… Phone and Listen, Ring and Swing …
[Description by Uncle Ricky, contributed by Jeff March]
This rare and restored exhibit features the legendary Tom Clay on Million Dollar Request Radio, KDAY in Santa Monica, a suburb of Los Angeles. It could also have been called “phone number radio”, as Clay spends most of his air time reciting the names of various L.A. suburbs and the corresponding numbers to call for requests. As I remember, Tom Clay worked in Detroit before and after his time in L.A.
Russ Porterfield is featured with news on this recording, made between 9:58 and 10:30 AM on Friday, August 19, 1966.
Not only are the requests from all over the Los Angeles area, the playlist includes hits from 1937 to 1966 on the 29th day of this format. How long did this format last? The jingles sound like Pepper-Tanner.