If I close my eyes I'm in 1976 again (and I never want to leave it!)

I was only 2 years old, but these songs are better than the trash they play today. Real music.

In 1976 I was 6 years old. One night my parents had friends over and I think they were playing cribbage or something like that. They were drinking and smoking and the stereo was blasting good tunes. They started talking about a real cool song about a ship that sunk but nobody could remember the name of it correctly, Edward Fitz something, they were getting frustrated. Too buzzed to call themselves, they decided to pick up the phone and call the DJ, then handed me the phone. " yeah, give it to the kid, this should be funny". The phone rang a couple times and this guy answered and said "request line something something". I remember saying "my mom and dad wanted to hear a song about a ship sinking". Edward fitz something, i said. The DJ said, " Oh The Wreck Of The Edmond Fitzgerald"? I said I guess so. ILL never forget this, the DJ said " COME ON KID...GET YOUR SHIP STRAIGHT and went right into the song. My parents screamed with laughter and all fell on the floor..I was very confused but was the star that night...

I would trade 2000-2023 and beyond to relive 1970's 80's 90's

My 16th year of age. Just got my driver's license. Just started working at Mickey D's. The world was my oyster, for sure!

This is a great example of how fun radio used to be back in the day before the big corporate buyouts and takeovers. Now everything is just automated crap. The DJs' personalities is what made the different stations fun to listen to. From sitting on the beach to cruising in the city, you always had a great DJ keeping everything upbeat and fun. They played what the public wanted to hear and not the same programmed tracks over and over. I wish we could bring back independently owned stations that would cater to the local public and promote local events and businesses. Thanks for taking us back in time! 😊

I was a Júnior in high school. Grad in 77! What a different world it was back then!!!!! Would love to go back and really enjoy being young! That's what I regret! Time flies by WAY to fast!!!!!

I was only 8 that year but I remember the music, the air, smells, friends, cars, TV shows, school, vinyl and 8-tracks, the sounds of the world around me back then. My entire immediate family were alive then, even the really old ones that died soon after that. The first song on the video, Wings' "Silly Love Songs" was the first-ever foray into my lifelong love for anything and everything Beatles. That was the first 45 I ever owned and was the first of thousands of Beatles records and memorabilia. Wonderful video. Thank you.

Wish it is 1976 NOW! Way better than today & future! Much better economic times than today, more innocent and carefree, miss them and my family.

Who'd have thought back in 1976 that this tape would be listened to over 40 years later by thousands of people all over the world!? My father had that same reel to reel machine!

I was 13 too. Radio during the daytime (with DJs who actually had good voices, playing songs with actually good singers, who sang actually-good songs). And TV such as "The ABC Monday (or Friday, or Sunday) Night Movie" at night. Everything was dependable: i.e., politicians were mostly for-real and sane, the people were mostly physically fit (not morbidly obese), and it was just a given that school was completely safe (and yet, wide-open), and school boards were sane professionals, and school had real food, all made from scratch, which we could smell cooking all over the building... It almost makes me cry... what the hell happened?!

Thank you William, I was 27 years old hitting every disco in the metro D.C. area in 1976. Playing softball in two leagues with plenty of young beautiful ladies watching us. Loving every young lady while doing the hustle plus every dance while wearing a variety of different leisure suits. Cruising in my 1976 Dodge Aspen Limited Coupe. A year full of hangovers, but well worth it 😊Met the girl of my dreams in December 1976, we married in June 1978. We celebrate 45 years on June 10, 2023. ❤I had too many real fireworks in Vietnam 1969-70. I just stayed as far away from them as I could, hitting disc clubs at night.

Back in the day when we used to record songs off the radio.

19 years old with my whole life ahead of me. What a summer! July 4, 1976 my sister and I drove around downtown Allentown waving flags out the windows of her ‘73 Gremlin.

The Starland Vocal Band was the epitome of 1976. You can almost smell the time, it was so good.

We don’t search for old music we search for old memories. Thank you William.

CRAZY EDDIE….the best commercials!

I was 13 years old in 1976. This is my absolute favorite year for radio hits! The DJ's, music and even the commercials were the best.

I was 20 just home from Korea in time for the bicentennial!!!! Good to be home!

