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Post by John Quincy on Apr 13, 2005 7:46:09 GMT -5
This came in on April 11, 2005 from M. Karen Williams:
Thanks for the memories!!!
I remember standing out in front of that window watching Ken Douglas. This was in the mid '60s with Beatlemania all around. I was a freshman in high school and thought any thing English was the bomb!
I won tickets to see the Beatles in Chicago from WKLO. Coming from a strict Catholic home, Dad gave a firm "NO." I passed the tickets to a senior. Boo Hoo.
Thanks again for the memories.
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Post by John Quincy on Apr 13, 2005 8:19:39 GMT -5
Wayne Carter sent us this on April 13, 2005:
Just heard about the sites on WAKY and WKLO.
I grew up in the '60s and '70s listening to both and thought they were great. In high school all I wanted to do was be in radio and my dream came true. I was a winner on WKLO's Other 98 day if you remember that.
I went on to work in many small town markets in Brandenburg, Ky. I worked there with Ed Phillips. I went on to work in Murray, Ky; Williamsburg, Ky; Las Vegas; North Vernon, In; and Evansville, In. I did a short stint at WTMT and some partime work at WMPI in Scottsburg, In. I really loved radio and miss it alot.
When WCII went off the air. Ed was given all the records from there and there were some KLO copies still there also. I traded him a shortwave radio for all of them. I think I got the better deal. I've got a gold record issued to WKLO for "After The Loving." I had a chance to take the old production board but at the time didn't have room for it.
Thanks for bringing back the memories and keep up the good work.
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Post by John Quincy on Apr 16, 2005 9:37:25 GMT -5
Tom Hoeler writes on April 16, 2005:
Oh man! Those 1959 - 1961 Ed Bowman airchecks really sparked the memories! Could pop radio have been soooo tame? I had a close friend whose mother would only let him listen to WKLO, never the 'wild' WAKY! Ha!
I have several airchecks from 1973, Brother Love. I will have to dig them out and get them to you.
One question, there was a little song they played on WKLO, I'm pretty sure it was locally produced, it was a simple rock organ piece called "Walk Of The Good Guys" and I believe they used it in the 61 - 63 era, when the air personalities were known as The Good Guys, but I'm not for sure. It was a catchy little tune, only ran a minute or two, an instrumental punctuated with a vocoder voice "KLO". Nobody remembers this except me, maybe it _was_ a parallel universe thing! Ha ha. See if you can prod some of your local experts and maybe they will remember it too. Sure would be great to hear a recording of it.
Great site guys, helluva good job.
JQ says: The song you're thinking about is one of the cuts that was part of the PAMS Series 18 jingle package which WKLO had. The "vocoder" effect was done with a Sonovox.
Series 18 was one of PAMS' most popular packages. I have that cut for many other stations (Series 18 is one of my faves) but not WKLO. There are a few of the WKLO Series 18 cuts on the Jingles page though.
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Post by Foxman on Apr 18, 2005 8:37:41 GMT -5
I, too, remember the SonoSig tune. Here is where you can hear it, although with different call letters: www.560.com/html/pams_series_18.htmlClick on cut 37. I remember both WAKY and WKLO using it and somehow the melody captured the mood of the times.
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Post by David Stockhoff on Apr 19, 2005 0:01:50 GMT -5
I, too, remember the SonoSig tune. Here is where you can hear it, although with different call letters: www.560.com/html/pams_series_18.htmlClick on cut 37. I remember both WAKY and WKLO using it and somehow the melody captured the mood of the times. Since you posted that link, I'll point out that cut 2 (Montage) is the jingle that the famous sonovox stab came from that Terrell Metheny used so effectivly in the mid-late 60's. Radio W-K-L-O David Stockhoff Message Board Post Time, One Oh Six! ;D
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Post by John Quincy on Apr 21, 2005 7:35:30 GMT -5
Jennifer Wilson writes on April 20, 2005:
I just wanted to thank you for this. It actually brought tears to the eyes of this sentimental chick to hear the jingles and the voices of the DJs of my favorite radio station that were such an integral part of my teen years.
To me, the golden summers of 1974-1976 were the glory years of WKLO, but that's because those were some of the happiest years of my life, and WKLO was always there with me.
