Comments on: The big 8!

By: Reid Berens

Reid Berens — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:51:02 +0000

Goggle Gropups might be usefull for it.
http://groups.google.com/
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Reid Berens
(gasended)

By: ashley

ashley — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:27:33 +0000

Of course, also in the south (’specially ’round Texas and Louisiana), you’d hear wonderful music from south of the border, as eloquently described in ZZ Top’s “Heard it on the X”.

The X stations would be targeted right for us near the border, and they’d play exactly what we wanted to hear…with non-mexican advertisers and even non-mexican DJs.

Now, with all this homogeneity, I think that college radio and XM are our only hope.

By: ashley

ashley — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:22:51 +0000

In the south, the closest we got was KAAY out of Little Rock. Their “Beaker Street” show defined late night rock and roll.

You could pick up KAAY anywhere down to New Orleans and Tampa. It would play all the cool stuff that the local stations would not, and set the stage for FM AOR formats.

By: deb

deb — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 23:54:00 +0000

hey, eric, i used to work with a guy named tim zorn, who was the greatest government reporter of all time. are you two related?

By: Nance

Nance — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:40:28 +0000

Not all day long, but at night, with low cloud cover, on the north side of town — sure.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:02:10 +0000

You could get CKLW all day long in Upper Arlington? Couldn’t get it in Pickerington, a few miles makes a big difference but you could get KYW, 1100 in Cleveland, which was a killer AM rock station, only listened to CKLW when we’d get to northern Ohio.

By: Eric Zorn

Eric Zorn — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 04:51:13 +0000

….and I’m strongly of the opinion that Nancynall.com is the greatest Web log of all time.

By: Nance

Nance — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 02:02:32 +0000

Actually, Eric, I find that story hilarious.

I also find Kroger’s tapioca pudding cups to be my favorite food of all time.

By: Eric Zorn

Eric Zorn — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:49:43 +0000

The No. 1 Song of all-time according to CKLW listeners in the mid-1970s was “Kung Fu Fighting,” (http://www.superseventies.com/sw_kungfufighting.html) which was the No. 1 song on the charts at about the time the poll began. There is something charmingly naieve about all those voters having so little perspective that they would believe that their current favorite song was in fact the best song of all time.

My friends and I adopted this as a joke, as in, “Hey, what’s the No. 1 food of all time?” “Why, it’s this Brown Jug pecan roll a la mode.”

Maybe you had to be there.

Hoo! Hah!

By: Lex

Lex — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:39:43 +0000

I once picked up CKLW, albeit very faintly, in Charlotte, N.C. This would’ve been around ‘74 or so. I thought I’d stumbled across a pirate station because, as far as I knew, all radio station call signals started with W or K.