78rpm Radio - North America
A list of good radio programmes featuring Vintage Popular Music originating from 78rpm recordings
this page first published by John Wright, 18 May 1997
last update 17 May 2005
vintage@jabw.demon.co.uk
E-mail John Wright if you know a good radio programme to add to this list
In USA:
Much of the US information comes from communications in the
78-L Internet Group for 78rpm collectors.
- Al Barnes writes: listen to Vintage Jazz - a program music of the 20's and early 30's
(jazz, pop, vocals, novelty and more). Every Thursday 9:00 AM - Noon (PST) on KBCS 91.3 FM (Seattle area).
On the Internet at http://kbcs.fm
- Don Mayer writes: listen to Cynthia Doyon's 'The Swing Years and Beyond", on KUOW
Website: http://www.kuow.org/swing_years.asp
the broadcast time is from 7 pm until midnight Pacific Standard Time (PST) on Saturday nights.
- Cary Ginell presents "Jazz Routes" at KCLU - 88.3 Ventura County, 102.3 Santa Barbara County
and at www.kclu.org
Sundays, 6:30-8:00pm PST
- Glenn Robison hosts Rapidly Rotating Records, broadcasting Sundays at
6:00pm (Pacific) on KISL-FM, 88.7, Avalon (Santa Catalina Island) California.
It is rebroadcast Saturdays at 6:00pm. KISL is available
streaming online at www.kisl.org
The one hour program of "toe-tapping music from the 1920s and 30s" features sets of songs
assembled around historical and music trivia. The program can also be heard streaming online
Wednesdays at 5:00 PM (Eastern) on MPAK Internet Radio at
www.mpakproductions.com
It is also available "on demand" on Radio Free World at www.radiofreeworld.com
Glenn can be reached at Glenn@GlennRobison.com and his website is www.GlennRobison.com
- Mike Mikels writes that MPAKRADIO also airs a
3 hour shows every Tuesday at 5 P.M. called Swingtime. It is hosted by
Orin J. and features music from the 30's and 40's primarily. Background
information is supplied on all the recordings played with attention paid
to the arrangements and soloists who made these recordings so special.
- Ray Smith has a show called The Jazz Decades, on WGBH FM 89.7 in Boston, MA.
Sunday nights, 7-8.00pm and now streams live on the web. He plays things
Traditional/New Orleans/Dixieland recorded from the early 1900s to the
present.
- YUSA, Texas, 9-11pm Eastern, 'Yesterday USA', is on satellite on WGN-TV transponder
and it is also at www.yesterdayusa.com
They broadcast old time radio shows and swing/dance band music.
- Pat Patterson writes: I am the host of a weekly radio program
on WWOZ 90.7 FM in New Orleans called "Hot and Rare". My program
specializes in Jazz and Hot Dance recordings from 1917-1932.
I do also play some New Orleans revival era material, as well as
some swing period stuff. The show airs from 9am-11am CST on Thursday
mornings. WWOZ is also webcast. People can go to
http://www.wwoz.org to hear our station
24 hrs a day.
Also on Monday Mornings from 9am till 11am CST Tom Saunders hosts
a Hot Jazz program. Tom is himself a traditional jazz musician
who plays tuba, bass and bass sax. He has a massive
collection of 78RPM recordings and often remasters
them himself for play on the air. Toms' program also
specializes in Jazz and Hot Dance.
- Dave Bartholemew has a one-hour radio show called "Friction"
that features, along with his brief commentary, the jazz, dance music, and personalities
from the 20's and 30's, mostly from his collection. It is broadcast on the last Thursday of the month
at 8:00 PM EST (1:00 AM in the UK!) and is repeated the following Sunday at 10:00 EST.,
from WMKV FM (89.3) in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
For the rest of their 24 hour broadcast time, they also feature 78's,
of mostly swing and big bands from the 30's and 40's.
Checkout the website WMKV FM where they may have set up live streaming of the radio station, so anyone can listen.
You can e-mail the station at WMKVFM@sossi.net
- Randall Olson writes: "I do a radio program Sunday nights 9 to 11 on WVRQ-FM in Viroqua,
Wisconsin (30 miles south of Lacrosse), 102.3 on the FM dial. I call
it "Bluegrass Bonanza!" and start out with hard grass and go where
the music or listeners desire (I've got kind of a loyal following).
