HEY, FELLOW COLLECTORS, DO YOU LOVE THE RARE NATIONAL RADIO LANDMARK BROADCAST SHOWS HEARD BY MILLIONS BUT UNAVAILABLE SINCE THE BROADCAST DATE?
AND, IN THIS CASE, A RARE LIMITED SERIES EDITION HOSTED BY ONE OF HOLLYWOOD's AND TV's GREATEST COMEDIANS, JOHN CANDY WHO PROGRAMMED EACH SONG OF EACH SHOW HIMSELF WITH HIS FAVORITE MUSIC AND NOT JUST THE TOP HITS OF THE ARTISTS HE CHOSE TO SPOTLIGHT, AND PROVIDED HILARIOUS COMEDY BITS AND PERSONAL THOUGHTS THROUGHOUT EACH SHOW
WELCOME AGAIN EVERYONE TO KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES, ONE OF EBAY'S PREMIERE BUYERS AND SELLERS OF PRISTINE RADIO SHOWS OF EVERY GENRE ALONG WITH OTHER GREAT RARE AND UNIQUE AMERICANA.
AND, HOW DO YOU DEFINE RARENESS??
THERE WERE NO MORE THAN 175 LPS OR CDS PRESSED FOR EACH WEEKLY SYNDICATED RADIO 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) COULD ALSO AIR THE SHOW BUT HAD TO TAKE THE SATELLITE FEED OF THE SHOW FROM MJI BROADCASTING, 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 DUE TO THEIR LEGAL CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION TO THE SHOW SYNDICATOR.
THERE IS NO TELLING HOW MANY OF EACH SHOW SURVIVED. WHO KNOWS - THIS COULD BE ONE OF THE ONLY ONES LEFT.
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.
WELCOME TO THE HOME FOR MANY OF THE GREATEST RADIO SHOWS FROM POP STANDARDS, THE DAWN OF ROCK, CLASSIC ROCK, COUNTRY OR ROCK COUNTDOWNS, COUNTRY MUSIC, FOLK, INSPIRATIONAL, OLD RADIO SHOWS FROM THE 40'S THROUGH THE 60'S, AND INCLUDING THE GREATEST BROADCASTERS OF ALL TIME SUCH AS DICK BARTLEY, CASEY KASEM, DICK CLARK, MACHINE GUN KELLY, THE REAL DON STEELE, BOB KINGSLEY, KIX BROOKS, CROOK & CHASE, AND SO MANY MORE
PLEASE REMEMBER MY SPECIAL OFFER TO FELLOW COLLECTORS. IF YOU BUY FIVE OR MORE ITEMS FROM MY STORE AT ONE TIME, EBAY WILL DISCOUNT YOUR TOTAL BY 20% WHEN YOU CHECK OUT AUTOMATICALLY. IT IS THE LEAST I CAN DO FOR EVERYONE WHO LOOKS FOR GREAT DEALS JUST AS I DO.
THIS IS ONE OF THE ABSOLUTELY RAREST RADIO SHOWS THAT EVER AIRED.
READ ON AND LEARN ABOUT THIS SHOW AFTER WHICH, IF YOU DO NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT RADIO SHOWS, PLEASE CONTINUE FOR MY HUMBLE 'RADIO SHOWS 101' WHERE I TRY TO EXPLAIN EXACTLY WHAT IS A RADIO SHOW AND WHY YOU NEED THEM FOR YOUR COLLECTION.
THE SPECIAL SERIES WAS CALLED RADIO KANDY
IT WAS BROADCAST ON THE UNISTAR/UNITED STATIONS RADIO NETWORK IN 1990
THE SERIES LASTED ONLY ONE AND ONE HALF YEARS PROBABLY BECAUSE OF HIS BUSY SCHEDULE AND GROWING MOVIE POPULARITY
THE SHOW WAS GREAT FUN AND WONDERFUL ENTERTAINMENT BECAUSE OF THE BRILLIANCE OF JOHN CANDY.
EACH SHOW WAS TWO HOURS LONG.
IT WAS NOT A COUNTDOWN SHOW. JOHN PLAYED THE MUSIC HE LOVED AND THERE WERE MANY WONDERFUL INTERVIEWS ON EACH SHOW PLUS JOHN'S HUMOR THROUGHOUT THE SHOW.
YOU CAN READ ABOUT THE SHOW ON THE PICTURED BILLBOARD ARTICLE, A COPY OF WHICH I WILL INCLUDE FOR YOU.
THE CUE SHEETS ARE INCLUDED AND ARE IN LIKE NEW CONDITION.
THESE SHOWS ARE RARELY SEEN ON EBAY OR DISCOGS
THIS SHOW IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. YOU WILL WANT TO LISTEN OVER AND OVER. (AND YOU CAN!!!)
THIS SHOW AIRED AUGUST 5 1989
I am pleased to offer these great and rare shows to you. It is not only the music but a piece of Americana that most people do not even know about. It is a piece of radio history you are getting with these shows. 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. I am saving those shows I treasure the most and sharing the rest with you for very reasonable prices.
SO HERE ARE THE BIG QUESTIONS IF YOU DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT RADIO SHOWS:
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.
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 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 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.
So, again, what is a radio show?
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 and evenings or less often during weekday or 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 download, they have a unique presentation of their favorite artist or music not available anywhere else and often with dj presentation which is very entertaining.
Some collect interviews with their favorite artists as most shows had interview segments.
Believe it or not, some collect commercials especially old car commercials but certainly not limited to only those.
AND they are increasingly hard to find. They 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.
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 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 limited editions in the hundreds at most and many much less
Remember that these shows are disappearing from the market because they are no longer available. The lp shows have not been made since the early 90's and they have the truest fidelity as you know if you are an audiophile. The CD shows are now also unavailable as shows are now only in digital downloads. So, the days of unique shows not copied from the soundboard of a station and sold as such are gone. This is all there is and will be.
It is said that selling radio shows is a vanishing hobby as the shows quickly disappear. Well, I still sell Betamax machines and they sell quickly whenever I list them so that is not true, but it is true that they will become rarer and harder to find so grab them now while the prices are still reasonable.
As always, I charge only shipping on the first show you buy for
Good Luck and God Bless You.