I have heard the THE SOUND @ 100.3 FM in Los Angeles will be recreating the Legendary KMET this Friday (July 10) for One Day. I am curious, If there was One Historic Legendary Radio Station In The Bay Area That You'd Like To Revive For One Day, Which Station Would It Be? The Underground Freeform KMPX? or The Big Band Version Of KMPX? Or The Original World's Greatest Radio Station KSFO? Or The Original KOME? Or Boss Radio KYA? So Iam Am Curious, Which Radio Station Would It Be?
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Which Historic Legendary Radio Station Would You Want Recreated For One Day?
- Thread starter Madmansam
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The bay area was lucky to have had many great radio stations. Everything from the historic KQW (KCBS)
and the legendary KFRC, KSFO and KYA to San Jose favorites KEEN (country), KOME (rock), and KLIV (top-40)from back in the day.
Even KEWB/KNEW were some great stations with great talent and programing. You also can't over look
KIOI/KIQI (K-101) with the great radio talents of James Gabbert. One would have to go back in time and listen to some of the best staions of the times (the 40') of course the before mentioned KFRC with Merv Griffin and all of the big local big band talents. KNBC (KNBR) would also rank up on top during that time period as well.
In short alot of radio stations with alot of talented folks (too numerious to mention) have graced our air waves of the bay area over the years
To have been here to have witnessed and hear the transformation of the great radio shows of the 40' into the "Rock & Roll" evelution of the 50' and 60' and don't forget the "Boss Jocks" must have been awsome. We had some of the best announcers and DJ's with some of the best voices one can only imagine. I was lucky to have been around to see and hear just a short spectrum of what we call bay area radio at it's best and to have to choose one station for a recreation would almost be impossible. Just my view for all it's worth! AJG
and the legendary KFRC, KSFO and KYA to San Jose favorites KEEN (country), KOME (rock), and KLIV (top-40)from back in the day.
Even KEWB/KNEW were some great stations with great talent and programing. You also can't over look
KIOI/KIQI (K-101) with the great radio talents of James Gabbert. One would have to go back in time and listen to some of the best staions of the times (the 40') of course the before mentioned KFRC with Merv Griffin and all of the big local big band talents. KNBC (KNBR) would also rank up on top during that time period as well.
In short alot of radio stations with alot of talented folks (too numerious to mention) have graced our air waves of the bay area over the years
To have been here to have witnessed and hear the transformation of the great radio shows of the 40' into the "Rock & Roll" evelution of the 50' and 60' and don't forget the "Boss Jocks" must have been awsome. We had some of the best announcers and DJ's with some of the best voices one can only imagine. I was lucky to have been around to see and hear just a short spectrum of what we call bay area radio at it's best and to have to choose one station for a recreation would almost be impossible. Just my view for all it's worth! AJG
KSFO late60's-early 70's with Dan Sorkin & Terry McGovern &KYA late 60's with Tom Campbell's all shift giveaways-won Blood,Sweat & Tears 1st album 3 times in one night!!
Without a doubt,,, 1260 KYA,,, Chris Edwards ,,Bobby Ocean, and the Legendary John (class of 1964) Mac Flanagan,,
Madmansam said:
There are recordings of most of these stations during their heydays: KSFO, KFRC, KYA, KMPX, etc., even KDIA, KSOL 1450, KKIS, and even KWUN.
What I'd like to hear are earlier radio: KROW, KLX, KPO, KFRC during the Don Lee days (and when my mom was a soap opera actress there). My mom used to talk at length about the wonderful shows, network and local on these stations.
I came along at the end of the era. I vaguely remember hearing "Gunsmoke" on KCBS, some kind of soap on KNBC when I was maybe 2 or 3 years old (I remember the organ playing more than anything). About the only part of the oldtime era I clearly remember was "76 Party Time" with the live remotes from the Fairmont, Sir Francis Drake, and some other hotel, with half-hour remotes every Saturday night featuring George Liberace, Ted Fiolrito, Ernie Heckscher, etc. on KNBR.
THAT is the kind of stuff I'd like to hear. The rest is already available.
I am guessing that the KMET recreation will reunite most of the living DJ's of KMET and act as if they never signed off. In Sacramento, back in 1996 on April Fools Day, KSEG-96.9 became KROY-1240 for a day. Practically all of the former DJ's of KROY reunited and included the old 1240 KROY jingles. If any Old Historic Radio Station can be recreated for one day, Most of its original DJ's need to be alive to make this work. They wouldn't merely broadcast old recordings of the radio station (which was done previously by KTRB-860 before its launch courtest of David Jackson with his collection of recordings.), An actual recreation as if it is the Real Deal.
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kenrayc
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I will choose these for top 40 of the 70s KYA, KFRC, and KLOK.
For AOR the original 94.9 KSAN, 106.1 KMEL, 98.5 KOME, 92.3 KSJO, and KRQR 97.3. For 80s top-40 KWSS 94.5.
