Blast from the Past! - Old Radio Shows!

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I remember Murray the K's Swingin' Soiree. He had the latest releases during the 60s, as well as "blasts from the past", the golden oldies (like from the 50s!)

Speaking of Sports by the legendary Howard Cossell, before he became a bigtime national figure, early-mid 60s. Back when I actually gave a shit about sports (pre 'Nam).

Allison Steele's show on WNEW (I think). She was the "night owl" and played great shit late at night including whole albums when they first came out.

Dr. Demento's great show which was always a nostalgia rush! I think it's still on, no?

[fylthevoyd]

I do remember the Howard Cossell sports show....but growing up in missouri it was damn near sacreligious not to follow the cardinals:) The only other recollection of radio I vividily remember is I got all my rock-n-roll music,from a little lone station out of Little Rock Arkansas....KAAY and they were only on the air at night....and this was AM radio mind you...long before the FM dial began to come into use.I layed in bed at night with a little transister radio and listened to the tunes which shaped the country.
Since I lived in the country music mecca at the time,Springfield MO,had the opportunity to be the Nashville of today,this is where all the syndicated country shows originated,but the local authorities and managers felt like the music industry would have tainted the good wholesome Southern Baptist image,with all the corruption that it would have brought with it.....so they moved east and Nashville was choosen.....and the rest is history as they say.

I ain't quite old enough to remember any of the true radio era..and all the syndicated classics that families gathered around the radio to listen to.

[themnax]

i remember dr demento and travis t hip. (ol travis is still arround on my favorite little kvmr one in a while). radio in the 50s and 60s was a lot of top 40 and i don't remember there being radio shows in that era as such. and fm playing politicly dangerous rock when it was first getting started. in those days my favorite station was kzap. dr demento was live out of some semi-local station up arround marysville or chico or seemed like it was.

oh early 50s there was wolf man jack out of l.a. with some super power station with it's transmitter over the border in mexico because the u.s. wouldn't let any station have that much power. xerv or something like that. then there was one other super power station in utah for a while.

i remember kpfa in berkley too. we used to be able to get them direct when the left end of the fm dial was all college stations and alternative everything. i guess kpfa is still arround. kvmr up in nevada city got started when people up our way could no longer get kpfa cause there were now too many other stations more powerful too close to it in frequency for us up in our mountains of light to pick it up.

kvmr's been arround 28 years now. i think i was up in oregon when they were getting started.

up there in portland i listend to kboo, a pacifica affiliate. my favority show on there was something called the witching hour, transitioning from the day of the sun to the day of the moon. bunch of other good stuff on there too.

when i was over in utah in the very early 70s there was something called john carlton's living room, that was a sterio store that owned a radio station and they would play whole alblum sides. any and every kind of music, but the whole sides of the alblum with everything that was on it.

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