We had one of those HUGE stereo TV combination cabinets Dad bought at Montgomery Wards we listened to this station on. We had to put up a special "FM" antenna. Great times in the 1970's.
I love these RUclips channels that feature this music. I thought I would never hear this stuff again! Our Beautiful Music Radio Station in Baltimore (WLIF... Life) changed its format in 1989 .... and there went my childhood memories... GONE!
Listening to this music makes one feel nostalgic and wish you could go back a few decades and reconnect with all the people who shaped our lives and tell them how grateful you are to have met them. Perhaps it is also because the 1960s to 1990s were for many of us a time of youth full of optimism, social progress and hope for a better future.
I have a lot of favorite b/ez songs I love and here are 3. Come In From The Rain Frank Chacksfield I'm Easy Andre Kostelantez Where Is The Love Norm Geller.
We had an FM 100 in Chicago as well. It was originally WFMF, owned by Marshall Field and played as background music in his stores. Eventually it was bought and the call letters changed to WLOO, keeping the "FM 100" identifier ("100" looks like "loo"). It was my mom's favorite station...
@@fscott1134 same here. I grew up on FM100 in Chicago. About two decades ago I found Reader's Digest music and bought six CDs that are basically the very same type of music. I still have them.
Hearing this makes me appreciate my grandparents.When they told me stories about when they grew up.Lots of grandkids would yawn or ignore them.I loved those stories I would listen & place myself there.Sorta like the movie Fried green tomatoes.lol asking then what did you do? God I miss them.
I worked at a beautiful music station in the early 80's. On the all night shift this would put you to sleep. Today, as I'm older I appreciate it more. Bonneville supplied us most of the music. But, as soon as I hear a song here, I can pick the artist immediately. Some things you never forget. This music just started to lose favor with ppl. I was still there when it switched to a "rocker" in '84.
Hi Dennis. Your comment that you once worked for a radio station which played this music really caught my attention. I listened to my local radio station for hours during the late 70s- early 80s... well into the wee hours. I especially loved the group vocals and would call the station to get the artist's name. I'm going far out on a limb here: do you remember a choral group (w/orch) version of the song "Emily"? I've been searching for it since 1978. I never got the artist's name. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Russell
@@russelljones1176 I answered you and my comment just went away. YT is a total f**up anymore. Anyway, the only one I remember is one by Ronnie Aldrich (no chorus). Many vocalists recorded it. The Andy Williams version has a great chorus & Orch. (Robert Mersey) but he was basically a backup arranger. Let me ask around. Somewhere the one you want is lying around on tape or vinyl. Some beautiful music stations had "contracted" orchestras to do covers back then. Let me see what I can find. Take care Russell.
Dennis, I can't thank you enough for your quick response and willingness to help with my search. I appreciate it more than you know. My 40+ year search for the particular choral version of "Emily" that played on Louisville's Bonneville-run radio station has eliminated: Lawrence Welk, the Singers Unlimited, Original Movie Soundtrack recording, Don Costa, Will Bronson's In-Crowd Singers... all of which had (to some extent) group vocals.
Beautiful Music radio heavyweights Marlin Taylor (Bonneville), Phil Stout (SRP), and several other folks from the Yahoo Beautiful Music appreciation group have even offered some help over the years... no luck. The particular choral version I seek was a mixed chorus with string orchestra... fully sung. It was a slightly up tempo arrangement in 4/4 time instead of the usual 3/4 time waltz-style that everyone did. I once recorded it off a radio broadcast in 1979, but my brother recorded over it. As I said before, I never learned who the singers were. It sounds like one of those versions recorded for the old Reader's Digest LP sets. To me it's worth finding because it's such a good song... and a mystery worth solving. I don't want to give up. Thank you 😊
@@russelljones1176 I have researched some of the really obscure orchs and chorus groups and I can't find anything. I truly wish I could help. I'll still be on lookout. Just keep hoping and looking. Much Luck.
FM 100! My parents had that on in Chicago all the time. "Chicago's beautiful music station." It always seemed like there was only one DJ 24/7 (all but no chatting anyway) and he had a deep, steady, emotionless voice.
