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49er radio voices

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makiju

Just joined so this is a very late comment but regarding the history of 49ers radio voices, I have recordings from the 1950s that confirm most of the information in the several posts in early 2009. I can add 1-2 points:

+ Bud Foster's last season as 49ers pbp was 1953; Fred Hessler did it for a season in 1954 then Roy Storey in 1955-6. Storey had been a backup to Foster when games were in KYA through the 1953 season.

+ In 1957, Bob Fouts did pbp with Lon Simmons as his color man.

Foster, who also did the Oakland Oaks' games in the old PCL, was Cal football and basketball pbp until Bill King arrived on the scene in the early 1960s. Foster did a lot of reporting from the Pacific theater in WW2 [ using his given first name, Wilson ] including several historic broadcasts from Guam and Iwo Jima in 1945 and a remote from San Francisco on VJ Day Aug. 14 1945.

He was a great sportscaster who, like others in the Bay Area, would have been a national star had he worked on the east coast.
 
The two 1953 excerpts of 49er broadcasts as well as the 1957 ending of the 49er-Colts game, which are linked on the bayarearadio site quoted in the above post, are my 'work'

I was a tape recording fan at the time as well as a 49er fan, and recorded games directly from the original broadcast - edited because there often was a lot of dead air and little chatter between plays because Bud was working without a color man. I also had a limited amount of tape. At one point in the Browns game, he sends it back to 'Roy Storey for Burgermeister' back in the KYA studio. I just wish I had saved more of his work. Bud Foster was a great announcer, and a gentleman as well.
 
makiju said:
The two 1953 excerpts of 49er broadcasts as well as the 1957 ending of the 49er-Colts game, which are linked on the bayarearadio site quoted in the above post, are my 'work'

I was a tape recording fan at the time as well as a 49er fan, and recorded games directly from the original broadcast - edited because there often was a lot of dead air and little chatter between plays because Bud was working without a color man. I also had a limited amount of tape. At one point in the Browns game, he sends it back to 'Roy Storey for Burgermeister' back in the KYA studio. I just wish I had saved more of his work. Bud Foster was a great announcer, and a gentleman as well.
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I listened to the recording of the 1953 Browns game with Bud Foster and recall him making a reference to QB Y A Tittle wearing a "birdcage" due to a broken jaw. One year later, almost all NFL players started wearing facemaks.

The ending of the 1957 Colts game with Bob Fouts on pbp is classic gridiron drama. Tittle was hurt in that game and replaced by a rookie named John Brodie, who led the Niners to victory on a 4th down pass. :)
 
Didn't Bud Foster also broadcast the PCL's Oakland Oaks?

Lon Simmons also did a couple of preseason games in 1989, but left before the regular season started. He was doing the Athletics on KSFO (with Bill King) at the time and, IIRC, questioned why they were playing overtime in a preseason game in Tokyo with the Rams, since he needed to hop a plane and get back to the A's.
 
Foster did the games on KLX & KROW with Bill Laws..if you search Oakland Oaks on google and find the 1948 Oaks website they have a short clip of Foster calling some pbp.
I'm trying to remember if he did San Jose St football on KREP (aka KARA) in the 70's. I pretty sure he did one or two seasons.
 
lenhockey said:
Foster did the games on KLX & KROW with Bill Laws..if you search Oakland Oaks on google and find the 1948 Oaks website they have a short clip of Foster calling some pbp.
I'm trying to remember if he did San Jose St football on KREP (aka KARA) in the 70's. I pretty sure he did one or two seasons.
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I want to say Hal Ramey did most San Jose State games during that time on KXRX, as well as the original Earthquakes. I know he was doing SJS when they went from KXRX to KCBS (eventually followed by Ken Korach and John Shrader at Sparta).
 
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