Pat Bailey, 2002
Pat Bailey After FEN Pat was raised in San Diego and enlisted in the Air Force right out of high school. He spent a year at AFKN (Korea) before heading to Japan. Pat settled in Los Angeles after FEN. He produced films, “Space Camp” being the most prominent, put himself through law school at night and for the last 10 years has run his own law firm in Santa Monica. Bailey has 15 lawyers working for him and his partner, and is also an accomplished private pilot.[Description by Bill Baldwin, Jr.]
Pat Bailey came to FEN in mid-1968 and for just under a year was the number one DJ in Japan, English and Japanese radio combined. Twice a day, five days a week, Bailey’s Fundial program aired, with his Top Hits Countdown from Billboard the basis for the playlist. There was no middle ground where Bailey was concerned. Fans either loved or despised Pat, with most falling in the former category.
This sample is a microcosm of his work at FEN. You’ll hear contest promos, spots (Savings Bonds instead of Chevy); tight production, responses to local journalistic reviews of Bailey and the rest of the rock shows on FEN  A Japan Times columnist ripped Pat in an article, so Bailey did a show dedicated to the writer which got yanked off the air by the PD halfway through the broadcast  and finally, a compilation of Bailey’s last few days on the air and his four years of Air Force enlistment.
Here, Pat makes a VERY big deal out of just how SHORT he is (the military term for how many days you had left before going home to the Big PX (USA) as a civilian and how ready he is to say sayonara to military service. Again, the angst of the times is reflected here. No FEN broadcaster would have dared to be so blatant in earlier years. Bailey was breaking ground here for sure.
