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Airwaves: Something old is new again By Kevin Walker
Bored with oldies radio? Tired of hearing the same song over and over and over? Want to hear radio like it was back in the 1960s?
Richard Kaufman, a former disc jockey living in Dallas, has launched a new radio program on the Internet that re-creates the ``Top 40'' broadcasts of several decades ago.
The show, broadcast three hours a day Monday through Friday, is called ``Ricky the K's Solid Gold Time Machine.''
Kaufman has more than 3,000 songs in his vault, as well as tapes of disc jockeys, commercials and jingles heard on Top 40 radio back in the '50s, '60s and '70s.
All of the songs were released in the years between 1955 and 1971.
Kaufman vows to seldom repeat songs, because short playlists are one of the things he doesn't like about oldies stations. And he says the old disc jockeys - from what he calls the ``golden era of personality radio'' - are much more fun than modern DJs.
Obviously, you need a computer to hear it (equipped with a 28.8 modem, a high speed connection would be better, and a Real Audio or Windows Media Player).
``It has no redeeming social value whatsoever,'' he joked. ``It's just fun.''
You can find Kaufman's Web site at http://www.60sradio.com
Kevin Walker writes about radio.
Reach him at kwalker@tampatrib.com or (813) 259-7975.
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