In The Year 2525 - Zager & Evans - WABC Radio Aircheck

Original aircheck of radio station WABC in New York City.
Exact date not known, but was recorded sometime around May 1970.

The great Dan Ingram was the DJ.

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The aircheck was recorded from the actual radio shown in the video!

This aircheck brings home everything this channel represents, which is that records during that time were made to sound their best in mono for broadcast on AM Top 40 radio. NOT in stereo, for pop music during that time was rare to hear on FM stereo radio.

This aircheck also allows you to hear EXACTLY how it sounded in 1970. Radio stations like WABC used lots of audio "processing" to make the music sound it's best when heard on either a car radio's 6 X 9 inch dashboard speaker, or from an AM Transistor Radio's tiny 3-1/2 inch speaker. As a result, these AM radio stations added reverb and then highly "compressed" the audio, which made it sound even louder. You can hear that in this aircheck!

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[UglyMannheim]

Its great to hear Dan Ingram.

And welcome back.

[9981522122]

nices music

in the years 2525 like music

is major stacion

trank you

[BobtheMediaGuy]

my avatar as featured on Blip.fm with a one hit wonder I feature....yes, talk about apocalyptic predictions

[Lockemeister]

@jeffspirit11 In the daytime, I used to get WABC in Stratford, CT but the signal level was lower than WICC or WNBC. WABC had a slight whistle to it. I know now it was heterodyning with another station.

[Lockemeister]

I'm not sure what station i was listening to. Either WNBC, WABC or WICC in Bridgeport CT. those were the stations I listened to.

[Lockemeister]

I remember listening to this song on the radio back when it played back in the day, I'm not sure what year, but I was about 11 years old, so I guess 1971. I had a Realistic Patrolman radio that received AM and VHF. I hung the radio by it's strap on the handle bars. This song came on and I was fascinated by it. It was getting dusk out so I was riding home and I imagined the different ages sung about in the song as time passed by. I still remember that. the song made a great impression on me.

[reggie44]

If I recall, ABC, NBC, CBS and WHN were 50kw clear channel in NYC (as powerful as FCC regs allow in the East Coast US). Stations further west had more powerful transmitters, but ABC had mega-heavy compression -- they squeezed every last dB out of those records and voices, and put them on the air.

[jeffspirit11]

At night, you could get WABC and others of the day, some were clear channel, meaning no other carrier on that wavelength. I remember the station. I lived in Florida then, and AM wave modulation on a good day without weather interference would come in so clear. AM was something else. Glad I could tweak my sound card here to simulate AM sound, even have the reverb carrier level just like those stations did in that time for AM.