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Ft. Worth Star-Telegram story on Ricky The K's Solid Gold Time Machine

pfsmikez said:
What some call trainwreck...others call variety. Thats what made top 40 radio great
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Woo-Hoo! and welcome to the board!

I like the way you think and hear.
 
Exodus by Ferrante And Teicher followed by Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin was played on a recent Ricky The K's Solid Gold Time Machine. It's all about musical variety and musical balance.
 
pfsmikez said:
What some call trainwreck...others call variety. Thats what made top 40 radio great
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I dont hate variety, I love it too, Top 40 radio was a part of my musical education.

But on KOMA a station with a 60's-70's Top 40 heritage, that segue just sounded strange. In the day, good Top 40 stations made the DJ talk over or used a jingle to smoothen the transition between genres.
 
I grew up in OKC. Imagine my suprise when I returned after all these years for a funeral on Friday. I Tune in to hear Ronnie Kaye on KOMA - a Guy I grew up listening to in the early 70s. Awesome.
 
I worked at KOMA when it was Adult Standards in the 80s. We still had a world map with pins marking reported monitoring spots (many in SE Asia), and a file cabinet filled with letters from soldiers in Vietnam thanking the station for sending them a slice of home.
 
PeterZ & unclepudd, Thanks for sharing that. It's amazing how far AM can travel at night & how meaningful it can be.
 
In the 60's when WFAA was 820 it was not unusual to get song requests from other countries and from people who had trouble speaking enough English to place the request. Also calls from ships in the Pacific were not uncommon... Announcers at WLS and WCCO told me that they received the same although none from Central and South America like we did at WFAA.
 
Just guessing here, maybe stations in Texas & Oklahoma, being farther south, are more prone to skip into other countries. The KOMA & WFAA stories remind me of an employee at 1080 KRLD (in the early 1980's) saying that they had a postcard from someone in the Phillipines that heard them.
 
60s audio processing aka spring reverbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb.
Fun to kick while on the air
 
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