Radio Show AMERICAN TOP 40 w/SHADOE STEVENS YEAR END 12/29/89 #100-51 4 LP's

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 SO HERE IS THE BIG QUESTION:  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 evenings or 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 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 compilation bought at Wal Mart or downloaded through iTunes or wherever, they have a unique presentation of their favorite artist or music not available anywhere else and always with dj presentations which were very entertaining.  Some collect interviews with their favorite artists as most shows had interview segments.  Believe it or not, some collect commercials especially old car commercials but certainly not limited to only those.  AND, these shows are in limited quantity.  They were printed just for syndicated stations in the United States  Many have just a few still in circulation.  Some of the more popular shows may have as many as a few hundred of each week's show that survived but think about it.  A few hundred for some 200 million Americans and millions of overseas collectors who look for unique presentations of their favorite artists or form of music is about as rare as rare can be.  AND they are increasingly hard to find.  They were first distributed on reel to reel tape if the show goes back that far into the 60's, then later 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. These shows become rarer and rarer every day because the people who buy them hold on to them and the people who sell them, like me, are running out of them.  My best contact for these shows is running very low and when he is gone I will be at the mercy of finding a good deal here and there but never from a regular source.  The shows that you get now and hold on to will never decrease in value and only increase.  Even during the recession which is hopefully ending, the value of shows did not diminish much.  The number bought diminished because people were afraid to spend their money and who blames them.  But the prices did not decrease much and again are on the increase.  I have prided myself since the start to provide the best and fairest cost with a no holds barred 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 has decreased.  And, I have one of the biggest radio show libraries in the world consisting of many thousands of 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 radio at least music wise.  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 much less.  Once you get hooked, like me, it is a love affair for life!  Welcome to the Club!  IF YOU DO LIKE RADIO SHOWS FEATURING THE BEST MUSIC OF ALL TIME IN EVERY GENRE IMAGINABLE, YOU HAVE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE.  Here are some of the great series I have in LP or CD:  Dick Clark's Rock Roll and Remember, Flashback, Casey's Top 40 or Top 20, AT40, AT20 or AT10 with Casey, AT40 with Ryan Seacrest, Dick Clark's Countdown America, Dick Clark's National Music Survey,  Cousin Brucie, Live in the 60's with the Real Don Steele,  The Classics, Blues Deluxe, CMT Weekly Country Countdown, Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40, Weekly Country Music Countdown, Solid Gold Scrapbook, Hard Drive , Pile Driver, Back Traxx, Beatle Years,  Crook and Chase Country Countdown, Bill Cody's Country Oldies, Jukebox Explosion, Rise Up Country with John Ritter, Urban Mixx, Street Heat, Powerline, Good Time Oldies Magazine, Tom Joyner Mike Harvey's Super Gold, Tom Kent From the Basement 70's show,  House of Blues,  Leeza Gibbons Hollywood Confidential,  Leeza Gibbons countdown shows, and literally scores more so that it would take the rest of the page to name them all. Besides the two music rooms in my house, I also have a 10 x 20 air conditioned storage shed filled to the brim with great shows.  I have one of the biggest collections in the world.  They are all available to you for the asking.  I only have time to list a fraction of my shows because I work full time and this is my hobby, but just know they are there!  I give special discounts for bulk purchases of any show.  You tell me what you want, I put up a Buy It Now Auction for you, and they quickly head your way!!!  OK guys and gals, in this outing, A RARE TREAT!!!!   Picture yourself back in the late 50's or 60's, even the 70's.  You were glued to your transistor radio listening to the top 40 presented by your local radio station.  You had that radio glued to your ear or connected with the little earphone jack that immediately broke.  Your local dj was great.  He knew the music.  He had the gift of talking which rarely occurs anymore.  You loved the presentation of the music as much as the sounds.  You liked the station jingles.  And on weekends when the local dj's had off, you listened to either taped shows they did during the week to be played on the weekend or a syndicated radio show featuring one of the greats.  It was the golden age of rock.  Music was king and the dj's were just as popular.  You can relive those days with a dynamite countdown series like this with one of radio's best and most enduring dj's.       OK guys and gals, many of you remember my great SHADOE STEVENS AMERICAN TOP 40 shows.  Well, they are back, at least a few of them.  That's all I have left which is a shame but they are all safely in collectors hands who will love them and enjoy them.  These are the last.  I have not seen one advertised on ebay in forever so if you are in the market for a few new shows of this special unique series, you'll want to grab one.  I will try to get a few on this weekend a few more later.  SHADOE STEVENS is one of rock's greatest LEGENDARY dj's His shows are CLASSIC for his style and international following.  (Long after his US show was cancelled by ABC Broadcasting,  the International show still continued because of his enormous popularity overseas, first through the shows being broadcast on AFRN (ARMED FORCES RADIO NETWORK) to our troops all over the world and then through that to nations all over the world.  Every International country relished the AFRN programs and for good reason.  America has been the leader in music internationally for decades.       SHADOE's show is a classic top 40.  Of course the story is that Casey started AT40 and it became enormously popular but when it was contract renewal time and Casey held  out for more than what ABC , which owned the show's name, wanted to pay, Casey ended up on the outs and ABC enlisted Shadoe to take over the coveted host job.  