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Jackson Armstrong, KFRC San Francisco, October 1982 (0:42:27)

The Don Jennett Collection
… a Ribbon In The Sky, well, at least it’s not a rope …

[Description by Uncle Ricky, aircheck contributed by Don Jennett]

This aircheck features the legendary Jackson Armstrong on KFRC in San Francisco. It’s the Thousand Dollar Thursday before Halloween III. Dr. Don Rose will be featured on Evening Magazine on Channel 5 tonight, and The Miller High Life Squadron will be leaving “digital messages” in the air (and this was 1982!)

Mark McKay pulls over an “old green Toyota” and awards $1000 to a very excited and cooperative winner. (They could only hope he had a diary!) There’s a promotional announcement for KFRC Halloween fun, and this is a very listenable 42 minutes of a classic DJ on a classic radio station about twenty years ago. No diversity here, just variety and great showmanship.

Someone always asks whenever we post an aircheck of Jackson, so as of this posting in April 2002, Jackson Armstrong was working morning drive on an FM station in Greensboro, N.C. He’s been there for several years. In addition, as of January 2003, he started recording voicetracks for WWKB in New York. But on October 28, 1982, he was on KFRC in San Francisco.

Jack Armstrong passed away March 22, 2008 at his home in North Carolina.

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