In the summer of 1974, KLO began playing a Beatles song at 20 after the hour, every hour. To this 14 year old Beatles fan, it was magical and mystifying. And it kept me tuned in constantly.
I have not seen my friend Bob Cline since some time in the late 1980s. I hope someone has news of him, and passes it along someday.
Somewhere in my garage is a box of photos and radio memorabilia from the 70s. If any of it is useful, I would be happy to share it.
I enjoyed the WAKY website too, because I listened to them as well, but my heart always belonged to KLO.
Again, thank you for making such happy memories come alive once more.
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Post by Max on Apr 21, 2005 10:13:36 GMT -5
I agree with Jennifer of 1974-1976 being the glory years of WKLO. But I would stretch that to include 1972-1976, although I had switched to WAKY primarily after 1972. I think those years are cited here because they were the best of the 70's, to me , anyway. I'm sure some older listeners would beg to differ with me and I understand. Everyone's soundtrack to their growing years is viewed as the 'best'. But thank God and John Quincy for these two sites to keep those memories alive and fresh!
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Post by John Quincy on Apr 21, 2005 16:52:00 GMT -5
This was received on April 20, 2005 from former WKLO "good guy" Allen Bryan:
I just read the Paul Cowley letter. Great to hear from him. It has been a really long time.
He would be a great interview since he is the earliest WKLO air personality I am aware of that is still around. He was there before WKLO went to full-time Top 40.
He mentioned working at the Ranch house, but he also later did a remote nightly from the Dizzy Whizz at 3rd and St. Catherine. That's where he was when I got there. I wonder if he has any airchecks.
JQ says: I hope so! We'd love to have copies if they exist.
By the way when he was working at the Ranch House on Shelbyville Road it was sort of at the outer edge of Louisville civilization. The Watterson Expressway ended at Shelbyville Road, and it was not a mega-expressway as it is now, but a two-lane divided boulevard. At that time there wasn't much beyond the Ranch House but farms and open spaces. Shelbyville Road was a narrow two-lane road. Even the area where I live now which is well beyond the Watterson was totally undeveloped in those days.
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Post by GoldenOldie on Apr 21, 2005 21:05:50 GMT -5
I find it funny that you talked about the Watterson Expressway being a two lane road divid highway.. I remember that too, also its been under some sort of contruction ever sense...somewhere on that road, there has been work going on for the past 40 years..
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Post by John Quincy on May 14, 2005 16:08:37 GMT -5
We received this on May 15, 2005 from Carson Jockell:
Thanks for all the memories that this site has generated for me.
I grew up in Louisville in the late 50s thru 70s. Now I live up in Southern Indiana and am doing announcing and production for WBRO 89.9 FM in Marengo, Indiana.
I have told many of my Louisville friends about this Web site, and the one for WAKY as well. Such memories came from the discovery of these two sites. The station, WBRO, originally held the WKLO license, I don't know the hows and whys of the deal, but I found it very intriguing to be at the mic where I once listened to the local radio greats. Please accept my thanks for a job well done on creating and presenting all this wonderful brain candy for us to remember. It truly takes us back to a fun and wondrous time of real radio! Thanks.
Carson Jockell Marengo, IN
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Post by John Quincy on May 22, 2005 13:49:30 GMT -5
We received this e-mail on May 21, 2005:
This site is great! I spend so much time just listening to the promos and jingles, seems just like yesterday.
Everyday in my job I go to the County Attorney's office on Ali Blvd (Walnut Street as I still to this day think of it) which is located right next to the old WKLO showcase studio. It always brings back memories of my friends and me taking a bus downtown and standing outside the studio holding up a piece of paper with a request and dedication written on it just hoping to hear our names on the radio on the transistor radios we had with us. Those truly were the days.
Thanks for bringing these memories back to life.
