Description: SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU GREW UP ANYTIME FROM THE 50's INTO THE 2000's (AND THAT'S PRETTY MUCH ALL OF US!), YOU REMEMBER 'AMERICA'S TEENAGER' DICK CLARK (HE WAS NICKNAMED THIS BECAUSE HE NEVER SEEMED TO AGE AS HE GOT OLDER AND STILL LOOKED LIKE THE YOUNG DASHING HOST WE SAW ON AMERICAN BANDSTAND IN THE LATE 50's AND BEYOND, AND LATER ON 'DICK CLARK'S ROCKIN' NEW YEAR'S EVE SPECIALS ON ABC.AND ON RADIO, DICK ALSO MADE HIS MARK WITH NATIONALLY BROADCAST WEEKLY AND DAILY RADIO SHOWS.THIS COUNTDOWN PROGRAM WAS ONE OF HIS MOST POPULARAHOY MATEYSARE YOU READY??LET ME HEAR IT!!ARE YOU READY TO SET SAIL ON THE GOOD SHIP SS KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES, FOR A VOYAGE CHARTING THE BEST OF VINYL AND CD RADIO SHOWS?RADIO SHOWS FOR LOVERS OF GREAT ROCK MUSIC OR GREAT COUNTRY MUSIC FROM THE 50's INTO THE 2000's.... WEEKLY COUNTDOWN SHOWS FEATURING YOUR FAVORITE ACTS BOTH ROCK OR COUNTRY.....TRIBUTE SHOWS FEATURING ONE ACT OR ARTIST......LIVE COUNTRY OR ROCK LIVE CONCERTS....FOLK MUSIC SHOWS.....BIG BAND ERA SHOWS...INTERNATIONAL SHOWS....GOSPEL AND INSPIRATIONAL RELIGIOUS PROGRAMMING....RARE INTERVIEWS WITH ARTISTS, MANY OF WHOM ARE NO LONGER WITH US...AND MORE?FEATURING ROCK'S AND COUNTRY'S MOST POPULAR DJ's....WHEN DJ'S WERE ALLOWED TO BE DJ'S AND NOT JUST ROBOTS PLAYING 'MOST MUSIC' AND READING CANNED LINES, AND WHEN SHOWS HAD SPECIAL RARE INTERVIEWS AND OFTEN FASCINATING THEMES, AND NOT JUST THE SAME TOP 20 SONGS EVERY HOUR, OVER AND OVERAND,EACH SHOW IS SUPER RARE, UNLIKE COMMERCIALLY RELEASED LPs OR CDs RELEASED IN THE THOUSANDS, HUNDRED THOUSANDS OR MILLIONS...AND HOW DO YOU DEFINE RARENESS??THERE WERE NO MORE THAN 170 LPS OR CDS PRESSED FOR EACH RADIO SHOW. THIS REPRESENTED THE TOP 170 RADIO MARKETS IN THE COUNTRY AND ONLY ONE STATION IN EACH MARKET COULD AIR THE SHOW. STATIONS IN MARKETS BELOW THE TOP 170 (THERE ARE 306 MARKETS IN THE UNITED STATES) HAD TO TAKE THE SATELLITE FEED OF THE SHOW FROM WESTWOOD ONE, THE SYNDICATOR OF THE SERIES)AND, DUE TO CONTRACTUAL LEGAL OBLIGATIONS, EACH RADIO STATION WAS ALLOWED TO AIR EACH SHOW EXACTLY ONCE AND NO MORE. SO, MOST RADIO STATIONS JUST DESTROYED THEM AFTER AIRING SINCE THEY WERE USELESS TO THE STATION AFTER AIRING. THERE IS NO TELLING HOW MANY OF EACH SHOW SURVIVED. WHO KNOWS - THIS COULD BE THE ONLY ONE.SO, WELCOME AGAIN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,BOYS AND GIRLSFRIENDS AND NEIGHBORSAND ALL THE SHIPS AT SEA (BACK TO OUR THEME) AS WAS SAID BY WALTER WINCHELL AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH OF HIS DAILY NEWSCASTSOK, A SMALL DIVERSION, WHO WAS WALTER WINCHELL? (I WAS A TEACHER SO I AM ALWAYS AT MY JOB!!!)AND ALL THE SHIPS AT SEA (CREDIT TO WALTER WINCHELL IF YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHO HE IS...SADLY, I DO! IT WAS HIS BEGINNING OF EVERY ONE OF HIS NIGHTLY NEWS SHOWS BACK IN THE DAY...WAY BACK IN THE DAY!!!)Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 - February 20, 1972) was a syndicated American newspaper columnist and radio news commentator Winchell began his newspaper career as a Broadway reporter, critic and columnist for New York tabloids. He rose to national prominence in the 1930s with the Hurst newspaper chain syndication and a popular radio program. He was known for an innovative style of gossipy -staccato news briefs, jokes, and jazz age slang. Biographer Neal Gabler claimed that his popularity and influence "turned journalism into a form of entertainment"SO ONCE AGAIN,MATES AND MATEYS, WELCOME TO THE SS KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES, ONE OF EBAY'S PREMIERE BUYERS AND SELLERS OF PRISTINE RARE RADIO SHOWS OF ALL GENRES ALONG WITH OTHER GREAT VINTAGE AMERICANA THAT COLLECTORS ALL OVER THE WORLD TREASURE.KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES SELLS TO ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY IN THE FREE WORLD FROM AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN TO ENGLAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN, DENMARK, FRANCE, ITALY AND GERMANY, AND FROM BRAZIL TO CHILE.PLEASE NOTE FELLOW COLLECTOR FRIENDS THAT WHEN YOU BUY FIVE OR MORE ITEMS FROM MY STORE AT ONE TIME THAT EBAY WILL IMMEDIATELY DISCOUNT YOUR INVOICE BY 20% IT IS THE LEAST I CAN DO FOR MY FELLOW COLLECTORS WHO LOOK FOR GREAT DEALS AS MUCH AS I DO! PLUS LOOK FOR EBAY COMPUTER GENERATED BONUS 15% OFF DISCOUNTS THAT WILL APPEAR AT UNEXPECTED MOMENTS (HINT - IF YOU FIND SOMETHING YOU LIKE BUT DON'T HAVE ENOUGH CASH TO GET IT, LEAVE IT IN YOUR CART FOR AWHILE AND THE EBAY SYSTEM WILL PICK IT UP AND MAY SEND YOU A DISCOUNT COUPON)OR DON'T WAIT, JUST SHOOT ME AN OFFER EVEN IF IT A SHOW WHERE MAKE AN OFFER IS NOT ENABLED.AND IF YOU COMBINE THE ABOVE WITH SOME SELECTIONS FROM KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES WEEKLY