Here’s something that Matt at Big Apple Airchecks sent in. Apparently directly from Pat St. John himself, this is a ‘reconstructed’, mostly scoped aircheck of Pat’s last show on Keener 13 before he moved on to then AOR 95.5 WPLJ New York.
Pat St. John’s last show on WKNR Detroit
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I got this aircheck in a trade with a collector from Detroit, Frank Hartge. It did not come from Pat St. John.
Pat didn’t move on to WPLJ from Keener. He went to the ABC O&O in Detroit, Rock ‘n’ Stereo – WRIF, just like his brother Michael Stevens did. PLJ followed that for Pat.
Keener had sunk into oblivion at the end. Pat was auditioning at WXON-TV62 for a music show called “C#” as WKNR was plummeting in its final days. The ABC O&O’s had just stepped out of the “undergroud” era with heavily fomatted music and minimal talk as St. John came on board.
PAT ST. JOHN IS ONE OF THE BEST TALENTS OF ALL TIME IN MY OPINION.SOUNDS LIKE THIS WKNR RELIC WAS FROM 1971 JUDGING BY THE MUSIC…EVEN THEN PAT WAS TIGHT AS HELL AND TOTALLY PEOFESSIONAL.I WORKED WITH PAT AT PLJ IN THE MID-80s AND I AM PROUD TO CALL HIM A GREAT FRIEND.CURRENTLY HE DOES MORNINGS ON SIRIUS/XM FIFTIES ON FIVE.NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN PAT.I LISTEN EVERY MORNING AND ENJOY HIS MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE MOST CREATIVE BREAKS IN THE BUSINESS.YOU CAN ALSO CATCH HIM ON DEEP TRACKS,BLUESVILLE AND CBS FM….HIS RESUME SPEAKS FOR ITSELF….KEEP ROCKIN PAT,AND THANKS TO MATT AND STEVE FOR KEEPING THE MEMORIES ALIVE…..GNARLY/SMOKIN….