SPOILER ALERT! 

IF YOU LOVE RADIO SHOWS

IF YOU LOVE CLASSIC ROCK

IF YOU LOVE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCES, MANY PRESENTED LIVE OR FROM SOUNDTRACK ALBUMS or RARE DEMOS

ALL IN ONE THREE HOUR SHOW

AND, IN ONE OF THE RAREST AND MOST ENTERTAINING RADIO SHOW SERIES EVER AIRED

THEN YOU ARE AT THE RIGHT PLACE!

AHOY MATES AND MATEYS

ARE YOU READY??

LET ME HEAR IT!!

ARE YOU READY TO SET SAIL ON THE GOOD SHIP SS KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES, FOR A VOYAGE CHARTING THE BEST OF VINYL AND CD RADIO SHOWS?

RADIO SHOWS FOR LOVERS OF GREAT ROCK MUSIC OR GREAT COUNTRY MUSIC FROM THE 50's INTO THE 2000's.... WEEKLY COUNTDOWN SHOWS FEATURING YOUR FAVORITE ACTS BOTH ROCK OR COUNTRY.....TRIBUTE SHOWS FEATURING ONE ACT OR ARTIST......LIVE COUNTRY OR ROCK LIVE CONCERTS....FOLK MUSIC SHOWS.....BIG BAND ERA SHOWS...INTERNATIONAL SHOWS....GOSPEL AND INSPIRATIONAL RELIGIOUS PROGRAMMING....RARE INTERVIEWS WITH ARTISTS, MANY OF WHOM ARE NO LONGER WITH US... GREAT COMEDY SHOWS AND MORE?

FEATURING ROCK  AND COUNTRY'S MOST POPULAR DJ's....

WHEN DJ'S WERE ALLOWED TO BE DJ'S AND NOT JUST ROBOTS PLAYING 'MOST MUSIC' AND READING CANNED LINES, AND WHEN SHOWS HAD SPECIAL RARE INTERVIEWS AND OFTEN FASCINATING THEMES, AND NOT JUST THE SAME TOP 20 SONGS EVERY HOUR, OVER AND OVER

AND,EACH SHOW IS SUPER RARE, UNLIKE COMMERCIALLY RELEASED LPs OR CDs RELEASED IN THE THOUSANDS, HUNDRED THOUSANDS OR MILLIONS...

AND HOW DO YOU DEFINE RARENESS??

THERE WERE NO MORE THAN 170 LPS OR CDS PRESSED FOR EACH RADIO SHOW.  THIS REPRESENTED THE TOP 170 RADIO MARKETS IN THE COUNTRY AND ONLY ONE STATION IN EACH MARKET COULD AIR THE SHOW.  

STATIONS IN MARKETS BELOW THE TOP 170 (THERE ARE 306 MARKETS IN THE UNITED STATES) HAD TO TAKE THE SATELLITE FEED OF THE SHOW FROM WESTWOOD ONE, THE SYNDICATOR OF THE SERIES)

AND, DUE TO CONTRACTUAL LEGAL OBLIGATIONS, EACH RADIO STATION WAS ALLOWED TO AIR EACH SHOW EXACTLY ONCE AND NO MORE.  

SO, MOST RADIO STATIONS JUST DESTROYED THEM AFTER AIRING SINCE THEY WERE USELESS TO THE STATION AFTER AIRING AND CONTRACTUALLY THEY WERE REQUIRED TO DESTROY THE SHOW AFTER BROADCAST OR RETURN IT TO THE SYNDICATOR OF THE SHOW, IN THIS CASE UNITED STATIONS RADIO NETWORKS 

 THERE IS NO TELLING HOW MANY OF EACH SHOW SURVIVED. 

 WHO KNOWS - THIS COULD BE THE ONLY ONE.

SO, WELCOME AGAIN 

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,

BOYS AND GIRLS

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS

AND ALL THE SHIPS AT SEA (BACK TO OUR THEME) AS WAS SAID BY WALTER WINCHELL AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH OF HIS DAILY NEWSCASTS

OK, A SMALL DIVERSION, WHO WAS WALTER WINCHELL?  (I WAS A TEACHER SO I AM ALWAYS AT MY JOB!!!)

AND ALL THE SHIPS AT SEA  (CREDIT TO WALTER WINCHELL IF YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHO HE IS...SADLY, I DO!  IT WAS HIS BEGINNING OF EVERY ONE OF HIS NIGHTLY NEWS SHOWS BACK IN THE DAY...WAY BACK IN THE DAY!!!)

Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 - February 20, 1972) was a syndicated American newspaper columnist and radio news commentator Winchell began his newspaper career as a Broadway reporter, critic and columnist for New York tabloids. He rose to national prominence in the 1930s with the Hurst newspaper chain syndication and a popular radio program. He was known for an innovative style of gossipy  staccato news briefs, jokes, and jazz age slang. Biographer Neal Gabler  claimed that his popularity and influence "turned journalism into a form of entertainment"

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PLEASE  NOTE FELLOW COLLECTOR FRIENDS THAT WHEN YOU BUY FIVE OR MORE ITEMS FROM MY STORE AT ONE TIME THAT EBAY WILL IMMEDIATELY DISCOUNT YOUR INVOICE BY 20%  IT IS THE LEAST I CAN DO FOR MY FELLOW COLLECTORS WHO LOOK FOR GREAT DEALS AS MUCH AS I DO!   

PLUS LOOK FOR EBAY COMPUTER GENERATED BONUS 15% OFF DISCOUNTS THAT WILL APPEAR AT UNEXPECTED MOMENTS (HINT - IF YOU FIND SOMETHING YOU LIKE BUT DON'T HAVE ENOUGH CASH TO GET IT, LEAVE IT IN YOUR CART FOR AWHILE AND THE EBAY SYSTEM MAY PICK IT UP AND MAY SEND YOU A DISCOUNT COUPON)

OR DON'T WAIT, JUST SHOOT ME AN OFFER EVEN IF IT A SHOW WHERE MAKE AN OFFER IS NOT ENABLED.

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KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES PRESENTS ONE OF THE MOST SPECIAL RADIO SHOWS THAT EVER AIRED

THE ACOUSTIC STORM RADIO SHOW

 LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THIS SHOW AND THEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT RADIO SHOWS, KEEP READING AND I WILL GIVE IT MY BEST SHOT FOR YOU.

This show you will not find on eBay ever except on Keith's Kollectables!  I promise!!!

In fact, I only got wind of it a month or so ago and have never seen ever it in almost 35 years of collecting.

It featured acoustic versions of familiar classic rock tunes, many live, many demos

And, you will hear them for the entire three hours, often in almost 30 minute segments

And, I don't have many of them, so you need to act quickly if you want one of the rarest shows ever to air on national network radio.

These shows were hosted by a legendary dj, Jeff Parets, known for his appreciation for acoustic and rare classic tracks both live, demos, acoustic tracks from albums.  All the shows you will see from Keith's Kollectables are hosted by Jeff Parets.  He recently passed away suddenly and his show, now available only by digital download, is hosted by his wife and collaborator, Audrey Parets.

Here is some biographical information on Jeff, Audrey and the Acoustic Storm show

Jeff Parets grew up in the New York suburb of Tenafly, New Jersey. Naturally, the rich radio landscape of the Big Apple was a big influence. Jeff graduated from absorbing the Top 40 of WABC-AM and Cousin Brucie to delving deeper into the progressive rock of WNEW-FM with Allyson Steele and Rosko.

Jeff’s college radio experience followed a similar path. At the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, he started out at the Top 40 WUVA-AM. As a sophomore, he got the opportunity to host a radio show on the University’s free-form WTJU-FM, where he was able to play his own choice of album tracks. Jeff spent his junior year in France, studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, listening to Radio Luxembourg and hitch-hiking around Europe.

After getting his B.A. from U.Va., Jeff made his way out to Phoenix and landed his first professional radio job with KTAR-AM as the overnight sports and weather guy. Soon after, he moved next door to KBBC-FM, and began to produce a weekly new-album review hour, “LP Corner.” In 1979, Jeff became Music Director at KIOG-FM/KQXE-AM (K-104, “The Alternative”). Just one year later, new owners dropped the progressive format, and despite thousands of letters and petitions protesting the change, K-104 was no more.

In 1981, Jeff discovered the next home of progressive radio in Phoenix. At the time, KSTM was an obscure 3000-watt station licensed to Apache Junction, Arizona playing automated adult contemporary music. Jeff approached the station’s owners about trying a weekend progressive-rock program, to attract new listeners and sponsors. At midnight on June 7, 1981, Phoenix-area listeners were able to hear the song “Wing and a Prayer” by the British band Camel and progressive radio was back in Phoenix.

