For those of you who were fortunate enough to grow up in the era when radio was fun, and as important as the music they played; when the disc jockey from your local hometown station or syndicated weekend shows hosted by the top national dj's in the country were like best friends and you looked forward to every show; you can consider yourself among the lucky.

Increasingly, radio today is so impersonal that few even listen.  The few remaining Disc Jockeys now broadcast from a major city like L.A. or New York and present it as if they are your hometown DJ.  That is because they simulcast to hundreds of stations across the country with liners to simulate it is a local broadcast.

The stations that still have their own DJs are dwindling as we speak.  Just today (8/1/26 if you are reading this sometime in the future) came sad news that a classic rock pioneer radio station since 1965, Southern California legend KCAL-FM laid off its entire staff and is now fully automated.  The senior DJ at that station had been on the air at KCAL for 42 years.  Most others had been broadcasting at KCAL multiple years.

So we listen to our music increasingly via streaming be it Sirius/SM, Apple, Amazon, or many others where we can customize our own playlists.  Broadcast radio has become an anachronism.

Luckily, collectors have preserved a living history of those glory days of radio in the form of LP and CD radio shows that were broadcast from the late 60's to about 2012 when most radio shows switched to satellite delivery and there no longer was a physical media to protect the memories.  

Most broadcast radio shows from that era have vanished.  Legalities prevented stations from rebroadcasting any show and were directed to return them to the syndicator of the show or destroy them.  And there were never more than 175 copies of each show in the first place reflecting the top 175 radio markets in the country.

Every remaining radio show be it oldies, rock, country, religious, classic rock, jazz, blues, bluegrass, drama shows like old time radio, and more is a rare representation of an era that is gone forever.  Even if the genre you find is not your favorite, owning one is a piece of history and will only become rarer over time.

At Keith's Kollectables, we have been buying every show we could find for a reasonable price since 1987, almost 40 years.  We have an inventory of over 15,000 unique radio shows that we offer to you at the best prices we can give.

At Keith's Kollectables, this music will never die.  Join us and be a part of history.

Now please read on to learn more about this show and series.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

BOYS AND GIRLS,

 FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, 

AND FANS OF GREAT EARLY ROCK MUSIC FROM THE LATE 1950's TO THE MID 1970's, PRESENTED BY THE GREATEST DJ's OF ALL TIME...

WITH EVERY HOUR LONG SHOW FEATURING ONE ARTIST OR BAND, OR ONE OF MANY, MANY DIFFERENT CREATIVE THEMES MOST WITH RARE INTERVIEWS, MANY WITH ARTISTS NO LONGER WITH US, WITH THEIR GREATEST HITS, AND STORIES BEHIND THE MUSIC

YOU'VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE FOR ALMOST EVERY HOUR EVER BROADCAST OF THE RARE SERIES, SOLID GOLD SCRAPBOOK.

AND, HOW DO YOU DEFINE RARENESS??

THERE WERE NO MORE THAN 175 LPS OR CDS PRESSED FOR EACH WEEKLY SHOW.  THIS REPRESENTED THE TOP 175 RADIO MARKETS IN THE COUNTRY AND ONLY ONE STATION IN EACH MARKET COULD AIR THE SHOW.  

STATIONS IN MARKETS BELOW THE TOP 175 (THERE ARE 306 MARKETS IN THE UNITED STATES) HAD TO TAKE THE SATELLITE FEED OF THE SHOW FROM THE UNITED STATIONS RADIO NETWORK, 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.

 AS A SPECIAL OFFER TO YOU, 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!   

AND OFTEN, LOOK FOR EBAY COMPUTER GENERATED OFFERS OF 17% TO 20% THAT WILL SOMETIMES HIT YOUR INBOX!

SOLID GOLD SCRAPBOOK AIRED FOR ONE HOUR DAILY MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY FOR 8 YEARS ORIGINATING ON THE LEGENDARY RKO RADIO NETWORK AND LATER ON THE UNITED STATIONS RADIO NETWORKS.

DICK BARTLEY WAS THE HOST OF THE SHOW FROM ITS INCEPTION AS A TWO HOUR WEEKEND SHOW IN 1983 THROUGH ITS EVOLUTION INTO A FIVE HOUR A WEEK SHOW AND UNTIL JUNE, 1988.  FROM THEN AND INTO 1990 THE SHOW WAS HOSTED BY 'MR MUSIC' NORM N NITE AND IN THE REST OF 1990 UNTIL THE SHOW CEASED PRODUCTION IN DECEMBER 1991, DAVE CHARITY.  EACH OF THEM TWEAKED THE SHOW A BIT BUT THE MAJOR CONCEPT OF THE SHOW REMAINED THE SAME, GREAT MUSIC, GREAT THEMES, GREAT INTERVIEWS.

ALSO,  SINCE THE SHOW HAD THE FREEDOM OF A FULL HOUR FOR EVERY THEME, IT COULD DIG A LITTLE DEEPER INTO THE EARLY ROCK ERA, PLAYING MUSIC LONG FORGOTTEN BUT AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE ERA WHICH SPARKED MEMORIES WHEN LISTENERS SAID, 'HEY, I REMEMBER THAT SONG.  I LOVED IT.  I HAVEN'T HEARD IT IN YEARS!'

 YOU WILL HEAR THE BIG HITS OF ELVIS, THE BEACH BOYS, THE FOUR SEASONS, THE BEATLES AND ALL THE TOP GROUPS, BANDS AND ARTISTS OF THE ERA ALONG WITH 'DEEP CUTS' FROM THOSE ARTISTS AND LESSER KNOWN ACTS.  

 EVEN THE COMMERCIALS ARE FUN TO LISTEN TO AFTER SO MANY YEARS.  FUNNY HOW WE HATED THOSE NATIONAL COMMERCIALS BACK THEN BUT NOW WHEN YOU HEAR THEM EVEN THEY WILL BRING BACK FOND MEMORIES. 

AND, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR THEM, JUST SKIP FORWARD TO THE NEXT TRACK AND REJOIN THE SHOW!

  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 tha REt they could be bought as rarities, he 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 currently list over 10,000 unique radio shows of all genres for you all to drool over, and most at prices, hopefully, that collectors can better afford! Over my years of selling great radio shows, I have sold over 37,000 great radio shows over the course of my career with a 100% feedback from happy buyers. 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.

  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 

 AND, these shows are in limited quantity.  

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, I have one of the biggest radio show libraries in the world with thousands as yet unlisted 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. 

  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, rare interviews 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.  

 Good Luck and God Bless You.