HELLO FELLOW COLLECTORS AND WELCOME TO MY EBAY STORE. HERE IS A SPECIAL OFFER FOR YOU. BUY ANY FIVE ITEMS AT ONE TIME FROM MY STORE AND YOU GET A SIXTH OF EQUAL OR LESSER VALUE ABSOLUTELY FREE. JUST MESSAGE ME THROUGH THE EBAY MAIL SYSTEM WITH YOUR CHOICE OF FREE SHOW AND IT WILL BE ON ITS WAY TO YOU. THIS SAVES YOU AT LEAST 20% ON YOUR TOTAL ORDER.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LISTING PICTURE IS GENERIC AND NOT THE ACTUAL SHOW YOU ARE CONSIDERING. SINCE ALL RADIO SHOWS OF THE SAME TYPE LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME EXCEPT FOR THE ACTUAL CUE SHEET LISTINGS, I PROVIDE ONE PICTURE AND LIST THE SHOW CONTENTS BELOW FOR YOU TO SEE.
SO HERE IS THE BIG QUESTION: WHAT IS A RADIO SHOW? WHY COLLECT THEM? WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?
Well, those are good questions, especially if you have never known of them.
Radio Shows are syndicated productions by one of several large and small distributors who supply broadcast product to radio stations normally during weekends when the usual air personalities have a break.
Many air on Saturday or Sunday evenings or during overnight segments. They often feature some of the best known voices for their genre from across the country thus the Dick Clark's and Casey Kasem's and Rick Dees and Dick Bartley and so many others.
People collect them for various reasons.
Some just collect the series because they like it and want them all.
Some collect their favorite artists or genre of music. Rather than an album by the artist or a compilation bought at Wal Mart or downloaded through iTunes or wherever, they have a unique presentation of their favorite artist or music not available anywhere else and always with dj presentations which were very entertaining.
Some collect interviews with their favorite artists as most shows had interview segments.
Some collect commercials especially old car commercials but certainly not limited to only those.
AND, these shows are in limited quantity.
They were pressed just for syndicated stations in the United States.
Many have just a few still in circulation. Some of the more popular shows may have as many as a few hundred of each week's show that survived but think about it. A few hundred for some 200 million Americans and millions of overseas collectors who look for unique presentations of their favorite artists or form of music is about as rare as rare can be.
AND most stations just threw them away since they could never be aired again due to the time limited commercial content on the shows and the limited storage space available at most radio stations. Believe me I know, I work at one!
That being said, they are increasingly hard to find.
They were first distributed on reel to reel tape if the show goes back that far into the 60's, then later on lp, later on CD and even later (after 2000 for most shows) on CDR.
Now they are not available at all to collectors since they are distributed by digital download much like you get your music from iTunes.
These shows become rarer and rarer every day because the people who buy them hold on to them and the people who sell them, like me, are running out of them. My best contact for these shows is out of shows so I am at the mercy of finding a good deal here and there but never from a regular source. The shows that you get now and hold on to will never decrease in value and only increase.
I have prided myself since the start to provide the best and fairest cost with a no holds barred guarantee that you will be happy or I refund your money.
I sell them for near what I bought them for. I give volume discounts and discount postage always. As the postal service increases their rates, my shipping rates over the years has decreased.
And, I have one of the biggest radio show libraries in the world consisting of over ten thousand shows, so many that I don't even know all that I have and am sometimes amazed when I go to look for one show and find another that I did not realize I had.
Finally, it is Americana at its best.
Whether the show be from the 60's or 2000's, rock, countdown, oldies, country, classical, religious, jazz or big band, it is unique and home grown. And you just can't find them anywhere. Even record stores that still exist will rarely have any.
Radio shows are wonderful representations of the real golden age of radio at least music wise.
And every one you buy is an original, not a copy, not a remake - all are limited editions in the hundreds at most and most much less.
Picture yourself back in the 80's AND BEYOND. You were glued to your walkman listening to the top 40 presented by your local radio station. You had that thing glued to your ear or connected with the little earphone jack that immediately broke. Your local dj was great. He knew the music. He had the gift of talking which rarely occurs anymore. You loved the presentation of the music as much as the sounds. You liked the station jingles.
