and from the mid-Eighties until it went all-talk in 88); (Nashville: ) WSM (Not only was it MOR during the day and country at night (before going all-country in 79), but in 73 or 74, it changed its MOR daytime format from either standards or standards-slash-soft rock (traditional MOR) to all soft rock hits (contemporary MOR nka Adult Contemporary)), WSM-FM SM95 (I dont know if WSIX switched/modified its MOR format completely to AC/lite rock, but you just read at least two of Nashvilles AC stations of the past. I do want to mention that Ron Jacobs had more to do with the sound of KHJ than he gets credit for. Date of Recording: 1996 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 94.3 WTIX-FM (KLEB-FM/KZZQ-FM/KBAU) New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Format: Oldies Featured Air Personalities: Jay Douglas, Doug O'Brien (News) (WNBC/WINS) Contributor: Annonymous. They had a New Years count down of the top 100 from the year and I listened to every song for several years. How good is that? Where is our favorite station ,Thibodaux is waiting ,,we miss it !! . Todd Storz took the tight playlist formula from KOWH, doubled the number, and the first "Top 40" station was born. Nobody, and I mean nobody, listened to KLIF in Fort Worth. Hi Mike (Frank Brodie). Bill Drake and others refined it, but Top 40 was the child of Storz and McLendon. Often teens in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and other western states would eagerly await sunset when the mighty 1520 would come booming through with the newest hits of the day. WHLW/WOBM-AM Lakewood, NJ, (Adult Contemporary) For both stations I got our friend, Sam Lit (Hys son and a jock on WIFI), to produce great-sounding jingles and name shouts for us. In fact, owing to its location in New York City, it was the proverbial 800-lb gorilla of Top 40, period. Listen to WTIX 94.3 FM live and more than 50000 online radio stations for free on mytuner-radio.com. WCFL was occasionally a better station. Side note- thanks to Randy Michaels for seeing what I saw- that great radio isnt necessarily only in great cities. Forever. Stand with Ukraine. This fun song is still fondly remembered by many today. I also worked on 13/WAVZ New Haven, another great station. How could this survey overlook two important Philadelphia stations: WIBG- an early giant from the late 50s thru mid 60s at a time when the local American Bandstand set the tone of the nation. You mean that Lee Abrams guy who came to Toronto in 1977 to work his Superstar Format Magic against CHUM-FM? Also, while I suppose KLIF/Dallas has to be on the list, I would be remiss if I didnt mention that we dusted their asses when I was at KNUS/Dallas (the station Fairchild foolishly didnt want to buy when they purchased KLIF from McLendon, but passed on his FM station). It was the Top 40 station in San Francisco during the Summer of Love. None of the big-market owners did the smart thing and moved to FM in the 70s. Then there was KYA in San Francisco with Bobby Mitchell and Tom Donohue, Gene Nelson, Tony Big, ed Hider and Johnny Holliday. WEAM 1390..WPGC.1580.WEEL.1310 and one of my favorites WRCThe Great 98. KFRC was a good station, but anyone whos honest it was strictly second-tier and never (especially during AM Top 40s most dominant era) had anything close to the production magic and genius of Boss Radio, Morgan and Steele were the most influential in the business. And yet another early soft rocker in Chicago-WMAQ, known later in its AC era as 67-Q.. RKOs WOR-FM. I listen from Ponchatoula. As are the respective lists of Top 40 *AND* Adult Contemporary stations that I listed above. Years later, I hired him as Mike Marshall from an AOR station in Toronto to do Smooth Jazz. I am surprised that WXLK K-92 didnt make the cut small market but Russ Brown and company had a major market sound that dominated the airways in 1980 and Beyond. I could hardly go to sleep cause I was so revved up by that great music and Long John Silver. Quixie in Dixie. * Robert Mitchell (with Jim Swiler) -Quarterback "BillyKilmore"November 1969 (1:17), * Robert Mitchell (with Katy Caraway) -Mardi Gras Phone CallsFebruary 28, 1980(5:18). Redeem Now Pause PAMS Series 18 Sonosational - WTIX AH3RD 9 years ago Jingles 546 7 AH3RD 39 29 Report Follow AH3RD and others on SoundCloud. WOV was on 1130. Back in the heyday of exciting Top 40 AMs, that meant I was sandwiched between two of the greatest 89 WLS to the west, and The Big 8 CKLW, to the east. Early adopter in the format (1958, survived to the mid-70s). This is my favorite Top 40. I worked there later in time. @Phil Dirt And in Buffalo, the list of the greatest Adult Contemporary rockers of all time would have to include not only the aforementioned WGR, but also WBEN and-particularly circa mid-to-late 80s-are you ready for this?