I throw in 78's (usually on cassette, which I transfered) of every
style...jazz, hillbilly, comedy, novelty, etc. love them good old
melodies!
You can contact Randall on cedar@frontiernet.net
- "Hot Jazz Saturday Night" hosted by Rob Bamberger. It is heard weekly on public radio WAMU-FM (88.5) in Washington DC,
and is distributed internationally on America One and the Armed Forces Radio Network. Much of the music comes from Rob's personal
collection of 78s.
- Matias Bombal hosts "Classic Jazz and Swing" on Capital Public
Radio/NPR. 2 hours of vintage 78's every Sunday evening on stations KXJZ, KKTO, and KUOP in California and Nevada.
This is also streaming on the net at actual air time, 9 pm Pacific Time at:
http://www.csus.edu/npr/audiostream.html Select the KXJZ audio stream.
More on Matias Bombal at: A HREF="http://www.csus.edu/npr/bombal.html">http://www.csus.edu/npr/bombal.html
Matias Bombal matiasbombal@sbcglobal.net
- Swing Time and The Big Broadcast on WFUV 90.7FM in New York City, Saturday and Sunday nights 8.00-11.00pm.
-Rich Conaty has presented shows since 1972, playing jazz, vocal and danceband music from the 1920's to 1940's.
You can get recordings from the show if you send two C90's and a self-addressed envelope to:
WFUV, Big Broadcast, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458.
Swing Time and The Big Broadcast can be heard "live" on WFUV's website: http://www.wfuv.org
e-mail Rich Conaty for further information.
- Citizen Kafka writes:
I am the co-producer, with Pat Conte, of the Secret Museum of the Air on WFMU
91.1 New York City.
We play 78's and cylinders of the world's music from 1890 to the 1950's.
The Shanachie/Yazoo CD's are offspring of the radio show.
UPDATE:1 hour, EACH and EVERY Wednesday from 7 to 8 PM EST.
Also can be heard with Real Audio over the internet at:
Secret Museum
- "The Antique Phonograph Music Program" is also broadcast
on WFMU, 91.1 FM serving the New York City area and WXHD serving the
Hudson Valley area EVERY OTHER Tuesday at 7pm EST.
If anyone is interested in playing their own 78's on this show then
e-mail macnyc@concentric.net
Check out: past playlists
Questions? contact mac via e-mail at: Mac@wfmu.org or send stuff to:
The Antique Phonograph Hour, c/o WFMU, P.O. Box 1568, Montclair NJ 07042
- "The Old Record Shop" on KNDK (1080kHz AM) in
Langdon, North Dakota, every Sunday from 3 to 5 pm, Central Time.
Vincent Fitzpatrick writes:
"The first hour I play swing bands and vocalists from 1935-45, and in the
second hour, bands and vocalists from 1925-34. The program is audible
in much of the eastern half of North Dakota and well into Manitoba".
Contact Vincent Fitzpatrick
- Peter Doyle wrote: I do a twice weekly program on WXXI-FM (91.5) in Rochester, NY
called "Between The Wars" on which I use 78's extensively.
- Suffolk County, Long Island, NY. Radio Station WLIM, 1580 AM,
includes 78s on the playlist. Bob Stern is program director and mid-day host.
- Elizabeth McLeod wrote: Maine Public Radio, on 90.1 or 90.9.,
Friday afternoons from 2 to 4pm, "Down Memory Lane" plays music from 1928-1958.
- Mike Biel wrote: WUKY 91.3 of the University of Kentucky in Lexington airs a program on
Sat mornings "The Saturday Show"from 9 to 11am with some old jazz, and
then from 11 till 1pm "The Make Believe Ballroom".
In Canada:
G. Besharah wrote: In Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, be sure to tune your auto's wireless to CFCR 90.5 FM, Sunday nights at 7 pm.
"There Goes That Song Again" features artists (and songs) from the 78rpm era, many recordings played in their original 78 format.
Also, the show has a website http://members.home.net/za-zu and you can e-mail the show at
za-zu@home.co