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Joe Nasty, KITY San Antonio TX, April 25 1979 (0:46:43)

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The Eric Rhoads Collection
… I was givin’ away t-shirts, I didn’t last 15 minutes, everybody’s listenin’ to us these days, they love us …
[Description by Uncle Ricky, contributed by Eric Rhoads] World-Traveler DJ Joe Nasty celebrates The Mariachi Festival at RiverWalk with the Jerry Clifton format in the absolute height of the disco era – and I mean, they played the LONG versions of all your favorite disco hits! Continuous, (continuous) Music, (music) — a Clifton Original is included, along with a little news from what sounds like Fran Boyd. Lots of contest promotion in this aircheck, and please note that Mr. Clifton insisted on something to identify the station between each musical selection, a format basic lost to nearly all music programmers in the new century. KITY is no longer in San Antonio, Texas. As of the publication of this exhibit in August, 2012, a Spanish-Language station, KROM, is assigned to 92.9 in San Antonio. Joe Nasty passed away in San Antonio in August, 2016. He was 68.

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