-WKBW. @n Or you don't come in at all. Marc Chase made more noise at WFLZ and WEBN, but this was his best work. It was worth driving 500 miles each way to hear live. Wibbages signal was not to cross the border into Canada. Jeff Hurvitz The greatest Top 40 station of all time? WABC didnt lose its stranglehold until like 1979. My grandkids love the old music. WTIX 94.3 FM's heritage call letters originate from the legendary Top 40 AM station WTIX 690 AM, "The Mighty 690." In your TikTok app, go to your video that you want to use to create a playlist. These were stations worth traveling to hear. I also had stnts at WTIC-FM Hartford and WDOT Burlington! Hence the morning mans name FENWAY. Oh!, *THATS* right, Randy Michaels **DID**!! Dic Youngs, Jim Michaels, Mike Pace. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. (3:00)* Buzz Bennett -AircheckMay 1967 (2:50). In stereo! Still there as WNTP, Salem radio. Budweiser Beer( Clydesdales marching in a Mardi Gras parade - Skip Broussard & Buzz Bennett ), Kreeger's Mam'zelle K Shop(RobertMitchell), Metairie Ford(Check out the prices for new cars and gasoline! I grew up in Northern VA. We had Major Top 40 AM competition! Some of the greatest talent came through Detroit Toledo Ohio. Thank you Michael, Al JD , Hot Rod .Keep it going M & M . (WIBG and WFIL were good, but ABC killed them, as far as I was concerned.) Lenny Kravitz 1675325726. Throughout the 60s and 70s, KOMA was the favorite of teens all across the western US. To coin a sound alike phrase from the late Bill Drake, AND THE TALENT JUST KEPT ON COMIN. Thanks to those folks I managed to make a living in radio for a good bit of my life and I will always be grateful for their willingness to teach new guys! No one has said anything about the greatest radio promo of all timein my humble opinion that would be Jack McCoys The Last Contest! Which I heard on the also great KCBQ in San Diego with Mason Dixon! Barq's RootBeers. Remember you well from Toronto and would have loved to work some those famous stations you didbut then again, you were one of the smoothest jocks ever!!! living in rural washington parish now out of bogalusa and we needs signal cause we part of new orleans area. ", mention of Kirschman's Gentilly Woods. About 100 hours of them between 1970 and 1977. (1:09) A brief clip of WTIX's "All Night Satellite.". Lol! He even sent Reggie Hall to the grocery to get us all some. Owned and operated by Fleur de Lis Broadcasting. you go, Phil; *THATS!!!!! And it had Dr. Don Rose. Definitely a slick imaged station! We are very proud of what WVAQ has meant to West Virginia over the years. Pardon the rambling, but that station was Top 40 during the day and Italian-language programming in the evening, with overnights split between jazz & R&B (the latter three from when it was WOV prior to the ownership change in 1959 that changed it to WADO and shuffled at least either of those dayparts to a different time slot). When that station had to be sold or loose its license and it went to beautiful music WHN, the Yankees went to a non-rock stationWCBS. Unless you mean BOTH Z-100 AND Pirate Radio, the latter was a station in Los Angeles; in fact, he left Z-100 to helm the Pirate Radio format (I forgot what station had that branding). Unsere Bestenliste Feb/2023 - Detaillierter Produktratgeber Die besten Eos d6 Bester Preis : Vergleichssieger. Get discovered by a world of playlist listeners. Though I grew up and lived my whole life in Philadelphia, for Top 40, my all-time favorite station was WABC. Had a lot of fun working at TR, too, and enjoyed doing Smooth Jazz. In the mid 7Os WLS was the greatest top 40 radio station of all time. Even thought WCCO was not a music station, in the 60s and 70s, they would play softer top 40 hits during some of their programming. Hey! KILT Houston? For the same reason, these stations became the first rock stations in NYC. Of all the airchecks in recent years I have heard from the late 60s through the 70s from different TOP40 stations around the country, I wish I could have experienced listening to Super CFL in Chicago live back then. The station may be offline, or you may need to