And on weekends when the local dj's had off, you listened to either taped shows they did during the week to be played on the weekend or a syndicated radio show featuring one of the greats.
It was the golden age of rock. Music was king and the dj's were just as popular. You can relive those days with a dynamite countdown series like this with one of radio's best and most enduring dj's.
OK guys and gals, many of you remember my great RICK DEES LP shows. Well, they are back, at least a few of them. That's all I have left which is a shame but they are all safely in collectors hands who will love them and enjoy them. These are the last. I have not seen one advertised on ebay in forever so if you are in the market for a few new shows, you'll want to grab one.
Rick Dees is one of rock's greatest dj's His shows are classic for their laid back style and his cast of idiots who join him. His show is as much for the fun of the dj as the greatness of the music. Years come and go, hits come and go, but Rick Dees and his great style continue.
Rigdon Osmond Dees III (born March 14, 1950, Jacksonville, Florida), best known as Rick Dees, is an American entertainer, radio personality, comedian, actor, and voice artist, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown and for the 1976 novelty song "Disco Duck".
Dees is a People's Choice Award recipient, a Grammy-nominated performing artist, and Broadcast Hall of Fame inductee. He wrote two songs that appear in the film Saturday Night Fever, plus performed the title song for the film Meatballs. He co-founded the E. W. Scripps television network, Fine Living Network, and has hosted Rick Dees in the Morning at 102.7 KIIS FM and Hot 92.3 in Los Angeles. Today he continues his own syndicated daily radio show, Daily Dees.
Dees began his radio career at a Greensboro radio station called WGBG while still in high school.[2] He worked for various radio stations throughout the southeastern United States, including WXYC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, WSGN in Birmingham, Alabama, and WKIX in Raleigh, North Carolina.
His introduction to the international entertainment arena began while working at WMPS AM 680 ("The Great 68") in Memphis, Tennessee, during the disco craze of the late 1970s, when he wrote and recorded "Disco Duck", the award-winning hit that sold more than 6 million copies. The song can be heard in Saturday Night Fever, in a brief scene in which a group of older people were learning to "move their feet to the disco beat". While this platinum recording earned him a People's Choice Award, and the BMI Award for record sales in one year, Dees was expressly forbidden from playing the song on the air by station management (rival stations refused to play it for fear of promoting their competition). Dees was fired from WMPS when he mentioned that his song, "Disco Duck", was almost #1, and his own radio station would not let him play it. The station manager said it was a conflict of interest. Dees did not perform the actual duck vocals on the song since he could not "talk like a duck."[ The duck vocals were recorded at Shoestring Productions in Memphis, Tennessee by Ken Pruitt, who moved away before the song became popular and the vocals for the duck were done by Michael Chesney of Memphis for the concert tour. Chesney had done some comedic voices for Dees prior to Disco Duck. The tour went from Disney World to New York, NY billed as Rick Dees and The Cast of Idiots. After a 45-day non-compete clause in his contract was satisfied, Dees was hired by RKO Radio to do the morning show at WHBQ AM 560 in Memphis.
The success of Dees at their Memphis radio station, combined with his TV appearances and hit music, motivated station owner RKO General to offer Rick the morning radio show in Los Angeles at 93KHJ AM. Dees helped their ratings, but AM music radio was rapidly losing ground to FM. When KHJ switched to country music, Dees left KHJ, taking a morning position at KIIS-FM in July 1981. In a short time, he turned KIIS-FM into the #1 revenue-generating radio station in America, with an asset value approaching half a billion dollars. Dees garnered many accolades, including Billboard Radio Personality of the Year for ten years in a row.
He began his Weekly Top 40 countdown program, still currently in syndication, in September 1983; the show was created after Dees' station KIIS dropped American Top 40 in a dispute over the playing of network commercials.[3] The Weekly Top 40 has been heard each weekend in over 200 cities worldwide and the Armed Forces Radio Network. It is distributed internationally by Dees Entertainment International (through Radio Express). In December 2008, the Weekly Top 40 became the first English-speaking radio show to air in China.
