production Director for Modern Rock Y107. After L.A., he returned to the east coast for nights and imaging Production at heritage CHR outlet, B104 (WAEB-FM) in Allentown, PA. Most recently, he was the nighttime host for WHTG-FM in Asbury Park, NJ. Scott often calls himself a Radio Archivist and a Pop Music Historian, with a vinyl record collection of over 10,000 discs. In 2006, Scott co-founded a production company and has been involved with developing several video projects, including a feature length film. The Repository thanks Scott Lowe for sharing! |
Recreational Production, Exhibit Description and Expert ‘scoping by Contributor Scott Lowe
This is not exactly a real aircheck, but it is 100% authentic Wolfman Jack! When I was working at B104 in Allentown, PA. (2005) I found a file cabinet filled with reels of the syndicated “Graffiti Gold,” plus jingles and ID carts with custom Wolfman Jack liners for our sister station, 79 WAEB.
Just for fun, I thought it would be cool to assemble an hour of Graffiti Gold with the customized WAEB material. I was careful to match the tempo of the custom liners with the talk breaks on the reel and mixed the levels to make it sound as if he was really there.
From 1957 to 1983, WAEB-AM had a successful Top 40 format and continued with Adult Contemporary and Oldies formats through the mid 80’s.
[Description by Uncle Ricky. This exhibit was contributed by Scott Lowe]
Sure sounds like China Smith is introduced as Shana, at least to me it does, but since KING was using the first generation Johnny Mann jingles, I guess it doesn’t matter. Still, I’ve heard the Mann stuff used better, we all have.
This restoration is interesting because the music variety is exciting and the original fidelity was very good. But, there was nothing left of any commercial sets, and there are glaring restorative shortcomings.
But, China is too cool at the Big Eleven with lots of hit rock ‘n’ roll music.
Description by Uncle Ricky. This exhibit was contributed by Scott Lowe]
It’s hardly two quarter-hours long, but it’s enough to hear that the newly christened China Smith has found his pace and polished his performance on KCBQ in San Diego.
We wonder if the Hi-Lo contestant enjoyed her Woodstock poster? There are a couple of musical surprises, too. Thanks to Stormy Hunter for help with this restoration.