update your browser. Funny that nobody looked at the list and recalled Jeff Kayes often quoted positioning statement WKBW one of Americas two great radio stations!. How about the Middle of the Middle West Not WHO in Des Moines. My grandkids love the old music. Radio INK. WMCA outgunned WABC and WINS both with terrific signals. Somehow it seemed appropriate. I worked with legends. What about my all time favorite? In the mid-60s, the remaining R&B/Soul, group harmony (Doo Wop) and Italian (and jazz?) Rockin Ron Schumacher was the board op-and when Wolfman answered the phone hed ask: Do you know the difference between meat and fish?. Respectfully, though, I would not rank WCFL below WABC, much less rank them last, undeR WIXY?????? Attention! Install the free Online Radio Box app for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! WQXI was promotionally crazy at times (Rambling Raft Race) and very localized to the market musically. Michael Green, Robert Mitchell & Bob Walker. In the very-early Sixties, thanks in no small part to three fulltime Top 40s in NYC, WADO reintroduced African-American and Italian programming to its daytime schedulethis time, sharing it with Top-40 rock n roll. Only one mention of Super CFL Chicago?!?! We should celebrate the greatness. Yes I was lucky enough to be in LA as a kid when KHJ was at its peak in the mid/late 60s and worked at KRTH in 70s when Paul Drew was National PD. User Rating 5 out of 5 stars based on 1 review Recommended Channels Near Metairie, USA KLZA Sunny 101.3 FM Falls City NE Falls City, NE USA, Adult Contemporary. I had to climb onto the counter to reach it. WHB710. (As theyve been saying on one segment of the Monday Night Football halftime show in recent years, ) COME on, man! Anybody who knows a THING about at least early PHILADELPHIA Top 40 radio knows that before there was WFIL (or at least the beginning of its own Top 40 format), there was Wibbage! I completely understood but I was so happy to have heard back from him and that he liked my work. Great Music!!! I miss those days! KTKT In Tucson was as good as any big market station. Had the joy of being an RKO national sales rep for several of these outstanding radio stations: KHJ, KFRC, CKLW. Make a playlist from a video: 1. (Top 40) You mentioned WYNG, which was more hip than its competitor, WGBR. Hear John Fred, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, the Dixie Cups, Eddie Powers, Frankie Ford, Huey "Piano" Smith, Joe Barry, Mike Ancona, Milson Luce and Oliver "Who Shot The La-La" Morgan, all saying hi on Bob Walker's Original Oldie Hour at 12 noon on WTIX 690-am. I have to add to my list of rock stations in NYC carrying baseball. WTIX lives on thanks to Mike in the Morning Costello! 41 were here. As I recall, the only other time baseball was on a rock station was in 1969 when WABC-FM supplemented WJRZ in broadcasting the Mets, and on the very end of that WJRZ contract when the station transitioned from country to become top-40 WWDJ. [13] She walked in and ordered what he was drinking and walked over and interduced herself and they had drinks between flights. Enjoyed working together in syndicated 24/7 formats as well. It produced a number of people including Mark Thompson who was part of the Mark & Brian show. Whatever your new sound, pitching can help it get heard by fans around the world. !, yet!) After it sold to Stan and Sis Kaplan, WAPE was just amazing. ( How to play on VLC Media Player) s. Great program directors in Holland Cooke for AM and Gary Berkowitz for FM. Hope youre doing well, Lee! If that sounds crazy, look at the ratings. Also hear 1969 local radio commercials including Louisiana Power & Light. Yes!!! PLEASE FIX THE TRANSMISSION ISSUE.I'm singing along at work and BAM the music goes out! My God!, you namechecked KJR AND DIDNT THE HELL EVEN MENTION *PAT ODAY*?? WTIX News Chief Jim, Swiler does a Signal 20 traffic report, and a 20-20 newscast with an update of the Apollo 11 astronauts who. WAKY/Lousiville. WTIX 94.3 FM Download now for free and listen to the radio easily. Maybe Im biased, but its my list. (Welland was kind of a suburb of Buffalo, just not as close as Tonawanda was.) WKBW/Buffalo. I had the pleasure of listening to 4 of these stations back in the day, CKLW from 67 through 74/75 before that WING Dayton in the Mid to Late 60s, WFIL in my early Air Force Days before shipping off to Vietnam, while stationed at Dover AFB in 68/69, and on occasion WLS with and without Lujack[WCFL as