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KOMA 1976 Aircheck - Charlie Stone

Talk about a blast from the past, WOW!

Charlie promotes the next guy to follow him on the air "Chuck Diamond" who I knew from the early days of KATT "Charlie Parker".
 
Wow, a year later and people are still listening to this aircheck. :D

BTW I added more files to my divshare folder, including rare 70's airchecks from Tulsa's KTFX and KAKC, plus goodies from WLS, KHJ, and Wichita's KELO and KEYN.

http://www.divshare.com/download/2603050-b2f

This is stuff I traded with other collectors over the years, found via peer to peer networks, or other clandestine sources. ;D If you own the copyright and dont want it online, let me know, otherwise enjoy!

BTW if anyone has any OKC or Tulsa airchecks, especially 60's-70's era KAKC, KELi, KTFX, KWEN (in their "Rock 95" days in 1980-1) let me know.

Billy G.
 
It’s sure fun to reminisce.
Hey Michael, if the museum staff is short maybe some of us radio guys can volunteer a few hours a week to help catalog and archive your tapes. Fun for all!

Chuck Diamond aka Charlie Hines helped fuel my desire to get into radio when he was at KOMA in the mid 70s. I believe he might have been on the air part time at the old KOCY before I started there in ’77. At the time M-O-R KOCY had Bob McCartney doing mornings, Dave Stanton mid days, Tom Gilmore afternoons, Barry (Smith) White evenings and Steven C. Hall doing overnights. The booth announcer for KWTV did news but I can’t remember his name. They went country (the first time) in August.

Kicksie 96 was automated so they had no air staff. Amazing how that has just about come full circle.
 
oldgeek said:
Kicksie 96 was automated so they had no air staff.
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I remember KXXY96. "Get Back Where We Started From, Maxine Nightingale: Before that, Get up and Boogie, The Silver Convention."

Over on KOFM, there was Lester "Boogie" Michaels: "boogie check boogie check".

All that hair and loud leisure suits is giving me a headache.
 
Good 'ol Boogieman! His days at KZUE 102.7 and KOFM 104.1 were awsome!! Some of the stuff he used to do on the radio they'd hang him for these days but it was hillarous! (people are just too damn uptight anymore) Any airchecks of the Boogs is a great aircheck to me!
 
OKCRadioGuy said:
Good 'ol Boogieman! His days at KZUE 102.7 and KOFM 104.1 were awsome!! Some of the stuff he used to do on the radio they'd hang him for these days but it was hillarous! (people are just too damn uptight anymore) Any airchecks of the Boogs is a great aircheck to me!
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The first time I heard Boogieman on KOFM was in 1974-5 on a trip from Bartlesville to Lawton OK, maybe for thanksgiving or Christmas.
I was sitting in the backseat with a little AM/FM transistor radio and earphone and caught him introducing The Sweet with "Well bless my T*t's, its the Ballroom Blitz!!!".

I got a check of him on KTFX "Superfox 103". He was there for a few months in 1979.
 
He used to tell stories about the days at KWHP where he'd have to shoot the rats in their 'studio' while he was on the air back when they were still in the house on Kelly. Oh for the days of real radio!
 
It's too bad the new 94.7 doesn't grab him. With their music, he'd be a perfect fit. Then again, he actually might be having too much fun doing new music in Lawton. One of the things that really wore him out was the lack of new during his days at KOMA (oldies).
 
OKCRadioGuy said:
It's too bad the new 94.7 doesn't grab him. With their music, he'd be a perfect fit. Then again, he actually might be having too much fun doing new music in Lawton. One of the things that really wore him out was the lack of new during his days at KOMA (oldies).
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Boogies been working at Magic 95 in Lawton since the early 90's, so I guess he likes it there. He's been the morning jock there for the past couple of years. Too bad KMGZ dont stream online cause he's still fun to listen to. Boogie should be in the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
 
Does anyone remember that in the early 1980s, Boogieman had a TV show on KAUT 43? It was along the lines of Ronnie Kaye's The Scene where he presided over a bunch of kids dancing. At least, my memory says that it was him.

Yesterday I heard the name "Michael Dean" on the radio at the end of some kind of a spot. It was on KTOK or KRMG and may have been related to tourism or something. Obviously, I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention until I heard a name that I had come across recently. It took me a while to figure out that it was in this thread.
 
History Center...

Yes. Boogie is at Magic 95. My guess is he likes it better not only because of new music but also because his boss and one of the owners is an old KOFM guy like himself that actually likes to do radio instead of the corp. crap version we suffer from for the most part up here in OKC. :)
 
Sorry about dredging up an old thread, but I have stumbled upon an old cassette tape I have kept for some reason that has an hour of Boogie Checks from 'The New' KOFM. I am thinking this is from 1983 or maybe 1984 I'm not sure. I didn't listen to it all the way through closely so I'm not sure if there are any current event discussions to tip off the timeframe of the broadcasts. I am going to put this to a digital file of some sort to save for myself, but if anyone is interested I can upload it to youtube or something. I have no idea if these recordings are archived somewhere so I don't know if this is really something of interest or not.

-Mark
 
Okay, I went ahead an uploaded it to youtube and I'm happy with the quality and glad I got it preserved from the analog media. Hopefully some people who remember this will get some enjoyment out of it, as I couldn't find any recordings of this anywhere on the net. Oh, and sorry it's only 30min. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nip5_15Yw4
 
Thanks for posting this.. I might have some of his Boogie Checks from the same era, but I forgot what tapes I saved it on.
 
Fun to hear again! Thanks for posting!

Someone asked earlier, any KOMA airchecks from their last few years doing Top 40?

I'd still like to hear some old KAKC, KELI, KZUE airchecks too.
 
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