WKBW Radio Buffalo - Dick Biondi Show 1960
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- Опубликовано: 24 дек 2008
- From January 1960 Biondi broadcasts to the eastern seaboard over the mighty 1520 WKBW in Buffalo, New York. This was recorded about six months before Dick left for WLS in Chicago.
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Many, many good memories and many tears thanks DICK BIONDI , RIP. FROM CHICAGO . JL.
I have this in cd it’s a good one
Here in Manchester England after dark in the winter all the family came to my grandmothers house to listen to WKBW My grandfather and his friend had strung a long copper wire across the street .
I was born in 1980, but I love this seriously good old-fashioned style, the music was great and Dick Biondi is so cool, he sounds just like George Jetson! I’d say this really COOKS!!
That old fashioned style is so damn good, I secretly enjoy as being younger by far than this, that “better-than-you-feeling”. ❤️🔥🌕🔥
R.I.P., Dick Biondi
I listened to Biondi from my home in Pennsylvania everyday when I was a teenager. We also listend to Tommy Shannon. I was at the concert in Reading
Biondi worked closer to Frackville Pa, Home of Jordan Brothers while at WSBA York Pa
As a kid I used to listen to WKBW at night all the way from Flint, Michigan. It played great 60's rock and roll back then. I could also pick up some pretty good Canadian stations from that direction as well such as CKLW Windsor, CHYR Leamington and CFCO in Chatham Ontario. With my Emerson transistor radio I was a 1960's late night AM radio nerd.
I've been a KB fan since 1960 and it was my main listen at night when the propagation had it come in like a local. The NYC stations like WINS, WABC and WMCA back then did not compare. Dick was a great DJ and is still with us in 2023 at 91 years of age.
The big KB radio, Wardynski meats, Canisius, Amherst, Bennett, East and Lafayette High Schools, Genesee beer, snow in the forecast -- great memories of my old hometown of Buffalo, N.Y.
My cousin Kenny's favorite DJ..
The funny thing is, he's still on WLS-FM in Chicago over half a century later.
. . . grew up in western Mass., listening to WPTR, AM/1540, (circa 1960) as it faded from my '56 Mercury radio through the late-evening, WKBW would come in as clear as a bell!. Thank you for this super fine posting, and the chance to relive a few minutes of the way things used to be. Beth Wishes!
I would listen to WPTR and WKBW in Boston in the evenings Had to be a few years later though, I was listening on my big transistor (the one that took 14 batteries) radio. These New York stations had a sound that was all their own.
I listened plenty to Dick Biondi on Chicago's WLS, the Big 89!
listened to this every nite back in the day
How great is it to be able to listen to true top 40 radio with jingles,personality and Great music.What in the world happend to true top 40.Dont you wish we had 50 thousand watt blow torch AM radio stations that would go retro and bring back the coolest years of radio.
I grew up on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In the early ‘50’s, as a 12 year old kid, I came by an old woodenEmerson radio. I put it in the window of our farmhouse, ran a copper wire to the big old maple outside, used a steel wagon axle for a ground, and pulled in WKBW all the way from Buffalo. The reason?? The Dick Biondi Show, of course!
As a youngster listening to a $2.00 crystal set after bedtime in Tonawanda
What a memory. Same thing with me. Listening on a crystal radio in Cheektowaga to WKBW. I remember there was some sort of incident when he played "A Fool Such as I" by Elvis. I don't remember the details though.
And Wardynski is still in business.
Hutch Tech 3 years, & Seneca Vocational graduate.
Oh, wow!!! You put this on here!! Thank you so much!!! Actually, this sounds like it's from "Cruisin' 1960", but I appreciate hearing it on here too now.
("High 15 to 20--brrrrrrrr!" Actually, that sounds like something Dick would say now, too!)
Dick went to WLS in May 1960.
thank you
two of the other disc jockeys he mentioned, Russ the Moose and Gene Nelson, came to San Francisco in the 1960's.