well} back in the mid 70s. If you go by Abrams characteristics, CFL was heads and shoulders above the rest (plus they had Chickenmanand Lujackand King B, Jim Stagg (who traveled with the Beatles on tour), Biondi, Barney Pip, Jerry G Bishop, Joel Sebastion, Jim Runyon, Ken Draper as GM, a huuuge news department, and on and on). Plus, KHJ had The Real Don Steele, who made magic every day being a larger-than-life and unique personality within the Drake constraints. And if all of those werent enough, WADO in New York, which broadcasted Top 40 programming from 1959 to 1963. In March 1975, Bobby Rich (AKA Dr. It was a magical blend of personality, jingles, contests, and fun mixed with the greatest music that defined the era and continues to live today. Great jocks, a lot of personality, fun to listen to. If you know how to make a playlist on YouTube, you can directly open the playlist you created or saved before. 2. If you are looking Kodi Addons, please use IPTVMate Repository! How do we use Cookies. WTIX FM 4539 n. i-10 service rd. I went into Houston, i couldnt turn off KILT. WTIM - NEWSTALK WTIM delivers local news and information, local weather, local and professional sports, and over 6 hours a day of agriculture programming! Seamless Internet Connectivity required for playback as the App does not store any videos offline. For me, WLSs personality driven approach was magic. None of the 15Q guys Michaels mentions, were there when the station signed-on Dr. Steve (Bridgewater) West am drive, Ron Baptist midday, Shot Bob Kelly pm drive, Bro Mick Rizzo 6-10, Kid Curry did 10-2a WTIX-FM 94.3 is a Oldies radio station serving New Orleans. KYA was also a great station with Emperor Gene Nelson, Tom Donahue, and many others. WTIX spent its first days on the air reading the phone book to get attention. WJLK-FM Asbury Park, NJ (now Hot AC 94-3 The Point) Todd Storz had the first Top 40 station. CKLW definitely was THEE number one station in North America and Canada. WTIX began simulcasting the oldies format of WSAT in Salisbury, with local news, sports and information for an area that will also include Concord and Kannapolis. FTR I remember seeing this back when I was in the 8th grade on a movie reel. University of New Orleans. 20. Most every market had two or three pretty good Top-40s back then; lucky if you can find one now. WLS and WCCO are now news talk stations. That was the prelude WYHY (Y107)/Nashville. Skinny Tom Cheney name shout 3. Also the WTIX 1969 Halloween House Decoration Contest, a Signal 20 traffic report by David Lawrence, a spot for the new Vanilla Fudge tape on sale at Tape City USA, and a full Coca Cola "It's The Real Thing", Cruise out on the lakefront once again with the sound of the real and classic WTIX 690 on a summertime, * Bob Walker -Aircheck April 1971 (1:23), * Bob Walker -Aircheck February 1972(12:08), Where were you in February 1972? The reason I know about some radio history is that I was kid of 9 or 10 when my friends from Kenner told us about their new favorite radio station back in either 1958 or 1959. ), Dave Shaffer, Big Jim (Davis) Edwards, Brother Bill Gable, Charlie Obrien, The morning mouth Gary Burbank, Pat Holiday who could talk faster than a bullet, the smooth sounding Johnny Williams, Scott Miller, Ted The Bear Richards, Pat St John, Billy Mack, Ric Allen, and a guy who had a great voice Jim Jackson (below). I ended up racking up 25 years total. was one of my childhood heros. I knew what I wanted to do forever. *Bob Walker -Christmas Eve1967(1:08)Bob flubs his midnight Bible reading. (And!, heres some *trivia*!! All the Top 40 stations that Lee Abrams and Randy Michaels each included, those that many posters, myself included, called them out for omittingincluding those that you mentioned in your own comment, plus WIFI Philadelphia (WIFI 92 (pronounced Wi-Fi 92 (Whod have thought, right? It was one of the several station whose doors I passed through. It really started in 1958 with Perry Allen, Russ The Moose Syracuse, Art Roberts and Dick Biondi. Buzz Bennett showing up the first day with a German shepherd and a sledgehammer to knock the NBC logo off the lobby wall set the tone. Yes, I agree, I don't understand why my car radio often does not pick up WTIX clearly. Audio Ink is a trademark of Streamline Publishing, Inc. Jesus, that station was the damn WABC, WTIX, CKLW, WLS, WINS, WMCA, KHJ, KRLA, KLIF, WQXI, etc. Oh wait. KBOX/Dallas. And the fired-up responses further support why great RADIO