Thanks everyone for coming to this web page. I hope you enjoy it.  Please send me any comments about the page to jimthedj@mac.com.

First, let me give you some background about my dad. He was born September 19, 1919 (9/19/1919 -- easy date to remember) which will make him 88 years old this year. He is in good health (for as old as he is) and still lives in Orlando Florida.

Rock Robinson started his radio carrier in Lansing Michigan in 1954. In the spring of 1956 he left Lansing to take another radio job in Miami.  From the story my dad tells, he was on the way down to take the job and relocate to Miami when he stopped in Orlando for the night. He happen to meet the owner of WHOO at a promotion they were doing close to the hotel they (he and my mom) were staying at. After talking to him for a while, the owner of WHOO made him a “better offer” to stay in Orlando and be the premier on-air disc jockey at his radio station. He took it. In1969 he left Orlando radio and moved back to Michigan after is father died. He easily got another radio job in a smaller radio station. He was on the air until there until 1974 where he was made another job offer outside of radio (back in Orlando) and changed carriers.

A few years ago, when moving from one house to another, I came across some old reel to reel tapes in a seldom used closet. I made it a mission to find out what was on them. I finally found “two track” reel to reel and found they were exactly what I had hoped for, my dad’s old air checks.

Unfortunately, the tapes were brittle, in mono, recorded at uncalibrated speeds and almost all of the old scotch tape style splices had deteriorated. I transferred everything I could, but I lost quite a bit.  What I could save I restored (I own a mastering studio now) using some of the best digital technology out there today and edited out the music when a song was one we were all familiar with.

When listening to this, keep remembering when this was done and on what kind of equipment.  My dad tells me about how they used one mike and an effects unit with 3 settings that was used for headlines, news and the weather.  In these air-checks, you can hear it click over when they used it. Back then, listeners though there was more than one DJ by using that.

Anyway, Enjoy these!