More from Jeff collection

On this tape, Tape 7 side A, I used a noise reduction feature on my audio edit software and while it did a great job reducing the typical hiss and pops found on these older recordings, it also lowered the audio level quite a bit.

When I have time, I'll go back and see if there are other level adjustments to bring up the volume without distortion.

I particularly like both these recordings - I believe all will enjoy them; they are must downloads.

Tape 7 Side A without Noise Reduction

Flipper - Life (The only thing worth living for)

Joy Division - Dead Souls

Wire - Blessed State

The Stranglers - Vietnamerica

Music recap - (Is this Dave or Dj Milo?)

Bill Nelson - A Private View

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Iconic Storage

The Specials - Ghost Town

Jacob Miller - Once Upon a Time

Augustus Pablo - Herbal Weed Dub

Creation Rebel - Rebel Party

Turns out REM was to be in the studio for an interview and they were late. Anyone remember this interview or perhaps when they would have been in concert around this time?

Tape 7 Side A with Noise Reduction (Thanks Uncle Jim & Jugdish for figuring this out- this tape is Tape 5 Side B from the Early Morning Upload).

Okay, turns out the download with Noise Reduction on it is actually another tape which I'll have to investigate - so, download both. I'll tell you, this tape is also great and actually very clean audio.

Tracks -

Gang of Four - Damaged Goods

Family Fodder - Symbols (From the album Monkey Banana Kitchen)

Orchestre Rouge - Red Orange and Blue

The Clash - Straight to Hell

Music Recap by Sarah

The Suburbs - Flag of Convenience

The Suburbs - Waiting

DEVO - Out of Sync

Pete Shelly - Telephone Operator

Bill Nelson - UHF

Peter Gabriel - Perspective

Don't forget to download both of these are they are different recordings. Please post your feelings on if you like with NR or not. If the audio level is okay - I may add the NR to other tapes. (Turns out everyone likes the NR off and I agree).

As always, please come back and leave comments.

Welcome Peggy!

Peggy from my high school posted the new 94.7 'HFS site on Facebook then headed here to check out my blog. Cool.

So, for Peggy, I thought I would add a 99.1 tape next.

99.1 Tape 18 side A - Get it here!
I'm listening to this tape now and it's got more hiss than I like but when I reduce it, the audio level suffers. There is a classic concert calendar as read by Sarah.

Does anyone know the time frame when Mark and Diane were Djs at the same time Sarah was?



Don't forget- if you download, leave a comment and after listening to it a review of the tape would be great as well.

WHFS & Snow cancellations January 23rd, 1987

January 22nd, 1987 approx. 11 PM at night. 

Hope this morning tape upload greets some of you like the overnight snow in MD did when we were young. Expecting school and getting sometimes only a dusting but knowing school would be delayed or cancelled b/c of those few impassable roads in the rural parts of the county. Never understood why they just couldn't go school by school or maybe even city by city rather than county by county. Man, sitting there waiting for your county to be called out on radio, "Howard, Prince Georges, Montgomery...". MONTGOMERY!!! NO SCHOOL!!" What to do now is the question...Not enough snow to go sledding. Football? Yeah, that's always fun. But Mom usually would say great day to get some chores done around the house. Really, the best thing about those snow days where being able to go back to sleep for a while longer. Then to have a nice long hot breakfast, one you are not scarfing down as you hear echoing off the walls "You're going to miss the bus!!!"

Ahhhh....relax, go back to a time when your day was derailed in a good way because of some snow.

I didn't know WHFS also did school closing announcements. Did anyone listen to 'HFS in high school? I would have tuned into 105.5 or 107 back then while living in College Gardens in Rockville.

