My Dad (RIP) would play WPAT 930AM on the car radio whenever we went anyplace. I can imagine it right now being with him on the NJ Turnpike or Belt Parkway as this was playing.
Back in high school, WPAT was my Mom's favorite station back in the early 1970s. I used to study and do my homework listening to this fine music. Dorman Cheese was a popular commercial on WPAT.!
Every Sunday evening growing up as a kid throughout the 1980s I had dinner with my grandparents and they played WPAT in the background. On Sunday evenings,WPAT dedicated a few hours playing Frank Sinatra songs on Sundays. What wonderful memories! When I hear this, it brings back all those memories!
My dad same at dinner when he would have a little bit of a time to sit with us cause he was always hustling for us his family his obligations with this he passed on to me and me hopefully to mine . This is why I take a moment to pass it on to you.Adios
My dad had this programmed in his car. I remember riding in the car with him at night and he'd have this station or WRFM on. Driving along the northern state Pkwy at night in the winter. Very relaxing.
Oh, believe me, this and the other beautiful music radio clips that have been uploaded have replaced the white noise app as my put-on-while-falling-asleep sounds of choice.
I used to listen to both WPAT and WRFM back in the 60s and 70s. After that, I moved out of the city, but the music memories are sweet. Soft, melodic music -- not the harsh cacophony they play nowadays -- was the essence of the above-mentioned stations. Even the radio announcers had that soft voice timbre and the perfect English diction -- without screaming. Thank you for sharing.
Hellow wpat! it's so nice to have you here in korea again. You were in my life when i was there. I missed you and tried to reach. Now i got you at last beautiful music and memories always. Thank you thank you thank you
I agree with you. I was on the honor role during high-school. All the homework! This station WPAT assisted me greatly in putting me in the right frame of mind for long hours of study!
hey val I agree. How many audio recordings of these stations WPAT & WRFM was robbed from us fans in New York metro area. They need to remove these rap hip hop stations.. However im a country music fan and there is only 1 in our area I do enjoy as well, this format is missing in our lives easy listening music calms my nerves while the rap music gets me sick 😤😡😵
Thanks for sharing I recently lost a close family member Laurence past away Laurence was one of a kind Laurence and my father was the biggest fans of wpat they listen everyday for hours even at work.im 46 years and I'm proud to be brought up in my early childhood til the last day wpat was on the air very good memories .. the best music 👍👍👍
My Mother had this station on the kitchen radio back in the early 1970s. The lampshade on the channel is just like the one she had in the kitchen. Always great reception in Whitestone Queens section of NYC !
I suggest posting this on Twitter and Facebook and get the word out to social media. The more people that beg for this format to come back to the dial the more likely it will return. I have been pushing this hard on twitter and uploading these links from youtube. Numbers speak.
@@Catloverplayer it won't. WPAT has already hit the top 10 stations in the NYC market since the switch. No way they are going back to this genre of music. But, WPAT (AM) might.
@@WKFT35Radio is dominated by Clear Channel. Despicable company that forces stations to play the garbage play lists they sell. They have virtually destroyed local radio stations. I akso miss WRVR great jazz station in NYC. Better than WBGO. They played a great cross section of traditional jazz and contemporary/fusion jazz. When I listen to this old recording, I can feel my blood pressure dropping...sigh...closest to WPAT is Escape on Sirrius. Closest but no match to WRVR is Watercolors on Sirrius...
Thanks so much for this. I grew up in Northern NJ with my parents always playing this station in their car. I didn't appreciate this 'mellow music' at the time, but I sure do now. All the same it was the only station that I ever listened to growing up that was out of New Jersey and not New York City, and i'm very nostalgic for it and the music they played. One day in the early 80's, probably not long before the station went off the air), I was helping my dad paint a small bedroom in the family house and I brought in a portable radio and put on WPAT instead of doing it all in silence. They occasionally mentioned a phone number to call into the station if a listener had a question about the music played. Well, turns out they played this very cool jazzy instrumental track that I just had to know who it was, so I stopped painting and called the station. I dont' think they ever got very many calls, especially from somebody that sounded like they weren't a senior citizen because as soon as the guy picked up the phone and I asked about this track they just played the guy sounded quite surprised. Maybe it was because I was obviously NOT an 'elderly' listener (I was maybe just 30 at the time). I thanked him and was surprised that the record they had just played I actually already had in my record collection ( A Chet Atkins album with guest George Benson). I've never forgotten the sound of the guys voice and how he actually seemed surprised to receive a call from a listener. I guess that didnt' happen too often? Nice guy though and I think the phone was answered on maybe the 2nd or 3rd ring!! That exchange really made me appreciate this local station even more. Where I lived the signal was always very strong and clear, BTW. I was quite sad when the station (and this type of music in general) disappeared off of terrestrial radio.
this is so beautiful brings back when I was a lil kid and mom would leave the stereo on for me I love this kind of music and was staticy like this too thank you thank you thank you
I am still trying to find that old WPAT Gaslight Revue Program Guide. I use to have a monthly subscription. It listed day, time, artist and record label.
