Yes I am. I am so glad I found your vids and channels. My Dad is 84, but now more and more feeble. He fell last week in the parking lot at the grocery store. My son Wilson is 21. He's living with my Dad this semester and going to UNC CH as a junior transfer. My younger son, Spencer is there as a frosh on campus. I have had so much fun viewing your vids. From a personal point of view I like Leading by example. I guess I should comment on that vid there. Well done, BIll!
wonderful memories. wonderful vid. I also graduated from High School in 71. You brought a lot of good memories back with all these details. Some things I knew and lots I had forgotten or lost track of. Brad graduated in 72. Holly was 7 years behind that. I'll have my oldest son play this for Uncle Brad. He's living with him this semester, attending UNC as a junior. I'll also have him play living example or something like that about you growing up and a lovely tribute to your parents.
Always great to watch on of your videos. I love and hate looking back at how inexpensive gas/petrol was, even from my childhood it has doubled in price -_- The idea that the radio acted like twitter to get people to gather is awesome, much better than twitter itself. 1971 sounds like such a good music year, might put it on my imaginary year to go back and visit in the TARDIS.
I'd forgotten what an absolutely magical year 1971 was in new music!
Of course twas a whole year or so b4 I was even born (i'll forgo the joke about the connection between music and being conceived) A good 11 years later, my fondest memories of 5th grade was, being in a private school & if my teacher felt like running errands instead of teaching, she'd drop us off at the mall. But mine & 2 others hangout of choice was a local radio station, we were buddies w/ a DJ
It's so true about dead air. That's basically the number one rule of being a DJ, "NO DEAD AIR", which feels like it is higher priority than "NO PROFANITY". I've made the mistake of not planning ahead a few times and I heard it from my station manager, who apparently never sleeps, as my show was from 10 to midnight.
Radio has changed since back then my friends are in the radio business and basically they dont really need to do anything but talk and read a computer screens the songs are in the computer commercials too dont ya just love technology but my morning show friends still do the real dj work :)
Great, great video. Its sad the connection between radio and the artists that was so present in the early days of Rock N Roll has ended. It was really a movement that isn't studied enough historically for how important it was. You can feel the community in those songs from that era. In regards to living in the past, you didn't live there...you rocked it and made people laugh along the way. These videos are not only wildly entertaining and well made but a gift to us.
@TheWoodcreekFaction Back then the music and radio industries depended on each other. Find the movie American Hot Wax. It's the story of Rock and Roll and DJ Alan Freed. Plus it has Jay Leno's movie debut with Fran Dresxger.
Here in the UK, we had a situation approaching something similar, back in the sixties, with the arrival of the pirate stations. The big difference was that visitors had to take an often unpleasant boat trip to drop by the studio.
We got our independant commercial stations eventually, but even that has changed. Now its all driven by accountants and computers - Not all change is for the better.
Thanks for sharing your radio memories, Bill. Keep 'em coming.
@MrNeelix690 I know I mentioned this the other day. Thanks for sharing your stories. What you're doing on internet radio is really keeping the memories alive.
@33Chimel33 You'll be interested in this. Duane Allman was playing guitar for Wilson Picket's recording of "Hey Jude" in Alabama when Phil Walden (Capricorn Records) heard Duane for the first time. And the rest is history.
Bill, I also know 2 other songs that were released in 1971, and both of the songs came out and in the late summer and fall of 1971 respectively. Anyways, those 2 hit songs that were released back then are "I Woke Up In Love This Morning" by The Partridge Family and "Have You Seen Her" by The Chi-Lites (Which the latter would stay on the Billboard Hot 100 charts into January 1972).
Mmmm . .71/72 . . finishing school and off to College for me :] I bought a motorbike. Gas was 65p a gallon. Nigh-on 10x that, now! I drove to East Anglia and back, recently, to attend a wedding. £120 for gas, alone !! These prices will have a serious effect on peoples ability to socialise, keep in-touch with family & explore their countries. It's a great big shame :/ Also, youngsters can no-longer afford to buy their own homes. Not great . . I think we had all ' the cream '
My experience growing up in the late 70's and 80's wasn't a lot different. We were in the Chicago area - so there were more stations. But WLS and The Loop were the biggest things going (I think we've talked about WLS before). And I'd go with my family to the pool and it was just like you described it. Radios all tuned to the same spot. OH! And WLS's Top Forty sheet that you could get at the record stores every week. Sigh... As always, a wonderful video.
If I could travel back in time to see one gig it would definitely be to see Jimi Hendrix play The Colston Hall (biggest music venue in my city) in 1967. And what more? He was being supported by Pink Floyd.
@TheEditingShop Exactly. Hendric played in the bands of Wilson Pickett, Little Richard and the Isley Brothers here. But, it was while he was in Britain that he reached superstar status. There's a clip on YouTube of Little Richard commenting on Hendrix.
