NY Radio Station Aircheck July 4, 1976. Unedited with Commercials WPLJ WXLO WYFY92 And More...

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  • Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
  • I recorded this on the Bicentennial 1976. Lots of good music and commercials. A cool blast from the past! 90 minutes of the Good Old Days.
    Unedited. Sit back and enjoy... Thanks for listening.

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  • @lyndaleigh413
    @lyndaleigh413 Год назад +361

    If I close my eyes I'm in 1976 again (and I never want to leave it!)

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +22

      Ditto! Remember those? Kids don't know what they are...

    • @platterjockey
      @platterjockey Год назад +26

      For me, the best years of the 70s were 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, and, 78.

    • @MolotovAustralia
      @MolotovAustralia Год назад +13

      My dad was happy making good money in the 70’s…

    • @sparkie119
      @sparkie119 Год назад +1

      IKR

    • @DbeeM
      @DbeeM Год назад +7

      Better yet , get your bells on your polyester button up and your even closer to ‘76 ! ✌🏽

  • @marknewman5842
    @marknewman5842 Год назад +70

    In 1976 I was 6 years old. One night my parents had friends over and I think they were playing cribbage or something like that. They were drinking and smoking and the stereo was blasting good tunes. They started talking about a real cool song about a ship that sunk but nobody could remember the name of it correctly, Edward Fitz something, they were getting frustrated. Too buzzed to call themselves, they decided to pick up the phone and call the DJ, then handed me the phone. " yeah, give it to the kid, this should be funny". The phone rang a couple times and this guy answered and said "request line something something". I remember saying "my mom and dad wanted to hear a song about a ship sinking". Edward fitz something, i said. The DJ said, "
    Oh The Wreck Of The Edmond Fitzgerald"? I said I guess so. ILL never forget this, the DJ said " COME ON KID...GET YOUR SHIP STRAIGHT and went right into the song. My parents screamed with laughter and all fell on the floor..I was very confused but was the star that night...

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +9

      I love your story! It's priceless. I'm rolling on the floor laughing. Thanks for sharing this. Like Clint Eastwood said, "Go ahead make my day." You made my day! Shirley you did. And don't call me Shirley... Leslie Nielsen

    • @marknewman5842
      @marknewman5842 Год назад +8

      Well my parents made me who I am today and im spreading the lighthearted madness to they're grandkids..lol..thanks for your channel and comment..😅

    • @marcosvega9809
      @marcosvega9809 Год назад +2

      That song gives me chills whenever I hear it.

    • @Tyrell_Corp2019
      @Tyrell_Corp2019 6 месяцев назад +2

      And amidst all that smoke and booze were patterned polyester shirts with collars that were way too big. And at least one room had wood paneling slapped on the wall. 😂

    • @gregbarker4079
      @gregbarker4079 6 месяцев назад +1

      Lol

  • @BigBull45
    @BigBull45 Год назад +204

    This is a great example of how fun radio used to be back in the day before the big corporate buyouts and takeovers. Now everything is just automated crap. The DJs' personalities is what made the different stations fun to listen to. From sitting on the beach to cruising in the city, you always had a great DJ keeping everything upbeat and fun. They played what the public wanted to hear and not the same programmed tracks over and over. I wish we could bring back independently owned stations that would cater to the local public and promote local events and businesses. Thanks for taking us back in time! 😊

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +11

      Thanks for your comment. I agree! Thanks for listening...

    • @georgehartman3189
      @georgehartman3189 Год назад +6

      I'm in Florida now, but there's always WFUV 90.7 as a listening alternative. I was in NYC 2 months ago and as soon as I got in the rental car, tuned the radio to 90.7.

    • @marcmcreynolds2827
      @marcmcreynolds2827 Год назад +5

      > you always had a great DJ keeping everything upbeat and fun < "Put your hand on the radio and feel the warmth of my sincerity."

    • @mariogiresi6792
      @mariogiresi6792 Год назад +9

      Yes! The DJ was the secret to success for a radio station to be popular. They all had their own personalities, different voices, and were not afraid to experiment with new sounds. I recently saw a group photo of all the “popular” DJ’s in my county and I could not distinguish one from the other; shaved heads, backwards baseball caps, tattoos, and board shorts. Give me 1976 any day.

    • @criddyla696
      @criddyla696 Год назад +5

      Totally spot on ...

  • @Noway673
    @Noway673 Год назад +24

    I would trade 2000-2023 and beyond to relive 1970's 80's 90's

  • @timothyosborn1697
    @timothyosborn1697 Год назад +50

    My 16th year of age. Just got my driver's license. Just started working at Mickey D's. The world was my oyster, for sure!

  • @michaeldamore7733
    @michaeldamore7733 Год назад +22

    We don’t search for old music we search for old memories. Thank you William.

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +1

      Absolutely! We need the old music to bring them back. Thanks Michael.

    • @Ferda1964
      @Ferda1964 4 месяца назад +2

      Music is the vessel getting me there.

