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KFRC Big 610 Celebration (June 14)

BossRadioDJ

BossRadioDJ

Just a reminder that The Big 610 Celebration - A Salute To The Legends Of KFRC will take place next Tuesday, June 14, at the Doubletree on the Berkeley Marina.

This year marks the 45th anniversary of KFRC's launch as The Big 610, and the 25th anniversary of its demise.

We'll have a special tribute to Dr. Don Rose, an auction including rare KFRC mementos, a look back on KFRC's long and colorful history, and a roundtable discussion featuring several KFRC personalities, moderated by Ben Fong-Torres.

Following the luncheon, there will be an "after party" at the KRE Radio Museum on Ashby Avenue. (The connection? The Big 610's broadcast signal emanated for many years from the transmitter shack and giant radio tower behind the KRE building.)

For more information and reservations, please visit http://www.broadcastlegends.com/
 
BossRadioDJ said:
Just a reminder that The Big 610 Celebration - A Salute To The Legends Of KFRC will take place next Tuesday, June 14, at the Doubletree on the Berkeley Marina.
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Exactly who will be there? All I see so far is Dave Sholin and Ben Fong-Torres. BF-T didn't work at KFRC, and Sholin was only there in the final 6 months or so. So, who will be there to meet'n'greet?
 
DavidKaye said:
BossRadioDJ said:
Just a reminder that The Big 610 Celebration - A Salute To The Legends Of KFRC will take place next Tuesday, June 14, at the Doubletree on the Berkeley Marina.
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Exactly who will be there? All I see so far is Dave Sholin and Ben Fong-Torres. BF-T didn't work at KFRC, and Sholin was only there in the final 6 months or so. So, who will be there to meet'n'greet?
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Aren't most of the KFRC greats deceased? I hope John Mack Flanagan & Bobby Ocean show up.
 
Madmansam said:
DavidKaye said:
BossRadioDJ said:
Just a reminder that The Big 610 Celebration - A Salute To The Legends Of KFRC will take place next Tuesday, June 14, at the Doubletree on the Berkeley Marina.
Click to expand...

Exactly who will be there? All I see so far is Dave Sholin and Ben Fong-Torres. BF-T didn't work at KFRC, and Sholin was only there in the final 6 months or so. So, who will be there to meet'n'greet?
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Aren't most of the KFRC greats deceased? I hope John Mack Flanagan & Bobby Ocean show up.
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Madmansam said:
DavidKaye said:
BossRadioDJ said:
Just a reminder that The Big 610 Celebration - A Salute To The Legends Of KFRC will take place next Tuesday, June 14, at the Doubletree on the Berkeley Marina.
Click to expand...

Exactly who will be there? All I see so far is Dave Sholin and Ben Fong-Torres. BF-T didn't work at KFRC, and Sholin was only there in the final 6 months or so. So, who will be there to meet'n'greet?
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Aren't most of the KFRC greats deceased? I hope John Mack Flanagan & Bobby Ocean show up.

I think Dr. Don Rose, Michael Spears, Chuck Browning, Rick Shaw, KO Bayley, Mike Phillips, Frank Terry, Les Turpin and Jane Dornacher are deceased but Bill Lee, Marvelous Mark, Eric Chase, Charlie Van Dyke, Mike Novak, Dick Sainte, Dave Diamond, Joe Conrad, Don Sainte John, John Mack Flanagan, Bobby Ocean, Big Tom Parker, Dave Sholin, Chuck Buell, Beau Weaver, Kevin McCarthy, Don Kelley and Jack Friday are among the living.
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DavidKaye said:
BossRadioDJ said:
Just a reminder that The Big 610 Celebration - A Salute To The Legends Of KFRC will take place next Tuesday, June 14, at the Doubletree on the Berkeley Marina.
Click to expand...

Exactly who will be there? All I see so far is Dave Sholin and Ben Fong-Torres. BF-T didn't work at KFRC, and Sholin was only there in the final 6 months or so. So, who will be there to meet'n'greet?
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Ben was the last jock hired at KFRC...he did either one or two weekend shifts just before the flip to Magic 61 was announced.

