On a cassette which has typed (not computer-pritned) ‘15 KSTP, MINNEAPOLIS, 1973-1974 airchecks’ on it, here is what appears to be a ‘professional ‘edit, with each small clip fading in and out appropriately… through 45 minutes!
If you can take the obvious ‘chops’ in this, it’s a really wonderful collection of disc jockeys and each daypart on the Twin Cities’ Top 40 giant! Among the great (and not so great) voices you’ll hear a GREAT Charlie Bush with news, Knapp in the Morning, M.G (Machine Gun) Kelly, and more. Beware, this doesn’t sound like what it is at first, because it starts with a sports report of the previous night’s fight between Muhammed Ali and Joe Frazier.
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I WAS THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR OF ‘15 KSTP’ AT THIS TIME–WE WENT FROM 13TH TO 2ND IN 105 DAYS..GOT MAJOR WRITE UP’S IN ‘THE BOB HAMILTON RADIO REPORT’…’GAVIN’..ETC.
BY THE WAY…THE KELLY IS NOT SHOTGUN….BUT RATHER ‘MACHINE GUN KELLY’….I HIRED HIM FROM GENERAL CINEMA’S STATION IN CLEVELAND…HE DID A GREAT JOB AND THEN GOT HIS OFFER FROM KHJ..WE WERE GREAT FRIENDS AND WOULD PLAY ELECTRIC ‘PONG’ AT LUNCH……WHEN THE GUNNER WENT TO KHJ–I HIRED ANDY BARBER FROM ‘KING-IN SEATTLE’ AND AFTER A RUN WITH MANAGEMENT–I WENT TO CHICAGO AND BECAME ‘CAPT. WHAMMO’ AT WDHF/WMET!!!!!!!
Wow! Capt. Whammo! Which reminds me that I have to find the two airchecks I have of you on MET! They were posted on an earlier version of this site years ago but never got re-posted.
Thanks so much for coming and commenting on this aircheck. I didn’t know you programmed this station at all. Welcome aboard, Captain!
I have listened to Chuck Knapp airchecks not only to hear a slice of history, but to hear Charlie Bush and how he creatively rewrote the newscasts. In the words of Arte Johnson, “Veddy interesting!”