That 20 second lead up to Silly Love Songs was perfect for the radio of the day! Great bass in that song!

The best 4th of July I’ve ever experienced. The upbeat and excited mood from everyone was awesome as was all the red, white & blue clothes and swimsuits.

I remember that time, as I was 32 years old and living in Phoenix, AZ in the summer of 1976, but returned to the New York City area in October 1976, just before we had snowy winters for a couple of years. I surely remember that time. I sometimes received the big NYC AM radio stations later at night on my shortwave receiver. Now I have left the NYC area since 2018, and am 79 years old.

ahh...I was 11 years old living in The Peoples Republic of Brooklyn NY......95.5 was my favorite station. I remember the Bicentennial so much because we painted everything Red, White and Blue. Street signs, fire hydrants,parking meters light poles. My mom still lives there and there is still 1 pole with the remnants of the red on the bottom of the pole. I recall walking around with my little transistor radio wearing my matching shorts and shirt made out of green Terry Cloth and my blue Puma sneakers that turned your socks blue when they got wet........ thinking i was so badass!! Thanks so much buddy

I turned 21 on that day, celebrated ALL day long.

This is awesome, my dad owned the radio station in our town from 64 to 78 and I have all the old reel to reel tapes of every minute, sometimes I put em on and let it play all day

As a native New Yorker, I love this. I was alive and well on that day. SO many memories! Those commercials!

Wow! I remember listening to this. We had this station on. It was beautiful bicentennial day. I was 12 years old and we had an outdoor pool in the building where we lived. We had neighbors and friends gather to swim and getting food ready on the grill and preparing drinks to celebrate this holiday. I remember the laughter, joy and dancing. My friends and I had our own stash of firecrackers which we occasionally lit off. Later in evening, the adults had alot of big fireworks which they lit. Everybody was just enjoying themselves. It was a much simpler and carefree time.

Having the wood grain on the wall behind the tape player and turntable is the icing on the cake! Love this.

I was 7 years old but this music never left my soul.

I remember being a kid, staying up until 2am listening to music, calling the radio station late at night to request songs and they did, just for you.

I was 10 in 1976. Frampton Comes Alive was everywhere. Silly Love Songs was great on the summer radio. McCartney tix were $10 not $500.

Young mother in 1976. What a happy wonderful time to be alive.

I was 22 years old 1976 is my favorite year of the seventies I grew up in Brooklyn and this day holds a special place in my heart. The bicentennial was a great day for me and this whole summer as well, wish I could travel back in time this is the date I would set the time machine dial to,and I would never come back the world was a much better place.💯❤❤💥💥💥👍

Awesome! Can't express how much Im missing the 70s & 80s lately - things just don't feel right anymore.

July 4th 1976 I was at the lake in my 1970 AMX radio cranked up with friends and a few cute girls. 18 years old, done with high school what a great time that summer was.

What a great gem from the past. I remember every one of the songs I heard.

I was only 3 in '76, but I have very early memories of listening to the radio in my dad's VW Bug. This is so great to listen to!

76... My favorite year of the 70s! I was 9 about to turn 10. 1978 would be my second favorite year!😊

The Great Bicentennial year. I can’t help but notice almost every song played has staying power. They’re almost timeless. The music of today is basically disposable. Aside from that it was s great time to be fourteen living in a world without computers, laptops, and cellphone social media. You had to actually leave your house to experience life for real, and NOT on a digital screen.

In the late 70's I worked, (if you could call it that,) as a DJ nights and weekends for an FM AOR station. Dimly lit studio, sandalwood incense, and 4 turntables and a microphone. Good times.

I just moved back into the 70s and I'm not leaving Thank you so much for sharing this gemstone💎 I listened to this station every day as a teenager🦅🇺🇸💕

Hearing the commercials is almost as fun as hearing the music....It's amazing I can remember so many of those commercials all these years later. I guess they were more effective than I ever realized.

i was 16 and we celebrated Americas birthday it was a different world. we did not know how good we had it.

I've never loved the commercials as much as I do right now. lol

I love time capsules like this. Video and audio are the only real time machines we'll have in our lifetime. They transport us back to a time when each of us can remember fondly those care free days of our lives.

