Thank you so much for this beautiful rare nostalgic NJ Aircheck Gem! So heartwarming to feel & remember the great Days of Jersey when people were more generous & trustworthy, and LIFE was affordable & simple, and Family was still alive.... and Love was easy to find.🌻 May GOD Be With Us All💜
This is great, I am originally from the Bronx, and remember hearing this radio station on FM band openings. My apartment was on the 22nd floor and I placed an FM antenna on the balcony to get good FM reception.
Love these over the air recordings. Thanks. My first radio job for two years was at a similar FM station in Southern California. We had half a dozen FM stations with the beautiful music format in the Los Angeles area between 1968 and 1985. Sad that radio doesn't play this music now.
It's amazing how much of the FM dial was devoted to this format in Philadelphia back in the 1970s, but it was rapidly giving way to all the AM-wannabe formats (with all the commercial and other non-music interruptions FM used to brag they didn't have!) by 1977 and so we were left with two competing stations with this format by 1980. But you could travel around the state of Pa. and there always seemed to be a similarly-formatted station like these on the local FM dial emanating from larger towns and smaller cities into the mid 1980s if not later.
Been home with the dogs for the last five days. Neighbors must think I done flipped my wig. Been punching out the old ladies honey do list and have been listening to this and few others in the background. Yo My dogs are completely chilled out listening to this, I may have found my new day time dog sitter. Thanks for the nostalgic trip down Muzak lane ! Dog are chillin and so am I. Weed helps. Thanks 🐕✌
I lived on the coast of North Carolina and picked up this radio station almost always. Powerhouse! Love the music. Reminiscing of wonderful memories in wonderful times. Good to hang onto in these dark times.
I miss beautiful music/easy listening station WPAT-930 AM/93.1 FM, licensed to Paterson, New Jersey, and had studios located in Clifton, New Jersey (Passaic County).
I went to AC many summers in 70's and early 80's with my parents and I recall there was a local tv station in the city that showed a rotating wheel/scroll of ads for local businesses and it simulcast a radio station from the Steel Pier. The thing I remember about the radio station's ID spots was that you would first hear the bell of a dingy and then seagulls after which the announcer would give the call letters and say Steel Pier. If I remember correctly, at the top of the hour, a news update would come on a feature news from the CBS radio network. Not sure if this was still WFPG or a different station.
I used to always pull this station in all the way up in NE Phila. in the 80s and beyond til a low powered WORD FM station went on the air in Wynwood Pa went on this freg..
Fascinating how directional FM stations were (are?). I lived across NJ in suburban Phila. and even though I spent many a vacation on the beaches of south Jersey I don't think I ever heard of this station. Back home could've been overshadowed by a stronger FM station serving Phila., or the signal westward (deeper inland) was intentionally limited. Admittedly, at the shore I certainly wasn't tuning into Beautiful Music FM stations. On the other hand, WMGM-FM Atlantic City was an FM station I do recall listening to for the latest pop music on a visit to the shore in 1980. FM stations out of Philly didn't reach the beaches (heck, the old pop AM stations out of Phila. were really too weak once you traveled three quarters across NJ) and we would be down there trying to find something to satisfy our musical tastes.
This was when the station had started automating the format for 24-hour broadcast. For many years prior to this, the station was known as "The Station with the Chimes." The WFPG-FM Top of the hour ID had the sounds of the surf and seagulls with a soft tune played on chimes, and a voice intoning, "This is FM 97, WFPG-FM, Atlantic City, The Station with the Chimes." They used the ID a couple other times during the hour. Much the same kind of music mix as this tape, though no vocals. The station was hosted live back then, not automated. Between midnight and 6am they'd simulcast their blockbuster cash-cow WFPG-AM's "Budweiser Beachcomber Show" as a bonus to the client, Kramer Beverage Company (Anheuser Busch distributor for the South Jersey Shore area) who bought the whole overnight show on the AM. The AM was an old-line Middle of the Road station at the time that sorta-kinda matched the FM format. Like most stations in this format that saw their ratings drop as the older listeners died off, they switched to Adult Contemporary/Soft Rock around 1988-89 or so as "Lite 96.9." They contemporized and turned a bit more upbeat in the mid-90's as "Lite Rock 96.9." I had the chance to work weekends there from 1999 till 2020, but having summered at the shore every year from the time I was a toddler, I remember this station well. You heard the station everywhere, restaurants, retail places, offices. Always the #1 station at the shore.
