The legendary Dave Shayer was heard as an announcer and newsman also on WWSH-FM (106.1) from 1974-1979. He was one of the first announcers on WDVR -FM (101.1) in Philadelphia when it went on the air on May 13, 1963.
Brings back so many memories. My mom listened to this radio station while trying to get me & my brother ready for grammer school back in the early 70's. I didn't appreciate the music back then but I do now. My mom & dad both have passed away now. Would have loved to have played this for them to hear once more! Thank you for sharing this.
Judey63 I didn’t appreciate it back then either. When I was a kid back in the 70s, I would pester my parents to put on WFIL or WDAS. Just hearing a few minutes of this brings back the memories.
@@EllisFeaster The reason why BM/EZ worked was accessible beauty. It did not go over the heads of the greatest generations who wanted the orchestra sound but not the heavy Classical music from the likes of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Ellis your generation and mine hated it for the way it covered the pop music we loved. Your parents loved it for like I said, the Beauty. Touch base with Marlin Taylor. He did not create the format, but rather successfully marketed and sold the format. By the way, he programmed WWSH's arch rival WDVR and was the alpha station. marlintaylor.com/product/radio-my-love-my-passion/
Oh my goodness. This was my favorite radio station when I was a young girl in the 70’s. I was thinking about it and thought I would see if it was on RUclips and here it is. I experienced so much physical and emotional abuse in my childhood and listening to the soft music on this station was my safe place. Bittersweet! Thank you so much for sharing!💝
This is great! I always was fascinated with the beautiful music format. I used to listen to WPAT when I was a kid to hear the instrumental versions of pop music. Always interesting how they rearranged for that format.
My father driving down Old York Road to pick up grandmothers and great aunts in the city for a Sunday visit. Or his rare moment of firing up the Magnavox console stereo in the living room when the rest of us were out of the house. I definitely was not a fan of "Wish" back then but now it brings up a feeling of gentle, bygone days. (Yet this format, popular with middle-aged adults at the time, was definitely countering the trends of the time, wasn't it?)
There are about a dozen AM/FM broadcast stations remaining in the US which offer the Beautiful Music format. This is our list of broadcast and internet-based beautiful music radio stations still programming the format. ezradio.info/stations.html
@@WQEZ, There's also Beautiful Music channel 69 ("Escape") on SiriusXM radio - from the satellite, the app, and connected devices. A couple of years ago the station was removed from the SiriusXM lineup... there was a huge outcry, causing SIriusXM to add it back! www.theawl.com/2017/11/unbreak-my-heart-the-story-of-escape-on-siriusxm
Ellis Feaster Our last station in Detroit that played it lasted into the early 90s. The transition started in 1991, and by 94, WJOI was essentially a soft AC station.
@@EllisFeaster Not quite, KRDO-FM in the city I grown up in (Colorado Springs, Colorado) held on to some element of the format until 1994. KOSI in Denver evolved to AC in early 1990. KKJY in Albqu lasted from 1980 until 1996, allthough the final years it was Smooth Jazz. KSFI (the orginial KSL-FM) evolved out of the BM/EZ format XM Sirius has Escape which is BM/EZ and was programmed by Marlin Taylor almost until his retirement and Music Choice offers a BM channel. Taylor was best known for being invovled with WWSH's arch rival WDVR (now WBEB).
At the beginning of the tape, there's a news brief. Nelson Hobdell does four stories, all international. Israel, Spain, France and Portugal. Huh? Was he just being lazy, ripping a few stories off the AP wire from an international summary and not bothering to mix local, national and international items? I know he's an announcer, not a newscaster But he would just read whatever he found on the tele-type machine?
Ellis, this type of nostalgia gives me good feelings. I too am a Northeastern (Philly area) transplanted recently to FL! Hey, about that lanai hawk... was it a rip in the screen or was the screen door unlatched and the wind let it in?
Yep.I was thinking how old-fashioned the Lits jingle was for 1976, but it does sound familiar. Conjures memories of stops with my mom to the Willow Grove store.
