Substitute WKBW and Downstate NY/New England and that's the story of my teenage years and early 20's.
From 1990-92, I did AM drive on 1170 WWVA (WGR alum Larry Anderson was the GM)...one of the coolest parts of the job was in the dead of winter when we stayed on night pattern 'til 7:30AM, and the calls would come in from Binghamton to Washington DC.
Saturday nights was the Jamboree USA show, drawing crowds from all over the nighttime listening area to the Capitol Theater in Wheeling. As music director and therefore in touch with all the record companies, I would help Larry book acts for both the weekly Jamboree USA and annual Jamboree In The Hills festival. One such booking was for an up and coming group called Little Texas, to open the first weekend in January for one of the local Wheeling-area acts who would headline the Jamboree between Christmas and mid-February, when attendance would be low due to foul weather.
I wasn't able to be there for the concert, my father-in-law's birthday was that weekend and we were off to visit him in Tully, Onondaga County south of Syracuse.
So there we were, celebrating FIL's b-day with WWVA drifting in-and-out as the act I'd booked, Little Texas, knocked it out of the park as the opening act for a local high school student who'd become quite well-known to WWVA Jamboree attendees/listeners by that January day in 1992...
...Brad Paisley.
A lot of magic in that AM radio...