After 23 years on radio station KIIS-FM, Dees left in 2004 because of a contract dispute,[4] and he was replaced by Ryan Seacrest. Dees returned to Los Angeles radio in August 2006 on KMVN, Movin 93.9, hosting the morning show On April 15, 2009, Movin 93.9 changed format, dismissing its radio personalities and changing the format to Spanish contemporary music after a leasing of the station to Mexico City business Grupo Radio Centro. Dees was one of the last voices on the station before the flip, redirecting listeners of his show to RICK.COM. In April 20, 2011, Dees returned for the second time, this time at KIIS's sister station KHHT (now KRRL), following the station's formatting shift to a Gold-based Rhythmic AC. His show at KHHT lasted for a year. Dees has continued his Weekly Top 40 show each week and continues to host the syndicated Daily Dees Monday through Friday both online and on radio stations across the United States.
These shows contain great great music to go with Rick's zaniness. In addition there are tremendous interviews and other features.
The show comes on 4 lp's in new condition and are distributed by THE DIAL GLOBAL RADIO NETWORK.
The cue sheets COME WITH THIS SHOW and are in good condition
THIS SHOW AIRED ON THE WEEKEND OF SEPTEMBER 27, 2008 AND IS SHOW #08-39.
HERE ARE THE SONGS, INCLUDING EXTRAS, ON THIS TOP 40 OUTING WITH RICK DEES!
Leave Out All The Rest- Linkin Park Love Song- Sara Bareilles Say- John Mayer Sorry- BuckCherry Take A Bow- Rihanna Madly- Tristan Prettyman American Boy- Estelle f/Kanye West INTERVIEW: KANYE WEST Angels On The Moon- Thriving Ivory Whatever It Takes- Lifehouse Paralyzer- Finger Eleven Crush- David Archuleta
Disturbia- Rihanna Just Stand Up- Artists Stand Up To Cancer Warwick Avenue- Duffy Better In Time- Leona Lewis Forever- Chris Brown Beating My Heart- Jon McLaughlin Feels Like Tonight- Daughtry Chasing Pavements- Adele In This Life- Delta Goodrem Rise Above This- Seether Apologize- Timbaland f/Onerepublic So What- Pink
One Step At A Time- Jordin Sparks Leavin'- Jesse McCartney Bottle It Up- Sara Bareilles I Kissed A Girl- Katy Perry Come On Get Higher- Matt Nathanson Broken- Lifehouse The Little Things- Colbie Caillat Stop And Stare- Onerepublic Bubbly- Colbie Caillat Shake It- Metro Station Never Too Late- Three Days Grace Bleeding Love- Leona Lewis
If I Never See Your Face Again- Maroon 5 f/Rihanna Shattered Turn The Car Around- OAR Pocketful Of Sunshine- Natasha Bedingfield What About Now- Daughtry I'm Yours- Jason Mraz Time Of My Life- David Cook All Summer Long- Kid Rock Love Remains The Same- Gavin Rossdale It's Not My Time- 3 Doors Down Who Knew- Pink Viva La Vida- Coldplay.
This is the original show sent for airing. It is NOT an unauthorized copy but the Real McCoy!!!
I personally guarantee that every radio show that I sell is the original show sent to stations.
You are truly buying a show that will only increase in value and I am selling them at a price very close to what I paid for it.
The show comes with its original national commercials. Some people buy these shows for their commercial collections!
On this show they include Geico Walmart PetSmart Carfax US Navy AND MORE!
Remember that this and all the radio music shows that you see on eBay are not just about the music - the music can be found anywhere. It is the mixture of great music and great announcing that makes it so entertaining.
As well, it is a piece of radio and music history.
You just aren't going to find these shows around very much longer as everything is now digitized and downloaded for play and shows are no longer sent out on CD's.
It is a great show and would be a valuable addition to your collection.
As always, for U.S. buyers, I charge only shipping on the first show you buy so the more you buy the more money you will save. For my international friends, pay shipping for your heaviest purchase (and if you buy multi lp shows, there is only an additional $8 charge for each. All other items ship for no extra charge.)
Good Luck and God Bless You.