HALF PRICE AND REDUCED PRICE SPECIALS, YOU WILL SAVE EVEN MORE....MUCH MORE!! JUST CLICK ON THE TAB ON KEITH'S HOME PAGE TO SEE ALL THE VARIED OFFERINGS TO WHICH MORE ARE ADDED ALMOST DAILY.KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES PRESENTS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR NATIONAL COUNTDOWN RADIO SHOWS THAT EVER AIRED(I'M SURE THAT YOU, LIKE ME, SPENT A PART OF EVERY WEEKEND LISTING TO THE TOP 40 OR TOP 30 COUNTDOWNS. IT WAS SO EXCITING TO SEE WHERE OUR FAVORITE SONGS WERE THAT WEEK.)COUNTDOWN AMERICA STARRING DICK CLARK LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THIS SHOW AND THEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT RADIO SHOWS, KEEP READING AND I WILL GIVE IT MY BEST SHOT FOR YOU. It aired weekly on the United Stations Radio Networks.It featured the top 30 hits of the week as tabulated by 'Radio & Records' one of the industry standards, like Billboard. This made the show even more fun.THIS FOUR HOUR SHOW COMES ON FOUR LPs THIS COUNTDOWN SHOW WAS LIKELY PLAYED ONLY ON ITS NETWORK AIR DATE since the shows that I acquire mostly come from radio station libraries or from the syndicators of shows, general managers or owners of radio stations, and have been preserved in loving care since their national broadcast until sold to Keith's Kollectables. The show first aired on the pioneering and legendary RKO Radio Network and was considered the first of the 'second generation' of weekly countdown shows.Countdown shows like American Top 40 with Casey Kasem were bleeding off listeners who were tiring of just hearing the top 40. And, Casey's show, for example, had no special features or artist interviewsWith this new breed of countdown show, 'Countdown America with John Leader' premiered in 1983. The show originally was broadcast only on RKO General radio stations across the country but its immediate popularity led the show early on to be syndicated on many hundreds of radio stations.The show was different because each show, besides playing the top hits, had artist profiles, interviews, flashback hits of other years during the same week as the broadcast, fun jingles and more.When RKO left the radio business in 1984 and sold its operations to Dick Clark's fledging United Stations Radio Networks, Countdown America with John Leader was one of the many RKO assets acquired by United StationsDick Clark meanwhile was hosting 'The National Music Survey with Dick Clark' on the Mutual Broadcasting System. When his contract with Mutual expired in late October, 1985, Dick could host his own countdown show on his own United Stations. Rather than starting an entire new show, He chose the 'Countdown America with John Leader' show already aired on his network with hundreds of affiliate stations across the country. John Leader was let go and while the previous week John Leader had signed off his Countdown America show expecting to return the next week, instead, on November 2, 1985, the show became 'Countdown America with Dick Clark' and production was shifted from IS INC, the producer of the show from its onset, to United Stations. Initially, there were no changes in the format of the show Dick inherited from John Leader but change did come as Dick put his own stamp on the show as it evolvedThis show aired on August 15, 1987 and was show #94 (show numbering having restarted with Dick Clark's beginning of hosting the show which had aired since 1983 with John Leader.)Cue sheets are available for this show and are in excellent condition some with markings from the radio station board operator as he/she played the show on air.You won't hear any local commercials but you will find that even those national commercials in between show segments are fun to listen to after 34+ years. Funny how back then we hated the commercials back then but now they, too, bring back fond memories of our growing up. Especially from national companies no longer with us that we also grew up with.On this show you will hear from Nissan Trucks, M&M Chocolate Candies, Wrigley's Doublemint Gum, Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum, APS Auto Parts, Real Peach Wine, and more You will love this show and it belongs in your collection. SO WHAT ARE THE BIG QUESTIONS IF YOU ARE NOT SURE ABOUT RADIO SHOWS? LET ME TELL YOU BUT FIRST....Allow me tell you my own personal story of discovering the wonder of radio shows. I discovered radio shows quite by accident while reading one of my favorite (long since departed) magazines called "Discoveries" (It was later bought by the same company that publishes "Goldmine" which I personally always considered a lesser publication, but that is another story. This was before ebay became the driving force in radio show sales (and everything else) in the later 1990's. I was especially attracted in "Discoveries" to a two page (or