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Charlie Tuna and Staff, KOMA Oklahoma City 1966 (0:15:16)

… . . . What’s the favorite brand of Tuna in Oklahoma City? . . . …

This one is a few dubs out, but it does feature a young Charlie Tuna, complete with Tonto (!) and drop-ins and things you never got to hear him do at KHJ. Tuna leads the first 6 minutes of this composite of legendary KOMA.
The jock who followed Tuna was not identified, but has been guessed as Ross Jay, by Jay Marks. (COMMENT below, if you have a better guess.) Mike Mitchell is in early afternoon, Dale Wehba (thanks to Jay Marks for the spelling, from 1965 KOMA survey) was doing afternoon drive, Ron Childs was the evening guy, and Jim Dandy is featured with a short portion of his overnight show at the end.

Note the jingle intros for “The Supremes” and “The Cyrkle”.

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