I have tons of respect for DJs, especially after watching all of these videos. I knew one needed to be charismatic to be a DJ, but I didn't realize the technical skills needed to be a DJ until watching your radio videos.
@ThomasLindsayy That was when Duane Allman was recording Layla with Eric Clapton. After the Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks, our two countries were in lock step musically. Georgia had lots of Blues and Soul artists which drew British artists here. It is a great relationship which continues today. I always appreciate your comments.
idk, maybe it's just me seeing imperfectly back over the last 40 years, but it seems like popular culture was a lot less diverse back then. Considerably, I guess, because of it being harder to get hold of less popular stuff, and even if you were able, it being harder to find like minded people. Now, with access to the internet... well... if I were with a group of my closest friends on an afternoon, we would be able to find a radio station even the majority of us would be really happy with.
0:27 I have full appreciation for the fact that I could never b a DJ. A disc jockey needs a certain set of skills, just like any other performer. Not sure why people don't get it.
I remember driving through Fall River, MA with my friend Bob Rivers, then a top-40 DJ at WSAR-AM in the station's promotion car - and having girls at a park swarm us. I, on the other hand, worked at an "easy listening" station. Thankfully our listeners didn't swarm us. I don't know if I could have dealt with all those middle aged women at 19.
@ProFriend Haha! I know. When we'd do the Boogie patrol it would be like that. Taking t-shirts and Mountain Dew six packs to local pools will always get you noticed. lol
I love radio, but there are no good radio stations here in Britain anymore, except on digital which you can't get in your car. Being a radio DJ in the 1970s must have been amazing.
@SmartStr33t Thank you! What's missing is spontaneity. When you hire the right people you can trust them to do what's right for the station and listener.
Yes I am. I am so glad I found your vids and channels. My Dad is 84, but now more and more feeble. He fell last week in the parking lot at the grocery store. My son Wilson is 21. He's living with my Dad this semester and going to UNC CH as a junior transfer. My younger son, Spencer is there as a frosh on campus. I have had so much fun viewing your vids. From a personal point of view I like Leading by example. I guess I should comment on that vid there. Well done, BIll!
gayleknits 5 months ago
wonderful memories. wonderful vid. I also graduated from High School in 71. You brought a lot of good memories back with all these details. Some things I knew and lots I had forgotten or lost track of. Brad graduated in 72. Holly was 7 years behind that. I'll have my oldest son play this for Uncle Brad. He's living with him this semester, attending UNC as a junior. I'll also have him play living example or something like that about you growing up and a lovely tribute to your parents.
gayleknits 5 months ago
@gayleknits Thanks very much. Are you my cousin? The dates and names sure coordinate.
billtvmacon 5 months ago
GREAT VIDEO...awesome memories of the big X...cant wait to watch the rest of these--terrific stuff, Bill!
tkia1979 6 months ago
Wow, this was a memory lane. I was 10 in 71 with an 18 year old sister.
We were living in England then. I actually miss the simplicity of that time.
ourhousetx 6 months ago
I seriously Laughed Out Loud! I subscirbed! I love your content. I'm looking forward to your other videos!
TylerNicholsMusic 6 months ago
OMG SYD BARRETT SUGGESTION IN THE SIDE BAR!!! YOU'RE NOW MY FAVOURITE YOUTUBER!!
Xpsychedelic60sX 6 months ago
OMG WILSON PICKETT
ThePatrickWorld 6 months ago
I graduated from high school in 1971 - I hear ya man!
sadieralph 6 months ago
@sadieralph Your timing was perfect! They were fantastic years.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
Bill, thank you so much for sharing these! 8-)
WambliPeta 6 months ago
@WambliPeta You're very welcome. It is my pleasure.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
You were really lucky to get to do what you did during (what I call) the Golden Age of radio.
I can imagine sixteen-and-a-half-year-old Bill looking slightly hypnotised as bikini'd girls walk in and request a song.
lonesomemajor 6 months ago
Always great to watch on of your videos. I love and hate looking back at how inexpensive gas/petrol was, even from my childhood it has doubled in price -_- The idea that the radio acted like twitter to get people to gather is awesome, much better than twitter itself. 1971 sounds like such a good music year, might put it on my imaginary year to go back and visit in the TARDIS.
itiselizabeth 6 months ago
Mustang Sally FTW! In '71 we resisted paying 36 cents for gas, though--we'd try to wait for a "Gas War" when it would be 29.9!
yt3141 6 months ago
@yt3141 Absolutely! But, if you remember that even tho gas was inexpensive, we had a shortage a few years later with lines at the pumps.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
I'd forgotten what an absolutely magical year 1971 was in new music!