The static in the recording and the interference was part of the nostalgia! You’d get something like that and then have to get up and adjust your antenna. 😁
See above for the commercial they used to run: "93 WPAT, the place to relax...at home, at work, or IN YOUR CAR....especially IN YOUR CAR...tune out all those silly traffic noises, sirens, screaming pedestrians, or any of those other driving nuisances, listen to WPAT, and let the world (and your life) slip away..." (this was an actual commercial).
Yep...This was also my Grand Parent's Beautiful Music Station in the 60's, 70s and 80s when we lived in Coney Island...Does anyone remember WPAT's fascinating longtime commercials for the restaurant "A Quiet Little Table In The Corner" ?... In the 70's I remember them playing more great stuff like Percy Faith, Bert Kaempfert, Bob Crewe, James Last and Ray Conniff. At 57 yo I no longer listen to much Metal....This is my music now along with 1960s Bossa Nova and 50s and 60s "Exotica" (Faux Polynesian Tiki Music).... The internet radio station "Jango." is a great place to hear a lot of this great music...These longtime WPAT DJs Ken Lamb and Jan Oaks had great serene voices, great to hear them again...
They used to play Montavani also. I used to have this on quietly in the background when studying in piblic school and then College. So sad there are no stations like this on radio. Sirrius channel called Escape is similar but not quite the same. Loved the mellow DJ's and commercials too. Clear Channel and other mega corporations like that have strongarmed their way into radio and force stations to yse thier playlists in all genres. They basically have killed independent local stations. One of my most fond memories and images in my mind was this played by my woodshop teacher in high school and in Winter seeing snow gently falling outside viewed through the high windows in the shop. I still recall the cool littke bix cabinet he made for his tube radio works.
WPAT had THE BEST. CHRISTMAS. PROGRAMMING. EVER. I would listen to nothing but their Spirit of Christmas from the afternoon of Christmas Eve to the end of Christmas Day. “Bright lights, the tree, and the holiday sound of WPAT, EEEEEEEasy 93!”
They sure did! Great memories of Christmas as a kid. Now with my own family we like to play easy listening while cooking and having dinner. Wpat - FM - 93. Good times!
With everyone worried and tense about this Covid 19 Virus the beautiful music format needs to return to the Fm Dial with News and Weather on the hour and very limited commercials mainly service announcements. If I was over these corporations I"d bring beautiful music back to the FM Dial. There is a Hospital that plays it still in my area. They play it for heart patients. Most of the music I have on my smart phone is beautiful music..
Thanks for preserving this. My grandparents had WPAT on all the time in their house and I grew up listening to it. What treasured memories this brings back.
My grandfather was a big fan of WPAT in the sixties and seventies. Always as a preteen enjoyed the music as an alternative to rock n roll, once in a while.
Yes i miss this so called "elevator music" station. I used to listen to from late 80s to early 90s. I stopped listening when they switched to more up tempo stuff around 1994.
"93 WPAT, the place to relax...at home, at work, or IN YOUR CAR....especially IN YOUR CAR...tune out all those silly traffic noises, sirens, screaming pedestrians, or any of those other driving nuisances, listen to WPAT, and let the world (and your life) slip away..." (this was an actual commercial.
I miss this kind of music too. I used to lissen to this station when i was a child growing up in Brooklyn NY. I would still lissen to it now if it was still broadcasting this kind of music .
Everyone! Sirius Radio Channel 69 has this beautiful music 🎶🎵!. I love this genre of music as I drive here in Staten Island NY. Memories of Mom's kitchen radio come back.
Here's my best shot at identifying these songs. I used to listen to this station to fall asleep when I was a kid in the mid-80s: Paul Weston - Valley Of The Dolls George Shearing - Someone To Watch Over Me Bill Waterous - Nancy With The Laughing Face Hell if I know - sounded like the intro to Allegheny Moon? Ken Lamb Station ID Nicolas de Angelis - Maria Helena Gordon Lightfoot - Your Love's Return Frank Chacksfeld - Almost Like A Song Franck Pourcel - Born Free Ken Lamb Station ID Romantic Strings - Let It Be Me Shirley Bassey - I'm In The Mood For Love Unknown - You Stepped Out Of A Dream Unknown - Light My Fire Unknown - Heart and Soul Ken Lamb - Station ID - Red Cross Commercial - Weather Earl Klugh - Doc Englebert Humperdinck - Far Away Places
@@SuperTabitha22 YES! Heard another version today. If He Walked Into My Life. I thought it was Al Caiola, but maybe he was with the starlight strings. Thank you!!!
@@bronxfireradio Yes indeed. It is from his 1968 United Artist's album: 'It Must Be Him.' Happy days. We really need these great easy listening stations back again.
Like other people who have commented here, WPAT was a part of my childhood: my grandparents always had it on and my parent's had it on mostly around the holidays. It has been said that this beautiful music format began to lose popularity in the late 1980s. It saddens me that this was the case. This program strong feelings of nostalgia. Thank you for posting this! I wished I could find a similar online station that could closely mimic WPAT from this "EZ 93" era of the 1980's...mostly instrumental renditions of pop hits with just the right mixture of contemporary, but soft vocal hits. I cannot find anything close! If anyone has found anything even close to WPAT, please let us know.
