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Rod Wolfe Oldies Radio DJ
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Добавлен 9 июн 2020
For almost 30 years, I was on the radio in the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Pa area and Northwest New Jersey. No matter what station I always played a lot of oldies and by the mid 1970s became known as an oldies DJ. Like most radio DJs, many times I recorded my show to tape and kept it. 1980 I began to write, produce and host my Sunday Night Hall Of Fame shows, I would record and keep special nights of the show. As a contract employee to the radio stations, all show tapes and discs remained in my possession. The past few years I decided to sift through the hundreds of hours of saved shows and do digital transfers of some of my most popular shows.
I hope that if you lived in the area and listened to any of my shows that these restorations bring back some good memories. If you did not live in the area then I hope you enjoy listening to what “Lehigh Valley” radio sounded like back then.
I hope that if you lived in the area and listened to any of my shows that these restorations bring back some good memories. If you did not live in the area then I hope you enjoy listening to what “Lehigh Valley” radio sounded like back then.
WODE April 9 & 16 2000 Air Checks Pt 9-B of 12 - DOO WOP SHOP Sunday Night Hall Of Fame
Air Check: This is Part #9-B of 12 parts and features the conclusion of the Doo Wop Shop. This video features an audio digital restoration from cassette tapes featuring two shows from WODE “Oldies 99.9” from the Allentown - Bethlehem - Easton, PA area and my Sunday Night Hall Of Fame Show.
Music on this Part #9-B includes The Videls, young Lou Christie with Lugee & The Lions, a couple Northeast USA hits with The Desires and then The Globetrotters. I first played “Rainy Day Bells” late 1970 when Jay Edwards and I added the song to the playlist at WCRV - AM 1580 in Washington, NJ. The Desires and “Rendezvous With You” was another of those Northeast USA hits of the era.
After that it’s a 197...
Music on this Part #9-B includes The Videls, young Lou Christie with Lugee & The Lions, a couple Northeast USA hits with The Desires and then The Globetrotters. I first played “Rainy Day Bells” late 1970 when Jay Edwards and I added the song to the playlist at WCRV - AM 1580 in Washington, NJ. The Desires and “Rendezvous With You” was another of those Northeast USA hits of the era.
After that it’s a 197...
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WODE April 9 & 16 2000 Air Checks Pt 9-A of 12 - DOO WOP SHOP Sunday Night Hall Of Fame
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Air Checks: This is Part #9-A of 12 parts and features another part of the Doo Wop Shop. This video features an audio digital restoration from cassette tapes featuring two shows from WODE “Oldies 99.9” from the Allentown - Bethlehem - Easton, PA area and my Sunday Night Hall Of Fame Show. Music on this Part #9-A includes Jan & Dean, Jay & The Americans, The Orlons and some fantastic Northeast U...
Rare Air Check WKAP Dec 21 1980 Pt 4-A of 9 - Christmas Hits and Christmas Party
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Very rare Air Check: WKAP AM-1320 Broadcast on December 21, 1980 - Part # 4-A of 9 - Christmas Hits at the Christmas Party. A listener was recording the show that night to cassette tapes and this is a digital restoration from the original tapes. As expected there was a lot of tape hiss, drop outs and some songs cut off or missing each time the tape had to be flipped over. Due to some of the mor...
WODE April 9 & 16 2000 Air Checks Pt 7 of 12 - Sunday Night Hall Of Fame
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Air Checks: This is Part #7 of 12 parts. This video features an audio digital restoration from cassette tapes featuring two shows from WODE “Oldies 99.9” from the Allentown - Bethlehem - Easton, PA area and my Sunday Night Hall Of Fame Show. Music on this Part #7 includes: New York City (from NYC but a Thom Bell “Philly Sound” hit), Gary U.S. Bonds & his Springsteen/E Street Band hit, The Turtl...
WODE April 9 & 16 2000 Air Checks Pt 5 of 12 - Sunday Night Hall Of Fame
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Air Checks: This is Part #5 of 12 parts. This video features an audio digital restoration from cassette tapes featuring two shows from WODE “Oldies 99.9” from the Allentown - Bethlehem - Easton, PA area and my Sunday Night Hall Of Fame Show. Music on this Part #5 includes: The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Lehigh Valley regional hit group The Kings Ransom, Beau Brummels, The Miracles, a couple of so...
WODE April 9 & 16 2000 Air Checks Pt 4 of 12 - Sunday Night Hall Of Fame
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Air Checks: This is Part #4 of 12 parts. This video features an audio digital restoration from cassette tapes featuring two shows from WODE “Oldies 99.9” from the Allentown - Bethlehem - Easton, PA area and my Sunday Night Hall Of Fame Show. Music on this Part #4 includes: John Fred and His Playboy Band, Roy Head, Archie Bell & The Drells, Billy Harner, The Swans, Bobby Rydell and Jim Croce. Fo...
Steinways My Heart's Not In It Anymore & You've Been Leadin Me On (Northern Soul)
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The Steinways - My Heart’s Not In It Anymore & You’ve Been Leadin’ Me On Here’s a favorite from The Steinways, a great one that never made the national charts, but was what we liked to call a radio “Turntable Hit”. It was programmed by a number of radio stations in at least, the Northeast region of the USA. Today it’s considered a Northern Soul classic collectible. When I first started as a rad...