Let Your Love Flow - Orchestra Of Sergio Rafael Autumn Leaves - Franck Pourcel Et Son Grand Orchestre Today Is The First Day Of Rest Of My Life - Wilder Brothers (Sounds Of Sunshine) What's New Pussycat - Living Strings
Swinging On A Star - John Avery Orchestra Moonlight On The Ganges - Frank Chacksfield Orchestra Top Of The World - The Carpenters (Or Harold Winkler Guitar & Norman Candler Orchestra) Love Letters - The Salsoul Orchestra Morning Has Broken - Johnny Pearson Orchestra
Meditation Moonglow / Theme From Picnic - Pim Jocobs Orchestra & Piano Take A Chance On Me - Paul Mauriat Et Son Grand Orchestre April Love - Frank Chacksfield Orchestra Love Me With All Your Heart - The Lettermen Arrivederci Roma - Franck Pourcel Et Son Grand Orchestre
The Most Beautiful Girl - Bert Keampfert Orchestra Light My Fire - BBC Strings Orchestra
Click "...more" and the text says "11-Morning Has Broken - Johnny Pearson". Therefore it was recorded by Johnny Pearson. ruclips.net/video/lP8SN0NEcOA/видео.html
What’s New Pussycat, is not Mantovani, I think it is by The Living Strings, and The Most Beautiful Girl, doesn’t sound like Bert Kaempfert. There’s a mistake on the artists, Bert Kaempfert usually have Trumpet and “Thumping Bass” Sounds.
Let Your Love Flow - Orchestra Of Sergio Rafael Autumn Leaves - Franck Pourcel Et Son Grand Orchestre Today Is The First Day Of Rest Of My Life - Wilder Brothers (Sounds Of Sunshine) What's New Pussycat - Mantovani E Sua Grande Orchestra
Swinging On A Star - John Avery Orchestra Moonlight On The Ganges - Frank Chacksfield Orchestra Top Of The World - The Carpenters (Or Harold Winkler Guitar & Norman Candler Orchestra) Love Letters - The Salsoul Orchestra Morning Has Broken - Johnny Pearson Orchestra
Meditation Moonglow / Theme From Picnic - Pim Jocobs Orchestra & Piano Take A Chance On Me - Paul Mauriat Et Son Grand Orchestre April Love - Frank Chacksfield Orchestra Love Me With All Your Heart - The Lettermen Arrivederci Roma - Franck Pourcel Et Son Grand Orchestre
The Most Beautiful Girl - Bert Keampfert Orchestra Light My Fire - BBC Strings Orchestra
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Thank you so much for this beautiful rare nostalgic NJ Aircheck Gem! So heartwarming to feel & remember the great Days of Jersey when people were more generous & trustworthy, and LIFE was affordable & simple, and Family was still alive.... and Love was easy to find.🌻
May GOD Be With Us All💜
Beautiful memories of summer vacation with my family in the early 1980s in Wildwood.:-))
This is great, I am originally from the Bronx, and remember hearing this radio station on FM band openings. My apartment was on the 22nd floor and I placed an FM antenna on the balcony to get good FM reception.
Grandmothers apartment was in the ninth floor. Of B’nai B’rith in Franklin street in reading. Same basic situation.
Love these over the air recordings. Thanks. My first radio job for two years was at a similar FM station in Southern California. We had half a dozen FM stations with the beautiful music format in the Los Angeles area between 1968 and 1985. Sad that radio doesn't play this music now.
It's amazing how much of the FM dial was devoted to this format in Philadelphia back in the 1970s, but it was rapidly giving way to all the AM-wannabe formats (with all the commercial and other non-music interruptions FM used to brag they didn't have!) by 1977 and so we were left with two competing stations with this format by 1980. But you could travel around the state of Pa. and there always seemed to be a similarly-formatted station like these on the local FM dial emanating from larger towns and smaller cities into the mid 1980s if not later.
Was it KJOI?
There were others down at the Jersey shore. WSLT and WWOC. For a time in the Fall of 91, 560 was WWSH.
I also recall in the early 80s 1290 WJBR was also EZ listening but separate from 99.5.
kewt was our good station
Been home with the dogs for the last five days. Neighbors must think I done flipped my wig. Been punching out the old ladies honey do list and have been listening to this and few others in the background. Yo My dogs are completely chilled out listening to this, I may have found my new day time dog sitter. Thanks for the nostalgic trip down Muzak lane ! Dog are chillin and so am I. Weed helps. Thanks 🐕✌
I lived on the coast of North Carolina and picked up this radio station almost always. Powerhouse! Love the music. Reminiscing of wonderful memories in wonderful times. Good to hang onto in these dark times.
That's impressive
What a truly lovely version of Lennon's "Oh My Love" by Stevo!
Excellent listened to it all thanks
I miss beautiful music/easy listening station WPAT-930 AM/93.1 FM, licensed to Paterson, New Jersey, and had studios located in Clifton, New Jersey (Passaic County).
Refreshing . Thanks for posting .
I went to AC many summers in 70's and early 80's with my parents and I recall there was a local tv station in the city that showed a rotating wheel/scroll of ads for local businesses and it simulcast a radio station from the Steel Pier. The thing I remember about the radio station's ID spots was that you would first hear the bell of a dingy and then seagulls after which the announcer would give the call letters and say Steel Pier. If I remember correctly, at the top of the hour, a news update would come on a feature news from the CBS radio network. Not sure if this was still WFPG or a different station.
