Classic 1960s 
top-40 the way it was originally done.  If you have Internet access and the 
"RealAudio" plug-in (it's free from their website) or a Windows Media Player, you can hear Ricky the 
K's Solid Gold Time Machine, a nightly three-hour oldies show presented in 
the vintage way -- reverb (commonly used back then; the DJ sounded as if he 
were in a gymnasium), compressed audio (gave AM radio a larger-than-life 
sound) and, best of all, classic original PAMS jingles (PAMS was the jingle 
company in the 1960s.  Every top-40 station worth their salt used them.  If 
you remember Montgomery's WHHY, WABB/Mobile and WSGN/Birmingham, or clear-
channel WLS/Chicago, WABC/New York and KAAY/Little Rock 30 years ago, then 
you've heard PAMS' great station IDs).

"Ricky the K" -- Ricky Kaufman -- had hosted Time Machine originally, 
beginning the show on another rock & roll legend of yesteryear, 
Oklahoma City's KOMA-AM 1520.  From there it evolved into a nationally-
syndicated Saturday night oldies show.  Time Machine is distinctive from the
other solid gold offerings in that Ricky strives to play more than just the 
same 300 or so songs over and over which one hears on most all "oldies" 
stations these days.  Kaufman plays from a library of some 3,000 (!) songs,
even then just over half of the 5,000 songs played on top-40 radio between 
1955 and 1972.   According to the program's webpage, songs repeat themselves 
once every twelve weeks!   That's quite a contrast from the average 2-3 day 
rotation on most stations for the same tired oldies ... "all the time."

So Ricky's program promises to jar many a baby-boomer memory not only with
some forgotten pop music treasures, but with the program's sound and the 
wonderful jingles of the day ("Good Guys, go-go, top down, blast off, the 
mod hit sound...."; "Fun Vibrations"; "Where you're hearing things, the 
music things..."; many, many others).

Ricky the K's Solid Gold Time Machine has been on the Internet since January 1. 
 If you're interested (or curious), information can be had at 
their webpage: http://www.60sradio.com.  Otherwise, e-mail or call me if you're too young to remember this kind of 
"real radio" and want a sample of what people my age and younger missed.