Radio Show: Silver Anniversary - Four Tops Chart Debut 14 Tunes, 4 Interviews

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One of the things this oldies radio show series did best was its specialty theme shows.  Billing itself as the "Pop Music Almanac", Solid Gold Scrapbook prided itself in being the definitive oldies show on the radio.  For a hour each day, five hours a week,  for over 8 years, show hosts brought the best of music, interviews and information.  This show is a great example.  Called "silver anniversary of the four tops chart debut!"   the show brings you the most that you could ever hope for.  Just think, on a one hour show you will hear 14 classic tunes from the early rock era, all  GREAT TUNES PERFORMED BY ONE OF THE GREATEST GROUPS OF THE EARLY ROCK ERA, THE FOUR TOPS.  YOU WILL ALSO HEAR AN INTERVIEW FROM EACH OF THE FOUR TOPS DURING THE SHOW.       It is a great show.         It is a great hour.  The music is GREAT!   It is a testimony to the early rock era and you can enjoy it over and over again as your own oldies show.   These are the real oldies!  And they can be yours - music, interviews, and all the expertise of  show host Dick Bartley, an expert on rock music.      You will love this show and it belongs in your collection.    What a show!           It is a great variety of music along with interviews and fun facts.    How can you beat that!!!!!!   You will super great tunes and the best part is that you can hear them again and again, over and over,  whenever you want.  Over and over and over and over again, to quote a famous lyric!   It is the best theme for an oldies show ever made and Dick Bartley and his crew were masters at it.   Whether through him when he hosted the show or through his dj’s who came after him, you will enjoy the great production values of this series from beginning to end through over 1000 different shows over 7 years.     You enjoy their expertise on this show and every show made through their devotion to the best music of all time.        This is one great hour in music and the best of all, it is vinyl and virgin vinyl at that  probably played only the day it aired.  After that the stations were to destroy them or return them to United Stations.  Well, believe it or not, these shows all came from the United Stations executive to whom they were sent back.  And, guess what, he did not destroy them but indexed them by date and stored them for all these years until he decided to sell and I got them.   I have almost the whole collection and I am selling most of them to finance my son’s college education now that all my  retirement funds have tanked out.   (of course the market is better now but I spent so much so far that it does not really help me a lot.)    You have a unique opportunity to get some of the best shows ever made.  This series is the best oldies that ever aired on American radio.  You will just not hear most of these songs on any other show.  All the  artists featured in this series helped define rock music through their work  You will hear not only great tunes. but also interviews and stories about the artists  and their music that you have never heard before.  Great tunes will all come your way in this great one hour show with the unique themes that made the show the most popular oldies show ever to be on syndication.  The soundtrack of our lives were shaped by this music and  you will reminisce thinking of those people, events and where you were in your life.  This is all featured on this great hour of  music, commentary, stories and interviews.     This theme and all the themes on this great show were amazingly well done and have never been equaled.  Even Dick Bartley's update of this show, American Gold, does not have the huge variety of themes that this series had.    It was something only Solid Gold Scrapbook did and these shows are masterpieces. They belong in your collection!       The one hour show is on one stereo lp album and aired on the United Stations Radio Network on AUGUST 11, 1989.    The lp is in excellent, new, pristine   condition.   It is a quite attractive lp considering it was supposed to be played once and destroyed.  It has a cream background label with Solid Gold Scrapbook logo across the top and on the bottom of the label the United Stations logo, in brown.  It is a very attractive label.  Also on the lp is the  date of the show. The cue sheet comes with this show and is also in excellent condition.  The show was only played once, the day it aired, to the best of my knowledge since they were sent back to the distributor after airing.   In fact it may not have been played at all since many stations received two copies and only played one.   They had to be certified to United Stations that they were destroyed after airing or sent back to United Stations, so these shows are all very rare.  I recently found out that they are even rarer than I thought.  The stereo lp version of the show was only sent to the top 175 Metro markets. Smaller markets had to take the satellite feed.  So at the very most there were only 175 copies of each show EVER.   How do you compute rareness.  175 copies for the whole United States market and 23 years ago means that there might not be ANY more of these shows and at the very most there are 175 .       How many survived as did the ones I have is anyone's guess.  This show was hosted by  famous oldies dj MR MUSIC NORM N NITE.         Dick Bartley was the originator of the whole series and its host for most of the seven years it was in syndication.   There were two other hosts in the series, Mr. Music, Norm N. Nite who was one of the major influences in the origination of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a long time dj at WCBS-FM in New York before it flipped to "Jack" music a couple of years ago (it's now back and bigger than before but without Mr. Music),  and, for the last two years of the show, Dave Charity.  All were great dj's in the style of the dj's we were used to hearing and who you don't hear anymore especially if you do not have an oldies station anymore as most of you do not as the oldies demographic becomes less and less in favor with money grubbing station owners.     Please note that you will see these shows bunched in weekly groups and sold that way.  However, in that case you have to buy all five shows that aired that week just to get the one you want.  For almost 10 years I have sold them individually to collectors so that they can get the music they want and only the music they want.  In fact, any of you who had to buy the weekly box to get the show you wanted, I will buy the unwanted shows from you for the prorated price per show and make them available to other collectors who might want them.  There is nothing worse than a record you don't need or want.  When you buy only the show you want, you and I are both happy!       This show features   14   tunes in a massive tribute to THE GREAT FOUR TOPS ON THE ANNIVERSARY DATE OF THEIR FIRST CHART TOPPER along with FOUR great interviews, ONE EACH WITH EACH OF THE FOUR TOPS - DUKE FAKIR,            LAWRENCE PAYTON,             LEVI STUBBS,           AND          OBIE BENSON                and    all  presented in the unique Solid Gold Scrapbook format and in pure vinyl looking like the day it was pressed with  a much better quality sound than CD's.                                   Here are your tunes!            Baby I Need Your Loving,                 Ask The Lonely,                    I Can't Help Myself,                It's The Same Old Song,                         Shake Me Wake Me When It's Over,               Reach out I'll Be There,               Standing in the Shadow of Love,                          Bernadette,                    Seven Rooms of Gloom,                 Walk Away Renee,                Still Water Love,                        Keeper of the Castle,                            Ain't No Woman Like The One I Got,                 and            Are You Man Enough                           WOW!!!                       What a great  show!!!                Remember, when you buy this show, not only will you own the tunes but also interspersed between songs is fascinating commentary on the artists and songs that only Dick Bartley and the gang can provide.  Also, keep in mind that this and all the oldies shows 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 history.  You just aren't going to find these shows anymore.  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; in fact, believe it or not, I paid a lot more than you will because I tried to get the entire collection of this syndicated show.  I almost made it but then the sources dried up.  The dj from whom I bought the ones I had left the station,  and subsequent ones I bought were hit or miss in terms of what I had or did not have.  I finally gave up.  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!  Most people even enjoy the national commercials that are included on the show because some 15-20 years later they sound good!                                       Included  on this show   are        Teledisc with their latest album lp oldies offer,                Brownie Sundae,                Master lock,                  Maybelline Great Lash,               KMart,                          and more.  You can see by these commercials that the show attracted a great demographic as all these commercials are for fun products.      Some people buy the shows for the commercials  they collect!  Either way, it is a great show and would be a valuable addition to your collection.  As always, I charge only shipping on the first show you buy for U.S. buyers and discount the shipping for my international friends,  so the more you buy the more money you will save.  Good Luck and God Bless You.