Wow! So glad you shared this! My parents put this on in our bedroom to lull us to sleep. "WPAT, easy 93..." My grandparents did the same at their place. ❤ I truly love this relaxing music. As I got older, I used to sing the words and pretend that WPAT was my personal instrumental channel. Lol! 😂 Lots of fond memories.
Like reading the comments about this forgotten type of music. I’m 50 now, but I used to listen to a radio station in Houston TX like this called 92FM KYND in the late 70’s and early 80’s as a kid (yes, I was a little eclectic for a kid back then) If you found your way here, technically I think this is called Elevator Music, Beautiful music or Muzak. And just so y’all know, there is an online radio station (on tunein app as well) that plays this type of music at certain times of the day, it’s called Luxuria music. They have different music shows on there at certain times, but it’s mainly beautiful music. They usually have the title and artist too. luxuriamusic.com It’s great if you miss radio stations like this.
When corporations started buying radio stations beautiful music died aka Clear Channel,I Heart Radio,Cumulous Media etc. Focus Groups got this music off the FM Dial. Ratings are low on FM because there isn't any variety. You have 4 rock stations,4 country,2 hip hops etc etc but nowhere can you find beautiful music on the FM Dial anymore. WKTZ in Jacksonville Florida finally ended there's on FM though you can still occasionally hear it on tune in thru Jones College Radio. Only place to go now for beautiful music is Satellite Radio aka SiriusXm which has the Escape Channel. You can also hear it on Dish Networks Channel 973 Channel and finally Amazon has a lot of beautiful music you can listen to thru their unlimited music or download. I've downloaded a lot. They have an extensive library of Frank Chacksfield and they also have Syd Dale,Percy Faith,John Fox,Lots of 101 Strings,Sven Libeak,Henry Mancini,Neville Hughs,Alec Gould,Geoff Love,Manuel And The Music Of The Mountains and the list goes on and on.
@@philipmclaughlin9636 There's also WGCY in Gibson City, Illinois. They still play this kind of music, with CBS News on the hour, local newscasts, farm reports, and sports play-by-play. Truly a small-town radio station. I've listened to them on TuneIn. Very nice station!
"Music Choice" is a service included with many cable companies. They have dedicated stations playing commercial free music. They also have an app. So, you can download their app to your phone, go to the "easy listening" station, use Bluetooth to stream it to your car speakers - and recreate that sound you heard as a kid in your parents' car.
I believe this is the same Ken Lamb that would sometimes do voiceovers during ABC's soap operas in the 1990s and 2000s. He sounds fantastic in this aircheck!
Enjoying the music and comments. Dad would usually listen to this in the car (1980s). I'm now older than he was then - and I listen to stations like this with increasing frequency, usually on streaming/satellite services, or the music channels on cable TV packages. But there is nothing like the original.
I had seen other recordings of beautiful music stations on RUclips, so I wanted to see if the one I grew up with was there. IT WAS! Oh, how I remember that we all badmouthed WPAT loudly to each other - you were only COOL in the New York area in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s if you listened to WNEW or WPLJ. But if you were like me, you were secretly listening to WPAT when it was bedtime - there was nothing better to put you in a calm, relaxed mood. They truly do not make stations like this anymore.
my grandparents used to play this station exclusively in the car. I remember me and my aunt (who was only 1 year older than me) used to make fun of it and beg for them to put on some rock and roll. They never relented. Now I understand what drew them to this relaxing, calm vibe music. It must be an age thing.
My family loved listening to "Gaslight Revue" in the evenings back in the 70s and before. Back then it was all instrumental. WPAT even had a Gaslight Revue program guide to which we subscribed.
One day, Mom, Argie, me,and Jennifer went out for dinner. We went in Jerry 's big car, which was an Oldsmobile. Mom and Jennifer rode in back, and I sat yp front. The car radio was on the beautiful music station. "Sounds like what Daddy's radio station played remember?" Mom said. I told Jennifer that WVOR had a terrible fire one day. "One night! One o' clock in the morning!" Mom said. -Mark Weintraub.
I love listening to the soothing spoken voice of Ken Lamb. Even the commercials are nostalgic...... Go to WDOX in RUclips.Another Wpat type station from NJ..The same exact music. If you are using headphones you will notice the stereophonic sound which those broadcasts have that this WPAT broadcast from RUclips doesn't have.
This was not stereo because I picked it up from Philadelphia. If it was in stereo mode, it would have been noisy with FM hiss. So I listened to it in mono.
Do you have any classic WDUV Stereo 103 Beautiful Music Station recordings uploaded? This was from Tampa/St Petersburg Florida before they changed formats and went to 105 on the dial.
Anyone know what great songs (WPAT Classics) those are at 6:05 and 9:08? (9:08 turned out to be MARIA ELENA by Nicolas de Angelis). I remember WPAT usually announced what songs and performers they were after playing a few in a row....
I remember they used to play the easy listening version of 10cc's "I'm not in love", I just can't find it..., Would anyone happen know the artist of this remake version?