more) spread in each issue by a guy called "The Old Hippie". Let me tell you, the Old Hippie had it all. He was a real pioneer. Way before anyone knew what radio shows even were let alone that they could be bought as rarities; The Old Hippie had the market cornered.Most shows that he advertised were way beyond my budget but I drooled over those pages every issue and once in awhile I could afford one or two. Now, I have attempted in my own humble way to take on the mantle of "The Old Hippie". I have listed over 11,000 unique radio shows of all genres for you all to drool over, and most at prices, hopefully, that collectors can better afford! I want to make available to collectors what I could not afford and especially in these days of higher prices and lesser availability.Radio shows are harder and harder to find in quantity and the prices for the ones still out there just go higher and higher as they disappear from the market. However, because of my large presence on eBay, I am often contacted with selling offers, some of which I take advantage of and some I have to pass on because of the prices. I have found that by buying in bulk, even when many or most of the shows are lesser known but still amazing shows, I can offer the best prices on all titles. NOW, EXACTLY 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 mornings, afternoons or evenings or less often during overnight segments and weekdays. 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 download, they have a unique presentation of their favorite artist or music not available anywhere else and always with dj comments which were very entertaining. Some collect interviews with their favorite artists as most shows had interview segments. Some collect commercials They were first distributed on reel to reel tape or 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 only through digital downloadThese shows become rarer and rarer every day because the people who buy them hold on to them. If they do later sell, it is to make a huge profit since prices go up all the time. The shows that you get now and hold on to will never decrease in value and only increase. I have prided myself since the start to provide the best and fairest cost with a 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 have decreased. And, I have one of the biggest radio show libraries in the world consisting of over fifteen thousand unique 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 music radio. And every one you buy is an original, not a copy, not a remake - all are limited editions with a maximum of 175 copies pressed for each show. Once you get hooked, like me, it is a love affair for life! Welcome to the Club!Also, keep in mind that this and all radio shows are not just about the music - the music for the most part 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. As always, I charge only shipping on the first show you buy for U.S. buyers so the more you buy the more you save in shipping charges. And for my international friends, shipping is exclusively handled by the eBay International Shipping Program. So, let's sail together on the 'SS Keith's Kollectables' and sail into parts unknown seeking the best radio shows that ever aired that you can treasure forever.It's pure gold, Mateys!!! Good Luck and God Bless You.
Price: 52.99 USD
Location: Paisley, Florida
End Time: 2025-01-16T23:20:43.000Z
Shipping Cost: 2.99 USD
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Artist: Al Jarreau, Anita Baker, Chris DeBurgh, Ronnie Milsap, Carpenters, Laura Branigan, Dan Hill, U2, Crowded House, Dan Fogelberg, Huey Lewis & News, Ray Parker Jr,, Dionne Warwick & Jeffrey Osborne, Fleetwood Mac, Journey, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Kenny Rogers, Steve Winwood, Pointer Sisters, Danny Wilson, Los Lobos, Klymaxx, Heart, Commodores, Whitney Houston, Restless Heart, ABC, Bruce Horsby & Range, In Pursuit, Smokey Robinson,Suanne Vega, Diana Ross & Lionel Richie, Steve Winwood, James Ingram, REO Speedwagon, Herb Alpert
Record Label: United Stations Radio Networks
Case Type: Presentation Album Cover
Fidelity Level: Full-Range
Inlay Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Format: 4 lp Album
Record Grading: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Language: English
Release Year: 1987
Record Size: 12"
Style: 1980s
Features: Original Cover, Original Inner Sleeve
Number of Audio Channels: Stereo
Speed: 33 RPM
Release Title: Countdown America Staring Dick Clark
Material: Vinyl
Edition: Anthology, First Edition, First Pressing, Limited Edition, Promo
Type: LP
SPECIAL FEATURES: Jeffrey Osborne with 4 hits & Interviews
SPECIAL FEATURES II: Top 10, this week in 1981
Sleeve Grading: Excellent (EX)
Era: 1987
Genre: Pop Rock, Rock n Roll
Run Time: 4 lps, 4 hrs
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
