My Good buddy Jim, who taped lots of local radio way back in the day... Has shared another cool tape with us. Thanks again as always Jim!
Here's his email text to me.
I've switched computers so don't think I've sent you anything from
this email address before but here I am with another find from the
basement.
Here's a recording of the WAMU 88.5
FM Overnight Express show from July 13, 1980 which included Bruce
Rosenstein's every other week new music show. I found it on the B side
of a Live Gang of Four Concert that was played on WHFS a month later.
The concert spilled over a bit and unfortunately I taped over the first
minute of Bruce but 25- 30 minutes of his show remains. I don't
remember any of these songs but luckily Bruce back announces all of
them. After he signs off there's about 10 minutes of Kim playing the
Slickee Boys and The Dark--at least I think the last few are from The
Dark. I have a couple of their tunes on Skip Groff's DC Connected
Sampler (LIMP 1005), so it's nice to hear more from them.
Glad to see you still have the blog going and hoping you are in good health.
As always I'll share any additional nuggets that surface.
Jim
41 Minutes, MP3@320 Link
10 comments:
Thank You so much this is wonderful - I remember WAMU as Bluegrass, dont know how I missed this
Overnight Express only ran for 3 or 4 years, ending in 1982. I think it ran from Midnight to 6AM Saturday night/Sunday morning on AMU but not sure about that...it might have been shorter. I was new to the area and didn't know too many folks at first so had plenty of time to listen to the radio...
Thanks so much. I always enjoyed the stations down on the lower end, including GTB, PFW and AMU. Old Howard and the Rock and Roll Jukebox was an after school favorite. Would love some reposts of old WGTB and WHFS, if you have time.
Cheers.
Yeah Old Howard on The RnR Jukebox was great! Wish I had a tape or two of that show...
Hey Camarillo Brillo, I love what you've done to preserve all this great music. I've collected what I could while the Mega links were viable, but I've lost a ton in a hard drive crash. Any chance you could re-upload a few of your previously ripped HFS tapes sometime? Maybe they'd last longer on Archive.org?
I know I'm just a stranger on the internet asking you to do chores, so no worries if it's not something you want to deal with. I'll keep returning to your site every few weeks to see if a new tape has emerged from the mists of time.
Thanks again for all you've done!
Hey Camarillo Barillo, it's been over a year since your last post. Just checking to make sure you are still with us!
Still here John... If you want me to re-up any 'HFS Stuff, just go to that page and make a request from there...
I would love the chance to listen to another WHFS show, but the link seems forbidden.
Make a request from the page you want and I'll try and upload it straight away
My mistake - I thought this was a WHFS show
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