Classic, and certainly needed!

An aircheck from Halloween night 1973. A night of radio drama starting with a local version of War of the Worlds, Arch Obler’s "The Darkness", a show on Vampires, A ghost story called "The Bed", "People Places and Things – a 30" piece on UFO’s. Including actual commercials from the time period in Buffalo, NY. All pieces were performed by DJ’s at the station at the time.

The DJ for the War of the Worlds was known as Shane, who seemed to be the archetype for the hip DJ of the time.

The first time the station aired their version of WotW several years previously, even though it was promoted heavily, police departments were called and even the National Guard was called to the Grand Island bridges! For several years afterwards it was aired with a new beginning for newer songs and dj’s but the final cutaway to the newsroom on track 10 is original.

The other pieces are very good but my favorites are ‘The Darkness’ and ‘The Monkey’s paw’. Please enjoy!

This audio is part of the collection: Old Time Radio

Audio Files VBR MP3 Intro-Don’t turn around 3.1 MB
sattlers commercial :60 628.7 KB
War of the Worlds part 1 2.5 MB
Turgeon commercial :60 492.2 KB
War of the Worlds part 2 1.7 MB
Keyhole fashions :60 493.8 KB
War of the Worlds part 3 4.5 MB
Sattlers records :60 489.5 KB
War of the Worlds part 4 2.1 MB
War of the Worlds part 5 5.4 MB
Turgeon commercial :60 493.2 KB
War of the Worlds part 6 7.1 MB
War of the Worlds part 7 9.8 MB
War of the Worlds-closing 484.7 KB
twin fair records and tapes :60 471.2 KB
Vampires -1 17.6 MB
McDonalds :60 480.6 KB
Keyhole fashions :60 483.6 KB
Sattlers :60 505.5 KB
KB ID 53.8 KB
The Darkness part 1 2.4 MB
Turgeon :60 508.1 KB
The Darkness part 2 3.5 MB
Twin Fair :60 514.9 KB
The Darkness part 3 3.2 MB
McDonalds :60 422.2 KB
KB ID 53.8 KB
The Bed part 1 3.1 MB
Keyhole fashions :60 494.7 KB
The Bed part 2 4.5 MB
Sattlers :60 505.5 KB
The Bed part 3 3.4 MB
Twin Fair :60 471.2 KB
The Monkey’s paw 12.5 MB
People,Places and things UFO’s 12.8 MB