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I think I peed my pants! :eek:
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Wasn't there a mention about you putting out a fire in your dad's car that way, lt? You must have been a bladder reactor. Cute story.
 
markchub said:
Your car radio is now crystal controlled you only get ONE station (AM) any time or place. Mine is KRUX 1966 (The Monkees and the Bomp Cllub). I think that was the year you know what they say "if you remember the sixties then you were not there!"
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I wasn't alive then, but I could easily be happy with WNBC circa 1945-46. Great local morning programming (though the national afternoon soaps would be skippable), while the great talents like Benny, Hope, the Jordans, Burns and Allen, Fred Allen, Vincent Price as the Saint, Bill Stern and so many, many more were in their primes and still working for RCA.
 
kruxman said:
I remember KIKX as Country so I doubt they'd have been close to KTKT.
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KIKX was full-blown Top-40 in 1976 and had a great signal.
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Correct you are. Although they spent a couple of years in the pre-AC MOR wilderness circa 1969-71, by late '71 they had returned to the top 40 mold and continued as such until September 1977. This was just two months after KRQ(Q)'s debut as Tucson's first FM top 40 and the market could not support three stations (KTKT, of course, was the other). Three and a half, actually, as daytimer 1330 KHYT also played the top 40 hits then, about a year before they went heavy into first disco and then "Rock of the '80s" (new wave).
Anyway, KIKX was indeed top 40 in '76.
 
99KTKT said:
Although (KIKX) spent a couple of years in the pre-AC MOR wilderness circa 1969-71, by late '71 they had returned to the
top 40 mold and continued as such until September 1977.
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Upon KIKX returning to various incarnations of Top 40 in '71, wasn't the first shot an oldies
format? Dave Brooks as PD/PM drive, with TM Phase II jingles. I think Don Wallace and
H.D. Nellums were also on staff, unsure if this was also with, or before, Jimi Fox. Brooks
was gone from KIKX by very early '72. When did they go "heavy rock"?

The one odd thing during the oldies run was even though the airshifts were stated as 6-10,
10-2, 2-6, etc., they always changed jocks at about :47 past instead of the TOH.
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
When did they go "heavy rock"?
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Now that you mention it, I do seem to recall KIKX making a brief foray into "heavy rock" during 1972, but then returning to pretty much straight Top 40 by the end of that year. Even back then, an AOR-type format on AM was probably a losing proposition, especially with KWFM already having that format's audience sewn up.
During that '72-'77 time period they always were a tad more eclectic in their playlist choices than KTKT, even after the '74 Gary "Crazy Man" Craig fake kidnapping hoax that eventually caused them to lose their license many years later (mid 80s?)
 
Some great memories from 1976... 'Get Your KIKX in '76'... Doc Holiday (PD), Michael Hester (MD and a class act), Ron O'Neal, (me), the other Joe Light, and there were others. The format was tight, but there was a stash of LP's that we were allowed to play from. It was near the end of the legal battle(s) to save the license. When KHOS abandoned Country, it was safe for KIKX to enter that realm. However, KCUB was the BEAR and it was very hard to penetrate their ratings. And... whatever became of the bomb shelter???

I sure do miss that era of Tucson radio. Bring back K-dub (as in KWFM). Clear Channel should at least get a clue and return those Calls to 92.9, where they belong. How's that for an idea?
 
Ever notice how some worn out oldies sound better on Ancient Modulation? There's nothing like a snappy Kay A Zee Gee jingle kicking off One Fine Day by The Chiffons. The Nurse and I never got that tingle up our legs when KOOL used to play it. We're convinced some of the songs from the Sixties were purposely produced to sound good on the bad frequency response of Ancient Modulation. The distortion heard on many of the Phil "Wall of Prison Sound" Spector songs just aint heard on snap, crackle and pop AM stations.
 
Dr. Akbar said:
We're convinced some of the songs from the Sixties were purposely produced to sound good on the bad frequency response of Ancient Modulation.
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Exactamente, el medico Akbar. At Motown, the mono 45 mix was done so it sounded
good through an AM car radio speaker, using said speaker in the studio for reference.
 
I still remember how surprised I was when I began listening to KGO-FM in '66 and hearing familiar songs, previously on KYA-AM, which didn't sound familiar. All sort of side and background music I'd never heard before.

Listening to those old songs on The Lumberyard now sounds like someone singing into a coffee can.
 
Of coarse it sounded better on AM because you DJ's out there would speed up the rpm's so when a poor listener like me would go to the store and buy a 45 and play it at home it sounded so slow I thought my record player was broke. Dizzy by Tommy Roe being an example.
 
pattiwacki said:
Wasn't there a mention about you putting out a fire in your dad's car that way, lt? You must have been a bladder reactor. Cute story.
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The story I got was that I was standing in the drivers seat of my uncle's Model A while the two men worked under the hood. I accidentally pressed the horn button (and if you ever heard a Model A you know the horn had a distinct sound) and....well, you know.