On August 5, 1981 The Storm at 107 was born. Jeff Parets was named Program Director, Music Director and night-time host on KSTM. The station slowly built a following, and by 1985, The Storm had become the number one station in the Phoenix market for Men 25-34. Sadly,The Storm abruptly ended on June 14, 1987 when ownership decided to change the station to a Hispanic format.

That summer, Jeff joined KEYX-FM (100.3) and hosted a free-form afternoon rock show until KGRX-FM replaced rock with new age. Ever the adventurous sort, Jeff expanded his musical knowledge into that realm, becoming Music Director and starting a weekly new age show, “Atmospheres.” But once again, the fickle world of commercial radio brought an end to the station’s live new age programming, and Jeff Parets was, once again, looking for new horizons.

In 1989, Jeff was hired as Music Director at KDKB (93.3 FM) and host of the album alternative show “Sunday Night Spectrum.” Two years later, he moved over to KJZZ (91.5 FM) to host a daily contemporary jazz show and the new age program “Night Moods.”

When K-Jazz shifted to a news-talk format in the mid-90’s, Jeff took on reporting duties and became the mid-day news anchor and Features Producer for the NPR affiliate. Jeff won eight broadcast journalism awards in just three years, including the only national first place award in KJZZ’s history for his radio feature on One Foot in the Grave, a senior citizen punk-rock group.

Jeff created the concept for The Acoustic Storm in the late 90’s, using the original Storm as a blueprint: a radio program that plays a wide variety of quality acoustic-rock. On October 25, 1998, The Acoustic Storm swept into the Phoenix area on KSLX (100.7 FM) and continues to be the finest source of acoustic-rock.

New York, NY – January 3, 2019 – United Stations Radio Networks, Inc., (USRN) an independent leader in the creation and marketing of network radio programming, is pleased to announce that the weekend show, The Acoustic Storm, will be continuing to be produced and broadcast into its 21st year on the air despite the untimely death of its creator, Jeff Parets. Jeff’s wife, Audrey, will be taking over the hosting and producing duties that Jeff so meticulously carried on for 20 years since introducing the show locally in the Phoenix market in 1998. Audrey Parets will take over beginning with the first broadcast week of February 2nd and 3rd. This announcement comes jointly from Audrey Parets and Andy Denemark, USRN’s EVP/Programming. The continuation of the program fullfills one of Jeff’s final wishes.

As its title implies, each week The Acoustic Storm delivers acoustic and unplugged versions of well-known songs to Classic Rock and Classic Hits radio stations. The music is often planned around a specific theme, and the concept was created and hosted by Jeff Parets. The Acoustic Storm first signed onto the airwaves on Sunday morning, October 25th, 1998, as a local show on KSLX-FM in Phoenix. The program promised to deliver the best variety of acoustic-rock in concentrated blocks, and in 20 years on the air, it never wavered from that promise. Jeff Parets, who was inspired by his time as Program Director of the Phoenix-area station KSTM in the 1980’s, also known as “The Storm,” created the concept for The Acoustic Storm as a weekly program that would help refresh and support the classic-rock format. In addition to block, thematic programming, Parets also spotlighted one artist each week in the “Eye of the Storm” segment which features music, bio information and audio clips. The Acoustic Storm went into national syndication in 2003 and began a marketing partnership with United Staions in 2007. Audrey Parets is an experienced on air host and voice-over artist who has been working closely with her husband, Jeff, on the weekly broadcasts for many years. Using the on-air anme Zoe Moore, she also hosted her own nationally distributed show from 2009 until 2013, a Hot AC companion to The Acoustic Storm known as Organic Tracks.

This show aired on June 29, 2009 and was show #558

Cue sheets are available for this show and are in excellent condition  some with markings from the radio station board operator as he/she played the show on air.

You won't hear any local commercials but you will find that even those national commercials in between show segments are fun to listen to after 18+ years.  Funny how back then we hated the commercials back then but now they, too, bring back fond memories of our growing up. 

     You will love this show and it belongs in your collection.    

  SO WHAT ARE THE BIG QUESTIONS IF YOU ARE NOT SURE ABOUT RADIO SHOWS? 

 LET ME TELL YOU BUT FIRST....

Allow me tell you my own personal story of discovering the wonder of radio shows.

