What was the name of Cleary's helicopter reporter who was always garbled and overpowered by the copter's rotor sound?
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mailman ron said:
Darned if I know...could never quite hear his name over the copter's rotor sound...
damn straight it played music.
i listened in idaho falls, idaho and around the west from 1969 until the late 1980s.
1972 was my year of peak involvement with KNBR. i guested on the les williams show, met les, shehan alexanian ("the engineer with the burt reynolds-like body"), dave niles and frank dill july 22 off that year. in september, ed brady and his charming wife grethe stayed at my parent's home in idaho falls. ed, always a a gentleman, and much missed, ed brady.
KNBR was musically independent, probably more notable for what they didn't play than what they did. in the summer of 72, they did not play "goodbye to love" by carpenters or "brandy" by looking glass.
carter b replaced jack hayes sometime around november 1972.
does anyone know what became of les williams? last i knew, he was working for a smooth-jazz type ac in the east bay, i believe. i would love to hear from him.
i listened in idaho falls, idaho and around the west from 1969 until the late 1980s.
1972 was my year of peak involvement with KNBR. i guested on the les williams show, met les, shehan alexanian ("the engineer with the burt reynolds-like body"), dave niles and frank dill july 22 off that year. in september, ed brady and his charming wife grethe stayed at my parent's home in idaho falls. ed, always a a gentleman, and much missed, ed brady.
KNBR was musically independent, probably more notable for what they didn't play than what they did. in the summer of 72, they did not play "goodbye to love" by carpenters or "brandy" by looking glass.
carter b replaced jack hayes sometime around november 1972.
does anyone know what became of les williams? last i knew, he was working for a smooth-jazz type ac in the east bay, i believe. i would love to hear from him.
"KNBR was musically independent, probably more notable for what they didn't play than what they did. in the summer of 72, they did not play "goodbye to love" by carpenters or "brandy" by looking glass."
Glad the station attracted you and kept you during those years. We were unique.
Anytime someone brings up the KNBR of '71-'75 I jump at the chance to respond since I was the PD with LaVerne Drake as my Music Director. We did play both of those songs. Neither proud nor embarrassed. We had a very large list of currents and would have been run out of town by the big corporate consultants if we'd tried that at any time in the past 30 years.
Almost 40% of all tracks played were currents (less than six months since release). for the rest of the hourly lists we seldom called on music older than 15 years back.
Glad the station attracted you and kept you during those years. We were unique.
Anytime someone brings up the KNBR of '71-'75 I jump at the chance to respond since I was the PD with LaVerne Drake as my Music Director. We did play both of those songs. Neither proud nor embarrassed. We had a very large list of currents and would have been run out of town by the big corporate consultants if we'd tried that at any time in the past 30 years.
Almost 40% of all tracks played were currents (less than six months since release). for the rest of the hourly lists we seldom called on music older than 15 years back.
Nowadays, you'd pigeonhole what KNBR was then into the soft rock/MOR mode. Yet it had real personalities, like Frank and Mike, Carter B., Dave Niles, ect., which you don't get with soft rockers nowadays ... it's usually celebrity gossip off the wires or a rant about Simon Cowell, vs., say, Frank Dill talking about his golf game or Carter B. telling us about the Jeremiah C. O'Brien's radio room ...
Jack Hayes ... I remember he got in a bad wreck on Doyle Drive and I don't think he ever made it back on the air (at least not on KNBR), did he?
Jack Hayes ... I remember he got in a bad wreck on Doyle Drive and I don't think he ever made it back on the air (at least not on KNBR), did he?
Nickellodeon,
After KNBR Les Williams did work at Jazz stations in the East Bay and KRVR a jazz station in Modesto in the late 90's.
Interesting story: When I was managing KOFE St. Maries, ID, I visited Les at the KNBR studios in 1973 during the Holidays. He put me on the air with him for a few minutes. When I returned to Idaho I got a call from the Governer's press secretary saying that he and the governer heard that exchange while listening to KNBR.
I got my first job in radio in part because the owner was impressed with a letter of recommendation Les Williams wrote on NBC letterhead.
After KNBR Les Williams did work at Jazz stations in the East Bay and KRVR a jazz station in Modesto in the late 90's.
Interesting story: When I was managing KOFE St. Maries, ID, I visited Les at the KNBR studios in 1973 during the Holidays. He put me on the air with him for a few minutes. When I returned to Idaho I got a call from the Governer's press secretary saying that he and the governer heard that exchange while listening to KNBR.
I got my first job in radio in part because the owner was impressed with a letter of recommendation Les Williams wrote on NBC letterhead.
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