Casey did not mind, he went on to Westwood One and kept his countdown show going as Casey's Top 40.  After a number of years, ABC decided that Shadoe's show did not have the ratings they wanted and decided to end his show.  It also was at a time when ABC decided that they could make some extra money selling the rights to AT40 and thus Casey left Westwood One and again was the host of AT40.  The rest is history.  Of course for Casey to ditch Westwood One after they took him on when he needed an outlet for his show has always been seen as an ethical problem, but then again business is business.  Shadoe was left out in the cold as it were but again, that's business.  However, these Shadoe shows, not only rare, are treasured because Shadoe was such an excellent host and his shows are sought after by collectors.   In my opinion Shado was a better host but Casey is Casey and so it goes.  Whatever.  You choose!    These shows are among the last before the show shifted to CD.  They are very rare.     In addition there are tremendous interviews and other features.     The show comes on  4 LP's in new condition, played only once on their network assigned date for broadcast,   and are distributed by ABC Radio Networks.     The cue sheets  come with this show and are in excellent condition.       This show aired on December 29, 1989 and  is show Year End          Here are the GREAT songs from this great special outing of SHADOE STEVENS.    REMEMBER THERE ARE ALSO  A BUNCH OF EXTRAS TOO!!!!                     THIS SHOW FEATURES THE YEAR END SPECIAL AND IS PART ONE OF A TWO PART SPECIAL END OF YEAR SPECIAL - THE TOP 100 OF 1989.   You can buy either part or both - both are listed for you.  If you have one of the year end specials, this is an opportunity to fill in your collection.  If you need both, well, here you are.     THIS SHOW FEATURES #100 TO # 51 FOR THE YEAR 1989,  IMAGINE, 50 SONGS ON ONE SHOW ALONG WITH THE FEATURES OF AT40 AND HAVING SHADOE AS YOUR DJ.  IT IS UNHEARD OF.  YOU WILL NOT SEE THIS ANYWHERE EVER.    HERE ARE THE SONGS YOU WILL HEAR IN THIS END OF YEAR SPECIAL FOR 1989 PART 1 STARTING WITH #100.     ALSO, THE ALBUM COVER, NOT PICTURED, HAS A SPECIAL GOLD SEAL MARKING IT 'YEAR END SPECIAL          Keep On Movin - Soul II Soul                The End of the Innocence - don Henly                  Surrender To Me - Ann Wilson and Robin Zander                What You Dont Know - Expose                 Thinking Of You - Sa Fire            Rock Wit'Cha - Bobby Brown            Heaven Help Me - Deon Estus               Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson               This Time AI Know It's For real - Donna Summer             Poison - Alice Cooper                  It's No Crime - Baby face                 Dreamin - Vanessa Williams              She Wants To Dance With Me - Rick Astley                I Wanna Have Some Fun - Samantha Fosx             Paradise City - Guns and Roses                  I Remember Holding You - Boys Club              What I Am - Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians              The Promise - When In Rome                       Lay Your Hands On Me - Bon Jovi             Love In An Elevator - Aerosmith             Roni - Bobby Brown            After All - Cher and Peter Cetera             All This Time - Tiffany               Close My Eyes Forever - Lita Ford with Ozzy Osbourne           Stand - REM                Shower Me With Your Lvoe - Surface           Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N Roses            Cover Girl - New Kids On The Block              Walk On Water - Eddie Money          Patience - Guns N Roses               Angel Eyes - Jeff Healey Band              Secret Rendezvous - Karyn White           Love Song - The Cure             Miss You Like Crazy - Natalie Cole             In Your Room - Bangles              Funky Cold Medina - Tone Loc            The Way You love Me - Karyn White           Second Chance - 38 Special            I Don't Want Your Love- Duran Duran            18 and Life - Skid Row            When The Children Cry - White Lion             Cherish - Madonna             Sowing The Seeds Of Love - Tears For Fears             Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond           I Like It - Dion              Express Yourself - Madonna         Satisfied - Richard Marx              Armageddon It - Def Leppard              You Got It - New Kids On The Block                        and                     So Alive - Love and Rockets                   This is the original show sent 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.  Each show comes from my personal collection of thousands of radio shows of every genre.   Stations could use the show anytime during that weekend and the remaining few ended up available to us all to enjoy. THIS SHOW IS SUPER RARE.  YEAR END COUNTDOWNS WERE ONLY AIRED ONCE EVERY YEAR AND SO WHILE THE SERIES ITSELF IS RARE, THE COUNTDOWN SHOW IS ULTRA RARE.  YOU WILL NOT SEE ANOTHER ON EBAY.  ANY REMAINING ONES ARE HELD ON TO BY COLLECTORS WHO WILL NOT SELL THEM. 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.      It just doesn't get much better than that, music fans!!!!  The show comes with its original national commercials.   On this show you will hear ones like these       Juicy Fruit Gum            ATT             Capri Sun         Skittles            Clearasil         Ice Breakers                 and more!  Some people buy these shows for their commercial collections!                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 and great announcing that makes it so entertaining.  As well, it is a piece of radio and music  history.  You just aren't going to find these shows around very much longer as everything becomes digitalized and downloaded for play and shows are no longer sent out on CD's. (This has already occured with most radio show series.)    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.   I am saving those shows I treasure the most and sharing the rest with you for very reasonable prices.  Those I do not sell, I will just keep!  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 show you buy so the more you buy the more money you will save.  For my international friends, pay shipping for the first show and all others in the same package ship for no extra cost.    Good Luck and God Bless You.