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WKDF History question
- Thread starter TheDingo
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IIRC Shannon was host, and "Breakfast with The Beatles" was a Sunday morning show. I think show may have started about Carl P.'s departure circa 1992, and before KDF went to a more progressive rock/grunge sound. Perhaps 1993 or 1994?
It is indeed Shannon. I'm currently recording the tape to MP3, and may edit it and upload all the IDs / Breaks / Commercials somewhere later on. Being that I'm near Huntsville, the signal on the tape is rather good, suggesting it could be from during the time when KDF was on the translator network down here, so 93/4 is sounds about right.
I've cut up the audio, and here she is:
http://media.putfile.com/103-KDF---Breakfast-With-The-Beatles
http://media.putfile.com/103-KDF---Breakfast-With-The-Beatles
I stand corrected, thanks. Now it comes to mind why I never caught "Breakfast with The Beatkes" in 87 or so. My weekend air shift was same time. Duh on me.
just for my own info..when did they change the call letters from WKDA FM TO WKDF ? i remember when i first heard kda..it was called kda underground..and i distinctly remember hearing "bridge over troubled water" on it..i guess at the time seemed out there..but now seems rather tame..later i know it turned much more different..with a deeper playlist..but in 1970 KDA UNDERGROUND seemed really dangerous compared to the average am rockers of the day......made me think i was doing something wrong...and getting away with it..lol..
I think the calls changed from WKDA-FM to WKDF in the summer of 1977...but that's just a hazy guess.
I remember removing countless 103 rear window stickers with razorblades around that time: the KDF stickers
were easier to remove 'cause they were still new and not sun-baked. Replaced 'em, with the blue 92Q decals
in return for a 92Q-shirt...courtesy of "Rocky T Shirts" in Rivergate (owned by GM Bob Reich). oops.
Wasn't that also about the time Billboard 'fired up" WKQB...aka...KQB-106...with the wind chimes behind the open mic?
Anyone remember the 'stariwell to heaven'?
I remember removing countless 103 rear window stickers with razorblades around that time: the KDF stickers
were easier to remove 'cause they were still new and not sun-baked. Replaced 'em, with the blue 92Q decals
in return for a 92Q-shirt...courtesy of "Rocky T Shirts" in Rivergate (owned by GM Bob Reich). oops.
Wasn't that also about the time Billboard 'fired up" WKQB...aka...KQB-106...with the wind chimes behind the open mic?
Anyone remember the 'stariwell to heaven'?
Bring your KDF Rock Card to the Half Price Fair, basement at Municipal Auditorium. Wonderful Waterbeds will be there. Waterbeds are on sale for half price when you flash that yellow plastic.
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SwissVol
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deltas69 said:
When KDA FM rock burst on the Nashville scene back in 1970, it was like heaven to me. Funny how you remember hearing that Simon and Garfunkel tune. I remember hearing " Grand Funk Railroad's version of the blues song: "Inside looking out" and Bob Cole going Radio Free Nashville.
This was album freeform rock radio.
swiss..the reason i recall that S&G tune is tied to a specific location (girl friends living room), huge cabinet am/fm/turntable stereo..and lights out ,wink wink,nudge nudge..and it's because it stood out as the only tune i recognized within the previous hour or so..my GF at the time had tuned KDA in since here in Gallatin..we couldn't get anything after dark except WLS/WABC if the wind was blowing right..and that was in a car radio..oh..i'm sure we could have tuned in the shell dinner hour on 104.5..but this was pre radio for me..and i'm sure finding a station on FM that played rock at night was quite a coup at the time..have to admit, having grown up listening to local am as well as nashville am..this was so different..it sounded CLEAR..NO STATIC, and was the perfect background for...well..whatever..i'll admit that sometimes i will drive by that house and wax nostologic for a moment...those were historic times no matter which side of the mic anyone was on....anyone else want to recall first kda experiences ??
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Montavius
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Here's a tangible piece of WKDF history.
http://nashville.craigslist.org/pts/849193005.html
http://nashville.craigslist.org/pts/849193005.html
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Jeremy Oliver
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I' m pretty sure the calls changed from WKDA-FM to WKDF in the summer of 1977 too.
I remember replacing my 103 rear window with the blue 92Q decals
in return for a 92Q-shirt...courtesy of "Rocky T Shirts" in Rivergate, and yeah, I remember Bob the GM owned the shop, because he was my boss! First at the shop and later at the station!
I remember replacing my 103 rear window with the blue 92Q decals
in return for a 92Q-shirt...courtesy of "Rocky T Shirts" in Rivergate, and yeah, I remember Bob the GM owned the shop, because he was my boss! First at the shop and later at the station!
S
SwissVol
Guest
The way KDA FM began in March of 1970 and what they developed into down through the years was two different animals;however, somehow KDA-KDF managed to keep the loyal listeners from day 1 on board. To me that was amazing since the product of those two eras was so different.
KDA FM with Bob Cole as their music director was just the coolest thing to hit Nashville since Goo Goo candy bars. I actually remember Goo Goo candy bars. God, I am so old now.
Anyway as Jim Eskew has pointed out on Hudson Alexander's web site about Nashville radio, the earliest of KDA FM days was wide open. Any album, any cut could be played, within reason. The jocks had the understanding that there was just some tunes that you should not play at 8 in the morning because the songs were just to freaky sounding. "Atom heart Mother" by Pink Floyd comes to mind. Not a great song to fire up in morning drive time. That tune was best suited for 3 in the morning. The jocks probably had the freedom to play that at 8 in the morning though if the inspiration hit them. It was free form rock radio and it was fairly new and it was so much fun to listen to. You could call up and request any tune, regardless of whether it was obscure or whatever, and the jock might actually play the tune.
What KDA became in the eighties was musically appalling. The Thompson Twins??? :
At the risk of POing the program director of KDF at this dreadful era, it just was not the same product. I bet the PD at 103.3 in the early eighties checks in this forum now and then. LOL
What is amazing is that many of us who were on the KDA FM ship in 1970 still listened to the KDF 1980's product.
KDA FM with Bob Cole as their music director was just the coolest thing to hit Nashville since Goo Goo candy bars. I actually remember Goo Goo candy bars. God, I am so old now.
Anyway as Jim Eskew has pointed out on Hudson Alexander's web site about Nashville radio, the earliest of KDA FM days was wide open. Any album, any cut could be played, within reason. The jocks had the understanding that there was just some tunes that you should not play at 8 in the morning because the songs were just to freaky sounding. "Atom heart Mother" by Pink Floyd comes to mind. Not a great song to fire up in morning drive time. That tune was best suited for 3 in the morning. The jocks probably had the freedom to play that at 8 in the morning though if the inspiration hit them. It was free form rock radio and it was fairly new and it was so much fun to listen to. You could call up and request any tune, regardless of whether it was obscure or whatever, and the jock might actually play the tune.
What KDA became in the eighties was musically appalling. The Thompson Twins???
:At the risk of POing the program director of KDF at this dreadful era, it just was not the same product. I bet the PD at 103.3 in the early eighties checks in this forum now and then. LOL
What is amazing is that many of us who were on the KDA FM ship in 1970 still listened to the KDF 1980's product.
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