I was a junior in high school. That was a different life. 😊

i was going on 6, but i had 5 older sisters that immersed me in great music. my oldest sister graduated from high school in '76. this was the bicentennial year and i remember the new bicentennial quarter and all the celebrations on this exact day. what a time!

When radio was great, 9 year old running around, I remember a lot about this summer. It really was an easier slower time, miss it!

This time capsule is exactly what I needed. I was 9 years old & remember the Bicentennial fondly. Ahh, request lines...🤩

I was up in Canada.. I had my 13th birthday the very next day we all listened to the radio back then!!

I was 14...America's Bicentennial!!...Great times!!..THANK YOU!!

In the USA most everthing was about the Bicentennial. It was the happiest summer this 9 yr old kid could ask for. ❤ 🤍 💙

THANKS FOR MEMORIES GREAR AIRCHECK❤💯⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐5 STAR⁉

I was 16. We got the bicentennial fever a year or two before and everybody had red white and blue clothing and bunting. Our town painted all the fire hydrants as minutemen. Patriotism was alive snd beautiful. I remember thinking then how cool it would be to be alive for the 250th celebration. Now. I don't know. We are told constantly that we are racist snd kids are taught to hate our country and a good portion of the population are new arrivals that could care less sbout our history. Thank you do much for this gift of a time capsule to that glorious summer! I think summer of 2026 I'm going to listen to this every dsy and tune out main stream media😊

I was 4 years old then. Wow how times have changed. Seems like such a different world. So nostalgic ❤

Precious and few are the moments we two can share. I ain't heard that song in decades.

I still have tapes somewhere from that timeframe. Used to sit by my stereo on the floor of my room just waiting for specific songs so I could tape them. So wish I could go back to those times. Loved the Bicentennial year most of all. I was 10!😊

I was a 12-year-old Jersey boy in 76' and that summer was magical with the Bicentennial and the patriotism was off the scales.

I wasn’t born until ‘93. Wish I was around in ‘76 😂

I was only 6 years old back in 76 when Star Trek, Emergency & The Six Million Dollar Man were the only important things to me but I definitely do remember these songs!

Sounds just like the day I lived through in 1976 . 😊 I remember watching the Bicentennial festivities on tv on July 4 Ships from all over the world were sailing into NY Harbor 🚢

I was 7 years old and remember that day so vividly! We went down to Shore Rd. to see the boats that were in NY for the bicentennial!

I was 17 that year and working at Playland in Rye. Listening to New York radio inspired me to get into the business....I have been in radio for 36 years, though it is not the business it once was....

I was 14 then. Just like going right back in time. Amazing!!

If I could wake up and hear this waking me up on my alarm clock and it actually be 1976 again……😢

Love how he said "You got it babe" and not a single person on earth cared one bit.

I remember that day too. We used to live in Montreal. I am half American, so we went down to Burlington VT for the celebrations that day. Better times indeed! I was getting into radio hits in the mid 70s and have a lot of those songs on cassette still. Edit: Wow it makes me so sad. My whole family was alive and well that day. Now they're all dead and gone. I am not totally alone now, but I am kind of depressed thinking about back then.

I’m almost 62 now. I was 14 turning 15 in September. Thank you so much for the trip back. This brings back such great memories.

Love this. What great memories coming to life again! I was 16, just driving and always blasted this on the radio!

I was 4 years old in 1976. My late older sister turned 5 years old 13 days after this date stated above. I miss my late sister and my late mom. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Graduated HS 1971. 72 was my favorite year for music. Then I find out many of those were from 71. Tiny Dancer, Bang a Gong, Long Cool Woman.

I was just a little fella in 1976, 4 yrs old. I had chickenpox that year, still got a little scar on my face from it😅. Love these old songs, thanx for posting.

Imagine turning on the radio and hear all these great songs on the air.

I had just graduated from HS in June.... Spirit of "76!

What a great time capsule! I was only 2yrs old at this time, but i still remember the essence of the late '70s. It was so much more laid back and sophisticated. No screaming and no shock value for the sake of shock value.

I was 19 that summer, happy times, living in Brooklyn. WXLO! '99X', actually 98.7FM. WXLO owned a disco somewhere in Manhattan for a short time, maybe down near Astor Place. I remember the Bicentennial 4th of July. I was at a barbecue at a friends house in in Canarsie, Brooklyn that day. Andrea True's big disco hit 'More, More, More' was all over the radio that summer. WPLJ 95.5FM was NYC's other 'progressive rock' station after WNEW-FM 102.7.