Thanks for uploading this, it's like nothing I've ever heard in my 50 plus year lifetime! It sounds like something that may have originally aired in the 50s to early 60s, certainly before I was born! I've known of a couple of radio stations here in the Edmonton area around Central Alberta that aired something similar back in the 80s/90s but they didn't last that long during my time! Such beautiful music! Really love this!❤
Wonderful music. Listened this morning, during my "beauty routine"(shampoo, shower,face cream,hair styling...) Suddenly, my bathroom turned into a luxury Spa! ✨🚿🧽💎💁🏻♀️💮✨🎶🎵🎶👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I used to spend the night dreaming at the beach to luxurious WMEZ Pensacola. Just divine. There was another, WQEZ station in Birmingham, Alabama and I might have forgotten the right call letters. Same format, same dreaming through the 1970s and 80s. Thanks for this find!
There's an FM radio station that we can pick up in central Utah that is located in Nephi, Utah that has similar music like this. It's called KMGR Classy FM, 99.1-103.9.
I discovered that station while on a cross-country adventure in 2014, during a week stay in Circleville, Utah. Great station and they have an online stream also: streema.com/radios/Classy_95.9_KMGR
I was born in 1955 and I still really enjoy 'easy listening.' Classic rock, rock and roll, yeah, I grew up with it and easy listening was more the choice of my parents than me, but I still enjoy it.
34:40 - This is a pretty instrumental rendition of "I Walk The Line." I was born after the Beautiful music stations went off the air, but listening to the airchecks is enough to make me think I was born in the wrong part of the twentieth century.
Want to know something great Wjib in Boston still has one and they have streaming so you can listen anywhere Link: tunein.com/radio/WJIB-FM-97-s143624/
Loved this station in the mid- 70s. As a teen, I would meditate with this on softly at 8:00 PM, “ The hour in the middle of the evening. “ It opened up a more creative side of me.
With Generations of music and books in the public domain now - they should be uploaded and shared with all . . . Wonderful memories, and new memories to new poeple...
In Minneapolis, we had WAYL (93.7 Mhz, Stereo) playing "easy listening' music and KWFM (97.1 Mhz, Stereo) playing 'classical" music only during the '60s. Both of these stations were located in the "Vocational" school building that I was attending to become an Electronics Technician. In those days ('60s), we had VARIETY in the type of music that was available on radio! There were even Jazz stations (imagine that in the MIDWEST), where as today there is either ROCK or COUNTRY(which is almost the SAME). I so HATE what's on radioTODAY, that I just listen to PBS "talk" stations! I am afraid that the "beautiful" music of the '60s will NEVER return! Life SUCKS!
40:14 Henr Rene - Dulcinea 42:34 John Arpin - Softly. A Gordon Lightfoot played by a jazz pianist. The song that hooked me on KNCT here in TX which reminded me of WPAT in NY.
Lovely! I used to record a lot of music off the radio myself back in the 1980s & 90s. Of course, it was nothing like this kind of music. Though I grew up on music like this, so I have a great appreciation for it - especially now. Any idea what year this is from? I'm guessing in the 70s or 80s sometime? I look forward to more. :)
A friend gave me the 7" reel of tape. I think someone left it at the swap shop years ago. I have no idea who recorded the radio station onto the tape but what a time capsule :)
Can anyone identify the song at 40:13? It's very familiar but I can't place it. It sounds like it must be the theme to a Hollywood Western movie from the 50's/60's, but for the life of me I can't figure it out. I thought it might be something from Paint Your Wagon, but it doesn't seem to be.
I'm pretty sure this radio station is still in operation. I looked up the callsign and it says it's in Barnstable, Massachusetts. They have a website and everything.
That certainly wasn't FM 100 out of Chicago. That was programmed like a classical music station...everything was voice-overs, no "normal" advertisements.
@@QueenDynamo Thank you for the reply! I guess I should say who is singing this version of it. Still cant seem to find that one. My interest is peaked even further but I have hit a wall sadly :/
@@dennytoby Sadly i still can't seem to find it :/ thank you for the reply! I come back pretty often to listen to just that little area of awesome i love it so much lol
The world would be a much better place if we still had this music.
Good music to listen too , unlike today's choice on the radio 😊😊😊😊
We had one of those HUGE stereo TV combination cabinets Dad bought at Montgomery Wards we listened to this station on. We had to put up a special "FM" antenna. Great times in the 1970's.
I love these RUclips channels that feature this music. I thought I would never hear this stuff again! Our Beautiful Music Radio Station in Baltimore (WLIF... Life) changed its format in 1989 .... and there went my childhood memories... GONE!
Yes. The same here, but for me it was WLYF in South Florida. Gone forever. 😞
Listening to this music makes one feel nostalgic and wish you could go back a few decades and reconnect with all the people who shaped our lives and tell them how grateful you are to have met them. Perhaps it is also because the 1960s to 1990s were for many of us a time of youth full of optimism, social progress and hope for a better future.