Of course twas a whole year or so b4 I was even born (i'll forgo the joke about the connection between music and being conceived) A good 11 years later, my fondest memories of 5th grade was, being in a private school & if my teacher felt like running errands instead of teaching, she'd drop us off at the mall. But mine & 2 others hangout of choice was a local radio station, we were buddies w/ a DJ
Shaggy72 6 months ago
@Shaggy72 It was, indeed. Man, what I would have given for a teacher that went shopping. LOL!
billtvmacon 6 months ago
Phew, this takes me back. So far back, I wasn't even born yet! : )
~ Jethro.
IJethrobot 6 months ago
It's so true about dead air. That's basically the number one rule of being a DJ, "NO DEAD AIR", which feels like it is higher priority than "NO PROFANITY". I've made the mistake of not planning ahead a few times and I heard it from my station manager, who apparently never sleeps, as my show was from 10 to midnight.
zottepark 6 months ago
Nice flashback, Bill. I love these radio videos you do. Actually, I like all your stuff but these radio ones bring back memories.
ralphw3 6 months ago
Fantastic video Bill.
FenderGibsonWashburn 6 months ago
Great video! The Big X was the place to be!
Superfro2 6 months ago
O sweet, Maggie May is my favorite song, i may not have been around in '71, but now i love it a little more, lol. Ty mister. :-)
Sammyonthelammy 6 months ago
Radio has changed since back then my friends are in the radio business and basically they dont really need to do anything but talk and read a computer screens the songs are in the computer commercials too dont ya just love technology but my morning show friends still do the real dj work :)
daveofnhspeaks 6 months ago
I'm waiting for the day when someone asks, "what's an envelope." lol
KBRNerdfighter 6 months ago
@KBRNerdfighter Hahaha! I'm sure that's coming.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
Great stories, my friend!
qiranger 6 months ago
Great, great video. Its sad the connection between radio and the artists that was so present in the early days of Rock N Roll has ended. It was really a movement that isn't studied enough historically for how important it was. You can feel the community in those songs from that era. In regards to living in the past, you didn't live there...you rocked it and made people laugh along the way. These videos are not only wildly entertaining and well made but a gift to us.
TheWoodcreekFaction 6 months ago
@TheWoodcreekFaction Back then the music and radio industries depended on each other. Find the movie American Hot Wax. It's the story of Rock and Roll and DJ Alan Freed. Plus it has Jay Leno's movie debut with Fran Dresxger.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
@TheRrrriko Thay've been sending me stuff for five years. I still trash them. lol
billtvmacon 6 months ago
Oh for the good old days . . .
Here in the UK, we had a situation approaching something similar, back in the sixties, with the arrival of the pirate stations. The big difference was that visitors had to take an often unpleasant boat trip to drop by the studio.
We got our independant commercial stations eventually, but even that has changed. Now its all driven by accountants and computers - Not all change is for the better.
Thanks for sharing your radio memories, Bill. Keep 'em coming.
MrNeelix690 6 months ago
@MrNeelix690 I know I mentioned this the other day. Thanks for sharing your stories. What you're doing on internet radio is really keeping the memories alive.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
Not quite at 1971 yet...
I discovered only this year 1970's Ride Captain Ride from Blues Image:
watch?v=OVjN3t8cj74
33Chimel33 6 months ago
@33Chimel33 Love that song. Hey, our own Allman Brothers made the charts with Statesboro Blues in 1971.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
@billtvmacon The Allman Brothers, a DJ dream with the Jessica jingle used by every radio or TV at one time or another, like Top Gear... ^-^
33Chimel33 6 months ago
@33Chimel33 You'll be interested in this. Duane Allman was playing guitar for Wilson Picket's recording of "Hey Jude" in Alabama when Phil Walden (Capricorn Records) heard Duane for the first time. And the rest is history.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
Bill, I also know 2 other songs that were released in 1971, and both of the songs came out and in the late summer and fall of 1971 respectively. Anyways, those 2 hit songs that were released back then are "I Woke Up In Love This Morning" by The Partridge Family and "Have You Seen Her" by The Chi-Lites (Which the latter would stay on the Billboard Hot 100 charts into January 1972).
MartinS51989 6 months ago
@MartinS51989 Great songs. Just Google "hits of 1971" and a slew of links will appear.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
Great video Bill.