I can't find "I'm Not in Love" on this aircheck, but I can tell you that there were four instrumental versions that played frequently on Beautiful Music stations: Paul Mauriat, Francis Goya, Caravelli, and Bert Weedon. It was most likely one of those.
WPAT used to play an instrumental song with accordions, bagpipes, and the sound of crashing waves. Been trying to find the name of that song for decades. Loved it!! Does anyone know the song???
@@DrewTechner disregard i found it i had it on file from when it was posted sometimes back it was a 4 hour overnight aircheck from 1992 a thousand apologies.
My Dad (RIP) would play WPAT 930AM on the car radio whenever we went anyplace. I can imagine it right now being with him on the NJ Turnpike or Belt Parkway as this was playing.
Sounds like my Dad.
@@georgesignoriello7366 generational thing, I guess!
Back in high school, WPAT was my Mom's favorite station back in the early 1970s. I used to study and do my homework listening to this fine music. Dorman Cheese was a popular commercial on WPAT.!
If we were smart, we'd start playing music like this in shopping centers and stores again. Thank you for posting this! Takes me back. 😊
I could listen to this for hours and days and not tire of it.
Ahh the good ole days when they use to play beautiful music on the FM Dial.
You can hear Beautiful Music on our internet station.
Every Sunday evening growing up as a kid throughout the 1980s I had dinner with my grandparents and they played WPAT in the background. On Sunday evenings,WPAT dedicated a few hours playing Frank Sinatra songs on Sundays. What wonderful memories! When I hear this, it brings back all those memories!
My parents played in at Sunday dinners too, we had one of thous huge old stereos with the lid that looked a little like a coffin
My dad same at dinner when he would have a little bit of a time to sit with us cause he was always hustling for us his family his obligations with this he passed on to me and me hopefully to mine . This is why I take a moment to pass it on to you.Adios
Winter time in Delaware county spat long time ago .
Same! But I grew up in NJ. Grandparents always had WPAT on a big console stereo.
I get you here. In my case, it was my Dad when he was driving..
My dad had this programmed in his car. I remember riding in the car with him at night and he'd have this station or WRFM on. Driving along the northern state Pkwy at night in the winter. Very relaxing.
Same here!! Except we were usually on the Belt/Southern State Parkway or NJ Turnpike
Holy crap, I used to fall asleep to WPAT late at night, I must have been 15 when this aired. Loved just falling asleep to this.
same here
Ditto!
Oh, believe me, this and the other beautiful music radio clips that have been uploaded have replaced the white noise app as my put-on-while-falling-asleep sounds of choice.
I used to listen to both WPAT and WRFM back in the 60s and 70s. After that, I moved out of the city, but the music memories are sweet. Soft, melodic music -- not the harsh cacophony they play nowadays -- was the essence of the above-mentioned stations. Even the radio announcers had that soft voice timbre and the perfect English diction -- without screaming. Thank you for sharing.
Hellow wpat! it's so nice to have you here in korea again. You were in my life when i was there. I missed you and tried to reach. Now i got you at last beautiful music and memories always. Thank you thank you thank you
I couldn't study unless I had this music playing. Beautiful and relaxing. Loving it.
I agree with you. I was on the honor role during high-school. All the homework! This station WPAT assisted me greatly in putting me in the right frame of mind for long hours of study!
my grandparents apartment on the Fisher stereo. in Queens wonderful
My grandparents had a Fisher stereo as well...They usually played WPAT on the great oversized 20 band desk radio in the bedroom...
Why, oh why can't we have easy listening, beautiful music again on the radio? Do we really need 14 rap and country stations?
I don't even mind rap or country but I don't get why there's so many identical stations.
Exactly. I have to listen to Escape on SiriusXM to hear it or on Amazon Music.
Yes, why can't we?
Because this music SOOTHES the Savage Beast... And todqy's "Hits" are all about Riling it up, be it physically emotionally or sexually.
hey val I agree. How many audio recordings of these stations WPAT & WRFM was robbed from us fans in New York metro area. They need to remove these rap hip hop stations.. However im a country music fan and there is only 1 in our area I do enjoy as well, this format is missing in our lives easy listening music calms my nerves while the rap music gets me sick 😤😡😵
Thanks for sharing I recently lost a close family member Laurence past away Laurence was one of a kind Laurence and my father was the biggest fans of wpat they listen everyday for hours even at work.im 46 years and I'm proud to be brought up in my early childhood til the last day wpat was on the air very good memories .. the best music 👍👍👍
I am very sorry for your loss. I hope you can listen to WPAT on this aircheck and be with Laurence.
My Mother had this station on the kitchen radio back in the early 1970s. The lampshade on the channel is just like the one she had in the kitchen. Always great reception in Whitestone Queens section of NYC !
I wish so much that this type of station would come back. I really, really miss it.
I suggest posting this on Twitter and Facebook and get the word out to social media. The more people that beg for this format to come back to the dial the more likely it will return. I have been pushing this hard on twitter and uploading these links from youtube. Numbers speak.