Miss my grandma's and what they taught me I use every day.
Not exactly "social progress;" quite the opposite, imo.
My wife and I take a nap Sunday afternoons with your music. Takes! Doug
I have a lot of favorite b/ez songs I love and here are 3.
Come In From The Rain Frank Chacksfield
I'm Easy Andre Kostelantez
Where Is The Love Norm Geller.
Great choices. You'd probably dig some Hugo Winterhalter and Bud Shank stuff as well!
We had an FM 100 in Chicago as well. It was originally WFMF, owned by Marshall Field and played as background music in his stores. Eventually it was bought and the call letters changed to WLOO, keeping the "FM 100" identifier ("100" looks like "loo"). It was my mom's favorite station...
I’m from chicago and listed to fm 100 as a kid. Now at 66 i’m trying to find something like it again.
By the way, do you remember the name ofthe dj who hosted "the hour in the middle of the evening”?
Dad’s favorite.
@@fscott1134 That was the late Herb Graham. I remember the show well. He was also a notable Chicago area voice-over artist.
@@fscott1134 same here. I grew up on FM100 in Chicago. About two decades ago I found Reader's Digest music and bought six CDs that are basically the very same type of music. I still have them.
Hearing this makes me appreciate my grandparents.When they told me stories about when they grew up.Lots of grandkids would yawn or ignore them.I loved those stories I would listen & place myself there.Sorta like the movie Fried green tomatoes.lol asking then what did you do? God I miss them.
27:27 - Tony Bennett - "Can't Get Out Of This Mood"
... bliss!
I worked at a beautiful music station in the early 80's. On the all night shift this would put you to sleep. Today, as I'm older I appreciate it more. Bonneville supplied us most of the music. But, as soon as I hear a song here, I can pick the artist immediately. Some things you never forget. This music just started to lose favor with ppl. I was still there when it switched to a "rocker" in '84.
Hi Dennis. Your comment that you once worked for a radio station which played this music really caught my attention. I listened to my local radio station for hours during the late 70s- early 80s... well into the wee hours. I especially loved the group vocals and would call the station to get the artist's name. I'm going far out on a limb here: do you remember a choral group (w/orch) version of the song "Emily"? I've been searching for it since 1978. I never got the artist's name. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Russell
@@russelljones1176 I answered you and my comment just went away. YT is a total f**up anymore. Anyway, the only one I remember is one by Ronnie Aldrich (no chorus). Many vocalists recorded it. The Andy Williams version has a great chorus & Orch. (Robert Mersey) but he was basically a backup arranger. Let me ask around. Somewhere the one you want is lying around on tape or vinyl. Some beautiful music stations had "contracted" orchestras to do covers back then. Let me see what I can find. Take care Russell.
Dennis, I can't thank you enough for your quick response and willingness to help with my search. I appreciate it more than you know. My 40+ year search for the particular choral version of "Emily" that played on Louisville's Bonneville-run radio station has eliminated: Lawrence Welk, the Singers Unlimited, Original Movie Soundtrack recording, Don Costa, Will Bronson's In-Crowd Singers... all of which had (to some extent) group vocals.
Beautiful Music radio heavyweights Marlin Taylor (Bonneville), Phil Stout (SRP), and several other folks from the Yahoo Beautiful Music appreciation group have even offered some help over the years... no luck. The particular choral version I seek was a mixed chorus with string orchestra... fully sung. It was a slightly up tempo arrangement in 4/4 time instead of the usual 3/4 time waltz-style that everyone did. I once recorded it off a radio broadcast in 1979, but my brother recorded over it. As I said before, I never learned who the singers were. It sounds like one of those versions recorded for the old Reader's Digest LP sets. To me it's worth finding because it's such a good song... and a mystery worth solving. I don't want to give up. Thank you 😊
@@russelljones1176 I have researched some of the really obscure orchs and chorus groups and I can't find anything. I truly wish I could help. I'll still be on lookout. Just keep hoping and looking. Much Luck.
FM 100! My parents had that on in Chicago all the time. "Chicago's beautiful music station." It always seemed like there was only one DJ 24/7 (all but no chatting anyway) and he had a deep, steady, emotionless voice.
Thanks for uploading this, it's like nothing I've ever heard in my 50 plus year lifetime! It sounds like something that may have originally aired in the 50s to early 60s, certainly before I was born! I've known of a couple of radio stations here in the Edmonton area around Central Alberta that aired something similar back in the 80s/90s but they didn't last that long during my time! Such beautiful music! Really love this!❤
Nice-It reminds me of when I was little, falling asleep in the back seat after my parents visited friends or family on the way home-So comforting!!
