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Art Bell & Marcia Brady at KUDE Oceanside

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I took these photos in 1972 and had never made prints of them, but I bought a new really-easy-to-use film scanner recently and decided it was time to see how they look: http://www.bilyea.net/ArtBell/index.html

I had always thought that in light of the kinds of talk that were the staple on his national show, an Art Bell interview with a teen pop star was almost surreal.

Art was 27 at the time and Marcia Brady - er, uh, Maureen McCormick - was 16. KUDE - at AM 1320 - was your basic small town Top 40 station that paid $450 a month and all the records you could steal.
 
Art Bell actually did weekends at 91X in 1979 so KUDE was not his last music DJ job. He got to read liner cards exclusively playing the same 234 rock songs over and over under the Frank Felix-Roger Agnew format that was later replaced by the "Rock Of The 80's"...Felix-Agnew's format replaced the original Gene Knight-Bobby Rich 91X format that the station started with in 1978.

Art wanted to use the name "Trey Bell" but that was nixed; he wound up using "Art Trey" as his airname on 91X. I only have 1 aircheck of Art on 91X that survived this part of his career.

I believe that on his resume these days he lists XETRA-AM (implying that he did a talk show after they flipped from Oldies to Talk) rather than weekend liner-card reader on the rock FM XETRA-FM 91X. Don't know what he had done prior to his hiring at 91X; could have been the bookstore..
 
GeorgeJ. said:
Art Bell actually did weekends at 91X in 1979 so KUDE was not his last music DJ job. He got to read liner cards exclusively playing the same 234 rock songs over and over under the Frank Felix-Roger Agnew format that was later replaced by the "Rock Of The 80's"...Felix-Agnew's format replaced the original Gene Knight-Bobby Rich 91X format that the station started with in 1978.
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I changed the text to reflect that. The KUDE gig may have been his last fulltime music DJ job. I do recall that sometime after KUDE he went back to Alaska (his bios say his first on-air job was in Alaska) to do his copy of the Bill Ballance Feminine Forum talk show, which involved trying to talk dirty without using dirty words. (Don Imus parodied that as "Feminine Foreplay" back in the days when he was still funny...)
 
Yep, that's Marcia-Marcia-Marcia... what a cutie! Thanks for sharing. I feel real old now, especially seeing how young Art Bell looked.
 
Wikipedia says that Art Bell was doing talk radio at KDWN in Las Vegas in 1978...not true. KDWN had not gone to a talk format in the 70's, and Art Bell didn't leave KDWN to do weekends at 91X in 1979. KDWN was after 91X; must have hired him because he read the Frank Felix liner cards really well. Frank used to get pissed if anyone deviated from the liner cards EXACTLY as written..

Great photos from KUDE though. Art looks like he was really about 14 then and wearing his best sports coat from a KUDE tradeout.. I doubt that Art would ever admit to having worked at KUDE in 1972. It's never been on his resume at all.
 
Bob, I just saw this - thanks so much for those pix! I remember that studio so well (and, as a kid, diving into the dumpster behind it to "rescue" unwanted promo 45s!).

-- Doc
 
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