… …Homes with fallout shelters – built to government specifications! …
Roger Barkley, best remembered for his partnership in Los Angeles with Al Lohman, was Program Director of KIMN in Denver, a Top 40 pioneer.
This rare peek at the past from September, 1960, complete with a spot for “atomic age homes” that include fallout shelters, demonstrates that Barkley was no stranger to the rigid formatics of early Top 40. With filter, reverb and time effects, it’s a long way from the mature, low-key comedy of his later years at KFI.
Lohman and Barkley stopped working together in 1986. Most recently, Roger Barkley was teamed with Ken Minyard at KABC in Los Angeles. Barkley was taken by cancer on December 21, 1997, at the age of 61.
[Original aircheck by California Aircheck. Music restoration by Jay Marks]