MERLE HAGGARD "THE STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS" 1990 UNISTAR 1 HOUR RADIO SHOW MINT

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THIS ALBUM COMES FROM THE TIME I WAS THE MUSIC & PROMOTIONS COORDINATOR FOR A MAJOR NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK BASED IN THE L.A. AREA. WHEN I STARTED WORKING THERE THEY WERE IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING RID OF THEIR RECORDS FOR CD'S. I ALSO HAVE SOME THAT WERE GIFTED TO ME BY AN EMPLOYEE OF THE NETWORK THAT WAS RELOCATING BACK EAST AND DIDNT WANT TO KEEP HAULING THEIR RECORDS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. ALSO A FEW MAY BE THRIFT STORE FINDS. I AM CURRENTLY DOWNSIZING.THIS LP IS OPENED BUT UNPLAYED. VISUALLY GRADED.

THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY (SORRY ABOUT THAT), BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON. THANKS FOR LOOKING.

ARTIST- MERLE HAGGARD

TITLE- “THE STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS WITH ED SALAMON”

TRACK LISTING- SEE PHOTO INCLUDES INTERVIEW SEGMENTS WITH MERLE, THE SONGS ON HERE ARE “MAMA TRIED”, “WORKING MAN BLUES”, “OKIE FROM MUSKOGEE”, “THE FIGHTIN' SIDE OF ME”, “GRANDMA HARP”, “IF WE'RE NOT BACK IN LOVE BY MONDAY”, “FROM GRACELAND TO THE PROMISED LAND”, “BIG CITY”, “THAT'S THE WAY LOVE GOES”, “TWINKLE,TWINKLE LUCKY STAR”, “A BETTER LOVE NEXT TIME”, “IF YOU WANT TO BE MY WMAN” & “BLUE JUNGLE”.

YEAR OF RELEASE- 1990 THE AUR DATE WAS FOR THE WEEKEND OF OCT. 27-28

LABEL- UNISTAR RADIO NETWORK

CAT.#- NONE

RECORD CONDITION- THE RECORD/SHOW NEVER AIRED, I GRABBED THIS FROM THE KICHEN AT THE UNISTAR RADIO NETWORK STUDIOS SHRTLY AFTER I GOT HIRED THERE, MY BOSS AT WESTWOOD ONE, ED SALAMON IS THE HOST OF THE SHOW

JACKET CONDITION- JACKET IN EXELLENT CONDITION

MORE INFO- THIS COMES WITH A LETTER FROM ED SALAMON REGARDING PERFORMANCE OF THE SHOW, THE OTHER SHEET IS THE CUE SHEET WITH THE INCUES AND OUTCUES.THIS IS IN W=EXCELLENT CONDITION, AND VERY RARE.

OH, I HAD TO ADD A PHOTO , THE ONLY ONE I WAS EVER PREVILEGED TO TAKE WITH MERLE HAGGARD OUTSIDE THE CAPITOL RECORDS TOWER HERE IN HOLLYWOOD. (SORRY IT'S NOT A PART OF THIS LOT, BUT I WOULD BE HAPPY TO EMAIL IT TO THE RECORD WINNER ON REQUEST.)

MORE INFO ON THE ARTIST & RELEASE-

Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, fiddler, and instrumentalist. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band the Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound, new vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville sound recordings of the same era.

Haggard's childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. He managed to turn his life around and launch a successful country music career, gaining popularity with his songs about the working class that occasionally contained themes contrary to the prevailing anti-Vietnam War sentiment of much popular music of the time. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, he had 38 number one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. Haggard continued to release successful albums into the 2000s.

He received many honors and awards for his music, including a Kennedy Center Honor (2010), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), a BMI Icon Award (2006), and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1977), Country Music Hall of Fame (1994) and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (1997).[5] He died on April 6, 2016 — his 79th birthday — at his ranch in Northern California, having recently suffered from double pneumonia.

Merle's last recording, a song called "Kern River Blues", a song that describes Merle's departure from Bakersfield in the late 1970s and his displeasure with politicians. The song was recorded February 9, 2016 and features Merle's son Ben on guitar. The single was released on May 12, 2016 marking the end of Merle's legendary career.

United Stations Radio Networks: Company History

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Transtar was founded in 1981 by C. Terry Robinson. The network debuted at around the same time as the Satellite Music Network, based in Mokena, Illinois. Both companies marketed themselves to prospective affiliates by offering carefully selected music presented by major market talent of high quality that a local station could never afford, as well as the capability of using existing studio equipment like reel-to-reel tape decks and cartridge playback machines to help make an affordable transition. A station signing up for the service would likely need a satellite antenna and receiver, a 25 Hz tone generator to place at the end of commercial clusters at the end of a break recorded on the reel, and 25/35 Hz tone sensors to trigger local liners and station identification. The network communicated with affiliates by using a computer printer (most likely in the studio) that would keep local programming staff informed of announcer changes, closed circuit feeds, and other vital information.

While Satellite Music Network had more affiliates, Transtar offered one major advantage over SMN...a digital cue system. This was especially important among potential affiliates that were FM stations. The digital cue system allowed the network to cue tape machines at the local affiliate station with external data channels sent on a separate digital subcarrier. SMN, on the other hand, cued stations using a subaudible tone on the program feed as it was aired live, but eliminated them from being heard by listeners through filtering out the lower end of the audio signal. While the difference in audio would be negligible at worst on an AM affiliate, it was particularly obvious on an FM station subscribing to the service when a bass line heard on a particular favorite song was now found to be missing.

An engineer at the receiving station could tweak the lower end of the signal by making adjustments on the station's audio processing, allowing the missing bass line to be heard, but then the subaudible cues would, as a result, be fully audible over the air. Transtar used this as a sales tool when marketing their service to prospective affiliates, while often charging inventory on top of a monthly subscription fee, feeling that prospective affiliates would be willing to pay more for a higher quality service. On the downside, announcer shifts, because they originated on the West Coast, all began and ended in the Pacific Time Zone, which made it difficult for East Coast-based affiliates to successfully market individual announcer dayparts, particularly during the morning. This would change years later, when announcer start times were adjusted to favor Eastern and Central Time zones.

In 1989, the company merged with the United Stations Radio Network (which had already bought the RKO Radio Networks in 1985). The new company was named Unistar. That entity, in turn, was bought by Westwood One in 1993.  The music networks were run as a self-branded division of Westwood One until 2006, when the agreement with Dial Global began.

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