  • @1949LA-ARCH
    @1949LA-ARCH Год назад +215

    Thank you William, I was 27 years old hitting every disco in the metro D.C. area in 1976. Playing softball in two leagues with plenty of young beautiful ladies watching us. Loving every young lady while doing the hustle plus every dance while wearing a variety of different leisure suits. Cruising in my 1976 Dodge Aspen Limited Coupe. A year full of hangovers, but well worth it 😊Met the girl of my dreams in December 1976, we married in June 1978. We celebrate 45 years on June 10, 2023. ❤I had too many real fireworks in Vietnam 1969-70. I just stayed as far away from them as I could, hitting disc clubs at night.

    • @countryboy197
      @countryboy197 Год назад +8

      Thank you for your service.

    • @countryboy197
      @countryboy197 Год назад +5

      Thank you for your service.

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +13

      Thank you for listening and thank you for your service. Glad you made it back alive. I lost a few friends in country, although I wasn"t there. Hope you are now living the dream. I sure am...

    • @manfredmann2766
      @manfredmann2766 Год назад +3

      Thank you for your service.

    • @TwoAcresandaMule
      @TwoAcresandaMule Год назад +3

      I envy the party times you lived thru.

  • @EricBrunoBorgman
    @EricBrunoBorgman Год назад +226

    Who'd have thought back in 1976 that this tape would be listened to over 40 years later by thousands of people all over the world!? My father had that same reel to reel machine!

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +22

      I can't believe it myself! Thanks for listening...

    • @kristopherguilbault5428
      @kristopherguilbault5428 Год назад +4

      That's almost 50 years!!!! 😮😢

    • @tarstarkusz
      @tarstarkusz Год назад +6

      @@kristopherguilbault5428 Don't remind me.

    • @levondarratt787
      @levondarratt787 Год назад +1

      thats not from 76 - that unit is all digital controlled. Early 90ies

    • @tarstarkusz
      @tarstarkusz Год назад +1

      @@levondarratt787 The tape, not the deck. The sound quality is pretty poor too.

  • @Mavis308
    @Mavis308 Год назад +7

    I was only 2 years old, but these songs are better than the trash they play today. Real music.

  • @jtmichaelson
    @jtmichaelson Год назад +247

    I was only 8 that year but I remember the music, the air, smells, friends, cars, TV shows, school, vinyl and 8-tracks, the sounds of the world around me back then. My entire immediate family were alive then, even the really old ones that died soon after that. The first song on the video, Wings' "Silly Love Songs" was the first-ever foray into my lifelong love for anything and everything Beatles. That was the first 45 I ever owned and was the first of thousands of Beatles records and memorabilia. Wonderful video. Thank you.

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +32

      The sole intention of my little time capsule is to help people remember what awesome times we all had... Thanks for watching!

    • @johnnytacokleinschmidt515
      @johnnytacokleinschmidt515 Год назад +6

      That song and many like it made me want to play bass even though it took me years to know what a bass line and bass guitar were. That bass line moves and evolves throughout the song. Excellent pop music well written, arranged, performed, produced, engineered and mastered. Sounded great anywhere you heard it. So many songs back then hit all of the marks. We were spoiled with great pop music art. We didn't know it.

    • @jamessharp9790
      @jamessharp9790 Год назад +5

      Same age , yes it’s a good time in music.

    • @catrinahartz944
      @catrinahartz944 Год назад +16

      Me too 8! Now 55. Ughh. Lol

    • @catrinahartz944
      @catrinahartz944 Год назад +4

      I loved silly love songs 🎵

  • @darleneschneck
    @darleneschneck Год назад +36

    19 years old with my whole life ahead of me. What a summer! July 4, 1976 my sister and I drove around downtown Allentown waving flags out the windows of her ‘73 Gremlin.

  • @d.w.d.w.3031
    @d.w.d.w.3031 Год назад +22

    I was 13 too. Radio during the daytime (with DJs who actually had good voices, playing songs with actually good singers, who sang actually-good songs). And TV such as "The ABC Monday (or Friday, or Sunday) Night Movie" at night. Everything was dependable: i.e., politicians were mostly for-real and sane, the people were mostly physically fit (not morbidly obese), and it was just a given that school was completely safe (and yet, wide-open), and school boards were sane professionals, and school had real food, all made from scratch, which we could smell cooking all over the building... It almost makes me cry... what the hell happened?!

    • @lisamh9037
      @lisamh9037 5 месяцев назад

      13 too! This is great!

  • @paulcarlsen4088
    @paulcarlsen4088 Год назад +7

    Back in the day when we used to record songs off the radio.

  • @greg2976
    @greg2976 Год назад +12

    I was a Júnior in high school. Grad in 77! What a different world it was back then!!!!! Would love to go back and really enjoy being young! That's what I regret! Time flies by WAY to fast!!!!!

    • @jaydenp4975
      @jaydenp4975 Год назад +2

      Same here. Wish I had a Time Machine.

    • @mshell1959
      @mshell1959 Месяц назад +1

      Me too! A great time in my life.

    • @docadams7099
      @docadams7099 Месяц назад

      @@mshell1959 I sure enjoyed growing up back then. I was 12 in 1976, and the Reds were reigning World Champs and would repeat. Those days seem carefree and simpler in retrospect.

  • @Kevin_Carlson
    @Kevin_Carlson Год назад +314

    I was 13 years old in 1976. This is my absolute favorite year for radio hits! The DJ's, music and even the commercials were the best.