@@timdunleavy7026..... there was a movie called Shenandoah......(1965)...... with Jimmy Stewart and Doug McClure. I believe that song was the theme of the film.
@@EllisFeaster This is really beautiful stuff, probably most from the 1940s and 50s. I do have some of it in my music library so might be able to get more info but don't know how long that would take me. I have two areas of the library where I have this stuff but one section can take months to dredge through. There was so many different groups and orchestras back then. I know Peter Yorke and his concert orchestra was one of them and might be included in this clip but his stuff is really wonderful. I will come back here and comment if ever I find out more, I love all this stuff thanks again Ellis, you are one of the best and only hope you never run out of things to put on you tube.
70sleftover I hadn’t seen it. A friend passed this along to me a few years back. Had to edit a little because You Tube’s software is much tougher on analyzing uploads for copyright infringement today, then back when that other WWSH Aircheck was uploaded years ago.
The legendary Dave Shayer was heard as an announcer and newsman also on WWSH-FM (106.1) from 1974-1979. He was one of the first announcers on WDVR -FM (101.1) in Philadelphia when it went on the air on May 13, 1963.
Absolutley what this world 🌎 need is some good music 🎶
You got airchecks from WDVR-FM (101.) in Philadelphia in 1963?
Sorry, I don’t.
Brings back so many memories. My mom listened to this radio station while trying to get me & my brother ready for grammer school back in the early 70's. I didn't appreciate the music back then but I do now. My mom & dad both have passed away now. Would have loved to have played this for them to hear once more! Thank you for sharing this.
Judey63 I didn’t appreciate it back then either. When I was a kid back in the 70s, I would pester my parents to put on WFIL or WDAS. Just hearing a few minutes of this brings back the memories.
@@EllisFeaster The reason why BM/EZ worked was accessible beauty. It did not go over the heads of the greatest generations who wanted the orchestra sound but not the heavy Classical music from the likes of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Ellis your generation and mine hated it for the way it covered the pop music we loved. Your parents loved it for like I said, the Beauty.
Touch base with Marlin Taylor. He did not create the format, but rather successfully marketed and sold the format. By the way, he programmed WWSH's arch rival WDVR and was the alpha station.
marlintaylor.com/product/radio-my-love-my-passion/
Memories of riding in my Grandfather's 1969 Ford Country Squire wagon
Oh my goodness. This was my favorite radio station when I was a young girl in the 70’s. I was thinking about it and thought I would see if it was on RUclips and here it is. I experienced so much physical and emotional abuse in my childhood and listening to the soft music on this station was my safe place.
Bittersweet!
Thank you so much for sharing!💝
I listened to it a lot also as a kid growing up in Germantown. I hope it brought a little comfort.
I also remember it during the same exact time period. It has haunted me for years in a good way. This music is unique and underrated. A rare gem
I went to Green Tree School in the Germantown section of Philadelphia in 1968-1972.
oh awesomes from the year i was born thank you Ellis this is awesomes and coolies too
Glad you enjoyed it!
I WISH I could go back to 1976! One of the best years of my life (1977-78 were great too!!)
Mine too! High school, and the start of my TV-Radio career. Good times.
Ellis Feaster -Yep! High school from 76-80 and started in radio in 80
I'm not crying you're crying
This is early March 1976.
Fascinating for the history being reported as news as it was then.
This is great! I always was fascinated with the beautiful music format. I used to listen to WPAT when I was a kid to hear the instrumental versions of pop music. Always interesting how they rearranged for that format.
I got a kick out of the format as well, as a 12 year old, listening to WDVR & WWSH Philadelphia.
This was the soundtrack of memories in my doctor’s waiting room! Eeeek!
Yep. In many businesses. Restaurants, insurance offices, banks, school offices, etc.
My father driving down Old York Road to pick up grandmothers and great aunts in the city for a Sunday visit. Or his rare moment of firing up the Magnavox console stereo in the living room when the rest of us were out of the house. I definitely was not a fan of "Wish" back then but now it brings up a feeling of gentle, bygone days. (Yet this format, popular with middle-aged adults at the time, was definitely countering the trends of the time, wasn't it?)
70sleftover -Ahead of its time.
