tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11627588.post1750982221148021421..comments2023-08-23T03:26:38.766-07:00Comments on KCAC lives!: Latest vintage airchecksJimmyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643496681251710136noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11627588.post-45990121542824856842007-03-24T10:25:00.000-07:002007-03-24T10:25:00.000-07:00As I recall, KWFM was up a flight of stairs behind...As I recall, KWFM was up a flight of stairs behind a non-descript entrance to the tallest bank building in town at the time. The studio was a closet...truly, maybe four by eight as I recall. Really tight. Alan Browning was the PM Driver I think. He went on to PD for a while.<BR/><BR/>Mark Young hired me for mornings in '72..."Stairway" and "Roundabout" were still fresh and I was living with my brother, sister in law, two big dogs, a fresh litter and a new baby nephew in a small trailer waaaaayyyyy off in the desert on Valencia road. <BR/><BR/>What fun:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11627588.post-63886897709888077412007-03-19T14:03:00.000-07:002007-03-19T14:03:00.000-07:00Yo Tom... Mark hired me at the station and I stay...Yo Tom... Mark hired me at the station and I stayed a few nights at his fraternity house. Other names in the crew were Harry Teasdale (Hairy Tea), Jerry Penguin and a couple of others who would probably best be ignored. The studios were upstairs at a downtown building. A few intense memories there including a head shop down the street with a couple of boa constrictors for decoration.<BR/><BR/>Definitely 1970. I made it out of Tucson with $75.00 - $74.00 of which were spent on the old blue school bus. Details are irrelevant and the radio wasn't all that good but it would be fun to hear my alter-ego again. Ha.<BR/><BR/>Roncofreespeak@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12868459132414766816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11627588.post-49859612658729758522007-03-19T12:18:00.000-07:002007-03-19T12:18:00.000-07:00Ron-I have a recording of KWFM Tucson on August 1,...Ron-<BR/><BR/>I have a recording of KWFM Tucson on August 1, 1971, but the DJ is Mark Young. Total time is about 1 hour. The music has been professionally “scoped out” (cross-faded or edited to include only beginnings and endings of songs), reportedly by Mark Young himself to avoid copyright issues, so most of what’s here is DJ talk, commercials, brief public-affairs programming, and news. Sound quality is excellent. There’s some interesting Vietnam War-oriented material in the last half of the hour, plus a vintage newscast. I'm not sure of any other KWFM airchecks but I'll check with my local pusher.. er, source.. Gary Pfeifer of Scottsdale, who has a truly amazing and extensive collection of airchecks from across the country.<BR/><BR/>TomTom Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05500489474089709179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11627588.post-49869526829828739212007-03-18T16:55:00.000-07:002007-03-18T16:55:00.000-07:00I CAN'T TELL you guys how grateful I am to hear th...I CAN'T TELL you guys how grateful I am to hear this thing. It was right after the Nuclear Christmas Brownies of 1969 by "Crazy" and I promise E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G was in those brownies!<BR/><BR/>Thanks so much, eapecially Tom, for locating that aircheck. <BR/><BR/>CHALLENGE: In 1970 I think it was, I did a short stint at KWFM in Tucson using the airname "Shadow". I have seen the legendary Sha-do Stevens credited with some Tucson airwork on some historical online airchecks... and I just wonder. I DON'T think he ever worked that market. <BR/><BR/>Hank Cookenboo covered a few shifts there later, as well. I remember "The Point" by Harry Nillson had just come out and the wife of the stations' owner was obsessed with it. Also Jim Morrison's drunken oratory (featured in "The Doors") was released to some stations at about that time. If I remember right it was a 45 RPM pressed on a 12" LP.<BR/><BR/>Poetic it weren't - but that white-cover LP would be worth a fortune now.<BR/><BR/>Roncofreespeak@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12868459132414766816noreply@blogger.com