    • @stefangerhardgillich4301
      @stefangerhardgillich4301 Год назад +21

      Those were the days.

    • @Triatharob
      @Triatharob Год назад +25

      Me too, what a wonderful and magical time! Happy 60th to you Kevin!

    • @patriciamogannam3616
      @patriciamogannam3616 Год назад +16

      Same here 😊

    • @FrankButterfield
      @FrankButterfield Год назад +16

      Agree! I was 10 that year. I remember exactly where I was on July 4th. What I don't miss are the scratchy clothes and the cigarettes everywhere.

    • @johnnytacokleinschmidt515
      @johnnytacokleinschmidt515 Год назад +15

      ​@@FrankButterfield Roebucks Toughskins... New pair every year... Whether you needed them or not!
      Corduroy Levis were such a treat!

  • @roberthill8743
    @roberthill8743 Год назад +27

    Wish it is 1976 NOW! Way better than today & future! Much better economic times than today, more innocent and carefree, miss them and my family.

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +3

      Ditto!

    • @derekalfano4431
      @derekalfano4431 Год назад +2

      I was only 4 year's old i do wish I was teenager in 1976 bet it was great time

    • @gato22fv
      @gato22fv Год назад +1

      ​@@derekalfano4431 I was 14...bro it was a blast!!

  • @TheRedDevil_NC
    @TheRedDevil_NC Год назад +227

    The Starland Vocal Band was the epitome of 1976. You can almost smell the time, it was so good.

    • @dfc99nyc
      @dfc99nyc Год назад

      An interracial couple was rare in a pop group in 1976.
      ruclips.net/video/q4b3w6a9cSk/видео.html

    • @laurallama73
      @laurallama73 Год назад +9

      Their harmony was the best! ❤️🎶🎶🤩👌

    • @PeteRFNY
      @PeteRFNY Год назад +32

      It smells like wood paneling and polyester! 😄

    • @kelseymariel2127
      @kelseymariel2127 Год назад +20

      Yes! And lots of Wings especially Listen To What the Man Said. Great year for music!

    • @doubled3962
      @doubled3962 Год назад +15

      I smell cigarettes, pot , incense, and stale beer 😂

  • @KubieQ
    @KubieQ Год назад +23

    CRAZY EDDIE….the best commercials!

  • @user-db8tc4fz1e
    @user-db8tc4fz1e Год назад +131

    As a native New Yorker, I love this. I was alive and well on that day. SO many memories! Those commercials!

    • @romelovesdan
      @romelovesdan Год назад +4

      and the Yankees were on their way back!

    • @holtridge7337
      @holtridge7337 Год назад +1

      Yankees won back to back World Series not long after this.

    • @romelovesdan
      @romelovesdan Год назад +4

      @@holtridge7337 Yes Champions in 1977 and 1978, and an appearance after that summer in 1976.

    • @holtridge7337
      @holtridge7337 Год назад +1

      @@romelovesdan Oh yeah. Three World Series Appearances in a row. Just like 98, 99, and 00

    • @starmnsixty1209
      @starmnsixty1209 Год назад

      👍👍👍😊

  • @dyrldouglas2087
    @dyrldouglas2087 Год назад +6

    I turned 21 on that day, celebrated ALL day long.

  • @xamian2
    @xamian2 Год назад +20

    Having the wood grain on the wall behind the tape player and turntable is the icing on the cake! Love this.

  • @joebarnes3178
    @joebarnes3178 Год назад +46

    This is awesome, my dad owned the radio station in our town from 64 to 78 and I have all the old reel to reel tapes of every minute, sometimes I put em on and let it play all day

    • @criddyla696
      @criddyla696 Год назад +13

      Wow a treasure trove for sure, it would be well received if you uploaded a couple, make many people happy, look at the comments on here ... worth a thought 💭

    • @depletable
      @depletable Год назад +15

      You know you're sitting on content, right? Put that on YT and get the views.

    • @m1g0t0
      @m1g0t0 Год назад +9

      Upload them to RUclips!!

    • @kazbah1217
      @kazbah1217 Год назад +3

      Sometimes the spoils are just for u.

    • @maryreilly5092
      @maryreilly5092 Год назад +3

      Very cool! My dream was to work at a radio station and I eventually did for many years. Best job I ever had. I was the happiest ever as an adult.

  • @rexman9002
    @rexman9002 Год назад +90

    Wow! I remember listening to this. We had this station on. It was beautiful bicentennial day. I was 12 years old and we had an outdoor pool in the building where we lived. We had neighbors and friends gather to swim and getting food ready on the grill and preparing drinks to celebrate this holiday. I remember the laughter, joy and dancing. My friends and I had our own stash of firecrackers which we occasionally lit off. Later in evening, the adults had alot of big fireworks which they lit. Everybody was just enjoying themselves. It was a much simpler and carefree time.

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +31

      I was 28 and did the partying, fireworks, grilling and all the rest. It was the best of times back then. I knew it was special and that was why I recorded this to share with all...