WODE April 9 & 16 2000 Air Checks Pt 3 of 12 - Sunday Night Hall Of Fame Show
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Air Checks: This is Part #3 of 12 parts. This video features an audio digital restoration from cassette tapes featuring two shows from WODE “Oldies 99.9” from the Allentown - Bethlehem - Easton, PA area and my Sunday Night Hall Of Fame Show. Music on this Part #3 includes: Beach Boys, The Exciters, Patti Drew, The Zombies and The Animals, a Righteous Brothers classic, The Supremes, Eddie Hollan...
WODE April 9 & 16 2000 Air Checks Pt 2 of 12 - Sunday Night Hall Of Fame Show
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WODE April 9 & 16 2000 Air Checks Pt 2 of 12 - Sunday Night Hall Of Fame Show
Bobby Rydell Interview & Hits Special Pt 2 of 4 - Jan 1988 WAEB AM 790
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Bobby Rydell Interview & Hits Special Pt 2 of 4 - Jan 1988 WAEB AM 790
Bobby Rydell Interview & Hits Special Pt 1 of 4 - Jan 1988 WAEB AM 790
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Bobby Rydell Interview & Hits Special Pt 1 of 4 - Jan 1988 WAEB AM 790
Bobby Rydell Interview & Hits Special Pt 3 of 4 - Jan 1988 WAEB AM 790
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Bobby Rydell Interview & Hits Special Pt 3 of 4 - Jan 1988 WAEB AM 790
Marcels Hits & Walt Maddox Interview Pt 3 of 3 - Jan 8 1989 WAEB AM 790
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Marcels Hits & Walt Maddox Interview Pt 3 of 3 - Jan 8 1989 WAEB AM 790
Marcels Hits & Walt Maddox Interview Pt 1 of 3 - Jan 8 1989 WAEB AM 790
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Marcels Hits & Walt Maddox Interview Pt 1 of 3 - Jan 8 1989 WAEB AM 790
All 1950s Hits Part 10-B of 12 - WODE March 12 2000 Lovers Gold Air Check
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All 1950s Hits Part 10-B of 12 - WODE March 12 2000 Lovers Gold Air Check
Ricky Nelson Tribute WAEB Jan 5 1986 Pt 2 of 3 - Air Check Sunday Night Hall Of Fame
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Ricky Nelson Tribute WAEB Jan 5 1986 Pt 2 of 3 - Air Check Sunday Night Hall Of Fame
Ricky Nelson Tribute WAEB Jan 5 1986 Pt 3 of 3 - Air Check Sunday Night Hall Of Fame
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Ricky Nelson Tribute WAEB Jan 5 1986 Pt 3 of 3 - Air Check Sunday Night Hall Of Fame
Nice guys! Was that a small Philip Sayce tribute at 5:25?
R.I.P. Kris Kristofferson
Fantastic!
Brian Setzer has a kind of rack on top of the amplifier, does anyone know what Rack it is? At minute 8:41 you can see how he manipulates it.
Brian Setzer has a kind of rack on top of the amplifier, does anyone know what Rack it is?
Rest in peace, Charles Hardin Holley ✝️ 🎶 🇺🇲
Fantastic tribute, the definitive tribute. A labour of love, clearly. Thank you, Rod!
Glad you enjoyed it
Two of my favorite Buddy Holly songs. It’s a revelation that Holly wrote such incredible music at his young age! He became a legendary star not because he died so young but because his songs were so good. The loss was immense! The same can be said for Ritchie Valens who was a Latino rocker and pioneer! Joe Ely does Holly proud! 😊
I don't think most people understand the immense talent Buddy had.
The coolest. His music is just as good today.
Pure CLASS🎉
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Excellent, quel honneur pour Brian d'avoir pu jouer avec le grand Carl Perkins.
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Did he wear a wig
I always thought so....and always wished I had one just like it!
What an excellent tribute to the great Buddy Holly
Thanks for listening
weheard all the same music growing up,Brian plays everything I like
is 1st Buddy Holly song I learned oH Boy
I've seen the best heard thebest yet turns out a kid one year older than me from Long Iland New York is my Musical Hero!
R.I.P Kris Kristofferson
If Ollie vee married buddy holly she would have been Ollie Holly
A Cool Cove Think It Over (with billy swan & kris krisofferson) Buddy Holly Tribute.
John Fogarty one of the greats
Read something recently about the tour Buddy and the Rest of the acts were on.Later to be named the tour from Hell,had them traveling in Wisconsin Michiigan Iowa,in dead of Winter.Was noted that their bus drove past the venue they played more than once,forcing them to travel 100's of miles out of their way.
