KNUS 99

[jeffdfw]

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/11/dont_bogart_this_rare_roach_cl.php

 

[TheRover]

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/11/dont_bogart_this_rare_roach_cl.php

BUT NOW, WE HAVE 97.1, 102.1, AND 92.5 .......

Happy Yet ? ?

Do you want ffries with that McDonald's Burger ? ? ?

 

[Steve Eberhart]

The legendary Mike Selden is the voice in there doing the I.D.
This was during the time he did noon to 2pm on KNUS FM and then went down the hall to KLIF AM for 3-6pm.

He was a "heavy" laid back album oriented jock on KNUS which was AOR at the time (before they went top 40) and the hip shuck and jive am Top 40 jock on KLIF...

Harry Shearer did a Saturday Night Live bit which resembled this one time, the same jock going back and forth from the AOR presentation on FM and the shuck and jive AM top 40 voice.... Selden did it for real years earlier!

 

[Albert19X]

Now that is radio.

 

[thebeach33445]

Hey Guys:

Does anybody know when in 1972 did KNUS change from Progressive Rock to Top 40? I keep seeing different dates.

Thanks

T.J.

 

[Gopher]

Nice to hear Mike Selden's voice again. :'(

 

[dfaulkner]

Nice to hear Mike Selden's voice again. :'(

Yes, it is.

 

[longtimelistener]

Hey Guys:

Does anybody know when in 1972 did KNUS change from Progressive Rock to Top 40? I keep seeing different dates.

Thanks

T.J.

I can't give you the exact date but it was the end of May 1972.

 

[stevezodiac]

Hey Guys:

Does anybody know when in 1972 did KNUS change from Progressive Rock to Top 40? I keep seeing different dates.

Thanks

T.J.

I can't give you the exact date but it was the end of May 1972.

It was a sad day for sure. It was nearly worse than KBOX shifting to country.

 

[jd]

It was nearly worse than KBOX shifting to country.

It was pretty shocking, to be sure, but at least KZEW the Zoo came along, followed by FM 102 KFWD.

Speaking of KBOX, in the final days before the switch in January, 1967 they played their whole library of "Chicken Man" episodes (created by Dick Orkin; for you youngsters, Google him). Also, as a Top 40 station KBOX had featured a tiger named named "Beauregard" as their mascot, so at 12 noon the first song of the new format was appropriately Buck Owens' "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail."

It's worth noting also that KNUS was no ordinary Top 40 back then, it was more of a hybrid with a good percentage of album rock. Some examples were Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick," Grateful Dead's "Truckin" and Derek & the Dominos' "Layla." The music was heavily day-parted, of course, but the whole mix and the on-air presentation was pretty daring for its time.

 

[Megapsycle]

It was a sad day for sure. It was nearly worse than KBOX shifting to country.

My sentiments exactly.

 

[MikeShannon914]

Does anybody know when in 1972 did KNUS change from Progressive Rock to Top 40? I keep seeing different dates.

May 6, 1972

Signed on 7/1966, to underground format 4/1968

 

[thebeach33445]

Thank you Mike for that info.

T.J.