[ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION BY CONTRIBUTOR JEFF MARCH.]
Until the spring of 1965, KHJ was one of perhaps nine traditional MOR (middle-of-the-road) stations doing the same old thing in L.A. KHJ’s fare included a nightly folk music program hosted by British announcer Michael Jackson (later to gravitate to talk radio at KABC). The debut of KHJ’s polished “Boss Radio” format in April 1965 turned L.A. radio on its ears.
By the summer of ’66, simulcasting KHJ not only had shaken the AM radio establishment but presaged the awakening of FM for youth-oriented formats. While 93/KHJ drive anchors Robert W. Morgan and The Real Don Steele were permitted little adjustments in formatics to express their personas, the other Boss Jocks just hammered out straight-on Boss Radio. Such was the case with Frank Terry, captured on this aircheck taped during KHJ’s heyday in September 1966.
Frank Terry passed away June 21, 2007, following a ten-year battle with cancer. Gary Mack, who is featured for the last 19 minutes of this recording, went into broadcast management at WSB, Atlanta.
[TECHNICAL NOTE: The UNscoped version includes a burst of hiss from an unknown source. It begins at approximately 41:05 and continues until 42:50, during the Art Kevin news. This flaw was in the original recording.]