… one of America’s great radio stations, it’s bound to be, it’s the only one we ever mention …
[Description by Uncle Ricky]
What great fun to surprise another REELRADIO contributor with an aircheck of himself that he probably forgot long ago! If you want the full story on Gary Edens, please visit The Gary Edens Collection.
Maybe Gary can tell us something about how and why this aircheck ended up in New York. But it really doesn’t matter, because this exhibit is THE REEL THING featuring classic PAMS jingles, spots for Pepsi, the Yellow Pages and a sponsored time and temperature feature (twice!) And what better name for an Exterminator than “Kill-O”?
A full newscast and “The Kill-O Bulletin Board” is included in both the ‘scoped and unscoped versions of this exhibit. This is total Carolina! The station ID after the news is amazing… I don’t know how to write phonetically what is substituted for the letter “I” in W-K-I-X, but that’s the way many said it down South in those days. Maybe they still do.