Songs prior to the weather report are from Jan. 22nd 1987: 
The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom
The English Beat - Tenderness
Wire Train - In the Chamber of Hellos
Vigil/Here Today - Whistle in the Yard 
Dance Society- 2000 Light Years 
U2 - Into the Heart
U2 - Out of Control
Station break
The Venetians - Let it all go
Grace Jones - Walking in the rain
Bob Marley - Coming in from the cold
Rolling Stones - Just my Imagination
Weather report 

Here's that weather report from around 11 PM the night before. Nothing like being glued to your radio in your room waiting for them to say your County.  The January 23rd, 1987 date in the Farmers Almanac for the DC area says the low was approx. 20 degrees with 10 inches of snow on the ground  at National airport.

Does anyone remember that snow day? How about that week? According the tidbit  below it was one heck of a week! 

Here's an interesting tidbit from NOAA.gov site.

MARYLAND'S HISTORIC WINTER EXTREMES:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/Historic_Events/md-winter.html

January 22-28 1987:   Two significant snowstorms struck within 3 days of each other and were followed by a cold wave that dropped temperatures below zero in some areas. The first storm struck on January 22 and dropped 12 inches of snow at Baltimore and 11 inches in Hagerstown and Washington, DC. Like other nor'easters, this one was accompanied by strong winds and drifting of snow. The second storm struck just 3 days later on January 25 dropping an additional 9 to 10 inches on top of what had already fallen in the Baltimore and Washington areas and more over southern Maryland and the Lower Eastern Shore. On the morning of the 27th, stations were reporting the following snow depths: Salisbury 18 inches, Easton 17 inches, Baltimore 19 inches, Waldorf  23 inches, Washington DC 18 inches, Frederick 16 inches, Hagerstown 16 inches, and Frostburg 15 inches. Morning temperatures were in the single digits and by the morning of the 28th, below zero. Pikesville was -5F, Bel Air and Hagerstown -4F, Easton -3F, Annapolis -1F, Washington-Dulles Airport was -17F and Martinsburg WV was -7F. A third snowstorm hit on February 22 dropping another 10 inches on Washington and Baltimore.Hagerstown reported 13 inches and thunder-snow. Power lines and trees were damaged by the weight of the heavy wet snow.

Here's the entire tape with the songs documented above.

Leaving this information below up so I can find that tape and figure why I have some mixed information. 

More from Tape 5 side B (download links are now dead) 
Enjoy!

Early morning upload Tape 5 side A (download links are now dead) 
These three tracks are from 1982 -1983 so this tape may be '84 since it's January.  
Maybe Side B which could have been from WHFS 102.3 and 1984, 1985. 

Echo and the Bunnyman - Higher Hell
The Mothman - One more Weapon
Toylets - It's like a daydream exploding again
A great weather report with gusting winds - check it out
Tape continues on with some great music

The first of the Jeff_M collection is served

Thanks Jeff for these tapes and the great friendship we developed - You are a Great American! Thanks for taking us all back to a time where emotion and mood dictated what was played and how long a set was and not corporate greed and playlists.

This tape has both long set music recaps - I love the DJ's and the commercials!

Tape 13 side A - get it here Milo
Fade in
Suicide - Keep your Dreams (It's actually Dream Baby Dream - Milo said the wrong song!)
Eric Random - Fade Out
Throbbing Gristle - Hot on the heels of Love
Pyrolator -
Milo music run down
Flipper - Life
Kemp Mill Records -Weasel reading "cutout records as low as 2 for .99"
The Ex Tra's - Haven't been Funked Enough
Holger Czukay - Cool in the Pool
Fellfarben -
Half Japanease - Thing with a Hook
The Big Boys - Hollywood Swingin'

Tape 13 side B - get it here
Milo at the helm -
U2 – Out of Control
Sport of Kings – This City in Darkness
Dance Society – These Frayed Edge
The Method Actors – Commotion
Bananarama – Dub Wanna

Wax Museum concert announcment
UB40, Men Without Hats, Eurythmics, King Sunny Ade

Commercial
Weasel reading “For a Rockin’ good time, come to the Psychedely”
Featuring "Tru Fax and the Insaniacs with Jay Cee and the Trouble Boys"

Siouxsie and the Banshees -
Continues with some Techno and Techno Funk

Both tapes are approx. 100MB, 45 minutes and MP3@320kb

More to come - All the copied tapes, 14 45 minute sets are all now uploaded and will be posted over the next week. I'll start on the final six tapes soon.