Thats a really nice memory.
I Miss those easy listening and beautiful music stations. Made the drive home in traffic easier to take.
There might be less road rage if everyone listened to it when driving.
SImply vintage Signalwave... Beautiful!
Thanks for wrapping me in a cozy musical blanket!
Wonderful music. Listened this morning, during my "beauty routine"(shampoo, shower,face cream,hair styling...) Suddenly, my bathroom turned into a luxury Spa! ✨🚿🧽💎💁🏻♀️💮✨🎶🎵🎶👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I used to spend the night dreaming at the beach to luxurious WMEZ Pensacola. Just divine. There was another, WQEZ station in Birmingham, Alabama and I might have forgotten the right call letters. Same format, same dreaming through the 1970s and 80s. Thanks for this find!
My father loved many of these songs so much that he would sometimes remain in car for the end of the song once we arrived home!
This is exactly what my parents played on that HUGE stereo cabinet in the hallway in the 1970's! Thank you!
There's an FM radio station that we can pick up in central Utah that is located in Nephi, Utah that has similar music like this. It's called KMGR Classy FM, 99.1-103.9.
I discovered that station while on a cross-country adventure in 2014, during a week stay in Circleville, Utah. Great station and they have an online stream also:
streema.com/radios/Classy_95.9_KMGR
Easy listening was my mom's jam back in the '70s!
I was born in 1960, and I remember how this kind of music was excoriated back in the 70's and 80's. Enjoying it seems perverse. Which is neat!
I was born in 1955 and I still really enjoy 'easy listening.' Classic rock, rock and roll, yeah, I grew up with it and easy listening was more the choice of my parents than me, but I still enjoy it.
@@continentalgin Easy Listening often played in the background of my grandparents house, up in Rockford, Michigan. :)
@@seanledden4397 Fond memories. It's quite soothing and improves the mood. I love it!
@@continentalgin Agreed!
excoriated?...thats a new one
105.5 KYLE. A 90 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN TODAY FOR OUR LISTENING AREA HIGH 68 LOW 64 MORE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC FOR YOU ON 105.5 KYLE.
you post such good tunes AND classic funny animal comics
OMG my dad had that same Sony reel to reel when I was a kid...
My grandpa loved this music. Too bad he passed away long ago before I could share this channel with him.
I'm a 72 year old 'grandpa' and yeah, I still remember vividly my shopping experience greatly influenced by this music.
@@mrradio2187 that's great! 😃
Amazing! Every city we visited on a road trip, my father would immediately find the "E-Z-Listening" station on the radio. Thank you for creating this!
34:40 - This is a pretty instrumental rendition of "I Walk The Line." I was born after the Beautiful music stations went off the air, but listening to the airchecks is enough to make me think I was born in the wrong part of the twentieth century.
Want to know something great Wjib in Boston still has one and they have streaming so you can listen anywhere
Link: tunein.com/radio/WJIB-FM-97-s143624/
I listen to both of you and I think both of your channels are great!
If either of you can get tapes from WWSH Stereo 106 Philadelphia that would be amazing.
@@lisaruess7691 sadly I don't have any from that station
@@Fardemark You betcha!
Loved this station in the mid- 70s. As a teen, I would meditate with this on softly at 8:00 PM, “ The hour in the middle of the evening. “ It opened up a more creative side of me.
With Generations of music and books in the public domain now - they should be uploaded and shared with all . . .
Wonderful memories, and new memories to new poeple...
Nice job. Keep it coming!
Wow. Love the setup. Easy listening.
In Minneapolis, we had WAYL (93.7 Mhz, Stereo) playing "easy listening' music and KWFM (97.1 Mhz, Stereo) playing 'classical" music only during the '60s. Both of these stations were located in the "Vocational" school building that I was attending to become an Electronics Technician. In those days ('60s), we had VARIETY in the type of music that was available on radio! There were even Jazz stations (imagine that in the MIDWEST), where as today there is either ROCK or COUNTRY(which is almost the SAME). I so HATE what's on radioTODAY, that I just listen to PBS "talk" stations! I am afraid that the "beautiful" music of the '60s will NEVER return! Life SUCKS!
40:14 Henr Rene - Dulcinea
42:34 John Arpin - Softly. A Gordon Lightfoot played by a jazz pianist. The song that hooked me on KNCT here in TX which reminded me of WPAT in NY.
