HI GUYS AND GALS.  IF YOU ARE LIKE MOST OF US, YOU LOVE THE BEATLES.

 SIRIUS/XM EVEN HAS AN ENTIRE CHANNEL DEVOTED TO THE BEATLES. 

'BREAKFAST WITH THE BEATLES' HOSTED BY CHRIS CARTER IS AN ENORMOUSLY POPULAR DAILY SHOW.  BUT BEFORE CHRIS CARTER AND MEG RYAN THERE WAS THE LEGENDARY 'LOST LENNON TAPES' LP SERIES AND THE CD FOLLOW UP SHOW 'BEATLE YEARS'.

THAT'S WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JUST LISTING AND ENJOYING BEATLES MUSIC AND HEARING THAT SAME MUSIC IN A RADIO SHOW, NO MATTER WHEN YOU GREW UP.

RARE BEATLES TRACKS WERE INTRODUCED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THOSE SHOWS ALONG WITH THE RARE INTERVIEWS WITH THE BEATLES AND BEATLE LEGEND COMPATRIOTS.

AND, IN A RADIO SHOW, IT IS EVEN MORE EXCITING.  PLUS, THEY ARE SUPER RARE.

AND, HOW DO YOU DEFINE RARENESS??

THERE WERE NO MORE THAN 175 LPS OR CDS PRESSED FOR EACH WEEKLY SHOW.  THIS REPRESENTED THE TOP 175 RADIO MARKETS IN THE COUNTRY AND ONLY ONE STATION IN EACH MARKET COULD AIR THE SHOW.  

STATIONS IN MARKETS BELOW THE TOP 175 (THERE ARE 306 MARKETS IN THE UNITED STATES) HAD TO TAKE THE SATELLITE FEED OF THE SHOW FROM WESTWOOD ONE, THE SYNDICATOR OF THE SERIES)

AND, DUE TO CONTRACTUAL LEGAL OBLIGATIONS, EACH RADIO STATION WAS ALLOWED TO AIR EACH SHOW EXACTLY ONCE AND NO MORE.  

SO, MOST RADIO STATIONS JUST TOSSED THEM AFTER AIRING SINCE THEY WERE USELESS TO THE STATION AFTER AIRING.  THERE IS NO TELLING HOW MANY OF EACH SHOW SURVIVED.  WHO KNOWS - THIS COULD BE ONE OF THE ONLY ONES LEFT.

WELCOME EVERYONE TO KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES, ONE OF EBAY'S PREMIERE BUYERS AND SELLERS OF PRISTINE RARE RADIO SHOWS OF ALL GENRES ALONG WITH OTHER GREAT VINTAGE AMERICANA. 

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WELCOME TO THE HOME FOR MANY OF THE GREATEST BEATLES SHOWS OF ALL TIME, INCLUDING THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF 'THE BEATLE YEARS' PREDECESSOR SHOW, 'THE LOST LENNON TAPES'.

 THE BEATLE YEARS  prided itself in being the definitive BEATLES cd show on the radio and started exactly one week following the last lp offering of 'The Lost Lennon Tapes". 

 Each week you were brought the best of music, interviews commentary, and information.  This show is a great example.

      THE BEATLE YEARS  shows are a testimony and legacy to the early rock era where the Beatles were born and made their everlasting mark on music.   

     It is a great variety of Beatles music you know along with rare studio outtakes, concert music, and lost tracks  along with in depth rare interviews and fun facts.  Many of the tunes on current Beatles anthologies first aired on 'The Lost Lennon Tapes' or 'The Beatle Years' and contain the stories behind the songs.

   You will hear super great tunes and the best part is that you can hear them again and again, over and over,  whenever you want. 

  This series is by far the best and most comprehensive cd pressed BEATLES series that ever aired on American radio.  It's only comparable show is called BEATLES BRUNCH from the same company but with a different host.    You will  not hear many of these songs or themes on any other show which is another plus.  

 The soundtrack of our lives were shaped by this music and it belongs in your collection. 

