Beaker Street show from O'Brian! July 1973

We have some new Beaker Street tape!  Thanks to the generosity of Mark Moss (Wayne Moss’ son) and his tape collection, partial airchecks of two Beaker Street shows have been digitized and available to us here at the Blog.

This first show is a partial aircheck of O’Brian on a Saturday night in 1973, probably July.  It’s 39 ½ minutes starting with the Gary Gears “Greetings to the Great Northwest” station ID at 11pm, then the Beaker Street intro.  It’s a studio quality tape and sounds great. 

Discography:

Leon Russell (Live album) – Jumping Jack Flash and Youngblood

Fever Tree – Imitation Situation

Traffic – Rainmaker

It’s a Beautiful Day – White Bird

This was digitized from a cassette tape that still sounds good, 50+ years after being recorded.  I’m glad the tape holds up so well after all this time. 

More Beaker Street to come!

https://archive.org/details/kaay-beaker-street-with-o-brian-1973

 

 Greg Barman

Wayne Moss Composite Recording

 Hello, dear visitor! 

Greg B., in his magical and wonderful ways, has recovered and repaired numerous tapes of Wayne Moss that we previously did not have, thanks to his son Mark Moss!  This one to follow is a composite of audio, 'scoped and sounding studio-quality.  It contains Wayne bantering along, with intermixed commercials and music.  A decently long recording, it was a lot of fun to listen to when I first accessed it.  It gives one a good idea of the day in the life of KAAY, and with Wayne at the helm, shows why the station was so popular:

   

 https://archive.org/details/kaay-wayne-moss-composite-1974-76 

Enjoy!  Please leave us comments on how you like the recordings and don't forget to thank Greg B. for his gracious efforts to bring us priceless audio... and to Mark Moss for so thoughtfully providing it!

Watch for more to come!

Bud S.

Funny KAAY Shotgun Story From Mark Moss

 Dear visitor,

 

Mark Moss told me a funny story and sent pictures (three here) of a shotgun the staff kept on-hand at KAAY.  Pat Walsh said it was gonna be there for protection.  Wayne Moss took the bird shot out of it and loaded it with buckshot!  It's a Marlin magazine-fed bolt-action model, no telling what vintage.  Wayne had painted it with camouflage colors... after all, he WAS a hunter!  But now Mark has a great piece of KAAY and his dad's history.

Per Mark: "It was located in the main long hallway, hung on a pair of hooks above the door before you got to the rear parking lot exit.  It was very close to my dad's office (which was probably no accident).  Dad was notorious about having a pistol with him when he went to work.  Dad was a firm believer in people having access to protection in the station, particularly in the late hours, as the station wasn't in the best part of town."  Mark mentioned that this particular studio was near the Capitol building.

 

 

Thanks Mark, for sharing!

 

Bud S.

Wayne Moss Recordings!

Dear visitor,

Wayne Moss' son Mark Moss recently sent us a bunch of tapes, etc. for us to share here.  Greg B. has now digitized them and they are ready for posting....

It has been a long dry spell, and I apologize for lack of material; however, Barry Mac has been faithful with sending his programs our way.  He is doing mountains of work to keep the memories alive.

Nonetheless, soon to come are links with Wayne Moss and some Beaker Street recordings, too... even a recording from my town Mobile, AL!  I am not sure where it came from, perhaps from Wayne himself , when he was tenured here in Mobile, AL at WABB.

 So sit back, hang on and enjoy the memories!