IF YOU ENJOY THE TOP MUSIC FROM ACROSS THE POND IF YOU LIVE IN THE US OR EAST OF THE POND IF YOU LIVE WHEREVER THIS MUSIC ORIGINATED

 OFTEN INCLUDING SEVERAL LIVE PERFORMANCES FROM THE ROCK OVER LONDON STUDIOS, MANY ACOUSTIC

RARE INTERVIEWS

SPECIAL FEATURES

EXCLUSIVES

AND HOSTED BY ONE OF BRITAIN'S TOP DJ'S AND EXPERTS

THIS SHOW WILL BE YOUR CUP OF TEA, SO TO SPEAK!  READ ON!

AHOY 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...AND MORE?

FEATURING ROCK'S  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 UNITED STATIONS RADIO NETWORKS, 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.  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!!!)

SO ONCE AGAIN,MATES AND MATEYS, WELCOME TO THE SS KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES, ONE OF EBAY'S PREMIERE BUYERS AND SELLERS OF PRISTINE RARE RADIO SHOWS OF ALL GENRES ALONG WITH OTHER GREAT VINTAGE AMERICANA THAT COLLECTORS ALL OVER THE WORLD TREASURE.

KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES SELLS TO ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY IN THE FREE WORLD FROM AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN TO ENGLAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN, DENMARK, FRANCE, ITALY AND GERMANY, AND FROM BRAZIL TO CHILE.

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 WILL 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.

AND IF YOU COMBINE THE ABOVE WITH SOME SELECTIONS FROM KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES WEEKLY HALF PRICE AND REDUCED PRICE SPECIALS, YOU WILL SAVE EVEN MORE....MUCH MORE!!  JUST CLICK ON THE TAB ON KEITH'S HOME PAGE TO SEE ALL THE VARIED OFFERINGS TO WHICH MORE ARE ADDED ALMOST DAILY.

KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES PRESENTS ONE OF THE RAREST RADIO SHOWS THAT EVER AIRED BECAUSE OF ITS ORIGIN AND CONTENT

ROCK OVER LONDON

 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.

  It  aired weekly on the Rock Over London Radio Network.

It featured the top UK hits of the week along with rare interviews, retrospectives, special features, and inside information on UK music. This made the show even more unique and fun.

Rock Over London was a one hour radio programme hosted by  UK disc jockey  Graham Dene or Paul Sexton It aired the latest hot new UK hits, usually before they were hits or even recognized in the US, and it 'counted down' the week's top 5 songs. It was how most rock music lovers encountered a lot of the UK artists that often didn't have hits yet on the US charts . The likes of Echo & The Bunnymen, Talk Talk, China Crisis, the Waterboys, even New Order. 

Graham Dene, after a period as a disc jockey on Edgware General Hospital's radio, and at United Biscuits Networks  he became famous on  Capital Radio in London in the 1970s, having joined from Radio City  in Liverpool. He took over the breakfast show from Kenny Everett in May 1975, and stayed there until Fellow DJ Mike Smith took over the slot in July 1980. When Smith left to rejoin BBC Radio 1  in 1982, Dene returned for a second stint as breakfast host, staying until March 1987. 

In the 1980s and 90's, Dene hosted Rock Over London, that was produced and distributed to many radio stations in the United States, particularly stations that programmed  top UK music, new wave or new, eclectic music.

THIS SERIES PRODUCED TWO SHOWS EVERY WEEK.  ONE VERSION OF THE SHOW  FALLS UNDER THE AOR FORMAT AND THE OTHER VERSION THE HAC VERSION.  BOTH ARE DESCRIBED  BELOW AND THE VERSION LISTED IS NOTED IN THE LISTING TITLE.  BOTH BELONG IN YOUR COLLECTION OF GREAT MUSIC FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Album-oriented rock (AOR, originally called album-oriented radio) is an fm radio format  created in the United States in the late 1960s that focuses on the full repertoire of rock albums and is currently associated with classic rock

US radio stations dedicated to playing album tracks by rock artists from the hard rock and progressive rock genres initially established album-oriented radio. In the mid-1970s, AOR was characterized by a layered, mellifluous sound and sophisticated production with considerable dependence on melodic hooks. The AOR format achieved tremendous popularity in the late 1960s to the early 1980s through research and formal programming to create an album rock format with great commercial appeal.

From the early 1980s onward, the abbreviation AOR transitioned from "album-oriented radio" to "album-oriented rock", meaning radio stations specialized in classic rock recorded during the late 1960s and 1970s.

The term is also commonly conflated with album oriented rock , a radio format that also uses the initialism "AOR" and covers not only album-oriented rock but also album tracks and deep cuts from a range of other rock genres, such as  soft rock and pop rock

In comparison is CHR radio

Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the  top 40 charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock, pop or urban music. Used alone, CHR most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term contemporary hit radio was coined in the early 1980s by Radio & Records  magazine to designate Top 40  stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into  different formats.

These stations typically are hybrids of the contemporary hit radio (CHR/pop) and HAC formats. This format contains a strong focus on current charts, contemporary and recurrent hits as well as placing a minority of older, classic hits onto the playlist. Adult CHR stations play pop-friendly rhythmic, dance and hip hop titles alongside standard mainstream pop and pop rock fare, and often shying away from the most rhythmic CHR titles until they are established hits on the format.

This show aired April 20 1990 and was show #90-16

Cue sheets are available for this show and are in excellent condition  a very few 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 34+ years.  Funny how back then we hated the commercials back then but now they, too, bring back fond memories of our growing up. Especially from national companies no longer with us that we also grew up with like K-Mart, Radio Shack, and more.

     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 with a maximum of 170 copies pressed for each show. 

  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.