    • @movienut710
      @movienut710 Год назад +11

      @@williampovilaitis6951 And that's why we're so grateful You recorded this. It really was different and better times, and this brings it back for us a little bit. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

    • @michaelbeavis2632
      @michaelbeavis2632 Год назад +5

      I was 13. We always called WPLJ Peanut Butter and Jelly. Did you?

    • @manfredmann2766
      @manfredmann2766 Год назад +8

      I was 8 back then
      Missed the following:
      Ktel records, 45s for a buck, Casey Kasum, relatives that were still here, landlines, real conversations, oversized cars, The Fonz, Welcome Back Kotter, playing outside and feeling 90 percent safe, the middle class, crazy straw, Quik, Buckwheats cereal, Saturday Cartoons, The Funnies, comic books that actually felt like comic books, baseball cards with the gum, bicycles that did not cost 5 k, etc

    • @manfredmann2766
      @manfredmann2766 Год назад +5

      I predict in the future that Chicago will have a number 1 song in the fall of 1976 called If You Leave Me Now

  • @nothankyou7538
    @nothankyou7538 Год назад +19

    That 20 second lead up to Silly Love Songs was perfect for the radio of the day! Great bass in that song!

  • @carlgaspar2141
    @carlgaspar2141 Год назад +8

    I was 7 years old but this music never left my soul.

  • @ceh5476
    @ceh5476 Год назад +8

    I was 20 just home from Korea in time for the bicentennial!!!! Good to be home!

  • @therev6730
    @therev6730 Год назад +111

    This time capsule is exactly what I needed. I was 9 years old & remember the Bicentennial fondly. Ahh, request lines...🤩

    • @metalmanchild1454
      @metalmanchild1454 Год назад +10

      Bicentennial was nuts!! Anticipating the new coins! FM 1:11

    • @bradbel
      @bradbel Год назад +6

      I was 10, living in the Detroit area. Remember the crepe paper between our bike spokes?

    • @jaminova_1969
      @jaminova_1969 Год назад +3

      Thank you so much for this! I was 8 years old and my parents took us to the East River to watch the parade of ships! I'm certain WPLJ was on the car stereo!

    • @robertcarli1969
      @robertcarli1969 Год назад +4

      ​@@jaminova_1969 wings over america was thee tour that summer/fall

    • @jaminova_1969
      @jaminova_1969 Год назад +10

      @@robertcarli1969 Elvis Presley and all 4 Beatles were still alive! And SNL was actually funny!

  • @juliam.mallen9019
    @juliam.mallen9019 Год назад +42

    I just moved back into the 70s and I'm not leaving Thank you so much for sharing this gemstone💎
    I listened to this station every day as a teenager🦅🇺🇸💕

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +3

      I bet housing is affordable there. Thanks for watching!

    • @mshell1959
      @mshell1959 Год назад +1

      Me too plus WNEW 102.7.

    • @avalondreaming1433
      @avalondreaming1433 Год назад +2

      I was in 6th grade and had just gotten a portable bike radio. I was riding to the tunes.

    • @chrisbondio2394
      @chrisbondio2394 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@williampovilaitis6951lol! Glad my phone is waterproof. Laughed so hard, just sprayed beer all over it. 😂

  • @PhotoPop61
    @PhotoPop61 Год назад +63

    I’m almost 62 now. I was 14 turning 15 in September. Thank you so much for the trip back. This brings back such great memories.

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +6

      And enjoy those great memories as they are priceless!

    • @georgeford3687
      @georgeford3687 Год назад +4

      Turned 15 in August of 76 I'm a whole month older than you 😋

    • @MissRobbiOKC
      @MissRobbiOKC Год назад +4

      I turned 15 in June of that year, in Europe. I was in a choir from the U.S. and we performed in five countries for three weeks. We came home on July 6. Silly Love Songs was the first song I heard after deplaning in Wichita KS. That summer was amazing! The music was amazing! What a joy this brings to my heart! Thank you for making this tape!

    • @mikeleone1347
      @mikeleone1347 Год назад +3

      That was my 15th birthday. You won't hear a mix of styles like that on any "pop" or "rock" station today ....

    • @michaelbarry8373
      @michaelbarry8373 Год назад +1

      @@georgeford3687 Me. 17. May of 76

  • @Bmphotog
    @Bmphotog Год назад +14

    Awesome! Can't express how much Im missing the 70s & 80s lately - things just don't feel right anymore.

  • @ds99
    @ds99 Год назад +10

    What a great gem from the past. I remember every one of the songs I heard.

  • @chuckwalla2967
    @chuckwalla2967 Год назад +74

    Imagine turning on the radio and hear all these great songs on the air.

    • @ChatGPT1111
      @ChatGPT1111 Год назад +4

      If you have Sirius XM, you can still do that. Tune to either the 70's or Classic Vinyl channels. I've had them in my cars for the past 15 years and can bring them up on my cell phone.

    • @SillyGoose2024
      @SillyGoose2024 Год назад +2

      Big deal. We got WAP today.

