… . . . sitting here talking with my plants . . . …
Description by Uncle Ricky, contributed by Jeff March]
From August 23, 1976: Lori Lerner leads with a newscast that features an ABC report, and Charlie Tuna plays a short selection of super-burnt Young Adult Hits Of The Seventies on KIIS AM/FM (Kay-Double-Eye-Ess). The station was in stereo, but this recording was made with a monaural receiver, allowing us to hear some of the slightly out-of-alignment phase error so common with cart-based formats of the day.
We don’t know what The Edgar Winter Group is doing in the station promo at the end of this exhibit, but bring an extra cup of coffee for the Neil Diamond ten-minute collage. Confounding the entire effort are a few forgettable jingles of unknown origin.