LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

BOYS AND GIRLS,

 FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, 

AND ALL THE SHIPS AT SEA (APOLOGIES TO WALTER WINCHELL!) (If you are old enough to remember him)

WELCOME ABOARD THE USS 'KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES' WHERE WE CRUISE INTO THE WATERS OF THE PAST - YOUR PAST WHETHER IT BE THE 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, 70's, 80's, 90's AND  ALL THE WAY UP TO 2010 WHEN RADIO SHOWS NO LONGER WERE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC WHEN SHOWS BEGAN TO BE TRANSMITTED TO RADIO STATIONS VIA DIGITAL DOWNLOAD AND NOT CD's (OR BEFORE THAT LP's, REEL TO REEL TAPE, OR LP TRANSCRIPTIONS ON 16 INCH DISCS)

HOP ON BOARD AND JOIN THE OVER 1000 FOLLOWERS WORLD WIDE WHO LOVE NOT ONLY THE MUSIC BUT THE PERSONALITIES WHO PRESENTED IT THROUGHOUT THE AGES.

AND ON THIS CRUISE,  IF YOU GREW UP IN THE 80s AND LOVED THE BEST OF COUNTRY MUSIC; 

AND IF YOU LOVED THE DJ'S (BACK IN THE DAY THAT DJ'S WERE ALLOWED TO BE THEMSELVES INSTEAD OF ROBOTS

AND IF YOU ARE A FAN OF THE BEST OF COUNTRY COUNTDOWNS FROM THE KING OF COUNTRY DJ'S OVER THE PAST ALMOST 40 YEARS, IT WAS BOB KINGSLEY.  BOB'S KNOWLEDGE OF MUSIC OF ALL VENUES WAS LEGENDARY AND HIS SHOWS WERE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.  HIS PREMATURE LOSS WAS A TRAGEDY TO US ALL.  HE, PERHAPS MORE THAN ANYONE, HAS HIS FOOTPRINT ON THE SUCCESS OF COUNTRY MUSIC.  

YOU WILL LOVE THIS SHOW

 IT'S CALLED 

FOR THIS AND MANY OTHER GREAT RARE RADIO SHOWS YOU'VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE, KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES.

AND, HOW DO YOU DEFINE RARENESS??

THERE WERE NO MORE THAN 175 LPS OR CDS PRESSED FOR EACH SHOW (SHOWS PRIOR TO 1990 WERE USUALLY ON LP; SHOWS UP TO AROUND 2000 WERE PRESSED ON CD; AND SHOWS UP TO AROUND 2010 WERE PRESSED ON CDR.  SHOWS AFTER AROUND 2010 WERE DISTRIBUTED TO AFFILIATE STATIONS BY DIGITAL DOWNLOAD AND NO LONGER AVAILABLE TO COLLECTORS.  PRESSED FOR EACH WEEKLY SHOW.  THE 175 NUMBER 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 THE FOX KIDS RADIO NETWORK, 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. 

BUT FIRST, THE FINE PRINT.... WHICH IN THIS CASE IS ONLY GOOD!!!

 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.

PLEASE READ ON FOR A DESCRIPTION OF THIS SHOW AND SERIES AND THEN IF YOU ARE NOT TOO KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT RADIO SHOWS, PLEASE CONTINUE ON FOR MY HUMBLE 'RADIO SHOWS 101' MEANDERINGS ON WHY THEY ARE SO RARE, UNIQUE AND COLLECTABLE.

THIS SHOW WAS CALLED 'AMERICAN COUNTRY COUNTDOWN WITH BOB KINGSLEY' 

IT WAS A WEEKLY 3 OR 4 HOUR SHOW ON 3 OR 4 BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED AND PRISTINE LPs (DEPENDING ON THE RELEASE YEAR) WITH CUE SHEETS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION DESCRIBING EVERY SONG SPECIALLY PRESSED FOR RADIO USE ONLY

 IT WAS NEVER AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC

THE SHOW WAS ALL ABOUT THE HITS OF YOUR GROWING UP AND IT IS LIKE BEING IN A TIME MACHINE GOING BACK TO THE MUSIC OF THAT GLORIOUS DECADE.

YOU ALSO HEAR MANY 'EXTRAS' AND SPECIAL FEATURES, DIFFERENT ON EACH SHOW, AND SO MUCH MORE.

Robert Gibson Kingsley (March 19, 1939 – October 17, 2019) was an American country music  radio personality and a member of the National Radio Hall of Fame . He was best known as the host of two nationally syndicated radio programs:  American Country Countdown  (ACC) and Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40 .

Kingsley first worked on the radio while stationed in Iceland with the United States Air Force and retained his love for the military, hosting a daily show for the American Forces Radio and Television Service during the midst of the Vietnam War when the war was at its most unpopular in the United States.  He entertained troops (including me) at the risk of his own career.  

While serving with the United States Air Force  in 1959, Kingsley began his radio career at TFK, the Armed Forces Radio Service station in Keflevic, Iceland. He struggled at first. "I murdered the copy, absolutely murdered it. I'll never forget it. I wasn't very good, but I was hooked," Kingsley said many years later.  Bob often talked about his years in Iceland on his AFRTS daily shows. 

After leaving the military, Kingsley went looking for radio jobs, carrying demo tapes that he had made with an old tape recorder. After a DJ friend told him he needed a better demo tape and gave him access to a studio to record one, Kingsley found a sales job at a radio station in California. The station went off the air in the evenings, and they let Kingsley practice in the studio after he finished his work for the day. Kingsley said that he only sold commercials to one account in the six months he worked there.  He jocked at Los Angeles  country station KGBS for a few years, and then in 1970 became program director at KLAC which had just dropped (MOR) music for a country format.

Kingsley rose to national prominence in 1974 when he became the producer of the nationally syndicated American Country Countdown (ACC). Tom Rounds, a radio executive with Watermark, created ACC as a country music version of Casey Kasem's American Top 40  and Rounds had gotten Kingsley's name by word of mouth.

 Under Kingsley's watch, ACC won Billboard's "Network/Syndicated Program of the Year: Country" 16 years in a row, the only on-air personality and music program in any format to achieve this continued success.

In 2006, Kingsley signed a new distribution deal with  The Jones Radio Network (later acquired by Dial Global, which was subsequently acquired by Cumulus Media). The new countdown program was called Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40 and his two-minute program was called Bob Kingsley with Today's Hit Makers. In 2015

In October 2019, Kingsley was diagnosed with bladder cancer, forcing him to cede CT40 hosting duties for what was intended to be a temporary leave of absence. Kingsley died at his home in Weatherford on October 17, 2019, at the age of 80

THIS SHOW AIRED ON AUGUST 10, 1985

IT IS TRULY A ONE OF A KIND SHOW AND BELONGS IN YOUR SPECIAL COLLECTION.

You will even love the commercials because they too bring back memories.  Funny how we hated them back then but now, they are part of what we grew up  with.  

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 a while 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 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 or evenings or less often 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, Bob Kingsley 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 downloaded compilation , 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 especially old car commercials but certainly not limited to only those. 

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 by digital download much like you get your music from iTunes.  

 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.  With the postal service's recent (and regular) huge rate hikes, my shipping rates remained exactly the same as they were.

  And, I have one of the biggest radio show libraries in the world consisting of way 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!  

          REMEMBER, This is the genuine original show that was sent to the radio station 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.   

    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 in themes and great announcing that makes it so entertaining.

  As well, it is a piece of radio and music  history. 

 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.  

  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 cd or single lp show you buy so the more you buy the more money you will save. (For our International buyers all shipping is through the eBay International Shipping Program)

  Good Luck and God Bless You