Jim Kaye “The Big Tuna”, Last Show on WAQY Wacky 102 Springfield | August, 1981 (52:36) Scoped
Is there anyone in New England who remembers the late, great Wacky 102? Okay, surely one must remember the likes of Ken Gilbert, Jim Rising, Rick Kelly and this guy… Jim Kaye, AKA, “the Big Tuna”?.. Sure you do.
This was such a hugely popular station among high schoolers. It seemed everyone was listening. Maybe that was the trouble, everyone under the age of 18 WAS listening. But they don’t buy cars and big ticket items. And, adult at-work listeners didn’t care for 16 commercials an hour and hard rock. And so it was that my absolute favorite radio station in 1981, my junior year, dumped what was arguably the most popular format among people my age in favor of then-AOR (it wasn’t a complete loss… I was a big fan of all the Rock that the new Rock 102 would play so then THAT turned into my favorite station as I matured). I digress.
What you hear on this aircheck is night guy Jim Kaye doing his last show before the format change - at midnight. Tell me, just how many stations do you know of that allow the jock to do a ‘last show’? This one belongs in a museum… and to the best of my knowledge, I, your webmaster, am the only one who had the foresight to pop a tape into my cheap recorder. To think, I never expected to keep it this long. This, apparently is the ONLY copy of Tuna’s last show. Enjoy it!
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This is a classic Thanks for bringing me on a trip back to my childhood. By the way do you know where i can find air checks of Rich Roy and Tommy Macks Shows on WHYN?
I taped about an hour of this show, including an archive of a “J and K” show. I have no idea what happened to the tape, but I think it’s possible that I still have it packed away somewhere….