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Sandy Shore, KIOA Des Moines, Iowa, September 30, 1964 (0:30:31)

The Peter Kanze Collection
… this is the sleepy Sandy Shore radio program …
[Description by Uncle Ricky] Another unbelievable aircheck with more tasty nuggets than you could ever bag at a drive-in, Sandy Shore, featured here in morning drive on KIOA in Des Moines, Iowa in 1964, is better known as Marc Elliot, a hired voice for Disney, CBS and many others in the modern era. And how much talent could they afford to pay at KIOA in those days? Newscaster Bob Burlingame, featured at the beginning and end of this exhibit, is a genuine stand-out with a precise and stylized news presentation. We might provide a ‘scoped version of this in the future, but the overall fidelity and the refreshing music selection is just too good to cut. (Gotta love The Impressions!) Every minute should be savored, this was undoubtedly among the very best of Mid-America Medium Market Top 40.

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