LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

BOYS AND GIRLS,

 FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, 

AND FELLOW FOLLOWERS OF GREAT MUSIC PRESENTED THE WAY YOU GREW UP YOU

 IN THIS CASE THE  GREATEST CLASSIC ROCK MUSIC ALONG WITH  FASCINATING THEMES AND THE MOST CREATIVE SEGUES FROM SONG TO SONG THAT YOU WILL EVER HEAR ON ANY SHOW , YOU HAVE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE!

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 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. 

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!   

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.

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

FLASHBACK is probably the best classic rock show ever to air anywhere.

  And, while the music can be found anywhere, this show presents music in such creative sets it will please and amaze. 

 You will hear all the best in classic rock for FOUR hours on each show, ARRANGED IN GREAT THEMES. 

 Host BILL ST. JAMES, was host from the beginning of the show in the late 80's when still on lp until around 2011. he is a great dj and presents a full one hour theme and one hour with three or four  mini themes. 

The show comes on 4 CD's (FOUR hours) in perfect condition looking just like they were just pressed and played only once, the day they were aired. 

They come along with their cue sheets in excellent condition.

 The CD's are quite attractive with The FLASHBACK logo across the top in bright colors as seen in the listing picture.  They were produced as a quality item even though they were pressed for this single playing on the broadcast date.  

These CD's were played only once, the day they aired. 

One of the most enjoyable and unpredictable features of this great show is that many times during each theme snippets of commercials, news items, interviews, movie soundtracks, tv soundtracks and other entertainment related to the theme is intermixed with the music in perfect relation to the theme. 

 It makes each hour theme all that much more enjoyable and special. 

AND, following the last hour are approximately ten tracks of bonus theme material including collages and interviews and entertainment bits all in the clear which make them great for download into your personal collection 

AND A FLASHBACK STARPACK , a bonus track containing a collage of one group's major work in mix form.  

Please note that this the FOUR hour version of the Flashback show.  

The show came in two and four hour versions depending on what version the stations wanted.  The two hour version contains the first and last hour of the week's four hour version. 

 The cue sheets come with the two hour show just as with the four hour version along with all the extras on the last page of the cue sheet. Both versions are readily available in my ebay store. 

In fact, I have recently discovered that some stations ran a three hour version of the show.  

This show aired on October 29, 2007 and was show #1087

Exact song listings can be seen in the pictured cue sheets. 

Even the national commercials are interesting and fun to hear after all these years.  

  You don't have to hear any of those boring local commercials and if you don't like the national commercials just hit the next track and off you go back to the music. But, you will be surprised how many memories even these old commercials bring back after 30+ years.  

On this show you will hear Hallmark Cards, Radio Shack, Bose Corporation, Walmart, Ovaltine, Autozone, 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.   

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.  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.