    • @PeteRFNY
      @PeteRFNY Год назад +6

      This was one of the greatest years of my life - you had the Bicentennial going on and all the pomp that goes with that, plus it was my first year of Cub Scouts - many a day spent listening to 99X and having my Mom freak out because I kept answering the phone, "99X is my radio station"! 😄

    • @natnaelberhanu-i8w
      @natnaelberhanu-i8w Год назад +1

      93.3 KZHP plays this type of music

    • @agitatedmongoose
      @agitatedmongoose Год назад +4

      Don't have to. I remember it vividly. And as all my friends can contest to, I've never really gotten over it. Lol.

  • @rosemaryromick6176
    @rosemaryromick6176 Год назад +4

    Young mother in 1976. What a happy wonderful time to be alive.

  • @TheUniversalEyes
    @TheUniversalEyes Год назад +7

    I remember being a kid, staying up until 2am listening to music, calling the radio station late at night to request songs and they did, just for you.

  • @wottermelon1132
    @wottermelon1132 Год назад +12

    I was only 3 in '76, but I have very early memories of listening to the radio in my dad's VW Bug. This is so great to listen to!

  • @kelseymariel2127
    @kelseymariel2127 Год назад +53

    I still have tapes somewhere from that timeframe. Used to sit by my stereo on the floor of my room just waiting for specific songs so I could tape them. So wish I could go back to those times. Loved the Bicentennial year most of all. I was 10!😊

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +12

      I used to do that too! Tapes were expensive back then. Wish I had more bucks to buy them then. I was 27 then. My brain is still 18...

    • @carlnorton2757
      @carlnorton2757 Год назад +7

      I turned 9 in June of 76. just moved to northern Virginia from Korea. Great memories! I did the tape recorder thing too😅

    • @kelseymariel2127
      @kelseymariel2127 Год назад +8

      @@williampovilaitis6951 Oh they really were! And we didn’t care about the quality of the recording. I had one where a plane flew overhead and caused static on one of my favorite songs and I was mad. Loved AM radio back then. Thank God for those memories.

    • @kelseymariel2127
      @kelseymariel2127 Год назад +5

      @@carlnorton2757 Wow what a year to have as your first year in the US. Things I remember most are the school pictures we took with us holding the liberty bell in front of a screen of the American flag and lots of parades.

    • @rachelnyn5543
      @rachelnyn5543 Год назад +5

      The year I graduated high school! This makes me happy to hear now. Thanks for the memories!

  • @Triatharob
    @Triatharob Год назад +95

    Makes me feel young and old at the same time! Thank you for this treasure, William!

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +1

      My pleasure. Thanks for listening...

    • @starmnsixty1209
      @starmnsixty1209 Год назад +2

      I sure can relate as this ol body breaks down.

    • @mariogiresi6792
      @mariogiresi6792 Год назад

      😂I thought the same thing. I feel fourteen listening to it until I saw my reflection in the mirror…

  • @sonnyredbull6
    @sonnyredbull6 Год назад +11

    I was 22 years old 1976 is my favorite year of the seventies I grew up in Brooklyn and this day holds a special place in my heart. The bicentennial was a great day for me and this whole summer as well, wish I could travel back in time this is the date I would set the time machine dial to,and I would never come back the world was a much better place.💯❤❤💥💥💥👍

  • @sirfortesque8757
    @sirfortesque8757 Год назад +2

    ahh...I was 11 years old living in The Peoples Republic of Brooklyn NY......95.5 was my favorite station. I remember the Bicentennial so much because we painted everything Red, White and Blue. Street signs, fire hydrants,parking meters light poles.
    My mom still lives there and there is still 1 pole with the remnants of the red on the bottom of the pole. I recall walking around with my little transistor radio wearing my matching shorts and shirt made out of green Terry Cloth and my blue Puma sneakers that turned your socks blue when they got wet........ thinking i was so badass!!
    Thanks so much buddy

  • @monty4336
    @monty4336 Год назад +18

    I love time capsules like this. Video and audio are the only real time machines we'll have in our lifetime. They transport us back to a time when each of us can remember fondly those care free days of our lives.

  • @rckc.1719
    @rckc.1719 7 месяцев назад +2

    i was 16 and we celebrated Americas birthday it was a different world. we did not know how good we had it.

  • @Harvey_Pekar
    @Harvey_Pekar Год назад +12

    I've never loved the commercials as much as I do right now. lol

  • @mwalker3547
    @mwalker3547 Год назад +2

    I had just graduated from HS in June.... Spirit of "76!

  • @pwshields7970
    @pwshields7970 Год назад +3

    The best 4th of July I’ve ever experienced. The upbeat and excited mood from everyone was awesome as was all the red, white & blue clothes and swimsuits.

  • @raymondmartin6737
    @raymondmartin6737 Год назад +2

    I remember that time, as I was 32 years
    old and living in Phoenix, AZ in the summer of 1976, but returned to the
    New York City area in October 1976,
    just before we had snowy winters for
    a couple of years. I surely remember
    that time. I sometimes received the
    big NYC AM radio stations later at
    night on my shortwave receiver.
    Now I have left the NYC area since
    2018, and am 79 years old.

  • @melprophet1936
    @melprophet1936 Год назад +7

    Hearing the commercials is almost as fun as hearing the music....It's amazing I can remember so many of those commercials all these years later. I guess they were more effective than I ever realized.