existed. Yes! Disco Mindy was part of our Disco era, as well as Jim Chambers and Vernon Davis. Over at 89 WLS, during those years, we had John Records Landecker, Larry Lujack, Tom Kent, Steve King, Jerry Kay and so many more. Old timers in Omaha still remember KOWH. Another station that is still around but with new ownership I believe. WSGN, THE BIG 610, Birmingham, Alabama. What I love best about this story is how it gives the reader a little glimpse into how Randy thinks. How can anyone leave out WMCA, New York?. Boogie. Big Time. Ginsburg was topping everybody at night in the Boston Metro with shares of high 30s to mid 40s. HOWEVER, PLEASE do something about it dropping constantly. CKY was our main source of music in the 60s, we were only 6 miles from the Manitoba border in Warroad, though sometimes we could get WLS or KOMA in the night. By creating an account, you are indicating that you have read and agree to the, I listen from Ponchatoula. I listened to CKLW from the early 60s to the mid-70s and it is a shame that more people could not have experienced the glory of an astounding presentation radio. It was a very hip kind of top 40 that meshed well with Boston at that time. The last sentence should have read, And in Buffalo, the list of the greatest Adult Contemporary rockers of all time would have to include not only WGR, but also WBEN andparticularly circa mid-to-late 80sare you ready for this?WKBW.. You hit the70s and go back to the better old stuff. Free IPTV Playlists. TWO HANDS !!!" Charlie Tuna! I would say, with certainty, that it was The Big 8 that stirred my interest and music, and then, eventually, a radio career of my own. @Rich Marston WTIX - May 6, 1972 Bob Walker with Sonny & Cher. PAT ODAY! Pontchartrain Beach, Schlitz Beer, Metropolitan Bank of Jefferson (with Aunt Polly and nephew Sterling). I think one of the elements that is missing today is competition, radio wars. (:34) $3.00 off a $19.95 portable 45 rpm record player. My brother Lacy Neff loved what he did and was very very proud of his station and co workers. Great contemporary, traditional country, and rock and roll, are gone. ENSEMBLES: English Symphony Orchestra. The Randy Michaels in Erie was in reality, Frank Bascik, who passed away in 1991. The Drake and Drew format there tore my ears off! The later 5kw night site used 12 towers to put a lobe over Dallas that also covered the mid cities and just reached Ft Worth. And if neither WAPE Jacksonville, FL NOR WQXI was the WABC of the South, so many of the larger Southern cities were contenders for that title: including New Orleans (WNOE as well as WTIX), Atlanta again (WPLO, WAKE (with its 1,000-watts daytime/250-watts nighttimeand prior to the early 60s, 250 watts full timesignal! No dispute. WTIX-FM 94.3 is a Oldies radio station serving New Orleans. Register here. Certainly those of us who worked there would say so. Even with Bobbys departure for 99X New York and a format change in 1979, B100 kept me in flip flops, burgers and beers for 8 years, for which I am eternally grateful. THAT Lee Abrams guy? dayparts were themselves jettisoned in favor of additional Spanish-language programming. ABCs $50,000 Button? * Skip Wilkerson - Aircheck Morning Drive, August 5, 1964 (27:05), Lots of Beatles stuff and Beatles concert ticket finalists *Humorous Anacin commercial "I ONLY HAVE. Listen Live Memories 98.3 Fm Radio With Onlineradiobox.com. In my teen years, I remember calling in and winning prizes. U of Ps WXPN also did a good job with that format. Even though I came later in the game to be involved with some of the biggest of those stations, I did make it to a couple. Especially before I Heart and Cumulus took over. WJET-FM debuted at number one. Robert Mitchell plays the radio hits of 1969. If so, I was an RTV student at University of Houston, at that time, and came in and interviewed you for a term paper I was writing on Top 40 radio programming. KOMA interviewed the dealership owner and all he could talk about was that GD gas station was still standing amid all the rubble. The music is just wonderful. And for the very reason you namedthe stations that personally floated the proverbial boat of the person making the choicesnarrowing them down to any given number at least falls short of impossible. Fly Away. He's an old, white guy, so who knows what he'll say? Heres a shout out to them. He hired major-market talent and they stayed. Like I said this was a tough assignment. BBC World Service 4. WABC had 10 times