Yes Miller, WKRP had many reasons to listen (watch).
What were the radio stations of your youth that helped you on your music/audio journey?
I am older so my radio stations of influence were in their prime during the British invasion and many, many American singers and groups.
The stations I listen to the most were WLS out of Chicago, KIOA out of Des Moines, KAAY out of Little Rock, Arkansas and KOMA out of Oklahama. When I was in the Air Froce I had a few stations near the main base I was stationed at outside of Rapid City, S.D.
Of course systems and better and better systems and FM became the dominate source for broadcast/online music. I did learn much of what I liked and eventually purchased through early radio listening.
I still listen to radio mainly for Jazz stations and NPR news.
The stations I listen to the most were WLS out of Chicago, KIOA out of Des Moines, KAAY out of Little Rock, Arkansas and KOMA out of Oklahama. When I was in the Air Froce I had a few stations near the main base I was stationed at outside of Rapid City, S.D.
Of course systems and better and better systems and FM became the dominate source for broadcast/online music. I did learn much of what I liked and eventually purchased through early radio listening.
I still listen to radio mainly for Jazz stations and NPR news.
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audioman58 Thanks for sharing your memories. I remember all the people you mentioned, it was a very good time to be young. And as one of them would say....."Good Day" |
jfd11 I lived in Iowa City and was able to pick up WLS. I had a table radio for when I was awake and a small transister radio that I listened to in bed. Really looked forward to the top 3 phone requests and actually called in when my parents would let me. I may mispell their names but there was Art Roberts, Larry Lujack, Dick Biondi, and others I am forgeting. I also listened to KIOA in Des Moines and KAAY in Little Rock, but loved WLS the best. In living in Iowa City and Madison, Wi. I traveled to many places for business including Chicago, NYC, Copenhagen and many others but Chicago had my heart. It didn't hurt that a friend had a furnished, unused condo in Lake Point Tower near the top that he let me use. Because of it being the prime of my earning career, I/we ate at the best of Chicago at the time and attended music and theater shows. I believe that my young attachment to WLS was the beginning of my love of Chicago. I was also attached to the famous/best Greek restaurants.....oh, the good old days. I suppose that my Mother's love for the Cubs had influence on me. I have no idea how the Cubs became her tems, but she did not watch any other MLB games, just the Cubs. Like most Cub fans, she loved them win or lose. |
4krowme When I was stationed at Ellsworth AFB near Rapid City, S.D., we would drive over to a small town in Wyoming to buy Coors, which was not sold in S.D. One night I had my girlfriend drive to pick up some beer, and then I remembered she had wrecked her last boyfriend's car...so I sobered up quickly. Was driving a mint 1960 Corvette. We all have memories of our youth, from war to auto racing to marriage, it is amazing we've made it this far! |