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In Reply to: RE: A different time posted by AbeCollins on April 20, 2015 at 18:56:13
....listen to
"Little bit of heaven
94.7
KMET
Tweedle-dee"?
They had some serious AOR going on in the 70's (and some equally seriously drugged-out DJs.) I think they went New Age or some crap like that once they got taken over, but that was long after I moved on to classical and KFAC/KUSC about '75, both of which were mighty fine FM stations, too. But I still checked out the FM rock scene periodically, especially when I needed some serious adrenaline rushes, like when my friends were over (I mean, I couldn't be caught listening to that old poofter Tchaikovsky with my buddies around, you know?) ;-)
KROQ was awesome as well, for the punk in all of us. KLOS was another I liked. But KMET was my preferred AOR FM station when I was a kid. Great times were had by all.
For AM, KKDJ did some very cool "Stones/Beatle Battles" in the late 60's/early 70's, which were incredible fun. Nothing but the Stones and the Beatles all weekend. Man, can I remember playing basketball with my friends all Saturday, with "Satisfaction" and so many other kick-ass tunes gettin' us all charged up for just one more game. And then another. And another. Awesome.
Shit, there you go, Abe, you got me reminiscing...... ;-)
Thanks for a cool reminder of those halcyon days of my Los Angeles youth. Very cool, indeed.
Follow Ups:
Yes, I often listened to KMET "The Mighty Met" instead of KLOS while it lasted, and then it went New Age.
I worked for the "KEZY Treasure Chest" program as a young teen in Orange County. I was a telephone solicitor and driver. We weren't really affiliated with KEZY except to advertise on the station and had permission to use their name when we called people.
The call center was filled with old school desks and telephones where 25 or so callers would interrupt hundreds of dinners each night over the phone pitching the value of a $20 coupon book worth hundreds in discounts.
Whenever we had a handful of sales, the driver would deliver the coupon books and collect the money. As a 16 year old it beat flipping burgers and I made a ton more money in commissions!
Yeah, making money as a kid was tough in those days.
A friend of mine worked as the grave-yard shift technician at KWOW, over in Chino, I believe. Back then, KWOW served up an AM-based endlessly re-cycled melange of oldies but moldies, although some of the stuff wasn't too terribly bad.
We used to go out there and party with him until the wee hours of the morning. One time we were all so ripped, he forgot to change the tapes and all these super-loud alarms went off. Apparently, it's all about the advertising revenues (of course) and these tapes were made with all these inserts for this or that ad, so if you missed a change, the radio station lost money. Major no-no, which could have cost him his job. I guess he was pretty good at it, because they paid him quite well for the time, and kept him on for years and years, as I recall. Nice guy, and very, very bright.
He was also a DJ at Cal Poly Pomona, for their university radio station. He invited me to do a show on classical music, which he recorded while I blathered on and on about classical music esoterica that no one, and I mean NO ONE, gave a shit about at the University. But his rock broadcasts were pretty popular, I understand, and my friend ended up becoming the head studio engineer for one of the top podcasters in America.
My how time flies when we are having fun.
It's all good. :-)
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