more power. And here are my picks for the 20 greatest Top 40 radio stations of all time: This was a tough assignment. It pre-dated WRKO (Now 6-8-0) on October 12th, 1966. Yes, I know KLIF was the first polished Top 40 station and the big station in Dallas. I completely agree with KHJ being #1 on the list. you played a song today between 10am and noon, the lyrics were You don't have to come home, you can rome because I don't love you and you don't love me. How can we not mention the stations owned and operated by the late Todd Storz which basically invented the Top 40 Format. (3:00), June 1970 during the Bill Murvin show. Heres how everyone stacked up against each other. CKLW is definitely #1, and the most influential Top 40 of all time (thanks to Rosie). Biggest problem was losing talent to bigger markets. I started listening to WTIX soon after I was myself a DJ at the young age of 12. * Richard Fahey -Newscast6/5/62 (3:39), * Michael Green -Tape City Spot for Sergio Mendez & Brazil '66 album & concert. To me, radio was riveting in the 60s and 70s, and it fascinated me enough to get in to it, which I enjoyed for over 40 years. I also agree with Randy Michaels that KFRC overall became a better station than KHJ for the reasons he mentioned. In the business since I was a kid - Tix was my station of choice when I could receive it over on the coast in Southeast Texas as a preteen! I always thought of them as the WABC of the South. WXYZ not only was in Detroit, but at last check had long been renamed WXYT. CFL! K92 was mentioned and they picked up the number one spot a few years after they went on the air in 1980, dethroning WROV. Jocks with a bit more rope. Seneca College School of Media Toronto Canada. An industry veteran thats been everywhere. His stories were fascinating especially told in that booming authoritative voice. At the time, the AM was still number one! Even Hot AC, or Uptempo MOR stations like KING and KGW were top notch.). That 50,000-watt night signal put everything east of the Rockies in earshot at night. great memories from back in the day when radio was great. And, plus, HOW can you even contemplate omitting New Yorks WINS (Thats where Murray the K made his mark, dontcha know that? WJET/Erie, PA. WJET dominated Erie as a daytimer on 1570 with 250 watts. Baptist hired me and as soon as they realized they were over budget they told him to let me go I was boned since Id just got into an apartment, furniture, utilities He waited til Sat Nite to drop it on me Paper Filing? They had a very strong signal at night and played all the latest hits!! Tix has been a big part in my life. It was fun reading about these different stations and what made them excel, and I wish we still had many of them. Blowtorches 770 WABC and 1520 KOMA. * Bill Murvin - Aircheck, June 1970. Thanks for the great work you did there. Not good when I'm listening to a song I love and haven't heard forever. of a damn BITCH!! KIIS/Los Angeles. JD the DJ follows with the Rock and Roll Flight to Midnight. Ill give you Z-100 in New York (a bit later era, but still deserving). Enjoy Music Playlist! and the WINS head honchos intro of its all-news format). He said I look outside and if I see lights then we give it a try. I had WFIL at #15. For others, the hyper-high energy and tight production of talents like JoJo Kincaid was the Holy Grail. WIOQ, Philadelphia (1987-88) Thanks. (The same year the Milwaukee Braves moved to Atlanta, by the way. Seattle and Portland had great radio in the Top-40 days. CKLW in late 60s and early 70s was like listening to a non-stop party. Mac Richmond brought Arnie Ginsburg to 1510 from WBOS-AM. KIOA. Preferred radio stations and music genres, user's Favorites, stations reviews and many other services need your personal data processing. Coverage to the north was lost, and unfortunately, Dallas grew to the north. Godchaux (Bob Walker), Pepsi (Bob Walker), the Zoom Zoom Room, RC Cola contest (Bill Murvin), * Robert Mitchell -Aircheck November1969 (22:45), Another Robert Mitchell Morning. No one, ever, anywhere, did the basics better than the Big 8. Terry Young, Money Music Scrambled Songs promo, Marty with the Party, Kim Stephens. At least in my city. I am glad Dr. Don Rose got a mention at KFRC as I know he was huge out there in CA. However, I likewise agree with Lee that KHJ should be at or near the top of the list. On the other had he sold the station for a then record price. 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