HI FELLOW COLLECTORS AND WELCOME TO KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES, ONE OF EBAY'S PREMIERE BUYERS AND SELLERS OF PRISTINE MUSIC RADIO SHOWS OF ALL GENRES AND OTHER GREAT AMERICANA. 

PLEASE REMEMBER MY SPECIAL OFFER TO YOU.  IF YOU BUY FIVE OR MORE ITEMS FROM MY STORE AT ONE TIME, EBAY WILL DISCOUNT YOUR INVOICE BY 20% AT CHECKOUT  IT IS THE LEASE I CAN DO FOR FELLOW COLLECTORS WHO LOOK FOR GREAT DEALS JUST AS I DO.

SO HERE IS THE BIG QUESTION:  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 evenings or during overnight time slots.

  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 Bob Kingsley 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 by the artist or a compilation bought at Wal Mart or downloaded through iTunes or wherever, they have a unique presentation of their favorite artist or music not available anywhere else and always with dj presentations which were very entertaining. 

 Some collect interviews with their favorite artists as most shows had multiple interview segments. 

 Believe it or not, some collect commercials especially old car commercials but certainly not limited to only those. 

 AND, these shows are in limited quantity. 

 They were pressed just for syndicated stations in the United States.  Some of the more popular shows may have as many as a few hundred of each week's show that survived but think about it.  A few hundred for some 200 million Americans and millions of overseas collectors who look for unique presentations of their favorite artists or form of music is about as rare as rare can be.

Many or most stations threw them away after airing because they were dated by their commercial content and could not be played again.  Most radio stations had limited storage space and just didn't have the room so out they went.

So there are likely only a few left making them increasingly hard to find. 

 They were first distributed on reel to reel tape if the show goes back that far into the 60's, then later 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 by digital download much like you get your music from iTunes.

 These shows become rarer and rarer every day because the people who buy them hold on to them and the people who sell them, like me, are running out of them.  My best contact for these shows is completely out of shows so I am at the  mercy of finding a good deal here and there but never from a regular source. 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 no holds barred 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 has decreased.

  And, I have one of the biggest radio show libraries in the world consisting of over ten thousand 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 50'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 radio at least music wise.  And every  one you buy is  an original, not a copy, not a remake - all are limited editions in the hundreds at most and most much less.  

Once you get hooked, like me, it is a love affair for life!  Welcome to the Club! 

 OK guys and gals, here is a rare treat for you radio show fans. 

 I am listing some of my "NASHVILLE RECORD REVIEW WITH AL RISEN" shows. 

 Al Risen (Albert H. Risen, Jr.) passed away in New Smyrna, Florida on April 18, 2009 at the age of 65. 

Al was a DJ in Louisville and Lexington radio in the late '60s and early-to-mid '70s. He did stints at WAKY, WKLO, WINN, WKRX (now WVEZ) WXVW, and WLAP. 

Former WAKY DJ and Production Director Mike Griffin remembers, "When Lee Gray worked the night shift at WKLO (68-69) Al Risen followed him. Al also did the first 'underground' show that I recall during one of the hours of the shift." 

Tim Tyler, who worked at WAKY with Al, says "Al Risen was truly one of the nice guys!"

Al Risen left Louisville in the mid-70s to work at WKDA in Nashville, and later WSM, where he syndicated a country music show. 

According to Jerry Kieffer, Al worked at country-formatted WELE in Ormond Beach, Florida in the '80s -- and spent the past 10 years or so working for the Post Office in Edgewater, Florida (which is just south of New Smyrna Beach).

It was a weekly one hour lp show in immaculate  condition looking like it was never played before and in fact it was probably played the day it aired and that's it. 

The show has its cue sheets with it in excellent condition.  

  This show aired on DECEMBER 27, 1981 AND FEATURED THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL WITH SPECIAL GUEST GRANDPA JONES.  

THERE ARE SEVERAL CHRISTMAS SONGS AND HE ALSO SINGS 'A CHRISTMAS GUEST'

 IT IS AS PICTURED AND IS IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION

  SHOW CONTENT CAN BE SEEN IN THE LISTING PICTURE CUE SHEETS

 .    Remember, this is the original show sent for airing.  It is NOT an unauthorized copy but the Real McCoy!!!  

I personally guarantee that every radio show that I sell is the original show sent to stations.  

   You are truly buying a  show that will only increase in value and I am selling them at a price very close to what I paid for it. 

  Remember that this and all the radio music shows that you see on eBay  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 and music history.  Think of what they will be worth in a few years!  (IF you wanted to sell.)  It is a great show and would be a valuable addition to your collection. 

Shipping is a flat $2.99 for US buyers for as many as you buy at one time.  For my international friends, shipping is $25 for this multi disc show and only $8 for each additional multi disc show and no additional postage for any single disc or cd show of any size.

 Good Luck and God Bless You.