Now the details of this show:

THE BEATLE YEARS was a one hour weekly show that aired on the WESTWOOD ONE RADIO NETWORKS.

The formative years of the show until his untimely death was J.J. Jackson, a noted authority on the Beatles.

  The show comes on 1 cd with its cue sheets.  The cd is in beautiful like new condition.  The cue sheets are in excellent condition as pictured. Many come with their original Westwood One Radio Network cd sleeves. Some come with the original 'certificate of performance', hardly ever available

This show aired on June 5, 1995 and was show #95-24

It highlighted 'Beatle Women, part two'

And, believe it or not (just take a listen) even the national commercials from 34 years ago bring back memories.  Funny how we hated them back then but now, even those commercials bring back fond memories.  On this show you will hear from Boston Beer, Mounds/Almond Joy, Timberline Cologne, US Army, Page/Plant Promo, Weinhard's Red Lager, TDK Tape, and more

 NOW IF YOU ARE NOT SURE JUST WHAT A RADIO SHOW IS, HERE ARE THE QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE

WHAT ARE THEY

 WHY COLLECT THEM? 

 WHERE DO THEY COME FROM? 

WHAT DOES A RADIO SHOW HAVE OVER THE MUSIC WHICH I CAN HEAR ANYTIME ON iTUNES, AMAZON MUSIC, YOU TUBE, OR OTHER PLATFORMS?

Well, those are good questions, especially if you have never known of them. 

First allow me tell you my own personal story of discovering the wonder of radio shows.

  I discovered radio shows quite by accident while reading one of my favorite (long since departed) magazines called "Discoveries" (It was later bought by the same company that publishes "Goldmine" which I personally always considered a lesser publication, but that is another story.

  This was before ebay became the driving force in radio show sales (and everything else) in the later 1990's.

 I was especially attracted in "Discoveries" to a two page (or more) spread in each issue by a guy called "The Old Hippie". 

 Let me tell you, the Old Hippie had it all.  He was a real pioneer.  Way before anyone knew what radio shows even were let alone that they could be bought as rarities, he had the market cornered.

Most shows that he advertised were way beyond my budget but I drooled over those pages every issue and once in awhile I could afford one or two. 

 Now, I have attempted in my own humble way to take on the mantle of "The Old Hippie".  I have listed over 11,000 unique radio shows so far of all genres for you all to drool over, and most at prices, hopefully, that collectors can better afford!  I want to make available to collectors what I could not afford and especially in these days of higher prices and lesser availability.

Radio s hows are harder and harder to find in quantity and the prices for the ones still out there just go higher and higher as they disappear from the market.  However, because of my large presence on eBay, I am always being contacted with selling offers, some of which I take advantage of and some I have to pass on because of the prices. I have found that by buying in bulk, even when many or most of the shows are lesser known but still amazing shows, I can offer the best prices on all titles.

And, even though I price all my shows so that I make very little on each sale, most of which I use to buy more shows to make available to you, if you find the price too high, let me know and we can likely work out something you can afford.  I want everyone to be able to have what they want for their collection.

 So, again, what is a radio show?  

  Radio Shows are syndicated productions provided to radio stations usually on what is called a 'barter arrangement'.  There were several large and small distributors who supplied broadcast product to radio stations normally during weekends when the usual air personalities have a break, although in recent years, through bigger companies absorbing smaller ones and many going out of business because the competition was just too fierce, there are only a few big syndicators left.  This is sad because it has led to more homogonization of different formats and selection available for stations and often less creativity in the shows.

 Most aired on Saturday or Sundays.  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 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 and as I said, even these old vintage commercials now bring back memories.

 Radio shows were first distributed on reel to reel tape or 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.  

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 fifteen thousand of 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. Once you get hooked, like me, it is a love affair for life! 

 So, I hope you will join me in this and many more  wondrous voyages on the 'SS Keith's Kollectables' as we take exciting journeys together exploring the treasures of radio shows we grew up with and thought were long lost.

May the lost be found!