As for Dave Sholin, he was a jock and music director at KFRC from 1974-1978 or 1979, moved to L.A. as RKO's national music director and returned to KFRC in 1982, staying beyond the format flip. With the exception of Dr. Don Rose, Donn Sainte-Johnn and maybe Mark McKay, no 610 jock I can think of was there for more years than Dave.
 
suburbandj said:
I think Dr. Don Rose, Michael Spears, Chuck Browning, Rick Shaw, KO Bayley, Mike Phillips, Frank Terry, Les Turpin and Jane Dornacher are deceased but Bill Lee, Marvelous Mark, Eric Chase, Charlie Van Dyke, Mike Novak, Dick Sainte, Dave Diamond, Joe Conrad, Don Sainte John, John Mack Flanagan, Bobby Ocean, Big Tom Parker, Dave Sholin, Chuck Buell, Beau Weaver, Kevin McCarthy, Don Kelley and Jack Friday are among the living.
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Turpin's alive, last I heard.

Dick Sainte, however, is dead...as are Jackson Armstrong and Steve Lundy. But the vast majority of the 610 men and women are alive and well.
 
michael hagerty said:
Ben was the last jock hired at KFRC...he did either one or two weekend shifts just before the flip to Magic 61 was announced.

As for Dave Sholin, he was a jock and music director at KFRC from 1974-1978 or 1979, moved to L.A. as RKO's national music director and returned to KFRC in 1982, staying beyond the format flip. With the exception of Dr. Don Rose, Donn Sainte-Johnn and maybe Mark McKay, no 610 jock I can think of was there for more years than Dave.
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Seriously? Funny that I listened to KFRC during that entire era and don't recall Dave Sholin much at all. I remember him first at KLIV where he seemed to be on air constantly. But how was he PD at KFRC when the legendary Paul Drew and Michael Spears were there? At least that's how I remember it. In fact, Don Rose told me he was hired by Paul Drew when he arrived in, what, 1973? (I had asked him if he had any association with Bill Drake, given that he didn't fit the Drake mold at all.) Was Dave Sholin national PD and Paul Drew local PD?

I'm shaking my head because this doesn't quite make sense to me.

Oh, wait a minute; you're saying music director and I'm thinking program director. Maybe that's what's going on here. That would put Dave Sholin as the guy who debuted both Sylvester's "Mighty Real" and some godawful song by the SF 49ers as well as "Mill Valley California, That's My Home" by Rita Abrams' 4th grade class. I remember these records because I did fulfillment for Marty Blecman's Megatone Records when I owned a mail service at the time. Marty was so thrilled to get his songs on KFRC.

Man, that kind of station will never exist again....

And that was Dave Sholin, eh? Imagine that.
 
DavidKaye said:
Seriously? Funny that I listened to KFRC during that entire era and don't recall Dave Sholin much at all.
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Sholin did weekends and fill-ins when he was music director in the 70s. When he came back to KFRC in '82-'86, he did 9AM-Noon. Sandy Louie was MD.
 
DavidKaye said:
BossRadioDJ said:
Just a reminder that The Big 610 Celebration - A Salute To The Legends Of KFRC will take place next Tuesday, June 14, at the Doubletree on the Berkeley Marina.
Click to expand...

Exactly who will be there? All I see so far is Dave Sholin and Ben Fong-Torres. BF-T didn't work at KFRC, and Sholin was only there in the final 6 months or so. So, who will be there to meet'n'greet?
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Sholin was at KFRC at least twice in his career and the total time spent there, off-air and on-air had to be close to 10 years.
 
Dave was the PD in the mid-80s (1986?) right before the flip. I remember this because I was working at KREO in Santa Rosa at the time and everyone was jumping ship at KFRC, and he asked me to sit by the phone in case he needed someone last-minute to fill in some shifts. I was tentatively going to do a couple of weekend overnight shifts, but Dave told me he had to use internal help. I stayed up to listen who this internal help was and I was crushed...her first shift ever...Renel Lewis...LOL!

Fortunately Renel and I became good friends when we worked together years later at KMEL and when I told her our connection to Dave we both shared a laugh.
 
DavidKaye said:
That would put Dave Sholin as the guy who debuted both Sylvester's "Mighty Real" and some godawful song by the SF 49ers as well as "Mill Valley California, That's My Home" by Rita Abrams' 4th grade class. I remember these records because I did fulfillment for Marty Blecman's Megatone Records when I owned a mail service at the time. Marty was so thrilled to get his songs on KFRC.

Man, that kind of station will never exist again....

And that was Dave Sholin, eh? Imagine that.
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Nope. Well, he may have had something to do with Sylvester...or not.

Just checked. Dave left San Francisco for the RKO National Music Coordinator gig in the summer of 1978, when Paul Drew left RKO. Dave moved to L.A.

Sylvester charted in early '79.

