It was RADIO ONE, the NEW WQAM, (560) “the perfect spot for top pop music and the latest and greatest in up-to-the-second news”. It was the newest Storz Station, and it becomes the Repository’s earliest recording of Storz Top 40 radio.
It’s 5:60 PM and Gene Weed hosts the “Top 40 Show”. In this segment, Gene is counting down the current hits from #14 to #8 (Short Fat Fanny by Larry Williams). If you can’t even imagine a time when “standards” like So Rare and Old Cape Cod dominated the nation’s popular music charts, you probably won’t be excited about the transistor radio that is “so small you can put it under your hat.” But you can bet – this was incredibly hot stuff in 1957 when your yet-to-be Fab 40 uncle was 6 years old.
Gene Weed went on to KFWB in 1958, and is featured in Don Barretts’ Los Angeles Radio People. Weed passed away at the age of 64, on August 5, 1999, a victim of lung cancer.
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