Hermosos recuerdos😊
I used to always pull this station in all the way up in NE Phila. in the 80s and beyond til a low powered WORD FM station went on the air in Wynwood Pa went on this freg..
Fascinating how directional FM stations were (are?). I lived across NJ in suburban Phila. and even though I spent many a vacation on the beaches of south Jersey I don't think I ever heard of this station. Back home could've been overshadowed by a stronger FM station serving Phila., or the signal westward (deeper inland) was intentionally limited. Admittedly, at the shore I certainly wasn't tuning into Beautiful Music FM stations. On the other hand, WMGM-FM Atlantic City was an FM station I do recall listening to for the latest pop music on a visit to the shore in 1980. FM stations out of Philly didn't reach the beaches (heck, the old pop AM stations out of Phila. were really too weak once you traveled three quarters across NJ) and we would be down there trying to find something to satisfy our musical tastes.
This was when the station had started automating the format for 24-hour broadcast. For many years prior to this, the station was known as "The Station with the Chimes." The WFPG-FM Top of the hour ID had the sounds of the surf and seagulls with a soft tune played on chimes, and a voice intoning, "This is FM 97, WFPG-FM, Atlantic City, The Station with the Chimes." They used the ID a couple other times during the hour. Much the same kind of music mix as this tape, though no vocals. The station was hosted live back then, not automated. Between midnight and 6am they'd simulcast their blockbuster cash-cow WFPG-AM's "Budweiser Beachcomber Show" as a bonus to the client, Kramer Beverage Company (Anheuser Busch distributor for the South Jersey Shore area) who bought the whole overnight show on the AM. The AM was an old-line Middle of the Road station at the time that sorta-kinda matched the FM format. Like most stations in this format that saw their ratings drop as the older listeners died off, they switched to Adult Contemporary/Soft Rock around 1988-89 or so as "Lite 96.9." They contemporized and turned a bit more upbeat in the mid-90's as "Lite Rock 96.9." I had the chance to work weekends there from 1999 till 2020, but having summered at the shore every year from the time I was a toddler, I remember this station well. You heard the station everywhere, restaurants, retail places, offices. Always the #1 station at the shore.
Love it
Dance With Me
Oh My Love - Steve Lawrence
Let Your Love Flow - Orchestra Of Sergio Rafael
Autumn Leaves - Franck Pourcel Et Son Grand Orchestre
Today Is The First Day Of Rest Of My Life - Wilder Brothers (Sounds Of Sunshine)
What's New Pussycat - Living Strings
Swinging On A Star - John Avery Orchestra
Moonlight On The Ganges - Frank Chacksfield Orchestra
Top Of The World - The Carpenters (Or Harold Winkler Guitar & Norman Candler Orchestra)
Love Letters - The Salsoul Orchestra
Morning Has Broken - Johnny Pearson Orchestra
Meditation
Moonglow / Theme From Picnic - Pim Jocobs Orchestra & Piano
Take A Chance On Me - Paul Mauriat Et Son Grand Orchestre
April Love - Frank Chacksfield Orchestra
Love Me With All Your Heart - The Lettermen
Arrivederci Roma - Franck Pourcel Et Son Grand Orchestre
The Most Beautiful Girl - Bert Keampfert Orchestra
Light My Fire - BBC Strings Orchestra
It would be interesting to know who did this cover of Morning Has Broken. Heard it before on WFMZ and WQQQ.
Click "...more" and the text says "11-Morning Has Broken - Johnny Pearson". Therefore it was recorded by Johnny Pearson. ruclips.net/video/lP8SN0NEcOA/видео.html
What’s New Pussycat, is not Mantovani, I think it is by The Living Strings, and The Most Beautiful Girl, doesn’t sound like Bert Kaempfert. There’s a mistake on the artists, Bert Kaempfert usually have Trumpet and “Thumping Bass” Sounds.
Now lite 96.9
Dance With Me
Oh My Love - Steve Lawrence
Let Your Love Flow - Orchestra Of Sergio Rafael
Autumn Leaves - Franck Pourcel Et Son Grand Orchestre
Today Is The First Day Of Rest Of My Life - Wilder Brothers (Sounds Of Sunshine)
What's New Pussycat - Mantovani E Sua Grande Orchestra
Swinging On A Star - John Avery Orchestra
Moonlight On The Ganges - Frank Chacksfield Orchestra
Top Of The World - The Carpenters (Or Harold Winkler Guitar & Norman Candler Orchestra)
Love Letters - The Salsoul Orchestra
Morning Has Broken - Johnny Pearson Orchestra
Meditation
Moonglow / Theme From Picnic - Pim Jocobs Orchestra & Piano
Take A Chance On Me - Paul Mauriat Et Son Grand Orchestre
April Love - Frank Chacksfield Orchestra
Love Me With All Your Heart - The Lettermen
Arrivederci Roma - Franck Pourcel Et Son Grand Orchestre
The Most Beautiful Girl - Bert Keampfert Orchestra
Light My Fire - BBC Strings Orchestra