SPOILER ALERT!
IN TODAY'S WORLD, DOWNLOADING A NEW MUSIC TRACK OR ALBUM IN PRISTINE CONDITION AND QUALITY COMES WITH THE PUSH OF A BUTTON ON YOUR PHONE, TABLET OR COMPUTER.
BUT AS EARLY AS 15 YEARS AGO, FOR MOST OF US THAT WAS NOT POSSIBLE.
SO FM RADIO STATIONS WHICH REQUIRED THE HIGHEST FIDELITY TRACKS OF BROADCAST QUALITY MUSIC SUBSCRIBED TO ONE OF SEVERAL RADIO PROGRAMMING COMPANIES KNOWN FOR THEIR PROVEN ABILITY TO PROVIDE THIS PRISTINE SOUND WHICH RIVALED THE ACTUAL RECORD COMPANY RELEASE.
THESE COMPANIES INCLUDED CENTURY 21, SWAITEK, BONNEVILLE, TM CENTURY, HALLAND, BROADCAST PROGRAMMING, UNIVERSAL MUSIC, AND RADIO DISC/RPM
WELCOME EVERYONE TO KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES, ONE OF EBAY'S PREMIERE BUYERS AND SELLERS OF PRISTINE RARE RADIO SHOWS OF ALL GENRES ALONG WITH OTHER GREAT ITEMS OF AMERICANA
AND PLEASE REMEMBER MY ONGOING OFFER TO YOU: WHEN YOU BUY FIVE OR MORE ITEMS FROM MY STORE AT ONE TIME, YOUR TOTAL WILL BE REDUCED BY 20%, A NICE DISCOUNT FOR COLLECTORS WHO FIND MANY DIFFERENT SHOWS THAT THEY WANT
ALSO IF YOU COMBINE THE ABOVE DISCOUNT WITH ONE OR MORE OF THE HALF PRICE OR REDUCED PRICE BARGAINS ADDED TO ALMOST DAILY WHICH YOU CAN FIND ON KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES HOME PAGE TAB, YOU WILL SAVE EVEN MORE....MUCH MORE.
THESE BROADCAST QUALITY CDS ARE QUITE RARE BECAUSE ONLY EXTREMELY LIMITED NUMBERS OF EACH MONTHLY CD WERE PRESSED - JUST ENOUGH FOR SUBSCRIBING STATIONS AND PERHAPS SEVERAL OFFICE COPIES.
IN ADDITION MANY OF THESE SPECIAL RELEASES HAVE VANISHED TOTALLY SINCE OVER THE YEARS, STATIONS WENT DARK,CHANGED OWNERSHIP,MOVED, ETC. AND IN THE PROCESS, THEY WERE LOST, OR MOST OFTEN JUST THROWN AWAY ESPECIALLY SINCE NOW, THEY ARE NO LONGER NEEDED BY RADIO STATIONS
SO, PRISTINE QUALITY MONTHLY ISSUES ARE VERY HARD TO FIND.
EVEN THOSE THAT REMAINED IN RADIO STATION LIBRARIES, OFTEN WERE PLAYED EXACTLY ONE TIME WHEN THEY WERE DOWNLOADED TO THE STATION COMPUTER. THEY WOULD THEN BE STORED IN CASE THEY WERE EVER NEEDED AGAIN WHICH WOULD BE UNLIKELY UNLESS THE RADIO STATION COMPUTER CRASHED WHICH WAS ALWAYS A POSSIBILITY
MANY OF THE COMPANIES THAT PRODUCED THIS MUSIC EVEN PROVIDED WHAT WAS CALLED THE 'HOOK' FOR EVERY SONG. THE HOOK WAS THE AMOUNT OF TIME BETWEEN THE START OF THE SONG AND WHEN THE VOCAL PART BEGAN SO THAT THE DJ COULD TELL HOW LONG HE OR SHE COULD TALK OVER THE INTRO AND NOT TALK INTO THE VOCAL, VERY IMPORTANT IF YOU ARE AN ON AIR PERSONALITY.
IN THE OLD DAYS, BEFORE COMPUTERS, DJS HAD TO KNOW THROUGH EXPERIENCE HOW LONG THEY HAD BEFORE THE VOCAL BEGAN SO THEY WOULD NOT TALK OVER THE VOCAL WHICH WAS A HUGE NO NO IF YOU WERE A QUALITY DJ! IN THE DIGITAL ERA, THE SECONDS BEFORE THE VOCAL BEGAN WAS PROVIDED TO THE DJ. I AM SURE THE DJ'S OF THE 50'S THROUGH THE 70'S TURNED UP THEIR NOSES WHEN THIS INFORMATION WAS MADE AVAILABLE!!!
THIS OFFERING IS AN EXAMPLE OF THESE RARE CD's.
Aside from being an example of a pristine production, it is also a piece of radio and music history. You just aren't going to find these shows around very much longer as everything is now digitized and downloaded for play and music is no longer sent out on CD's. 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, for U.S. buyers, I charge only shipping on the first show you buy so the more you buy the more money you will save. This is how I try to counter the increasingly high shipping prices that experience rate hikes three or four times a year.
For my International friends, shipping is managed through the Ebay International Shipping Program.
Good Luck and may God richly bless you always and forever.