Radio record libraries (was: TV Cartoons)

[Eli Polonsky]

> > From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
> CC: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:02:01 -0400
> Subject: Re: TV cartoons
>  
> Back in the 1980s when 1150 became WMEX oldies, I wondered 
> whether they were using records left over from the WCOP 
> Top 40 days, but I suspect not. 

I worked at 1150 WMEX. There were no physical connections
whatsoever at the Greater Media studios (in the Salada Tes
building on Stuart St. at the time) to previous incarnations
of 1150 in different locations under previous owners. Also,
it had been nearly two decades since WCOP's Top 40 days, so
wherever their old library went, I'm sure it was long gone!

Before the era of entire music formats being downloaded to
hard drives, 1150 WMEX's studio oldies library was all on
carts (I'm sure many of us remember tape carts) which was
typical for radio studio libraries in the 1970s and '80s, 
until soon CD's and then digital drives came along. 

The basic oldies package (the bulk of the common hits) was 
supplied by Greater Media corporate. Additions (plus better
sounding carting jobs of some of the same songs we already 
got from corporate) were created by various staffers from 
their own collections, and from albums that were in the 
WMJX station library that contained some oldies. 

There were a number of serious oldies collectors who worked 
at 1150 WMEX (including Jack Nash, the late Quentin Migliori
and Little Walter DeVenne, among others), so practically any 
known oldie could be found if needed.

EP