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Dave Diamond, KFWB Los Angeles, February 10, 1968 (scoped) (0:16:14)

Scoped
The Don Jennett Collection
… Makes you wanna climb a tree and get serious, doesn’t it? …

[Description by Uncle Ricky for this exhibit contributed by Don Jennett]Dave Diamond wraps up the Diamond Mine at KFWB on February 10, 1968. For this finale, he offers an appropriate goodbye featuring a few of his favorite “alternative” tracks, some of which he played when he left KBLA less than a year before.

Hal Goodwin is heard with news, including a report of a KPPC announcer attacked by a gang of “youths”. KFWB switched to an all-news format one month after this aircheck.

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