As always, please leave a comment and pass this site along to your buddies.

14 new WHFS tapes arrived!

Thanks to Jeff M. from No. VA for shipping his prized possessions. Jeff found my WHFS & other great music blog about a month ago and we have had great dialog via email since. The tapes arrived this week and now I'm setting my sites to this weekend when I can start dubbing the tapes then starting the uploading process.

I've listened to one already tonight while doing other online work and I can tell from this first tape we are all in for a treat. The first tape had Sarah at the helm with some great sets including I would say a rare U.S. radio play of Men Without Hats Safety Dance in what sounded like German.

For all you 102.3 heads the count is 9 102.3 to 5 99.1 tapes. The tapes are all Memorex MRX1 tapes, a mainstay in the 80s.

So, keep checking back over the next few weeks for the Jeff M. collection.

Naplesgc

Solid 99.1 WHFS tape

Gooff Tape 4 Side A
Some static is present at times on this tape.

Starts off with -
Little Feat - Dixie chicken and tripe face boogie from Waiting for Columbus
Katrina and the Waves – Mexico

Music recap with Bob “Here”

Classic Kemp Mill Records commercials – “Both Rockville locations…$4.99!”
WHFS summer t-shirt ($10)

Love Shack – The Knitters
Carl Perkins – Matchbox
Stray Cats – Did Dirty Doggy
Robert Gordon - Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache
Beat Farmers – Reason to Believe
Lonnie Mack – If You Wanna Know

Music recap with Bob “Here”
A commercial promotion for John Prine with Seldom Scene at Wolftrap.

Billy Bragg – It Says Here
Guitar instrumental - Star Spangled Banner (Hendrix?)

Tape is approx. 105MB, 46 minutes and MP3@320kb

Look here

Please - if you download, leave a comment and after listening to it a review of the tape would be great as well. Don't forget to head over to my WHFS great music forums (This forum has been removed b/c the simpleforums.net went bye bye. =-( Stayed tuned for another forum site)

Beach music meets Jazz Fusion

Summer of 1985 - Geoff Tape #4 Side B

This tape has a rare yet classic :25 seconds of silence when maybe a song ended earlier than Bob thought? Bob “Here” improvises then hurries through the previous songs to make up for the lost time.

Commercial – “Some like it hot……one of todays hot new bands - Power Station”

Up next a 5 song beach music set -

I Hate the Beach Boys - The Bobs
Promise Land - Chuck Berry
Fun Fun Fun - The Beach Boys
Splashback! - Jon & The Nightriders
Twistin’ By The Pool - Dire Straits (One of my favorites during the summers in Ocean City)

From beach music to 10 minutes of Jazz fusion ending with The Police and Sting
Blaze - Steve Kuhn
Driven to Tears - The Police

Look here for Tape 4 side B

Tape is approx. 105MB, 46 minutes and MP3@320kb

Please - if you download, leave a comment and after listening to it a review of the tape would be great as well. Don't forget to head over to my WHFS great music forums

WHFS - Tape 3 side A & B

Here's another tape from probably around 1985 or so. A good solid tape with what seems typical 'HFS from around this time.

So, with some of the Christmas songs included we can pin this down to most likely a couple weeks into December at least.

I took some guesses as who was singing the particular songs since no station breaks were available on the tape. Perhaps Geoff can shed some light on these recordings.

