This aircheck of The Real Don Steele includes his reading of “Don’t Ever”, a contest entry for KHJ’s Lyric Writing competition. You’ll also hear a great mix of Southern California hit music. In fact, Far Out Man, this IS 1967.
And whadda wrap. The finale is a complete Marv Howard newscast and a report from water-bombed Art Kevin at the Army Induction Center. The Danny Baxter sports report helped several listeners determine the exact date of this broadcast.
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This exhibit required some concentrated back stage massage (noise reduction, etc.) and I’m tempted to believe this recording was originally taken from a telephone coupler, or that the audio was delivered over a local telephone connection. Did KHJ have an auto-answer phone coupler connected to their air monitor? KFRC did. Did all the RKO stations have this? Very high quality in, telephone quality out. Just dial the number and listen. (The number was supposedly for Big Guys only.) And some of these devices actually passed stuff up to 9Khz, at very low levels, of course. Depending on what you used on the other end, if you were in the local dialing area, and the switches connected “just right”, you could get a fairly wideband recording. The downside was the additional high-frequency noise. Notice the infrequent “dialing noise” here and there. Anyway, that’s my theory. I also removed a lot of 60Hz hum and some other click-click pre-digital nasties.
All in all, a fascinating recording, Thanks again to Ron Riley for this awesome snapshot of RDS on KHJ, August 2, 1967.