For me, Steele’s work on KHJ will always represent his very best. On this particular K-100 aircheck, he seems a bit disinterested, limiting himself to a number of simple song intros. He hadn’t lost any volume, though, and the excellent fidelity of this (monaural) recording reveals some unfortunate distortion on his microphone, mostly when he’s over music. He was plenty loud without the distortion at KHJ, so we must wonder if he was comfortable with what he heard in his headphones at K-100.
B.R. Bradbury is featured with news at :45. Bradbury, who is also featured on AM drive news the day before, must have been working a double shift. Maybe he was K-100’s only news anchor at the time. This exhibit includes a couple of short “image promos” voiced by Robert W. Morgan, and it ends with the opening set for Billy Pearl.