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MOST WANTED Oregon AM logged! 2/28/23 Sunrise

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crainbebo

Finally...after over TEN years of trying for this station...I've heard them and have knocked out the last remaining AM in this state!

910 - KURY OR, Brookings; with 'We're in This Love Together' Al Jarreau, an unknown standards song and very faint ID at 0659.50 PT 2/28 mentioning Brookings, K287CF 105.3, into FOX News. Then KKSF Oakland (BIN) went on day pattern. KURY SRS is at 0715, but I'm not sure if they already went to 1KW. Recorded. NEW #820, at 361 miles! This is OR #94 of 94 needed on AM! What a way to end February!

Recording is here: KURY 910 OR 2 28 23 0659PT followed by KKSF CA

It sure helps that auroral conditions are still hot. There is NO sign of the usual pest, KMTT 'ESPN 910 Portland' in these clips. They are usually S9+ in the mornings often with Drumheller AB behind, or sometimes Oakland. Gone in the CME sequence.
 
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Good job. I know how long you've been aiming for KURY 910, I have also, partly because it's rare, and partly because Brookings is my favorite place in Oregon.

Maybe, some day...
 
crainbebo said:
Finally...after over TEN years of trying for this station...I've heard them and have knocked out the last remaining AM in this state!

910 - KURY OR, Brookings; with 'We're in This Love Together' Al Jarreau, an unknown standards song and very faint ID at 0659.50 PT 2/28 mentioning Brookings, K287CF 105.3, into FOX News. Then KKSF Oakland (BIN) went on day pattern. KURY SRS is at 0715, but I'm not sure if they already went to 1KW. Recorded. NEW #820, at 361 miles! This is OR #94 of 94 needed on AM! What a way to end February!

Recording is here: KURY 910 OR 2 28 23 0659PT followed by KKSF CA

It sure helps that auroral conditions are still hot. There is NO sign of the usual pest, KMTT 'ESPN 910 Portland' in these clips. They are usually S9+ in the mornings often with Drumheller AB behind, or sometimes Oakland. Gone in the CME sequence.
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That's not an unknown song. I recognized the title right away. It peaked at #15 and made it to #6 on both AC and R&B charts! It also topped the Canadian AC chart.
 
semoochie said:
That's not an unknown song. I recognized the title right away. It peaked at #15 and made it to #6 on both AC and R&B charts! It also topped the Canadian AC chart.
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I think he meant that the song played after the Al Jarreau song - "Torn Between Two Lovers" by Mary MacGregor - was the unknown standards song.
 
The Mary MacGregor song may have hit #1 on the Hot 100, but I didn't recognize the song...would a soft rock station ever play that nowadays? The signal was also very weak too. Thanks guys.
 
@crainbebo
Neat nab on 910 there. It's somewhat unfortunate that Brookings is on the coast, otherwise you might have been the first in the future to log the same station and count it as a 'heard' in both Oregon and Idaho. hi. State #51.
Music folks: Give Ms. MacGregor's superior followup song a spin -- '(Love) What Took You So Long'. It was penned by sometimes-Carpenters' writer Bettis and by Richard Kerr.
(I still have the first baseman's mitt and the red-white & blue ABA basketball she supposedly autographed long ago)
 
Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool.
Loving both of you is breaking all the rules.

Sung by Mary MacGregor. Written by Peter Yarborough (of Peter, Paul & Mary). #1 in February 1977.
 
Eventually it will play on one of my favorite FMs that stream (i.e., KMGK in Glenwood MN) and I'll recognize it...hey, at least KURY wasn't playing "You Light Up My Life"!
 
crainbebo said:
The Mary MacGregor song may have hit #1 on the Hot 100, but I didn't recognize the song...would a soft rock station ever play that nowadays? The signal was also very weak too. Thanks guys.
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The song got quite a bit of airplay on the Chicago and Milwaukee radio stations. 1976 or thereabouts IIRC. Haven't heard it much subsequently as an oldie.

Anyway, congratulations on "runnin g the table" for Oregon stations! Nicely done!
 
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