… this is the story of a small band of radio people who dared to attempt to conquer the audience …
[Description by contributor John Long]
Air Wars was an audio presentation accompanied by a laser show at the 1977 Radio Music Report Convention in Atlanta.
I was inspired by the Chuck Blore presentation at the 1971 Gavin Programming Conference and a new movie, Star Wars.
Carter Davis, WHBQ Production Director and I had the soundtrack from the movie and we thought the music was neat. We sat down and wrote this having not seen the movie yet.
We used the liner notes to get relatable bits (droids, outlands, sandpeople, etc.) Listening now, some of those tie-ins weren’t exactly on track. We tried to use as many prominent radio programming people’s names as possible.
Mason Dixon was in town visiting family and stopped by WHBQ – we were producing the thing and he read a part for us; Rick Dees recorded a special version of Disco Duck for it.
[from Uncle Ricky: AIR WARS 3K was produced for REELRADIO 22 years later  Check it out in broadband streaming stereo!]
Thanks to Radio Music Report founder Ron Brandon for the original AIR WARS album cover and vinyl.