Once great AM and FM radio has collapsed...You could hear this music on the internet radio station "Jango".....
@@Catloverplayer it won't. WPAT has already hit the top 10 stations in the NYC market since the switch. No way they are going back to this genre of music. But, WPAT (AM) might.
@@WKFT35Radio is dominated by Clear Channel. Despicable company that forces stations to play the garbage play lists they sell. They have virtually destroyed local radio stations. I akso miss WRVR great jazz station in NYC. Better than WBGO. They played a great cross section of traditional jazz and contemporary/fusion jazz. When I listen to this old recording, I can feel my blood pressure dropping...sigh...closest to WPAT is Escape on Sirrius. Closest but no match to WRVR is Watercolors on Sirrius...
Thanks so much for this. I grew up in Northern NJ with my parents always playing this station in their car. I didn't appreciate this 'mellow music' at the time, but I sure do now. All the same it was the only station that I ever listened to growing up that was out of New Jersey and not New York City, and i'm very nostalgic for it and the music they played. One day in the early 80's, probably not long before the station went off the air), I was helping my dad paint a small bedroom in the family house and I brought in a portable radio and put on WPAT instead of doing it all in silence. They occasionally mentioned a phone number to call into the station if a listener had a question about the music played. Well, turns out they played this very cool jazzy instrumental track that I just had to know who it was, so I stopped painting and called the station. I dont' think they ever got very many calls, especially from somebody that sounded like they weren't a senior citizen because as soon as the guy picked up the phone and I asked about this track they just played the guy sounded quite surprised. Maybe it was because I was obviously NOT an 'elderly' listener (I was maybe just 30 at the time). I thanked him and was surprised that the record they had just played I actually already had in my record collection ( A Chet Atkins album with guest George Benson). I've never forgotten the sound of the guys voice and how he actually seemed surprised to receive a call from a listener. I guess that didnt' happen too often? Nice guy though and I think the phone was answered on maybe the 2nd or 3rd ring!! That exchange really made me appreciate this local station even more. Where I lived the signal was always very strong and clear, BTW. I was quite sad when the station (and this type of music in general) disappeared off of terrestrial radio.
Did you ever call up WSOU? The Seton Hall 80s Metal Station...
this is so beautiful brings back when I was a lil kid and mom would leave the stereo on for me I love this kind of music and was staticy like this too thank you thank you thank you
I am still trying to find that old WPAT Gaslight Revue Program Guide. I use to have a monthly subscription. It listed day, time, artist and record label.
The static in the recording and the interference was part of the nostalgia! You’d get something like that and then have to get up and adjust your antenna. 😁
Memories! My dad would listen to this station in the car & I remember sitting in the back seat, relaxing to it!
See above for the commercial they used to run: "93 WPAT, the place to relax...at home, at work, or IN YOUR CAR....especially IN YOUR CAR...tune out all those silly traffic noises, sirens, screaming pedestrians, or any of those other driving nuisances, listen to WPAT, and let the world (and your life) slip away..." (this was an actual commercial).
Yep...This was also my Grand Parent's Beautiful Music Station in the 60's, 70s and 80s when we lived in Coney Island...Does anyone remember WPAT's fascinating longtime commercials for the restaurant "A Quiet Little Table In The Corner" ?... In the 70's I remember them playing more great stuff like Percy Faith, Bert Kaempfert, Bob Crewe, James Last and Ray Conniff. At 57 yo I no longer listen to much Metal....This is my music now along with 1960s Bossa Nova and 50s and 60s "Exotica" (Faux Polynesian Tiki Music).... The internet radio station "Jango." is a great place to hear a lot of this great music...These longtime WPAT DJs Ken Lamb and Jan Oaks had great serene voices, great to hear them again...
I remember the Dorman Cheese commercials!
They used to play Montavani also. I used to have this on quietly in the background when studying in piblic school and then College. So sad there are no stations like this on radio. Sirrius channel called Escape is similar but not quite the same. Loved the mellow DJ's and commercials too. Clear Channel and other mega corporations like that have strongarmed their way into radio and force stations to yse thier playlists in all genres. They basically have killed independent local stations. One of my most fond memories and images in my mind was this played by my woodshop teacher in high school and in Winter seeing snow gently falling outside viewed through the high windows in the shop. I still recall the cool littke bix cabinet he made for his tube radio works.
Thanks for posting....it is unbelievable that this whole genre has been obliterated. We need relaxation like this.
This station brings back a lot of wonderful memories!!!
Love our NJ STATION!!! WPAT BEAUTIFUL MUSIC!!!
Thank you sooo much🌻🦋
BEST MEMORIES💛
BEAUTIFUL LIFE TIME BACK THEN💜
Weekend late afternoons mom would tune in to WPAT in the car radio.Her favorite station.
At home too
My parents always had WPAT on when we were kids. 2 or 3 days before Christmas they would play non-stop Christmas music.
WPAT had THE BEST. CHRISTMAS. PROGRAMMING. EVER. I would listen to nothing but their Spirit of Christmas from the afternoon of Christmas Eve to the end of Christmas Day. “Bright lights, the tree, and the holiday sound of WPAT, EEEEEEEasy 93!”