BarryAldridge 6 months ago
@BarryAldridge Barry, thank you. It's always an honor to have you watch.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
Mmmm . .71/72 . . finishing school and off to College for me :] I bought a motorbike. Gas was 65p a gallon. Nigh-on 10x that, now! I drove to East Anglia and back, recently, to attend a wedding. £120 for gas, alone !! These prices will have a serious effect on peoples ability to socialise, keep in-touch with family & explore their countries. It's a great big shame :/ Also, youngsters can no-longer afford to buy their own homes. Not great . . I think we had all ' the cream '
stufish4040 6 months ago
@stufish4040 Yeah. Good point. I have my memories, and after our government gets through that may be all we have left. lol
billtvmacon 6 months ago
My experience growing up in the late 70's and 80's wasn't a lot different. We were in the Chicago area - so there were more stations. But WLS and The Loop were the biggest things going (I think we've talked about WLS before). And I'd go with my family to the pool and it was just like you described it. Radios all tuned to the same spot. OH! And WLS's Top Forty sheet that you could get at the record stores every week. Sigh... As always, a wonderful video.
TheSchwartzcaster 6 months ago
@TheSchwartzcaster We all listened to John Records Landecker. I did a video about him on my second channel.
watch?v=wD1NeeojGoo
billtvmacon 6 months ago
the good old days
JustCrashedIntoAPole 6 months ago
I want a Tardis... I want to go to the 7/80's.
Ashyboy1992 6 months ago
@Ashyboy1992 Me too, but I love my internet and friends so I'd want to return.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
@billtvmacon
In Germany you can buy exactly one gum for a dime :)
Great Video, Bill. Especially the change in pricing over time kind of shocked me
Zirror 6 months ago
@Zirror I know. I long for the good ole days when it comes to prices.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
This was great! So many memories are triggered by music.
An ENVELOPE? Wow! talk about 1970's technology! It's amazing how they still work as well as they did "in the day".
realspacemodels 6 months ago
@realspacemodels I'm soooo Old School. lol
billtvmacon 6 months ago
If I could travel back in time to see one gig it would definitely be to see Jimi Hendrix play The Colston Hall (biggest music venue in my city) in 1967. And what more? He was being supported by Pink Floyd.
TheEditingShop 6 months ago
@TheEditingShop Exactly. Hendric played in the bands of Wilson Pickett, Little Richard and the Isley Brothers here. But, it was while he was in Britain that he reached superstar status. There's a clip on YouTube of Little Richard commenting on Hendrix.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
I have tons of respect for DJs, especially after watching all of these videos. I knew one needed to be charismatic to be a DJ, but I didn't realize the technical skills needed to be a DJ until watching your radio videos.
TheorySH 6 months ago
@TheorySH It's a juggling act, but not unlike dribing a car. Lots to think about but becomes second nature when you get used to it.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
Ahhh Memories. I dun did grageate from high schol that year. A can of Coke for a dime.
MrUHeep 6 months ago
@MrUHeep Can you buy anything for a dime anymore? I know John Green wants to get rid of the penny.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
Rod Stewart , John Lennon , The Who , Led Zeppelin
All Awesome All British :)
amazing video bill!
ThomasLindsayy 6 months ago
@ThomasLindsayy That was when Duane Allman was recording Layla with Eric Clapton. After the Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks, our two countries were in lock step musically. Georgia had lots of Blues and Soul artists which drew British artists here. It is a great relationship which continues today. I always appreciate your comments.
billtvmacon 6 months ago
idk, maybe it's just me seeing imperfectly back over the last 40 years, but it seems like popular culture was a lot less diverse back then. Considerably, I guess, because of it being harder to get hold of less popular stuff, and even if you were able, it being harder to find like minded people. Now, with access to the internet... well... if I were with a group of my closest friends on an afternoon, we would be able to find a radio station even the majority of us would be really happy with.
Virini 6 months ago
Great video :)
madmatthewm 6 months ago
@madmatthewm Thank you for watching!
billtvmacon 6 months ago
0:27 I have full appreciation for the fact that I could never b a DJ. A disc jockey needs a certain set of skills, just like any other performer. Not sure why people don't get it.
drewdane40 6 months ago
@drewdane40 Well, maybe some working skills but only half a working brain. lol
billtvmacon 6 months ago
I remember driving through Fall River, MA with my friend Bob Rivers, then a top-40 DJ at WSAR-AM in the station's promotion car - and having girls at a park swarm us. I, on the other hand, worked at an "easy listening" station. Thankfully our listeners didn't swarm us. I don't know if I could have dealt with all those middle aged women at 19.
ProFriend 6 months ago
@ProFriend Haha! I know. When we'd do the Boogie patrol it would be like that. Taking t-shirts and Mountain Dew six packs to local pools will always get you noticed. lol
billtvmacon 6 months ago
I love radio, but there are no good radio stations here in Britain anymore, except on digital which you can't get in your car. Being a radio DJ in the 1970s must have been amazing.
SmartStr33t 6 months ago
@SmartStr33t Thank you! What's missing is spontaneity. When you hire the right people you can trust them to do what's right for the station and listener.
billtvmacon 6 months ago