Tape 3 - side A

Somebody help me - The Everly Brothers

Feel a Whole Lot Better when you're Gone - The Byrds

I've been lonely too long - The Rascals

I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down - Elvis Costello & the Attractions

Peace Love and Understanding - Elvis Costello & the Attractions

Christmas at Kmart - Root Boy Slim

Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses

Dancing in the Dark - Kim Wilde

Hey Now (Girls just Wanna have Fun) - Cyndi Lauper

Brand New Lover

Hey Mae - Shakin Stevens

It's odd no station breaks but maybe there are "pause" breaks and I can't tell.

So, side B has no station breaks either that I can tell - download and be surprised.

Get side (A) here and (B) here

Both tapes are approx. 105MB, 46 minutes and MP3@320kb

Please - if you download, leave a comment and after listening to it a review of the tape would be great as well. Don't forget to head over to my WHFS great music forums

Damian singing the blues

Blues Blues Blues.

Included in this post are A and B side of Damian spinning some serious blues. Without station breaks it's tough to know the names of the songs or artist. Some of what's on these tapes are:

The Blind Dog Blues Band from Parkville, MD playing When I'm Gone
Johnny Adams singing Life is a Struggle
John Prine and a whole lot of friends playing I Just Want to be with You
Marcia Ball singing Gator Rhythms

In between the above and after are a whole lotta blues.

Check them both out here and here

Both tapes are approx. 105MB, 45 minutes and MP3@320kb

Please - if you download, leave a comment and a review of the tape would be great as well. Don't forget to head over to my WHFS great music forums

Live from The Lizard Lounge - A side of Tape 1 -

Just finished the second side (A side) of the 1st of ten tapes from Geoff. Nice tape with three, that's three three song sets from Echo & The Bunnymen, Jane's Addiction and The Smithereens. All this during a Station Renovation Weekend live from The Lizard Lounge. The tape starts with a U2 song and ends with almost two from Public Image Ltd including "Rise".

Scattered within these sets is a Dr. Katherine Cruel M.D. skit along with the first 10 callers get a pass to the Gross National Product's Scandal Tour.

So, can anyone date this tape? One clue, when the DJ was talking about what seemed to be mild blackmail, she talked about sending a tape to America's Funniest Videos rather than posting them online.

The three song sets include: Echo & The Bunnymen's Lips Like Sugar, Bed Bugs and Ballyhoo, Never Stop; Jane's Addiction's Stomp, Jane Says and Ben Caught Steelin'; The Smithereens’ Behind the Wall of Sleep, Yesterdays Girl, Only a Memory.

Get it here

Tape is 104MB, 46 minutes and a MP3@320kb

Please - if you download, leave a comment and a review of the tape would be great as well. Don't forget to head over to my WHFS great music forums

1st of 10 tape set

It's Uncle Jim that helped make this upload happen - thanks for giving me a kick. I have my recording area set up again and will start adding the 10 tape set send to me from Geoff in No. Va back in the summer. Thanks again Geoff for the tapes.


Some of what's on this tape
(A kick butt instramental)
Peter Gabriel -
New Order - Confusion
Devo - Gut Fellin'
Iggy Pop -Popping for Joy
INC Magazine
WHFS t-shirt ($8 check)
Ken on for Bob...Sarah will be in at 10..."
Jonathan Richmond
and more!

The tape is 105 MB, 46 minutes and MP3@320kb

Look here

Please - if you download, leave a comment and a review of the tape would be great as well. Don't forget to head over to my WHFS great music forums

10 new classic WHFS tapes just arrived!

My first venture into receiving tapes from others that recorded WHFS back in the day. Thanks to Geoff in VA for sending along what he had from what appears to be the late 70's to early 80's. So far I've listened to two tapes, one with no air-checks and the other with Damian spinning an awesome blues set. Once I'm back from vacation I'll start the process of converting the tapes, looking for air-checks, loading clips as well as some whole tapes.

I'm now putting a call to all that have vintage recordings of WHFS to contact me so we can start a dialog to get me the tapes for inclusion on the site. Contact at naplesgc@gmail.com or leave a comment - that works too.