In addition to my dad and his brother almost knocking themselves out when the horn went off my uncle now had to clean up the inside of the car. I wish someone had taken a picture. I could be rich today! ;D
 
markchub said:
Of coarse it sounded better on AM because you DJ's out there would speed up the rpm's so when a poor listener like me would go to the store and buy a 45 and play it at home it sounded so slow I thought my record player was broke. Dizzy by Tommy Roe being an example.
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Dizzy? YIKES!
 
Dr. Akbar said:
markchub said:
...Dizzy by Tommy Roe being an example.
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Dizzy? YIKES!
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It's from '69, so maybe KOOL still plays it...except on a That '70s Weekend of course. ;D

We know the Stevemeister reads the board so perhaps he can give it a spin next week.
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
Dr. Akbar said:
markchub said:
...Dizzy by Tommy Roe being an example.
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Dizzy? YIKES!
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It's from '69, so maybe KOOL still plays it...except on a That '70s Weekend of course. ;D

We know the Stevemeister reads the board so perhaps he can give it a spin next week.
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Please don't bother Mr Goddard as he's much too busy to honor Tommy Roe requests. However Nurse Jeff has a hankerin' to hear something by The Buoys on one of those Seventies block party weekends! umm...pls pass the salt :eek:
 
Dr. Akbar said:
...Nurse Jeff has a hankerin' to hear something by The Buoys on one of those Seventies
block party weekends! umm...pls pass the salt :eek:
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"Donner party, your table is ready..." ;D

The Nurse should call Katfish (with a "K") Kris Kelly tomorrow on the boss line
just after 10 AM. Rumor has it he's the only live voice during KOOL weekends.
(PD Kris, please feel free to refute if that is incorrect.)

Oh wait. There wasn't another Buoys hit, so how can we make it work for the
Block Party Weekend theme? Couple it with another Rupert Holmes-penned song?
Or with Rupert himself? Another pina colada please! ;)
 
The Buoys! "My stomach was full as it could be and nobody ever got around to finding Timothy"

I remember the KUPD "Call Girl", actually met one of them at an audio store at Southern and McCllintock. I would get a couple presets, KUPD and KRIZ. My dad would have KTAR, KOOL, and KXIV. KXIV was actually a pretty cool station. Plus thier calls XIV was the roman numeral for 14, they were on 1400. Another cool set of calls was on FM, KIOG set up to resemble their 104 frequency.

KUPD gave away the Levis Gremlin. I think that was in '74 so it might not be the one that Dr. Akbar and Jeff roll in as theirs is a '76. Does the horn honk every time you flip the driver's seat forward? Guys, if you're ready to move up to something a little more contemporary, may I suggest the Pacer.

Also, at night used to listen to the Nightcap Show with Herb Jepko...born in AZ by the way...used to listen on KOA or KSL which came in pretty good at night.
 
soazdude2 said:
The Buoys! "My stomach was full as it could be and nobody ever got around to finding Timothy"

I remember the KUPD "Call Girl", actually met one of them at an audio store at Southern and McCllintock. I would get a couple presets, KUPD and KRIZ. My dad would have KTAR, KOOL, and KXIV. KXIV was actually a pretty cool station. Plus thier calls XIV was the roman numeral for 14, they were on 1400. Another cool set of calls was on FM, KIOG set up to resemble their 104 frequency.

KUPD gave away the Levis Gremlin. I think that was in '74 so it might not be the one that Dr. Akbar and Jeff roll in as theirs is a '76. Does the horn honk every time you flip the driver's seat forward? Guys, if you're ready to move up to something a little more contemporary, may I suggest the Pacer.

Also, at night used to listen to the Nightcap Show with Herb Jepko...born in AZ by the way...used to listen on KOA or KSL which came in pretty good at night.
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Gremlin is, was and always will be orders of magnitude cooler and prettier than any Pacer.

I remember the girl in bakery department, in 1977, who drove a pale green metallic Gremlin....

If the Boyz need a a newer ride, it would need to be the AMC Eagle, another vehicle 25 years ahead of its time.
 
soazdude2 said:
Also, at night used to listen to the Nightcap Show with Herb Jepko...born in AZ by the way...
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If you browse through some of the Old Gringo's yearbooks of the fifties, you'll see
Herb Jepko's name associated with some small-market AZ radio stations.

Example: GM of KDJI Holbrook in the '58 issue.
 
Tom Wells said:
If the Boyz need a a newer ride, it would need to be the AMC Eagle, another vehicle 25 years ahead of its time.
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Wouldn't that be the Marlin? ::)
 
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