Henry Rene (typo)
Technically speaking, WPAT - 930 AM / 93.1 FM was licensed to Paterson, New Jersey, with studios located in Clifton, New Jersey.
loving this sweet mix we need real radio to comeback nice n staticy too this is so awesomes thank you so much
We love your music selections ... simply awesome!
My girlfriend in high school liked my car radio tuned to this type of music. Especially when we were um “stationary” :)
Ahh, this is pure class. Cheers for the great upload!
Great stuff Fardemark!! I love beautiful music. If you have more of the same.. please share on your channel. The world needs this soundtrack again!
And his great 60s/70s decor for the full effect
This album is hot❤❤❤❤
Cool AV equipment
Lovely! I used to record a lot of music off the radio myself back in the 1980s & 90s. Of course, it was nothing like this kind of music. Though I grew up on music like this, so I have a great appreciation for it - especially now.
Any idea what year this is from? I'm guessing in the 70s or 80s sometime?
I look forward to more. :)
Going on the "Coke Adds Life" commercial, I would say around 1975.
This is just so nice to listen and relax to.....great work.
This is awesome! Can't wait for part 2 and beyond!
I know the second song but I can't remember where it was from a movie I'm sure. it's so beautiful
I love your selections! Thanks my friend! ;) :D
It's 1972 again!
What is the name of the song and artist that is being played in the introduction to this video? (from the 0:00 to 0:26 timestamp?).
This is wonderful, where did you unearth a gem like this?
A friend gave me the 7" reel of tape. I think someone left it at the swap shop years ago. I have no idea who recorded the radio station onto the tape but what a time capsule :)
@@Fardemark never occurred to me that someone might have recorded it. I thought it might have come directly from the radio station.
@@WatchingDude it was recorded on tape in 1977
Reminds me of WSPA 98.9, back in the day.
Many thanks for posting this!
I love it
Anybody know when these tracks were initially aired? I wish we could hear the station identifications, but maybe that isn't allowed.
Can anyone identify the song at 40:13? It's very familiar but I can't place it. It sounds like it must be the theme to a Hollywood Western movie from the 50's/60's, but for the life of me I can't figure it out. I thought it might be something from Paint Your Wagon, but it doesn't seem to be.
I love that Tony Bennett song.
52:07 gave me a heart atack! lol
I'm pretty sure this radio station is still in operation. I looked up the callsign and it says it's in Barnstable, Massachusetts. They have a website and everything.
yeah it was bought out now its a dreadful pop station
@@Fardemark Eww. We have one Oldies station where I live and it's literally all I listen to. I hate the newer stuff.
It's perfect, thanks
Opening with Blue Velvet - classic
At 0:42 rather
The second track sounds like a different version of a track from a BBC Test Card tape called Pretty Girls.
I appreciate this!
christmas??? where? tank You.
Big announcement I have another channel I post cool vrchat videos and more
ruclips.net/channel/UCw0g57Fe6wGuSeBPZmY4V_w
I agree with your opening statement about cigarettes. But then why use a curse word? What does that have to do with a comedy show?
37:14 Thee I Love
how many Retro Defubct files are? /this is the frist.
11:30 The First Time
That certainly wasn't FM 100 out of Chicago. That was programmed like a classical music station...everything was voice-overs, no "normal" advertisements.
This appears to be a recording of WQRC in Barnstable, Cape Cod, MA.
21:00 Sweet Caroline [a-bum-bum-bah...]
Anyone know the name of the song at 58:44? sounds amazing
Damn I don’t think that version is on RUclips ://////// so sad sounded so amazing
The title is "It's Impossible".
@@QueenDynamo Thank you for the reply! I guess I should say who is singing this version of it. Still cant seem to find that one. My interest is peaked even further but I have hit a wall sadly :/
@@weeweesuperbooster It's by The Letterman. It's Impossible.
@@dennytoby Sadly i still can't seem to find it :/ thank you for the reply! I come back pretty often to listen to just that little area of awesome i love it so much lol
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Alrighty then. Thank you.
I alternate between Corpse Molestation and this ruclips.net/video/HRUp3EYEfiA/видео.html
shame it is all mono
Stay tuned a stereo album on tape is coming to the channel soon
Why record the commercials?... IT's not like anyone listened to this station or remembered it because of the commercials.
The commercials add positively to the experience.
Thanks si much but I suggest You to type the songs and orchestra(s) names. March 5 24 tuesday