{"id":8561,"date":"2014-01-11T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8561"},"modified":"2014-01-11T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T18:19:10","slug":"can-you-help-bill-find-a-kenny-meyer-aircheck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/can-you-help-bill-find-a-kenny-meyer-aircheck\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you help Bill find a Kenny Mayer aircheck?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SWLing Post reader, Bill Albert, writes:<\/p>\n

“I am trying to find an “air check” of Kenny Mayer, a well-known Boston late-night radio show host (now deceased) during the 1960’s and 1970’s. His show aired from\u00a012-2AM\u00a0Mondays, so it was one of the few interesting things one could listen to at that hour. He would play bits from classic old comedy albums (e.g., Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart in their stand-up days), and he’d ad-lib the sponsors’ advertisement spots himself. He was really a character, and his voice had a very unique cadence and intonation. I did manage to find one clip from a 1966 show featuring a routine entitled “The Great Society Affair”\u2014a parody of the wedding of President Johnson’s daughter. God, how long ago that was!! Different world. There was also a bit by Godfrey Cambridge, and a number of Kenny’s home-made commercials. However, I’ve since lost that clip, and in any case I played and replayed it to exhaustion. If anyone has another “air check” of Kenny’s show, I would love to get a copy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If anyone has a lead for Bill, please comment!<\/p>\n

If you’d like to read more about Ken Mayer, Bill suggests\u00a0this article<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[Update<\/strong>: When I posted this request a few hours ago, I mistakenly posted the photo and information for Kenny\u00a0Me<\/strong>yer<\/em>\u00a0instead of Kenny\u00a0Ma<\/strong>yer<\/em>. Both of these gentlemen were prominent figures in the Boston broadcasting scene around the same time period (hence\u00a0my<\/em>\u00a0confusion!).]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post reader, Bill Albert, writes: “I am trying to find an “air check” of Kenny Mayer, a well-known Boston late-night radio show host (now deceased) during the 1960’s and 1970’s. His show aired from\u00a012-2AM\u00a0Mondays, so it was one of the few interesting things one could listen to at that hour. He would play bits […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,8,305],"tags":[2488,4097,2489,2490,18,2486],"class_list":["post-8561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-articles","category-nostalgia","tag-aircheck","tag-am","tag-ken-mayer","tag-kenny-mayer","tag-radio","tag-wbz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2e5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62700,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/pure-am-radio-nostalgia-vintage-aircheck-recordings-from-the-1970s-by-dan-greenall\/","url_meta":{"origin":8561,"position":0},"title":"Pure AM Radio Nostalgia: Vintage Aircheck Recordings from the 1970s by Dan Greenall","author":"Thomas","date":"April 27, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall for once again sharing a remarkable collection of vintage off-air AM radio recordings. 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