  I discovered radio shows quite by accident while reading one of my favorite (long since departed) magazines called "Discoveries" (It was later bought by the same company that publishes "Goldmine" which I personally always considered a lesser publication, but that is another story.

  This was before ebay became the driving force in radio show sales (and everything else) in the later 1990's.

 I was especially attracted in "Discoveries" to a two page (or more) spread in each issue by a guy called "The Old Hippie". 

 Let me tell you, the Old Hippie had it all.  He was a real pioneer.  Way before anyone knew what radio shows even were let alone that they could be bought as rarities; The Old Hippie had the market cornered.

Most shows that he advertised were way beyond my budget but I drooled over those pages every issue and once in awhile I could afford one or two. 

 Now, I have attempted in my own humble way to take on the mantle of "The Old Hippie".  I have listed over 11,000 unique radio shows of all genres for you all to drool over, and most at prices, hopefully, that collectors can better afford!  I want to make available to collectors what I could not afford and especially in these days of higher prices and lesser availability.

Radio shows are harder and harder to find in quantity and the prices for the ones still out there just go higher and higher as they disappear from the market.  However, because of my large presence on eBay, I am often contacted with selling offers, some of which I take advantage of and some I have to pass on because of the prices. I have found that by buying in bulk, even when many or most of the shows are lesser known but still amazing shows, I can offer the best prices on all titles.

  NOW, EXACTLY WHAT IS A RADIO SHOW? 

 WHY COLLECT THEM?  

WHERE DO THEY COME FROM? 

 Well, those are good questions, especially if you have never known of them.  

Radio Shows are syndicated productions by one of several large and small distributors who supply broadcast product to radio stations normally during weekends when the usual air personalities have a break.  

Many air on Saturday or Sunday mornings, afternoons or evenings or less often during overnight segments and weekdays.

  They often feature some of the best known voices for their genre from across the country thus the Dick Clark's and Casey Kasem's and Rick Dees and Dick Bartley and so many others.  

People collect them for various reasons. 

 Some just collect the series because they like it and want them all.  

Some collect their favorite artists or genre of music.  Rather than an album download, they have a unique presentation of their favorite artist or music not available anywhere else and always with dj comments which were very entertaining. 

 Some collect interviews with their favorite artists as most shows had interview segments. 

 Some collect commercials  

They were first distributed on reel to reel tape or on lp, later on CD and even later (after 2000 for most shows) on CDR.  Now they are not available at all to collectors since they are distributed only through digital download

These shows become rarer and rarer every day because the people who buy them hold on to them. If they do later sell, it is to make a huge profit since prices go up all the time.

 The shows that you get now and hold on to will never decrease in value and only increase.  

 I have prided myself since the start to provide the best and fairest cost with a  guarantee that you will be happy or I refund your money.  I sell them for near what I bought them for.  I give volume discounts and discount postage always.  As the postal service increases their rates, my shipping rates over the years have decreased.

  And, I have one of the biggest radio show libraries in the world consisting of over fifteen thousand unique shows, so many that I don't even know all that I have and am sometimes amazed when I go to look for one show and find another that I did not realize I had. 

 Finally, it is Americana at its best. 

 Whether the show be from the 60's or 2000's, rock, countdown, oldies, country, classical, religious, jazz or big band, it is unique and home grown.

  And you just can't find them anywhere. 

 Even record stores that still exist will rarely have any.   Radio shows are wonderful representations of the real golden age of music radio. 

 And every  one you buy is  an original, not a copy, not a remake - all are limited editions in the hundreds at most and most, like this special show,  much less.  Once you get hooked, like me, it is a love affair for life!  Welcome to the Club!

Also, keep in mind that this and all radio shows are not just about the music - the music for the most part can be found anywhere.  It is the mixture of great music and great announcing that makes it so entertaining. 

 As well, it is a piece of radio history.  You just aren't going to find these shows anymore.  Think of what they will be worth in a few years!  (IF you wanted to sell.) 

 I am selling to share with other music lovers what I was able to get at a reasonable price.  

   As always, I charge only shipping on the first show you buy for U.S. buyers so the more you buy the more you save in shipping charges.  And for my international friends, shipping is exclusively handled by the eBay International Shipping Program. 

So, let's sail together on the 'SS Keith's Kollectables' and sail into parts unknown seeking the best radio shows that ever aired that you can treasure forever.

It's pure gold, Mateys!!!

 Good Luck and God Bless You.