A full decade before I was born, and yet I simply MUST listen. It was an era of popular music unlike any other.

One of the best years in my life! I was 16, turning 17 in 4 days, July 8th!

Excellent! Opening with Elton John and Paul McCartney! Wow! Some of the best days of my life in 1976/77/78... Oh the Freedom!

Omg! This was my childhood, 1976. I was 11 years old listening to this music on my two older sisters' radio balls that were on a chain and their dynamite 8-track portable players. Great music, (put together here) great tv shows from Emergency, Baretta, Barney Miller, Good Times, The Jeffersons, MacMillan & Wife, Cannon, Barnaby Jones " 🗣️ A Quinn Martin Production 😀" .......endless memories from a beautiful time to grow up in ♥️ Great times and a great era, the 70s.

If you were driving along the highway with this on the radio, how can you NOT have a great day.

OMG! I was a seven year old all-American baseball-loving boy growing up in suburban NYC. July 4th, 1976 we were watching Op Sail from friends’ apartment on the Hudson. Everything was painted red white and blue! Even the fire hydrants! Great memories!

Summer of 76 the best..my parents finally bought a house in Queens NYC that spring..with $2500 down..they had $500 dollars total left to their names..and took us all to Florida and Disney Land ..we took the train there and back..ha ha..the amount and variety of great music at the time was incredible..and as kids we knew it. The sun shined just a little brighter those summers..and yes I would love to just relive one single day of it…just one day.

OMG! I was 11yrs old, went downtown Chicago w/family& watched fireworks& crowd of over 1MILLION PPL from roof of 30-40story condo bldg my uncle lived at!! Never seen bigger crowd anywhere- music awesome! Not like garbage nowadays, even my 20ish kids agree

Wow 76! I had passed my FCC test to be a DJ. I went to work for a local AM radio station. Grave yard shift. Endless music and I was running the show. After four years I had to get a real job but always look back and remember the music and the times. Wasn't that just a nice and simple time?

I was a preteen in the Midwest at the time this aircheck took place. This Elton John song - "Island Girl" - evokes for me so many memories from that era.

I was 13 years old in 1976. I Wish I Could go back and stay there.

I was 15. '76 was a great year!

I was a junior in high school in 1976 and these songs are so much a part of my life. Great playlist ...

The bicentennial summer was the greatest two months of my life, back when we was immortal. Meet you at the pinball joint 🐻‍❄️

I was definitely listening to one of these stations this day. I was all of 11 yrs old. After coming home from Huntington Harbour hoping to see some Tall Ships we all came home for the neighbourhood cookout. This is so awesome!!

I had this on 8 track lol.1976 Vietnam was over Jimmy Carter was voted in office.Making 1977,1978,1979 a living hell.But I wish I was still living back in those days .WOW what a ride that was.🎉😅

I was born in March 1976. Listening to this makes me wish I was at least a teenager back then! ❤

I was 6 years old. It was a very worry free, care free and fun year for me.

I was 9 in 1976 as well. Magical year for music to a child's ear.

The Bicentennial is one of my earliest memories -- I was 3.5 years old living in the DC area. We went to sit on the banks of the Potomac River on the Virginia side to watch the fireworks over the National Mall.

In 1976 I graduated from Eli Whitney VHS in Brooklyn, NYC born and raised…growing up in NYC we had so many great radio stations and DJ’s, there were no cell phones, no cable TV no Internet and no beepers at that time we just had a house phone and a pay phone on every corner…lol I really missed those days when everything was made with good quality from food to cars to electronics….great memories

Makes me feel young and old at the same time! Thank you for this treasure, William!

1976. What an exciting time as a kid. Such a great summer of music and vivid memories of all the bicentennial celebrations everywhere on the east coast. We lived in Nassau County, NJ then. Thanks for posting🎉

I remember that Sunday well. I just met my wife on June 21th. We and some friends went to an amusement park that day. We had a blast. I remember it as if it were yesterday. It's hard to believe it's been 47 years now. Wow!