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HOLY CRAP - I can't believe I found this! I was one of the WKTC DJs in your list - Bob Bour (not Bauer as you spelled it). I was at WKTC from June of 1975 until almost the bitter end a few months later working the 3-8 PM shift. I got involved with John Kiernan and Ken Meinhart through Alan Furst, who was my college roommate at Bethany College. Alan knew and worked for John at KAA Productions (Kiernan Audio Associates) - I still have his KAA business card. Anyway, John and Ken came to Bethany to visit Alan, heard me on WVBC, the college station, we had some discussions, and shortly after I left school and started at WKTC. I was good friends with Joe McLain, Kelly Reid and Ron Kaplan (real name Miniatis now living in Atlanta GA). In fact, I was Ron's Best Man in his wedding. After the end at WKTC I ended up working for the Holt's at WGPA/WEZV in Bethlehem when they were both automated. I ran the automation and did news on the weekends. I stayed as WEZV transitioned to Z-95 and worked weekends there with Joe, Kevin Sanford and some others. I later moved with Ron Kaplan to WFMV-FM in Blairstown, NJ working weekends. Another fun fact - Sammy Anderson from WEZV was at one time my father-in-law. I ended up leaving FMV in early 1979 and several years later left the Allentown area and moved to upstate NY. I know I still have a few WKTC airchecks down in the basement somewhere - I'll take a look and let you know what I find. It was a blast hearing those old jingles and station IDs with John, Ken and Joe. "89 At Your Service"
Hi Bob, great to hear from you! I corrected the spelling of your name in the details of the video. Hope you also found my WGPA air check on RUclips. That one was also my last show at WGPA when I was programming the "Oldies 1100" format. Watch for the pictures of our automation system, but be aware that just seeing it again might give you a few nightmares! Sounds like we worked at some of the same stations like WFMV-FM, Blairstown. Along with Chucky "B" and engineer Steve Boyer, I helped create and get that station finally on the air. When we launched it, I programmed it as "New Jersey Solid Gold". Few people realize that I had Jim Nettleton at WCAU-FM 98 oldies in Philadelphia providing alot of the inside help and guidance on how to create the live drive time then automated sound we had in little 'ol Blairstown! Of course we were much more interested in attracting our audience from Stroudsburg and the Pocono mountains area. At that time we were the only 24 hour a day oldies station in New Jersey. Unfortunately the 80 hour work weeks being Program/Music Director at both WCRV-AM in Washington NJ and WFMV-FM in Blairstown finally caught up and I left both stations. Those were the days my friend!
Oh yes - the much-feared BPI2000 automation system - had a few nightmares with that one. It was really fun running two of them at the same time. I did find some old KTC and FMV airchecks that help clarify the dates I was around. I definitely started at KTC in June of 1975 and all of the airchecks I have are from July so I'm thinking that KTC was gone by the end of July or beginning of August. I know I started a job at K-Photo Service on Hanover Avenue in late August. I'm not sure how I got the job at GPA/EZV but I started there in January of 1976 - I remember meeting with Gordon Holt who was Art's son. The FMV airchecks I have are from February of 1977 on so I was there until I went back to Bethlehem to ZZO. I did stay friends with Joe McLain and Joe Swanson so when EZV became ZZO in 1978 I left FMV and started there - was tired of the drive from Allentown to Blairstown every weekend. I stayed at ZZO until the format change - sometime in 1979? - when they hired the consultants, and we were no longer allowed to play what we wanted. Unfortunately, I don't have any airchecks from my time at ZZO. I found some pictures from Ron Kaplan's wedding - I was best man, and I believe the ushers were Kelly Reid and Mark Austin who was also at FMV at that time along with TJ and Bill Chamberlin. Indeed, those were the days - hard to believe how long ago it was. Thanks for providing some great memories and the impetus to drag out the old reel-to-reel and play some of those old tapes. Glad I kept them!
Imagine what he could have done,in a Full life?1
Buddy died at the young age of 22 February 3rd,1959...he had recorded OVER 50 songs.
Brian was born for this as was I...we love this music.
Chris wrote many songs including Me and Bobby MaGee
Just such a wonderful song-- Crewe and Calello really knew what they were doing!!!
Loved Duane ! But casting back 60 years ago, it seems to me you couldn't have a hit record if there wasn't a wailing sax involved somewhere in the song !!!
Love Waylon's voice❤❤
I have no doubt I heard tyhe music when my mom listened as I was in the Uterus.I popped out asking where the radio was!!
Brian and Ihave similar musical interests because we heard the same songs as children,where we r mostly influenced.
never heard this but as a Buddy and Brian Freak,I know I'll love it...Ollie V
I always said it. Buddy and Junior could not be matched.
Absolutely love this!
Bob really had a great voice and was an excellent Guitarist 😇❤🩹
Some wonderful renditions of excellent Buddy classics! So grateful that my Mum and Dad brought me up to Buddy Holly- good old proper rock & roll!!!
Rave on...
This group was truly one of the best of all times it’s just a shame they didn’t get the breakThey really deserved my husband and I saw them perform many times.
It is amazing how larger than life brian setzer makes the guitar. Such a unique player.
Thank you for sharing! ^_^
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I love Buddy Holly ❤
1,000 years from now they'll still be playing "Since I Don't Have You".
This was during Brian's "Live Nude Guitars" era......That album is a classic.👏👏👏
Great band to