Here’s a jock who sounds suspiciously like Charlie Tuna. Were this KHJ in LA …. well, okay its not.
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Another, in a series of McLendon’s KLIF / KNUS airchecks!
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Steve, Thanks for this fine example of a great Dallas station. This was a real treat. I cut my teeth on Big KLIF in the 60s.
One more thing as I listened to more of the aircheck. This would not have been from the summertime. There are many mentions of the Texas/OU football game. It probably was from October.
That’s Mike Selden “truckin’ through traffic.” I met him when I took his slot at KXOL in Ft. Worth after his move to KLIF and we became friends. We’d both worked at KDOK in Tyler, as had his brother, Ron. Great to hear Mike on The Mighty 1190, which I listened to as a high schooler in East Texas. Good times.
One of the thrills of growing up and living around Dallas prior to 1975 was listening to KLIF. This check brought back some great memories.
By the way, I don’t know which of these two you thought sounded like Charlie Tuna, but I think you need to have your ears examined by a specialist. I did think that another KLIF jock of this era did sound like Tuna, and that was Charlie Van Dyke, who went on to work with Tuna, et. al., in Los Angeles.
Sadly, Mike Selden passed away a few years ago after leaving radio and getting himself sober. In 1982, I was operations director of KNET/KYYK in Palestine, Texas, Selden’s hometown. He had long left KLIF and was sobering up at the time. Mike stopped by and asked me for a job. First, I had no openings and secondly I figured if he wasn’t sober yet, I didn’t want him. If he was, he just be working for me until he could get back to Dallas. Either way it was not a good fit for the station and I told him so. He was very understanding. A few days later he went to work at a drug rehab center to help others who were where he had been. He did this successfully until he died a few years later. It was a tremendous loss for our industry. He was a major talent. RIP Michael.