They sure did! Great memories of Christmas as a kid. Now with my own family we like to play easy listening while cooking and having dinner. Wpat - FM - 93.
Good times!
And let’s not forget the Yule log 🔥 on Christmas Eve.
With everyone worried and tense about this Covid 19 Virus the beautiful music format needs to return to the Fm Dial with News and Weather on the hour and very limited commercials mainly service announcements.
If I was over these corporations I"d bring beautiful music back to the FM Dial. There is a Hospital that plays it still in my area. They play it for heart patients. Most of the music I have on my smart phone is beautiful music..
Our internet streaming station plays a lot of Beautiful Music like WPAT that you hear on RUclips.
Thanks for preserving this. My grandparents had WPAT on all the time in their house and I grew up listening to it. What treasured memories this brings back.
Through WPAT, I first heard the name "Matt Monro". For a good laugh ask a 15 year old who Matt Monro is .
Love this music what great memories! Do people really know how great this music is for your soul and mind!
What's a soul ???
Thanks for the memories! Used to fall asleep listening to this as a child after my bedtime story.
Alice Mainville me too!
Me three...
Me four, this station was the background music for many a bedtime story, static and all, on a warm summer night in NYC...what a magical time. 💞
My grandfather was a big fan of WPAT in the sixties and seventies. Always as a preteen enjoyed the music as an alternative to rock n roll, once in a while.
Music Choices Easy Listening Channel is the best Beautiful Music Station there is.
Yes i miss this so called "elevator music" station. I used to listen to from late 80s to early 90s. I stopped listening when they switched to more up tempo stuff around 1994.
It's funny how this was called elevator music, as it was 100% live musicians. Nowadays, people listen/dance to robots...
Omg I want more of this!!!
"93 WPAT, the place to relax...at home, at work, or IN YOUR CAR....especially IN YOUR CAR...tune out all those silly traffic noises, sirens, screaming pedestrians, or any of those other driving nuisances, listen to WPAT, and let the world (and your life) slip away..." (this was an actual commercial.
yeah, we heard you the first time you posted this.
Oh man! You nailed it. I remember that. Even the commercials and station ID were mellow.
I miss this kind of music too.
I used to lissen to this station when i was a child growing up in Brooklyn NY.
I would still lissen to it now if it was still broadcasting this kind of music .
Everyone! Sirius Radio Channel 69 has this beautiful music 🎶🎵!. I love this genre of music as I drive here in Staten Island NY. Memories of Mom's kitchen radio come back.
RIP ❤ Mom & Dad
Hopefully, see each other again in some form 💜✝️
My woodshop teacher in HS used to have this on back in the day. Used to love it when working in the shop. Wish there was a station like this now.
This is my favorite station on RUclips. Thank you Drew
Thank you!
The radio corporations don't want people to relax in these stressful,pandemic,crime ridden times we have.
The stations are tools and stooges of the globalist deep state kabal. Such garbage on the radio nowadays.
Here's my best shot at identifying these songs. I used to listen to this station to fall asleep when I was a kid in the mid-80s:
Paul Weston - Valley Of The Dolls
George Shearing - Someone To Watch Over Me
Bill Waterous - Nancy With The Laughing Face
Hell if I know - sounded like the intro to Allegheny Moon?
Ken Lamb Station ID
Nicolas de Angelis - Maria Helena
Gordon Lightfoot - Your Love's Return
Frank Chacksfeld - Almost Like A Song
Franck Pourcel - Born Free
Ken Lamb Station ID
Romantic Strings - Let It Be Me
Shirley Bassey - I'm In The Mood For Love
Unknown - You Stepped Out Of A Dream
Unknown - Light My Fire
Unknown - Heart and Soul
Ken Lamb - Station ID - Red Cross Commercial - Weather
Earl Klugh - Doc
Englebert Humperdinck - Far Away Places
I wish you would have figured out that great 4th Song....
The last one is Ready to Take a Chance Again
@@mr.djcooncoon8196 It is 'If He Walked Into My Life' and I think the orchestra is The Starlight Strings.
@@SuperTabitha22 YES! Heard another version today. If He Walked Into My Life. I thought it was Al Caiola, but maybe he was with the starlight strings. Thank you!!!
@@bronxfireradio Yes indeed. It is from his 1968 United Artist's album: 'It Must Be Him.' Happy days. We really need these great easy listening stations back again.
Like other people who have commented here, WPAT was a part of my childhood: my grandparents always had it on and my parent's had it on mostly around the holidays. It has been said that this beautiful music format began to lose popularity in the late 1980s. It saddens me that this was the case. This program strong feelings of nostalgia. Thank you for posting this!
I wished I could find a similar online station that could closely mimic WPAT from this "EZ 93" era of the 1980's...mostly instrumental renditions of pop hits with just the right mixture of contemporary, but soft vocal hits. I cannot find anything close! If anyone has found anything even close to WPAT, please let us know.
There's an online radio site playing this genre, and I remember it has the word jetset on its name.
For some reason, this is more relaxing than Pandora.
