Steve Morris, a.k.a. "Steve Scott", contacted me awhile back after having found some reel-to-reel tapes in his storage. (Steve and I live near the Mobile, AL area, within about an hour of one another.) He thought that they were KAAY, WABB and WROA airchecks and he was correct! What we have here are some airchecks, back-to-back of him on KAAY...these utilize the beginning and end of a song, with him announcing in between the songs. (This was typical when a dee jay may be thinking about checking out another station's employment opportunities...the station personnel would hear how the dee jay handled himself/herself on the air. The songs were irrelevant to them.)
You'll notice the usage of the callsign, "Kay-Double-A-Why", which, in earlier years, was frowned upon because under noisy conditions, the callsign could be mistaken. In later years, it was taken up again by some dee jays. Needless to say, KAAY somehow got mail with the callsign, "KWAY, Little Rock, AR" and other variations, but the post office always seemed to get it there, knowing that this monstrous station was in Little Rock! (I'd almost bet there were some listeners inside the Postal Service who where cool enough to know about KAAY!).
Nonetheless, here is one of the airchecks...we figure it was in January 1976:
(or download here)
MANY thanks to Greg B. for his audio wizardry and loving care in lifting these and other recordings from aging tape and sharing with us!
Bud S. (staceys4@hotmail.com)
Super! As a teenager growing up in Cincinnati we used to listen to the Big K in the late afternoon Soundred great back in the day of Wayne Moss, Soony Martin, Comex news and the great old Pams jingles. Thanks for the memories..
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