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Radio Retrofit took all the station breaks and song announcements from the show, combined them with the full length songs to create around 6 hours of WKRP radio. 3 hours of Johnny Fever and 3 hours of Venus Flytrap. MP3 downloads available.

Really a brilliant idea.

Johnny: https://www.awphooey.com/wkrp

Venus: https://www.awphooey.com/venus

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There are more shows, too, including two 3 hour shows with Chris on KBHR Cicely (i.e. Northern Exposure):

https://www.awphooey.com/kbhr

https://www.awphooey.com/retrofit/autumn

Full list at https://www.awphooey.com/retrofit

(I only know this from your post, so thank you. Just mentioning in case KBHR piques someone's interest more than WKRP. I loved both TV shows.)

(Wow, was not expecting "Gardening at Night".)

For me, it was Captain Beefheart as the big surprise. But this was a very eclectic mix. Not at all what you'd expect from those two characters. Would think Johnny would be 100% traditional rock and Venus would be soul, funk, and maybe a tiny bit of yacht rock to keep things smooth.

Glad the show didn't do this. The writers let these two DJs be the typical 70's DJs who made their own playlists and to hell with the record companies.

Would be interesting to know how much thought the show's writers put into music selection since every song on the playlist was a song noted on the show. It's a nice cross section of American music from mid 60s to early 80s.

Huh.

I heard that they didn't license the original music for DVD, etc when the show ran, only for reruns, so that the DVDs and so on only have snippets of replacement music.

I wonder, is this replacement music, or the original tracks?

This isn't replacement music. What this project does is take parts of the show where Johnny or Venus announces the song they're about to play and then mixes in the full length song. Project mixes in other things like the DJ patter. Station breaks. Weather reports. Les reading the news. All mixed together so it sounds like six hours someone recorded off a real radio station in the late 70s / early 80s.

This is awesome! Thanks it made my day!

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