I was in school in 1960. Wow! This brings back memories of those days of simpler times. If I had a time machine I would go back to 1060, park it, and live the 60's and 70's all over again.
@leadsquirter: Used to listen to Dick Biondi and Tommy Shannon from Toronto every night over WKBW radio in Buffalo. Every kid in Toronto listened to WKBW. Thanks for the memory.
Ken, Toronto
They had cartridges? If so, lucky ducks. Bio did really knows how to walk up to a vocal!
AM radio ruled and Rock 'n Roll was KING. The 50's early 60's was the real fun, sadly today's jungle of same-sounding head jamming monotony is a real 'downer' compared to Dick Biondi's spontaneous broadcasting. Back then we still had real music horizons with a 'what's next?' sense of anticipation to go with it. The music was young and constantly re-inventing itself via actual teenagers!
compared to radio now, this is god-like.
poor jack died last year at 62. best dj ever.
yes yes yes WOW!!!
Is it just me? Or does this time period seem to be really cool. Nothing offensive, good music, great unassaulting ads and jingles, no drug commercials, or offensive DJs. I wish we still kept up appearances like they did back then. Seems we lost our way.
lol there was segregation.
@@Andyhoffman98 We know genius. That’s obvious. Focus on the topic.
one of 2 great radio stations they used to say the other was 77 wabc both had clear channel non directional antennas at 50 ooo watts
WKBW was non-directional? I didn't know that.
KB 1520 is *highly* directional. Their signal to the west is minimal. Most of it is sent north, south and East.
The music is gone :(
That's right. I read that, too. These are indeed rebroadcasts. And yes, Biondi is king.
One of my very favorites. Remember when they bogus fired him and he locked himself in and played all the songs he wanted. I think the thing started over censorship. They told him he couldn't play Elvis, "It's now or never." you guys remember this?
CaDailyrider is correct. This is not an actual aircheck. It's a section of the "Cruisin' Series, modified to cut out the middle of the records as would be done for an audition tape. Right before he does that line about "how about that boss of mine?" Dick "hits the post" by starting 'You Talk Too Much" by Joe Jones so that the instrumental intro just ends when Dick says, " my boss said to me, Dick-" and Jones sings " You Talk Too Much" It's an excellent piece of DJ craftsmanship, and typical of Biondi's work.
thanx for posting this but do you have the full version?
Call me crazy, but the quality of this aircheck is just too good. I am pretty sure this is a "re-creation" that Dick did for the record series "The Cruisin' Series".
CaDailyrider It is!!
I’m certain it is, it’s identical
wow neat marcie
@airjor1 he still IS great ! :-)
dick biondi was fired in buffalo for using bad language on the air. he got a better job offer in cleveland and wkbw wouldn't let him out of his contract so he made a rude comment on the radio. they fired him and then the cleveland job dried up as well so he was out of work for a while.
@@billhendricks9459 wow dick biondi he was one of my favorites. it's too bad how it panned out. 'kb' people were great to listen to, my favorites were tommy shannon, jay nelson and at times joey reynolds. i alway thought tommy shannon was a tall guy but i met him at CHOW in welland ontario and he was just a little guy. great dj though.
This show is phony. He's playing songs from all different parts of the year. It must have been spliced together from different shows.
This is from "Cruisin' 1960," a long-playing phonograph record that was part of the "Cruisin" series of DJ show re-enactments that came out around 1970. On each record, a DJ would re-enact a radio broadcast complete with songs from the period, ads and sound effects.
In the mid 1980s Increase Records put out the Crusin’ series in 33 RPM Long Play albums. At the same time you could get the collection on cassette tapes. There was series 1 and series 2 of the cassettes. I have both. They were not recreations of radio airchecks but the actual original broadcast. The first series had a lot of song substitutions dubbed in for various reasons but the second series was much more intact and more loyal to the original broadcast.