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Johnny Hayes KRLA Big 11 Countdown

Maybe. I loved listening to the countdown on K-R-L-AAAAAA. Johnny did a great job. I listened from the San Diego area and so it was filled with alot of background static at times from XERB/XPRS am 1090 and KSDO am 1130. I think somewhere, I may have of all things a VHS tape recording of KRLA. I think he was doing a special countdown and I wanted to capture all of it. So, I hooked up my VCR which had a special input for audio and left it run. Now, where that tape might be is a good question. It could be with all my old top 40 surveys or mixed in with the home video stuff I saved. I like Johnny on KRLA, too bad he went to KRTH and we lost his countdown show on AM radio. Mr. Rock N' Roll, Brian Bierne was enjoyable too and I think at the time, it was a move on KRTHs part to get rid of the competition. And then Johnny Hayes was gone. I have some old KYA 1260 surveys with Johnny's picture on it. Didn't he have the all night House Party in 1960 or am I thinking of Johnny Holliday?
 
Hey, Mike! I enjoy your posts. Early in 1983 I lived in Anaheim and airchecked a lot of stations before I moved back to Ohio. I'm sure I have at least one C-90 of Johnny Hayes, and since his countdown was done daily (per your post), I would bet my tape is a countdown show. KRLA was good, but I only wished they ran some better
jingles. This would have been made with my McKay-Dymek AM tuner with 9 khz bandwidth, so the quality should be good. If you have any questions, e-mail me at [email protected].

A friend of mine anso sent along some of the Aprils Fool re-creations done on KRLA... Casey Kasem, Charlie O'Donnell, Ted Qiullen, etc. Quality is fair at best, but they're still neat to listen to.

Phil
 
kenb said:
I have some old KYA 1260 surveys with Johnny's picture on it. Didn't he have the all night House Party in 1960 or am I thinking of Johnny Holliday?
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No...it was Johnny Hayes, though 1960 might have been a little early....he was at WAKE, Atlanta until 1961.
 
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