  • @lindaeasley5606
    @lindaeasley5606 Год назад +21

    Sounds just like the day I lived through in 1976 . 😊
    I remember watching the Bicentennial festivities on tv on July 4
    Ships from all over the world were sailing into NY Harbor 🚢

  • @Mark-py3rv
    @Mark-py3rv Год назад +1

    I was up in Canada.. I had my 13th birthday the very next day
    we all listened to the radio back then!!

  • @handsomeX
    @handsomeX Год назад +21

    What a great time capsule! I was only 2yrs old at this time, but i still remember the essence of the late '70s. It was so much more laid back and sophisticated. No screaming and no shock value for the sake of shock value.

    • @Beachgirl1
      @Beachgirl1 Год назад

      I was five when this aired. The only thing I remember about this particular day was the Bicentennial festivities.
      I participated in a Bicentennial pageant and parade and was the little “Queen” of the parade, riding on the top of my father’s Police car. 🤣
      Good times.

  • @samwisethebrave288
    @samwisethebrave288 Год назад +1

    76... My favorite year of the 70s! I was 9 about to turn 10. 1978 would be my second favorite year!😊

  • @garycourtier4668
    @garycourtier4668 Год назад +13

    I was 15. '76 was a great year!

  • @rhonda8026
    @rhonda8026 6 месяцев назад +1

    I was 4 years old then. Wow how times have changed. Seems like such a different world. So nostalgic ❤

  • @truthinadvertising2702
    @truthinadvertising2702 Год назад +3

    July 4th 1976 I was at the lake in my 1970 AMX radio cranked up with friends and a few cute girls. 18 years old, done with high school what a great time that summer was.

  • @mariod9290
    @mariod9290 Год назад +1

    I was 13 years old in 1976. I Wish I Could go back and stay there.

  • @rplace8737
    @rplace8737 Год назад +17

    I was 17 that year and working at Playland in Rye. Listening to New York radio inspired me to get into the business....I have been in radio for 36 years, though it is not the business it once was....

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +7

      Thanks for your kindness. Thanks for your service to the kids. Remember Palisades Amusement Park?

    • @blueeyedsoulman
      @blueeyedsoulman Год назад +1

      My sister lives around there. We stopped at the Pharmacy last October. What excellent and friendly service. Nice area.

  • @gato22fv
    @gato22fv Год назад +3

    I was 14...America's Bicentennial!!...Great times!!..THANK YOU!!

  • @bravo_01
    @bravo_01 Год назад +3

    I wasn’t born until ‘93. Wish I was around in ‘76 😂

  • @JUDE11236
    @JUDE11236 Год назад +1

    I was 7 years old and remember that day so vividly! We went down to Shore Rd. to see the boats that were in NY for the bicentennial!

  • @holtridge7337
    @holtridge7337 Год назад +9

    Precious and few are the moments we two can share. I ain't heard that song in decades.

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +3

      That's a good one. I'm trying to share these "Precious and Few" moments with as many people as I can. Thanks for listening...

    • @holtridge7337
      @holtridge7337 Год назад +1

      @@williampovilaitis6951 You're welcome. Thank you for posting this video.

  • @johnfranklin5277
    @johnfranklin5277 Год назад +1

    One of the best years in my life! I was 16, turning 17 in 4 days, July 8th!

  • @Morcaiden
    @Morcaiden Год назад +64

    Mind's flooded with the sights and sounds of the mid-70s...Jim Kerr on WPLJ, Scott Muni on WNEW...we were in heaven and didn't know it. Thanks for posting this!

    • @THEATREofPAIN270
      @THEATREofPAIN270 Год назад +1

      Scottso Muni, The 5th Beatle lol 🤣

    • @billiondollarbaby3276
      @billiondollarbaby3276 Год назад +1

      @@THEATREofPAIN270 Ive got his RIAA Gold Record Award for the 1st Foreigner Album...will always treasure it.

  • @sandytinky
    @sandytinky Год назад +105

    I was 11 years old in 1976. It was a magical summer! Thank-you so much for this! I still remember the huge backyard Bar-B-Q party we had on the 4th! Then staying up to watch the amazing fireworks!

    • @revinsound
      @revinsound Год назад +3

      Same here, same age. I probably had some of this on a cassette myself...looking forward to recognizing some of it.

    • @Randall-Mi
      @Randall-Mi Год назад +2

      Great memories! 🇺🇸💥

    • @dennislavoie5869
      @dennislavoie5869 Год назад +1

      Me too!

    • @TheRobby64
      @TheRobby64 Год назад +5

      I was also 11 years old. Great memories of school and the bicentennial.

    • @starmnsixty1209
      @starmnsixty1209 Год назад +1

      A little older, but yes, absolutely correct! Anyone else recall the Bicentennial Liberty Train visiting their town?

  • @dfc99nyc
    @dfc99nyc Год назад +16

    I was 19 that summer, happy times, living in Brooklyn. WXLO! '99X', actually 98.7FM. WXLO owned a disco somewhere in Manhattan for a short time, maybe down near Astor Place. I remember the Bicentennial 4th of July. I was at a barbecue at a friends house in in Canarsie, Brooklyn that day. Andrea True's big disco hit 'More, More, More' was all over the radio that summer. WPLJ 95.5FM was NYC's other 'progressive rock' station after WNEW-FM 102.7.

