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An Incredible Free Treasure Trove Of Buffalo Radio Audio History
Thanks to Dale Patterson for alerting me to this incredible resource on YouTube. It's a micro-site from Buffalo Broadcasting and just about anything you can think of is featured on it. There's are airchecks of WGR, WKBW, WYSL, WGRQ and even WJJL. Just to name a few.
There are jingles from the old GR55 and WBEN, vintage Queen City commercials (Statler's anyone?) and classic moments from George "Hound Dog" Lorenz, who would eventually be instrumental in helping to create WBLK, still the #1 station in the city.
You can relive the infamous Blizzard of 77, hear John Otto's voice again as well as WGR's tribute to him the night of his death.
It is a remarkable collection of what Buffalo radio sounded like back when it was at its peak, with some long forgotten but also well remembered voices from the past.
If you grew up grazing Buffalo radio, you may not know what to listen to first. Find it here.
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Wow. Just Wow.
For those of us who grew up tuned more to the WNY part than the SO part, this site is the motherlode.
Shane Brother Shane, Jackson Armstrong, Joey Reynolds, Jacquie Walker when we all used to be young, WYSL and A.M.&A's....
I'll be back in a week.
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I don't think this is on that site, one of the few that isn't. It's from Dale Patterson's Rock Radio Scrapbook and happened on April 1, 1976.
It's from WYSL-FM (aka Y103 in those days) and features DJ Jim Scott playing not only the hits but a few misses, and it's filled with fake commercials and other stations' jingles.
I've heard lots of April Fool's shows before but this one is my all time favorite brecause it seems made for radio people.
You can hear it here.
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