Lou Katz, Don Geronimo, WPGC Washington D.C. July 25, 1981 (scoped) (0:20:50)

Scoped
… it’s a girl I went to high school with, should have taken more study halls with her …

[Description by Uncle Ricky] Contributor Joe Evelius wrote that this recording was converted to digital from the same machine used to record it. REELRADIO provided some multi-band expansion in the encoding processing to overcome the overwhelming compression in the original recording. So, the sound you will hear is a bit “softer” than the original recording. This was a hard processed, loud, kickin’ radio station in 1981.

We’ve heard of Don Geronimo before, but Loo Katz is fresh to the Repository – certainly a precise format jock in this format. I do recommend the ‘scoped version for this exhibit, unless you are crazy about 1981 CHR music. But there’s no doubt that THIS is a genuine slice of 1981 contemporary music radio on FM.

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