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +5

      Thanks for the reply. Every time I hear Andrea True's More More More, it gets stuck in my mind for hours! It is one of my favorites.

    • @athos1974
      @athos1974 Год назад +5

      WPLJ was my favorite.
      Best tunes at night with Carol Miller.
      She had such a beautiful voice.

    • @plaws0
      @plaws0 Год назад

      Common back in the day to round the frequency to the nearest "cool" number ... because there were (basically) zero tuners with digital frequency readouts then (started early 1980s, maybe very late 70s). Once that started, stations had to be precise ... AM, too. CKLW-800 in Windsor (across the river from Detroit) could be "The Big 8" when all you had to do was move the pointer to the, um, big 8 on the dial but once it was "800" on the display ... well, here we are. Now, you just let your phone connect to your car and play what you want.
      And it isn't as good in any way.

  • @cluny
    @cluny Год назад +1

    Graduated HS 1971. 72 was my favorite year for music. Then I find out many of those were from 71. Tiny Dancer, Bang a Gong, Long Cool Woman.

  • @MS28227
    @MS28227 3 месяца назад +3

    If I could wake up and hear this waking me up on my alarm clock and it actually be 1976 again……😢

  • @vwandtiny3769
    @vwandtiny3769 Год назад +1

    brings tears to my eyes, those where much simpler times....

  • @mrhanekoma86
    @mrhanekoma86 Год назад +7

    A full decade before I was born, and yet I simply MUST listen. It was an era of popular music unlike any other.

    • @TheBrooklynbodine
      @TheBrooklynbodine 9 месяцев назад

      Glad to see the "younger" generation, despite not living then, can appreciate some of what we older folk experienced. I was 13 in '76.

  • @deanhaight7258
    @deanhaight7258 Год назад +19

    Omg! This was my childhood, 1976. I was 11 years old listening to this music on my two older sisters' radio balls that were on a chain and their dynamite 8-track portable players. Great music, (put together here) great tv shows from Emergency, Baretta, Barney Miller, Good Times, The Jeffersons, MacMillan & Wife, Cannon, Barnaby Jones " 🗣️ A Quinn Martin Production 😀" .......endless memories from a beautiful time to grow up in ♥️ Great times and a great era, the 70s.

    • @blueeyedsoulman
      @blueeyedsoulman Год назад +2

      I was 11 also. Bi-Centennial and the big ships were coming through the harbor. Maybe someone got excited and decided to start recording?

  • @David_Richard_241
    @David_Richard_241 Год назад +3

    In the late 70's I worked, (if you could call it that,) as a DJ nights and weekends for an FM AOR station. Dimly lit studio, sandalwood incense, and 4 turntables and a microphone. Good times.

  • @thesaltycrone9237
    @thesaltycrone9237 Год назад +1

    I was 16. We got the bicentennial fever a year or two before and everybody had red white and blue clothing and bunting. Our town painted all the fire hydrants as minutemen. Patriotism was alive snd beautiful. I remember thinking then how cool it would be to be alive for the 250th celebration. Now. I don't know. We are told constantly that we are racist snd kids are taught to hate our country and a good portion of the population are new arrivals that could care less sbout our history. Thank you do much for this gift of a time capsule to that glorious summer! I think summer of 2026 I'm going to listen to this every dsy and tune out main stream media😊

  • @mariogiresi6792
    @mariogiresi6792 Год назад +28

    The Great Bicentennial year. I can’t help but notice almost every song played has staying power. They’re almost timeless. The music of today is basically disposable. Aside from that it was s great time to be fourteen living in a world without computers, laptops, and cellphone social media. You had to actually leave your house to experience life for real, and NOT on a digital screen.

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +5

      "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing". Thank You for listening and replying!

    • @woodyhayes7402
      @woodyhayes7402 Год назад +2

      @Mario, Ain't that the truth

    • @jaybeebee9288
      @jaybeebee9288 Год назад

      Kinda with you on the music, but aside from the sonics, screw all that. The darkest of the Dark Ages, we were just getting hand held radios in parks, the tv had fewer channels than your dick has inches, you had to go to a library to look up anything. And here you are, some crusty old fart, maligning the new frontier - on one of those digital screens you hate, no less.
      Hypocrite much, dude?

  • @paulrich5342
    @paulrich5342 Год назад +11

    I was 9 in 1976 as well. Magical year for music to a child's ear.

  • @tsant6591
    @tsant6591 Год назад +4

    Love this. What great memories coming to life again! I was 16, just driving and always blasted this on the radio!

  • @peppertree5706
    @peppertree5706 Год назад +1

    I was 17 and in Brooklyn. What a summer it was!

  • @camstone5001
    @camstone5001 Год назад +3

    When radio was great, 9 year old running around, I remember a lot about this summer. It really was an easier slower time, miss it!

  • @ChefClary60
    @ChefClary60 Год назад +1

    I was 16 in June that year. Man driving around. Was the best.

  • @trinksaalabinksa7094
    @trinksaalabinksa7094 Год назад +3

    I was 14 then. Just like going right back in time. Amazing!!

