This composite of the KFRC Mick Jagger Weekend was featured on Programmer’s Digest, Vol 2, Issue 8, 10/22/73. Rodney Allen Rippey and Cheech & Chong introduce Kevin McCarthy, JJ Johnson, Beau Weaver, Bobby Ocean, Jack Friday and Eric Chase. This composite was prepared and submitted by engineer Jeff Kauffer, who created a great piece of audio. Thank you, Jeff, wherever you are..

This aircheck is style and class from top to bottom. I found myself misting up about 3:04 – What Drake Series is that? Bobby Ocean’s promo, tagged with that jingle into “Everybody Plays the Fool” with JJ Johnson. It gets to me – it’s classic, very polished, GREAT Top-40 radio. I never heard KFRC “live” in 1973, but man, what a radio station! I understand better why my native Northern Californian radio friends speak with reverence about this station…

The RKO chain was still intact at this time, and Hal Martin was PD at KFRC. We can assume this composite was assembled before 9/73, because it includes a Bobby Ocean Promo for an Elton John concert in September of that year.

Real-Time Update! (April 2, 1996) Jack Friday writes: Yes, that was a classic, even though we thought (in those days) it was just SOP for contests. In retrospect those were very creative days in radio as compared to what goes on now. My stay at KFRC was from 1971 to 1974, what I think was the “best” of KFRC, and the high ground of Top 40 radio. The only other station I think was better, (my all time favorite) is WFIL in Philadelphia circa 1965 to 1968.