As of 3/11/2022 106.1 has a format of Spanish CHR music.
wow what a find and from my fave year heheh beautiful music format is so hard to find these days
Glad you enjoyed it. Was such a common format, but had totally disappeared by 1986.
There are about a dozen AM/FM broadcast stations remaining in the US which offer the Beautiful Music format. This is our list of broadcast and internet-based beautiful music radio stations still programming the format. ezradio.info/stations.html
@@WQEZ, There's also Beautiful Music channel 69 ("Escape") on SiriusXM radio - from the satellite, the app, and connected devices. A couple of years ago the station was removed from the SiriusXM lineup... there was a huge outcry, causing SIriusXM to add it back! www.theawl.com/2017/11/unbreak-my-heart-the-story-of-escape-on-siriusxm
Ellis Feaster Our last station in Detroit that played it lasted into the early 90s. The transition started in 1991, and by 94, WJOI was essentially a soft AC station.
@@EllisFeaster Not quite, KRDO-FM in the city I grown up in (Colorado Springs, Colorado) held on to some element of the format until 1994. KOSI in Denver evolved to AC in early 1990. KKJY in Albqu lasted from 1980 until 1996, allthough the final years it was Smooth Jazz.
KSFI (the orginial KSL-FM) evolved out of the BM/EZ format
XM Sirius has Escape which is BM/EZ and was programmed by Marlin Taylor almost until his retirement and Music Choice offers a BM channel. Taylor was best known for being invovled with WWSH's arch rival WDVR (now WBEB).
At the beginning of the tape, there's a news brief. Nelson Hobdell does four stories, all international. Israel, Spain, France and Portugal. Huh? Was he just being lazy, ripping a few stories off the AP wire from an international summary and not bothering to mix local, national and international items? I know he's an announcer, not a newscaster But he would just read whatever he found on the tele-type machine?
Ellis, this type of nostalgia gives me good feelings. I too am a Northeastern (Philly area) transplanted recently to FL! Hey, about that lanai hawk... was it a rip in the screen or was the screen door unlatched and the wind let it in?
There was a rip in one of the screen panels. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Me too!👍🏽💯
Pre Fantasy Island Ricardo Montalban Cordoba Ad.
For me his voice has something that gives a sense of calm and tranquility,,you could even fall asleep...
20:52 Ken Garland for Lit Brothers. The next year the department store chain closed for good.
Yep.I was thinking how old-fashioned the Lits jingle was for 1976, but it does sound familiar. Conjures memories of stops with my mom to the Willow Grove store.
Can anyone identify the song at 17:09-20:00ish? It's so familiar it's driving me crazy. Thanks!
Sounds like "How Are Things In Glocca Morra." Not sure about the artist. Some of their stuff was custom recorded.
The song is "Shenandoah," the traditional American folk song. Lots of versions of it on RUclips.
@@timdunleavy7026..... there was a movie called Shenandoah......(1965)...... with Jimmy Stewart and Doug McClure. I believe that song was the theme of the film.
Please, someone know the name of the song between the 2:40 to 5:00??
The song is "A Time For Love" originally by Tony Bennett. Don't know who did this version.
@@EllisFeaster This is really beautiful stuff, probably most from the 1940s and 50s. I do have some of it in my music library so might be able to get more info but don't know how long that would take me. I have two areas of the library where I have this stuff but one section can take months to dredge through. There was so many different groups and orchestras back then. I know Peter Yorke and his concert orchestra was one of them and might be included in this clip but his stuff is really wonderful. I will come back here and comment if ever I find out more, I love all this stuff thanks again Ellis, you are one of the best and only hope you never run out of things to put on you tube.
@@MrDianadoll Did you see the earlier full-hour upload this clip seems to have been taken from? ruclips.net/video/ocHpNyl7RBc/видео.html
70sleftover I hadn’t seen it. A friend passed this along to me a few years back. Had to edit a little because You Tube’s software is much tougher on analyzing uploads for copyright infringement today, then back when that other WWSH Aircheck was uploaded years ago.
In the internet age, broadcast TV and radio are more and more irrelevant.