As for Miss Abrams and Mill Valley, the single was released on Reprise in 1970, the album containing it waited until 1972. Both of those years before Sholin's arrival at KFRC.
 
Madmansam said:
[Aren't most of the KFRC greats deceased? I hope John Mack Flanagan & Bobby Ocean show up.
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Okay, here's what I was able to pull together on short notice. I'm sure the list is missing jocks and I know it's missing information, but here goes:

Mike Phillips: Dead
Glenn Adams: Unknown
Bobby Dale: Dead
Royce Johnson: Unknown
Tom Rounds: CEO of Radio Express, Los Angeles
Les Turpin: Retired
Howard Clark: Retired
Jay Stevens: Retired
K.O. Bayley: Dead
Dave Diamond: Teaching college in the midwest, recovering from a stroke
Dale Dorman: Retired in Boston
Charlie Van Dyke: Voiceovers in Phoenix
Jack Murray: Unknown
Don Kelly: Director of Broadcast Marketing for iBiquity
Joe Conrad: As Joe Kelly, owner of AV Deli, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix and London
Gene West: Secondary Assistant Principal for L.A. Unified School District
Mike Scott: Dead
Ted Atkins: Recovering from cancer surgery
Paul Drew: Retired
Sebastian Stone: Dead
Jim Carson: KRTH, Los Angeles
Frank Terry: Dead
Chuck Browning: Dead
Steve Lundy: Dead
Bob Foster: Retired
Jack Friday: On air at a cluster of stations in Juneau, Alaska
Citizen Bill: As "Steve Taylor", production director at KBAY, San Jose
Bobby Ocean: Voiceovers and new media strategies, Marin County/fill-ins at KOIT
Eric Chase: As "Paul Christy", weekends at Arrow 93.7 in Houston, Texas
Kevin McCarthy: In Dallas.
J.J. Johnson: Life-FM internet radio
Beau Weaver: Voiceovers in Los Angeles
Michael Spears: Dead
Dr. Don Rose: Dead
John Mack Flanagan: Working security in San Francisco
Rick Shaw: Dead
Big Tom Parker: Working for a non-profit in Portland
Chuck Buell: Voiceovers in San Diego
Marvelous Mark McKay: Voiceovers in Kansas City
Ed O'Brien: Voiceovers in Denver
Donn Sainte-Johnn: Sacramento (?)
Dick Sainte: Dead
Shana: Working as a freelance music publicist in Los Angeles
Dave Sholin: What is Sholin doing now?
Beverly Fox: Real Estate
Shannon: Unknown
Mucho Morales: Westwood One Oldies Channel


Gotta go...this is only about 2/3rds of the list. More later.
 
Don Sainte-Johnn is indeed at V-101 in Sac.
Shannon is writing for real estate publications in Las Vegas.

Both are very much alive and active!
 
Thanks for the updates on Jay, Donn and Shannon!

Here's the remainder of the list (again, probably missing some jocks and definitely missing info...updates welcome and encouraged)

Bob Anthony: Bob Anthony Media Services, Los Angeles
Robin Bailey: As Rob Harder, VP/Programming Clear Channel Spokane
Mike Novak: VP/Programming K-Love
Candi Chamberlain: In financial services
Bill Lee: Afternoons, WCBS-FM, New York
Jackson Armstrong: Dead
Harry Nelson: Recovering from a near-fatal illness earlier this year.
Sandy Louie: Unknown
Sue Hall: Morning traffic anchor on KGO-TV, San Francisco
The Slim One: Metro News Networks, Phoenix
Willie Sancho: Unknown
Jack Silver: Program Director, KABC, Los Angeles
Bill Rafferty: Retirement Living TV
Les Garland: In Miami, working on a business to take rock and roll to China
Gerry Cagle: Music management, New York and L.A.
Tom Maule: Dead
Brian White: Unknown
Steve O'Shea: Unknown
Ed Mitchell: Dead
Mark Elliott: Retired
Jim Bridges: Unknown
Tom Kennedy: Owns a Boston PR firm
Christopher Lance: Left Clear Channel El Paso in 2009. No word since.
 
Now how many of the Top 40 KFRC dj's stayed on AFTER its switch to "Magic 61"? I recall Dr. Don Rose, Turi Ryder and Russ "The Moose" Syracuse who did an oldies show on Saturday Nights prior to the switch. And if I recall, didn't Russ The Moose take over Bobby Ocean's shift after Bobby left?
 
Oh yes, add Russ "The Moose" Syracuse to that list of former KFRC dj's.
 
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