In the San Joaquin Valley AOR KDJK 95.1 (1984-1994) and KKDJ 105.9 1979-1992. top 60s and 70s top 40 KYNO 1300 and 80s KYNO-FM 95.7 and KHOP 104.1.
For AOR the original 94.9 KSAN, 106.1 KMEL, 98.5 KOME, 92.3 KSJO, and KRQR 97.3. For 80s top-40 KWSS 94.5.
In the San Joaquin Valley AOR KDJK 95.1 (1984-1994) and KKDJ 105.9 1979-1992. top 60s and 70s top 40 KYNO 1300 and 80s KYNO-FM 95.7 and KHOP 104.1.
radio dx said:
What's amazing is KIOI when it was still KPEN. I used to love that station when I was a kid. Then I heard airchecks of it from the era and man oh man, it was totally unlistenable! The music was dreadful. The announcing even worse. Only James Gabbert stood out. The rest of the DJs sounded stilted and announcerish.
I would say the Big 610, KFRC which was the best San Francisco station of all time or maybe KYA in the early to mid 1960s.
However, airchecks and tapes of those stations are easy to find. So I'll pick KSFO of the 1960s and early 1970s.
I'm too young to have ever heard the station, but it was huge in that era and I would love to hear what Don Sherwood and Jim Lange among others sounded like.
However, airchecks and tapes of those stations are easy to find. So I'll pick KSFO of the 1960s and early 1970s.
I'm too young to have ever heard the station, but it was huge in that era and I would love to hear what Don Sherwood and Jim Lange among others sounded like.
I grew up in LA in the late 60s and got to hear the beginnings of rock on FM with "underground" stations KMET and KPPC. I know KMET was consulted by Tom Donahue from the Bay Area, who was an underground radio pioneer - though he was originally a Top 40 DJ on KYA. I believe he consulted the short-lived KPPC before that, as well.
By the time I hit the Bay Area in 73, rock on FM was becoming big business and KMET had morphed into a mainstream AOR station. Needless to say, so had KSAN (a Metro Media corporate sister station to KMET).
So I'd like to hear a recreation of the original KSAN and KMPX, where Donahue put together his first underground formats.
By the way, everything comes around. This thread reminds me that the first "recreation" of a classic station I heard was in 1972, when "Color Radio" KFWB was recreated for two days on...(drumroll, please)....KMET.
By the time I hit the Bay Area in 73, rock on FM was becoming big business and KMET had morphed into a mainstream AOR station. Needless to say, so had KSAN (a Metro Media corporate sister station to KMET).
So I'd like to hear a recreation of the original KSAN and KMPX, where Donahue put together his first underground formats.
By the way, everything comes around. This thread reminds me that the first "recreation" of a classic station I heard was in 1972, when "Color Radio" KFWB was recreated for two days on...(drumroll, please)....KMET.
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Bowler Bob in Brisbane
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Madmansam said:
My top 3 choices would be...
1) KFRC from August 1967
2) KDIA and KSOL from July 1965.
3) KOME from July 1975
While most of my first decade on Orson Welles' "spinning fragment of solar driftwood" {research the '38 "War Of The Worlds" broadcast to figure out what the hell I'm talking about} was spent listening to "The World's Greatest Radio Station", KSFO....
I have to vote for the nostalgic sounds of the 1970's KMPX, when it covered music from the 1930's to the 1960's from 6:00am - where the transmitter was clicked on and the gentle strains of The Mills Brothers' catchy 1932 rendition of "Bugle Call Rag" started our broadcast day - to midnight, when the "Ol' Maestro" Ben Bernie's closing theme song, "Au Revoir, Pleasant Dreams" tucked in the station for the next six silent hours.
In between, jocks like Rick Wagstaff deftly transitioned and kept things on a fairly even keel......
It was well over a decade ago when I "recreated" a night of the KMPX Sound on my old Sunday night
classic jazz radio program in Sacramento.....My God, I could barely keep the show running smoothly with all the calls coming in, thanking me for capturing that sound - an even more vintage, jazzier "Music Of Your Life" blend.
I have to vote for the nostalgic sounds of the 1970's KMPX, when it covered music from the 1930's to the 1960's from 6:00am - where the transmitter was clicked on and the gentle strains of The Mills Brothers' catchy 1932 rendition of "Bugle Call Rag" started our broadcast day - to midnight, when the "Ol' Maestro" Ben Bernie's closing theme song, "Au Revoir, Pleasant Dreams" tucked in the station for the next six silent hours.
In between, jocks like Rick Wagstaff deftly transitioned and kept things on a fairly even keel......
It was well over a decade ago when I "recreated" a night of the KMPX Sound on my old Sunday night
classic jazz radio program in Sacramento.....My God, I could barely keep the show running smoothly with all the calls coming in, thanking me for capturing that sound - an even more vintage, jazzier "Music Of Your Life" blend.
briancraig said:
Airchecks of Don Sherwood and Jim Lange at KSFO are easy to find, too:
http://www.bayarearadio.org/audio/ksfo/
http://www.donniebabe.com/
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