  • @Cutter-jx3xj
    @Cutter-jx3xj Год назад +1

    I was a junior in high school. That was a different life. 😊

  • @MD-rd9fh
    @MD-rd9fh Год назад +20

    Wow 😲. That is so amazing somebody recorded and kept these now priceless pieces of radio history. It sounds more energetic and enthusiastic than radio now both in the songs and the DJs. Fantastic!

  • @wb6162
    @wb6162 Год назад +1

    I was a kid working on my Dad's farm probably listening to all these songs on the tractor. At night watching Columbo or Rockford Files with my Mom. Great time in America.

  • @scitsalcoryp
    @scitsalcoryp Год назад +6

    You can never go back , but you just helped me .. for a few minutes . What a feeling .
    Oh , to be young again ! Thank you ...

  • @KC-df8lc
    @KC-df8lc Год назад +1

    Pretty cool....I remember this Bicentennial day & watching the fireworks at the Statue of Liberty on tv with my parents & grandma...I'm 70 now and my wonderful parents & grandma are now gone.....thanks for the memories.

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад

      So glad to bring those memories back to you. I'm 74 and even though family is gone, the awesome memories persist...

  • @eighteenin78
    @eighteenin78 Год назад +7

    I remember that day too. We used to live in Montreal. I am half American, so we went down to Burlington VT for the celebrations that day. Better times indeed! I was getting into radio hits in the mid 70s and have a lot of those songs on cassette still. Edit: Wow it makes me so sad. My whole family was alive and well that day. Now they're all dead and gone. I am not totally alone now, but I am kind of depressed thinking about back then.

  • @mikem3875
    @mikem3875 Год назад +3

    I was just a little fella in 1976, 4 yrs old. I had chickenpox that year, still got a little scar on my face from it😅. Love these old songs, thanx for posting.

    • @williampovilaitis6951
      @williampovilaitis6951  Год назад +1

      Thanks for listening! I had chicken pox in the early 1950's. Boy did they itch. Thank heavens for Calamine lotion...

  • @guyfromsac1
    @guyfromsac1 Год назад +6

    I was a junior in high school in 1976 and these songs are so much a part of my life. Great playlist ...

  • @KOMET2006
    @KOMET2006 Год назад +1

    I was a preteen in the Midwest at the time this aircheck took place. This Elton John song - "Island Girl" - evokes for me so many memories from that era.

  • @markfriedman5093
    @markfriedman5093 Год назад +5

    Listening to Carol Miller's voice again is comforting beyond what words can describe

  • @llightbourne3610
    @llightbourne3610 Год назад

    I was born in March 1976. Listening to this makes me wish I was at least a teenager back then! ❤

  • @claraguzman6842
    @claraguzman6842 Год назад +7

    Wow! What a treasure! I was 13 in 1976. We lived in Queens, but we went to Liberty State Park in NJ to watch the fireworks. Thank you for this!!!

  • @MrWizardry69
    @MrWizardry69 Год назад

    OMG! I was a seven year old all-American baseball-loving boy growing up in suburban NYC. July 4th, 1976 we were watching Op Sail from friends’ apartment on the Hudson. Everything was painted red white and blue! Even the fire hydrants! Great memories!

  • @swst
    @swst Год назад +3

    I was only 6 years old back in 76 when Star Trek, Emergency & The Six Million Dollar Man were the only important things to me but I definitely do remember these songs!

  • @kaiserwilly4234
    @kaiserwilly4234 Год назад +1

    I was a 12-year-old Jersey boy in 76' and that summer was magical with the Bicentennial and the patriotism was off the scales.

  • @alangray9117
    @alangray9117 Год назад +3

    I was 10 in 1976. Frampton Comes Alive was everywhere. Silly Love Songs was great on the summer radio. McCartney tix were $10 not $500.

  • @wingnutjtw
    @wingnutjtw Год назад +2

    The year I was born. Thanks for all this sweet music that obviously made Mom and Dad frisky!!

  • @bayonet7307
    @bayonet7307 2 месяца назад +3

    I was 14 and just shed a tear. Thank you :)

  • @tobiaskevorkazito4072
    @tobiaskevorkazito4072 Год назад +1

    The bicentennial summer was the greatest two months of my life, back when we was immortal. Meet you at the pinball joint 🐻‍❄️

  • @roz805
    @roz805 Год назад +5

    1976. What an exciting time as a kid. Such a great summer of music and vivid memories of all the bicentennial celebrations everywhere on the east coast. We lived in Nassau County, NJ then. Thanks for posting🎉

  • @StacyL.
    @StacyL. Год назад +1

    OH WOW!! The Crazy Eddie commercial!!! That takes me back!! "His prices are INSANE!!!"

  • @JohnnyKoolsCustoms
    @JohnnyKoolsCustoms Год назад +3

    I was 10 in 1976. This is a awesome throwback

  • @TheRealPynkPanther
    @TheRealPynkPanther Месяц назад

    i was going on 6, but i had 5 older sisters that immersed me in great music. my oldest sister graduated from high school in '76. this was the bicentennial year and i remember the new bicentennial quarter and all the celebrations on this exact day. what a time!