Wow! So glad you shared this! My parents put this on in our bedroom to lull us to sleep. "WPAT, easy 93..." My grandparents did the same at their place. ❤ I truly love this relaxing music. As I got older, I used to sing the words and pretend that WPAT was my personal instrumental channel. Lol! 😂 Lots of fond memories.
Like reading the comments about this forgotten type of music. I’m 50 now, but I used to listen to a radio station in Houston TX like this called 92FM KYND in the late 70’s and early 80’s as a kid (yes, I was a little eclectic for a kid back then) If you found your way here, technically I think this is called Elevator Music, Beautiful music or Muzak. And just so y’all know, there is an online radio station (on tunein app as well) that plays this type of music at certain times of the day, it’s called Luxuria music. They have different music shows on there at certain times, but it’s mainly beautiful music. They usually have the title and artist too.
luxuriamusic.com
It’s great if you miss radio stations like this.
So beautiful and gives me a "nostalgia attack".
When corporations started buying radio stations beautiful music died aka Clear Channel,I Heart Radio,Cumulous Media etc. Focus Groups got this music off the FM Dial. Ratings are low on FM because there isn't any variety. You have 4 rock stations,4 country,2 hip hops etc etc but nowhere can you find beautiful music on the FM Dial anymore.
WKTZ in Jacksonville Florida finally ended there's on FM though you can still occasionally hear it on tune in thru Jones College Radio.
Only place to go now for beautiful music is Satellite Radio aka SiriusXm which has the Escape Channel. You can also hear it on Dish Networks Channel 973 Channel and finally Amazon has a lot of beautiful music you can listen to thru their unlimited music or download. I've downloaded a lot. They have an extensive library of Frank Chacksfield and they also have Syd Dale,Percy Faith,John Fox,Lots of 101 Strings,Sven Libeak,Henry Mancini,Neville Hughs,Alec Gould,Geoff Love,Manuel And The Music Of The Mountains and the list goes on and on.
KAHM 102.1 in Prescott AZ is the only remaining station to play a true beautiful music format to this day. Not owned by the major corporations
@@philipmclaughlin9636 There's also WGCY in Gibson City, Illinois. They still play this kind of music, with CBS News on the hour, local newscasts, farm reports, and sports play-by-play. Truly a small-town radio station. I've listened to them on TuneIn. Very nice station!
@@CrowTRobot-ni7zu WGCY no longer live streams :-(
Philip Mclaughlin unfortunately true. At least they’re still on the air, though.
"Music Choice" is a service included with many cable companies. They have dedicated stations playing commercial free music. They also have an app. So, you can download their app to your phone, go to the "easy listening" station, use Bluetooth to stream it to your car speakers - and recreate that sound you heard as a kid in your parents' car.
My dad was a WWII vet, and whenwver we went anywhere he would turn on WPAT.
I believe this is the same Ken Lamb that would sometimes do voiceovers during ABC's soap operas in the 1990s and 2000s. He sounds fantastic in this aircheck!
He's still at ABC, I think.
Enjoying the music and comments. Dad would usually listen to this in the car (1980s). I'm now older than he was then - and I listen to stations like this with increasing frequency, usually on streaming/satellite services, or the music channels on cable TV packages. But there is nothing like the original.
I still remember the WPAT commercials.like.Anchor Banker.
Your Anchor Banker. He Understands.
Your Anchor Banker. SHE Understands.
I had seen other recordings of beautiful music stations on RUclips, so I wanted to see if the one I grew up with was there. IT WAS! Oh, how I remember that we all badmouthed WPAT loudly to each other - you were only COOL in the New York area in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s if you listened to WNEW or WPLJ. But if you were like me, you were secretly listening to WPAT when it was bedtime - there was nothing better to put you in a calm, relaxed mood. They truly do not make stations like this anymore.
Hollyridge Strings Let it be me. What a beautiful song.
If I ever owned a radio station I'd make it beautiful.
my grandparents used to play this station exclusively in the car. I remember me and my aunt (who was only 1 year older than me) used to make fun of it and beg for them to put on some rock and roll. They never relented. Now I understand what drew them to this relaxing, calm vibe music. It must be an age thing.
My family loved listening to "Gaslight Revue" in the evenings back in the 70s and before. Back then it was all instrumental. WPAT even had a Gaslight Revue program guide to which we subscribed.
oh id love to have hours of this nice and staticy beautiful music staticier the better it just sounds so good like this
That's Paul Weston and his Orchestra's rendition of the main theme from "Valley of the Dolls," at the very beginning of the aircheck.
22:40 is The Hollyridge Strings' version of Let It Be Me from the Oldies But Goldies album-1966
I LIKED BEAUTIFUL MUSIC.
One day, Mom, Argie, me,and Jennifer went out for dinner.
We went in Jerry 's big
car, which was an
Oldsmobile.
Mom and Jennifer rode in back, and I sat yp
front.
The car radio was on
the beautiful music station.
"Sounds like what Daddy's radio station
played remember?" Mom said.
I told Jennifer that WVOR had a terrible
fire one day.
"One night!
One o' clock in the morning!" Mom said.