Steve Aamon Louisville, Kentucky
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Post by John Quincy on Feb 1, 2007 22:47:06 GMT -5
Scott Cason sent us this on February 1, 2007:
Hi John:
When I was the chief engineer at Radio One, I ran across paperwork regarding the WKLO/WKJJ/WDJX 99.7 frequency. It actually signed on in the fall of 1962. The owners had pulled the plug on WKLO-TV channel 21 in the mid 50s, but still owned the tower and transmitter site. The 99.7 antenna is strapped to the old TV antenna. There are still holes in the floor and wiring troughs where the wiring from the beam transformers, which sat outside where the current fuel tank for the generator sits, ran up into the old TV transmitter.
The 99.7 frequency is the oldest surviving and the 102.3 is the second oldest. WLRS came on the air in 1964.
Scott Cason
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Post by gmam1080 on Feb 8, 2007 8:12:39 GMT -5
Jennifer Wilson writes on April 20, 2005:I just wanted to thank you for this. It actually brought tears to the eyes of this sentimental chick to hear the jingles and the voices of the DJs of my favorite radio station that were such an integral part of my teen years. To me, the golden summers of 1974-1976 were the glory years of WKLO, but that's because those were some of the happiest years of my life, and WKLO was always there with me. In the summer of 1974, KLO began playing a Beatles song at 20 after the hour, every hour. To this 14 year old Beatles fan, it was magical and mystifying. And it kept me tuned in constantly. AS THE ONE WHO CREATED THE 20 AFTER THING....IT WAS EVERY OTHER HOUR...ALSO WENT INTO 1974 WITH AN ALL DAY BEATLES DAY SINCE IT WAS THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY...ALSO THE YEAR OF THE FAMOUS 93KHJ 10TH ANNIVERSARY BEATLES T-SHIRT GARY MAJOR LAST PD WKLOI have not seen my friend Bob Cline since some time in the late 1980s. I hope someone has news of him, and passes it along someday. Somewhere in my garage is a box of photos and radio memorabilia from the 70s. If any of it is useful, I would be happy to share it. I enjoyed the WAKY website too, because I listened to them as well, but my heart always belonged to KLO. Again, thank you for making such happy memories come alive once more.
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Post by John Quincy on Apr 20, 2007 8:05:02 GMT -5
This came in on April 20, 2007:
I've enjoyed browsing the 'KLO Website, but would like to see some recognition given to the behind-the-scenes staff. Their (our) contributions, though generally unseen and unheralded, were considerable. Two stalwarts -- Kathleen Brown and Roberta Scott Bunnell -- come readily to mind.
Kathleen crunched the numbers that greased the corporate cogs and RSB wrote probably thousands of spec and on-air spots that helped make the money that paid the way in our respective worlds back then.
Sales manager Bill Perry's contribution, of course, was huge. The chief engineer whose name escapes me at the moment very ably kept us on the air.
There are other memories, some of them incomplete, of team players who helped make 1080WKLO the powerhouse it was: Horace Roth, Danny Hymson and Eric Faust in sales; Anne and Ellen in traffic; Donna, who worked with Roberta Scott Bunnell; Jessie in the basement offset printing shop; and Norman White and Eddie Klitsch who worked in promotion and new business development.
I was fresh out of college and was gratefully given the chance to spread my wings and work happily with these fine souls. Dave Kik WKLO Research Assistant, May 1968-January 1969
We'd love to be able to include more information about the behind-the-scenes folks at WKLO. We encourage former WKLO employees to write us or post their memories of their fellow co-workers and allow us WKLO fans to get to know the people who made it possible for the on-air folks to make the Big 1080 come alive.
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Post by John Quincy on Aug 31, 2007 4:53:55 GMT -5
We received this from Vickie Johnson on August 27, 2007:
Just wondering about a DJ who went by the name of Quinn Ivy....but I think his real name was Jim Cecil. Did he stay in radio? And was Barney Groven not married to Dottie Knight?
I remember Paul Cowley saying "Ice the Coca-Cola, Jeannette...I'm comin' home!" What great memories.
I was such a poor kid (lived way below poverty) but one of the DJs took pity and got some free tickets to a show -- but my mom wouldn't let me go. Still, I remember that with such fondness that he would do that for me.
Love your site. Thanks for the memories!
We believe Quinn got out of radio and went into the music producing business. We don't know if Quinn was his real name. And yes, Barney Groven and Dottie Knight were married. Take care Vickie...and come back anytime!
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