Well, isn’t this aircheck reminiscent of a similar crisis we’re experiencing today? It opens up with a ’special’ bulliten where KYA tells listeners that they will suspend normal public service messages in order to tell Bay area residents where they can purchase gas. After that, this is a really great, tightly scoped aircheck.
Notice the one shotgun jingle and the Drake approach – at least it SOUNDS very Drake. After the KFRC airchecks we’ve posted, listening to this tells our listeners that San Francisco really WAS a hotbed of radio talent!
Oh, who is Stevie?
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I believe that’s Steve Jordan, and later Bill Holley on this tape… sounds like Jordan was somewhat influenced here in his delivery style and tone, by Steve Lundy, who was cross town at KFRC around ‘71-72 …
You’re right – that is me (a MUCH more energized STEVE JORDAN than you’ll hear on KFRC today (I’m here afternoons, 3-7) ! Barry’s right – Lundy was an influence, along with the Real Don Steele, Barry Kaye and the like. That’s how it was back then. The other voice is, indeed, Bill Holley (one of the greatest talents KYA ever had). My dear friend Bill passed away a few years back, but it’s good to hear his work lives on here. Take care everybody !
Steve Jordan is definitely one of the best. (He STILL looks 29 years old).
Also the reason KYA sounded “very Drake” is because Drake programmed the place years before he went over to RKO. KFRC was the copy-cat, not the other way around.
Tom, even during the time that Drake was at KYA in the early 1960s, the station was much looser than the “Boss Era” Drake stations were, mostly because the KYA jocks disrespected him so much (Tom Donahue and Norman Davis are prime examples).
Listening to KYA in the 1966-1970 period up against The Big 610 in the same era shows how much tighter KFRC was under Drake’s whip hand.
(And no, KFRC wasn’t my station back then. I was a KYA Kid all the way — give me Tom Campbell, Johnny Holliday, Gary Schaffer, Bill Holley and Bwana Johnny or give me dead air!)
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