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Mike O'Brien, KISN Portland OR October 1967 (scoped) (0:13:49)

Scoped
… the only thing separating you and me, is air …
[Description by Uncle Ricky, contributed by Peter Kanze]
We get two more school lunch menus from Mike O’Brien on legendary KISN in Portland, Oregon, sometime in October, 1967. Both sound tasty.
This aircheck required a little work for professional presentation by REELRADIO. The five musical performances were restored, because they sounded so seriously bad on the original recording. A “20/20” newscast is promoted, but was not included. A couple of spots were edited, but fortunately, most were not. Something that sounds like a noisy tube turns up about halfway through, but fades away before the end.
Hopefully, our visitors can tell us more about Mike O’Brien, and his career in Portland radio. KISN was well-established by this time, so Mr. O’Brien should have gone on to bigger and better things.

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