The Slim One, KKFR Phoenix AZ March 30, 1987 Pt.1 (scoped) (0:14:23)

Scoped
… You just do your thing and get out — you’ll feel better for it …
. [Description by Uncle Ricky, contributed by Kenneth Andersson] It’s Monday Mayhem on March 30, 1987, and The Slim One is HOT in PM drive on hit-rocker KKFR (FM) in Glendale (Phoenix), Arizona. This excellent recording was made off-the-air using a Panasonic AG-1900 Hi-Fi VCR, eliminating any possibility of tape hiss and azimuth error in the transfer to digital media. Of course, the radio station was most likely using tape cartridges in 1987, when the alignment changed every time you put another cart in the machine! Slim’s enthusiasm is infectious and there’s hardly a hint of hip-hop. The playlist is heavily rock-recurrent. The opening set makes us smile! This is really feel-good radio with one of our all-time fave jocks, and it’s the first hour of four to be presented at REELRADIO.

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I met Richard Irwin, aka Uncle Ricky, when we were freshmen at East Carolina University.  We both had worked at local stations in our hometowns.  No one was more passionate about radio, especially Top 40 radio, than my friend Richard. 

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