-Mark Weintraub.
I love listening to the soothing spoken voice of Ken Lamb. Even the commercials are nostalgic......
Go to WDOX in RUclips.Another Wpat type station from NJ..The same exact music. If you are using headphones you will notice the stereophonic sound which those broadcasts have that this WPAT broadcast from RUclips doesn't have.
This was not stereo because I picked it up from Philadelphia. If it was in stereo mode, it would have been noisy with FM hiss. So I listened to it in mono.
@@DrewTechner Did WPAT broadcast from Philadelphia or did the transmission signal reach out over 100 miles t ?
@@sgnmath1234 the signal reached out. I was in Philadelphia when I picked it up.
and a fan of Gordon lightfoot also he is a musical legend
I discovered this song through WPAT and WRFM!
Found it; it is 'If He Walked Into My Life' and I think the orchestra is The Starlight Strings.
Correction; it is Al Caiola.
WPAT always started the hour with a sampling of Chuck Mangione's slow version of "Give It All You Got."
Anybody got a song list? I'm attempting to reproduce the format in playlist form.
My parents used to torture my brother and me during family trips by playing this stuff on the Delco AM radio. Thank God for the Sony Walkman.
and here you are listening to it
I listened to this type of station on MY Sony Walkman (and on the Philco AM radio in our Gran Torino wagon)
We had the Delco (or Philco) AM radio in the red Ford Futura Falcon
The best .
August 19, 1986, 7:23 - 8:07 p.m. WPAT 93.1 Paterson, NJ. Received in Philadelphia. WPOC-FM Baltimore fades in at 5:09.
Shirley Bassey in this set...OMG.
Really? where at in the video?
At 25:00.
Excellent
No no. That's Tony Tennille . The DJ even says so.
You can find this music online at a California station. Exact same music: Percy Faith, etc...and I don't work for the station!
Yeah I snuck in a few listens to this station in NYC as a kid. Right after those Sesame Street episodes I never admitted to watching.
In my grandparents tiny apartment in Forest hills circa all through the 70's-80's..also I 🤔 WTFM ...I remember seeing the tower just off the 495
Do you have any classic WDUV Stereo 103 Beautiful Music Station recordings uploaded? This was from Tampa/St Petersburg Florida before they changed formats and went to 105 on the dial.
35:00 heart and soul what a beautiful song. Don’t know the orchestra though.
That's by Joe Reisman and His Orchestra & Chorus. Comes off of a Readers' Digest Boxset .
Anyone know what great songs (WPAT Classics) those are at 6:05 and 9:08? (9:08 turned out to be MARIA ELENA by Nicolas de Angelis).
I remember WPAT usually announced what songs and performers they were after playing a few in a row....
6:05 is 'If He Walked Into My Life' and I think it's The Starlight Strings playing.
I remember they used to play the easy listening version of 10cc's "I'm not in love", I just can't find it..., Would anyone happen know the artist of this remake version?
I can't find "I'm Not in Love" on this aircheck, but I can tell you that there were four instrumental versions that played frequently on Beautiful Music stations: Paul Mauriat, Francis Goya, Caravelli, and Bert Weedon. It was most likely one of those.
They Play the easy listening version of 10cc's I'm not in love on Sirius XM Channel 69, Escape. I hear it on there regularly.
@@shamish-2960 I've heard "Escape" and I thought it was the worst of "Elevator Music"...Very few Easy Listening classics...
Let it be me The Romantic Strings and Orchestra.
Apparently not the Starlight Strings. Does anyone know whose orchestra is playing this?
Mmmm... this was really nice.
What is the name of the song and artist at 46:44? I want to check and see if its available to download on amazon.
Second song sounds like it s by William Waterous.
This music is hot❤❤❤❤
Is that the static coming from WMMR?
yes
Mmr’ is to far away. Paterson is in Passaic county, pretty far north from philly
Can you do a Spotify Playlist? :) would be so nice to walk or excercise to.
What is the title of the tune starting at 6:08 please?
Born Free by Frank Pourcell.
WPAT used to play an instrumental song with accordions, bagpipes, and the sound of crashing waves. Been trying to find the name of that song for decades. Loved it!! Does anyone know the song???
It may be "Ebb Tide" by Frank Chacksfield...That song was a WPAT classic...
@@mr.djcooncoon8196 thank you so much for responding!!!. I found the song. It is "Biscaya" by James Last. Thanks again!!
Definitely receiving at a distance. Did WPAT come in regularly in Philadelphia or did you just catch the right conditions to enjoy this great station.
it was just the right conditions. thank you for watching!
When I lived in north Bronx in early 70s , used to get old WCAU-FM at night loud and clear
That Grundig was a great radio
Didn't Philly have their own Beautiful Music station?
Is the long overnight airchecks still available?
I don't understand
@@DrewTechner disregard i found it i had it on file from when it was posted sometimes back it was a 4 hour overnight aircheck from 1992 a thousand apologies.
@@ConradMason-ei8hm 4 hour aiircheck from April 20, 1982. Thank you.
@@DrewTechner that's correct Drew thanks for the clarification i said 92. 👍