OT: The Ray Ford Show

With Pat's blessing I'm posting a link to a new live365 station my wife and I launched over the weekend, The Ray Ford Show.

I wanted to emulate the sound of 50s/60s music on AM radio as I used to hear it when I was a kid off in the distance, down to plate reverb and static, which I think we mostly pulled off. Plus, there are vintage jingles, commercials, and a huge playlist—I'm trying to keep this as varied as charts were back in the day, although that's the one pushback I'm already getting ("Too much pop!" "Too many ballads!" etc...or the exact opposite!)

Anyway, I'd appreciate your thoughts. I'm trying to move towards at least the hits being from mono sources and the correct versions but there are a few outliers still as I'm just transferring vinyl as I can, and there are already a ton of disc dubs. My wife inherited a slew of late 50s hits on really clean vinyl from her grandmother, whose husband ran a repair shop 60+ years ago - they were all in her basement, which was the real genesis of the idea of doing this.

Anyway, please let me know what you think!

The Ray Ford Show on live365

Edited by vanmeter

Heck no, this is a West Virginia Ray Ford. We’ve never been up the
holler and over the mountain which is why it sounds like 1962 still. We
hear he was a great broadcaster, though.

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I've been listening to your station for about ten
minutes. I love it. It really is like listening to AM
radio back in the day. Good luck with things going
forward.

No, nothing in particular. But thanks for asking. I
wound up listening for about 45 minutes and loved every
minute of it.

There are thousands and thousands, as you might expect...I'm a lifelong collector like many of you. The sources are all over the place...a lot of vinyl, plus CDs, an occasional cassette, and even 8-track for a cut or two. The real genesis of this was my wife finding a cache of really clean late 50s 45s in her grandmother's basement a couple of years ago, as her grandfather had run a repair/sales store at the time and apparently had rack jobber service at some point and just kept samples. I thought, "What can we do with these?" That's her on all the female voicers, so it's really a project for the both of us, down to her supplying a bunch of the 45s of the hits. I have a ton of vinyl I'm still adding as I have time to dub it, as well. I appreciate the comment as I have some radio friends telling me this should be only the top 15 and all that crap...I tell them we are going to try to cause people to actually listen to music again.


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