Comments on: WCAU, Terry “Motormouth” Young, and some home recordings

By: Lee ann

Lee ann — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 06:08:33 +0000

terry, I met u at conchester bowling ally, u asked me if I was married I said sort of lol. the first and only song I asked u to play was into the night by benny mardonis. still my favorite song. a long time ago…hope you are doing well! you were and will always be my favorite dj!

By: phillyradiogeek

phillyradiogeek — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:38:37 +0000

This is awesome! Terry Young is my favorite DJ of all time, and WCAU FM is my alltime favorite station, the one that made me want to get into radio (unfortunately, that never happened). If you have any more, please keep it coming! Perhaps I’ll upload my WCAU stuff in the future.

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:14:07 +0000

Sounds like this is from late July, early August 1985 (the Duran Duran promo).

What’s really surprising is hearing Klymaxx’s “I Miss You”. That song didn’t break nationally until Thanksgiving time 1985. WCAU was on that one early. Very cool hearing them play Rockmaster Scott’s “The Roof Is On Fire”. Not too many mainstream CHR’s were playing that one. I think I remember hearing an interview with Terry Young where he mentioned he had “total music freedom at night.”–a rarity even in the 80s. I think that’s why he always played those great night records (“The Show” by Doug E. Fresh, for example). WCAU was a great radio station. I’m not from the Philly area, but love hearing tapes.

Great stuff!

By: Steve West

Steve West — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:47:00 +0000

Sir, I’m quite honored that you found a Terry Young aircheck to link to on my website. I can see the passion you have for the radio you grew up with.

I’d like to offer you a place to archive your collection on Airchexx.com. Of course, you get full credit, I’ll add pictures, logos, anything you’d like that is of interest, and I’ll give you the server links to anything I post, so that you may include them in your blog. If this sounds like a decent offer to you, how about sending me an email and see how we might help each other.

One other thing you have going for you… WordPress is the RIGHT direction for websites, especially like ours. They propagate well around the web and you’ll end up with decent traffic in no time.

I really like your website and I’m gonna poke around a little longer, if ya don’t mind. Meantime, from one cassette archiver to another… great job! I love it!

Steve West
Airchexx.com