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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

BOYS AND GIRLS,

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS,

AND FANS OF GREAT EARLY ROCK MUSIC FROM THE LATE 1950's TO THE MID 1970's, PRESENTED BY THE GREATEST DJ's OF ALL TIME...

WITH EVERY HOUR LONG SHOW FEATURING ONE ARTIST OR BAND, OR ONE OF MANY, MANY DIFFERENT CREATIVE THEMES MOST WITH RARE INTERVIEWS, MANY WITH ARTISTS NO LONGER WITH US, WITH THEIR GREATEST HITS, AND STORIES BEHIND THE MUSIC

YOU'VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE FOR ALMOST EVERY HOUR EVER BROADCAST OF THE RARE SERIES, SOLID GOLD SCRAPBOOK.

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 DESTROYED 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 THE ONLY ONE.

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.

PLEASE NOTE FELLOW COLLECTOR FRIENDS THAT WHEN YOU BUY FIVE OR MORE ITEMS FROM MY STORE AT ONE TIME THAT EBAY WILL IMMEDIATELY DISCOUNT YOUR INVOICE BY 20% IT IS THE LEAST I CAN DO FOR MY FELLOW COLLECTORS WHO LOOK FOR GREAT DEALS AS MUCH AS I DO!

AND IF YOU COMBINE THE ABOVE WITH SOME SELECTIONS FROM KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES WEEKLY HALF PRICE AND REDUCED PRICE SPECIALS, YOU WILL SAVE EVEN MORE....MUCH MORE!! JUST CLICK ON THE TAB ON KEITH'S HOME PAGE TO SEE ALL THE VARIED OFFERINGS TO WHICH MORE ARE ADDED ALMOST DAILY.

BUT FIRST, THE FINE PRINT....

WHEN YOU BUY FIVE OR MORE ITEMS FROM MY STORE AT ONE TIME THAT EBAY WILL IMMEDIATELY DISCOUNT YOUR INVOICE BY 20% IT IS THE LEAST I CAN DO FOR MY FELLOW COLLECTORS WHO LOOK FOR GREAT DEALS AS MUCH AS I DO!

KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES PRESENTS ONE OF THE MOST SPECIAL RADIO SERIES THAT EVER AIRED FEATURING THE EARLY ROCK N' ROLL ERA .

SOLID GOLD SCRAPBOOK AIRED FOR ONE HOUR DAILY MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY FOR 8 YEARS STARTING ON THE LEGENDARY RKO RADIO NETWORK AND LATER ON THE UNITED STATIONS RADIO NETWORKS.

DICK BARTLEY WAS THE HOST OF THE SHOW FROM ITS INCEPTION AS A TWO HOUR WEEKEND SHOW IN 1983 THROUGH ITS EVOLUTION INTO A FIVE HOUR A WEEK SHOW AND UNTIL JUNE, 1988. FROM THEN AND INTO 1990 THE SHOW WAS HOSTED BY 'MR MUSIC' NORM N NITE AND IN THE REST OF 1990 UNTIL THE SHOW CEASED PRODUCTION IN DECEMBER 1991, DAVE CHARITY. EACH OF THEM TWEAKED THE SHOW A BIT BUT THE MAJOR CONCEPT OF THE SHOW REMAINED THE SAME, GREAT MUSIC, GREAT THEMES, GREAT INTERVIEWS.

ALSO, SINCE THE SHOW HAD THE FREEDOM OF A FULL HOUR FOR EVERY THEME, IT COULD DIG A LITTLE DEEPER INTO THE EARLY ROCK ERA, PLAYING MUSIC LONG FORGOTTEN BUT AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE ERA WHICH SPARKED MEMORIES WHEN LISTENERS SAID, 'HEY, I REMEMBER THAT SONG. I LOVED IT. I HAVEN'T HEARD IT IN YEARS!'

YOU WILL HEAR THE BIG HITS OF ELVIS, THE BEACH BOYS, THE FOUR SEASONS, THE BEATLES AND ALL THE TOP GROUPS, BANDS AND ARTISTS OF THE ERA ALONG WITH 'DEEP CUTS' FROM THOSE ARTISTS AND LESSER KNOWN ACTS.

THIS SHOW AIRED TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1989 THE SHOW WAS HOSTED BY MR MUSIC, NORM N NITE AND FEATURED 'BEATLES PLEASE, PLEASE ME ALBUM ANNIVERSARY SALUTE'

EVEN THE COMMERCIALS ARE FUN TO LISTEN TO AFTER 36 YEARS. FUNNY HOW WE HATED THOSE NATIONAL COMMERCIALS BACK THEN BUT NOW WHEN YOU HEAR THEM EVEN THEY WILL BRING BACK FOND MEMORIES. ON THIS SHOW YOU WILL HEAR FROM GREYHOUND TRAVEL, DENTYNE GUM, RODEWAY INNS, M&M SNICKERS BARS, MAYBELLINE GREAT LASH, FORD AUDIO, AND MORE.

SO WHAT ARE THE BIG QUESTIONS IF YOU ARE NOT SURE ABOUT RADIO SHOWS?

LET ME TELL YOU BUT 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 tha REt 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 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 shows 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 often 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.

NOW, EXACTLY 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 mornings, afternoons or evenings or less often during overnight segments and weekdays.

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 download, they have a unique presentation of their favorite artist or music not available anywhere else and always with dj comments which were very entertaining.

Some collect interviews with their favorite artists as most shows had interview segments.

Some collect commercials

AND, these shows are in limited quantity.

They were pressed just for affiliate stations in the United States.

Many have just a few still in circulation.

Some of the more popular shows had as many as 175 shows pressed of each week's show, but think about it, only 175 pressed for some 350 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.

The 175 number represented the top 175 United States Metropolitan radio markets. Smaller markets could air the show but had to take the satellite feed once it became available to them.

How many survived as did the ones I have is anyone's guess.

This is because most stations just threw these away after network broadcast since they could not be aired again because of the dated commercial content and contractual obligations to which the station legally agreed to for the right to air the program.

So it is likely that very few still exist and they are increasingly hard to find

They were first distributed on reel to reel tape or 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 only through digital download

These shows become rarer and rarer every day because the people who buy them hold on to them. If they do later sell, it is to make a huge profit since prices go up all the time.

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 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 have decreased.

And, I have one of the biggest radio show libraries in the world consisting of over fifteen thousand unique 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 music radio.

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, like this special show, much less. Once you get hooked, like me, it is a love affair for life! Welcome to the Club!

Also, keep in mind that this and all radio shows are not just about the music - the music for the most part 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 history. You just aren't going to find these shows anymore. Think of what they will be worth in a few years! (IF you wanted to sell.)

I am selling to share with other music lovers what I was able to get at a reasonable price.

As always, I charge only shipping on the first show you buy for U.S. buyers so the more you buy the more you save in shipping charges. And for my international friends, shipping is exclusively handled by the eBay International Shipping Program.

Good Luck and God Bless You.