The Barry Salberg Collection
Barry Shane on the KSTN BOSS 30
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Barry Salberg grew up in Portland, Oregon and the San Francisco Bay Area.
"I caught the top-40 era first-hand, from its beginnings in the '50's, through the glory years. My first radio heroes were Dick Novak on KPOJ, and Tiger Tom Murphy on KISN. I was perhaps uniquely privileged to have heard The Real Don Steele on a daily basis on both KISN (Portland) and KEWB (Oakland) when I was in high school, and then on KHJ when I was in college at UCLA. I'm fortunate to have experienced so many of the greats in their prime, at so many of the legendary stations of the era. At UCLA, I shared the mic (on the student station) with classmates Billy Pearl, Steve Smokin' Weed, Ken Levine, etc. Jerry Clifton hired me for my first job out of college at KDES in Palm Springs. I left for grad school that fall, but within a few months, was back in the biz, at KSTN in Stockton - ninety+ degrees in the summer, and no AC in the control room. Then onto KROY in Sacramento, where I split time simultaneously doing afternoons at KSTN (as Barry Shane) and weekends/fill at KROY (as Shane). I left the full-time slot at KSTN, opting for part-time at KROY. Several months later, Gary Stevens (not that many years removed from WMCA) plucked my tape from a batch of hundreds, and hired me for 7-mid at KRIZ in Phoenix. It was a short-lived stint, I was a teen jock, and they went "heavy" soon after I got there. I used the air-name of Barry Cannon in Phoenix, and kept it when I went back to KROY later a few months later. Just a few years after that, living in Portland and working (not in radio), I talked my way into 7-mid at KISN, some ten years after the Real Don Steele occupied that very same seat. I've been back here in the Bay Area (for the most part) ever since. Got my MBA from the Univ. of Southern California, as a mid-career effort. I am now free-lance writing — magazine features,etc. and have byline credits in virtually all of the major golf publications (GOLF, Golf Digest, etc. - even had one in Sports Illustrated.) I'm one of the contributing writers on the EA Sports 2004 Tiger Woods video game, and also do lots of other writing and various Marketing Communications and PR work." |
[Description by Barry Salberg]
FEATURES:
Chuck Browning KFRC, Bobby Ocean KGB,Harry Scarborough KMEN, Ted
Kraft (Jordan) KSTN, Jay Stevens KFRC, Gary Mack KHJ, Sebastian
Tripp KKUA, unknown KFIV, Greg Connors KOL, Mike Phillips KFRC, The
Real Don Steele KHJ, Steve Jay KGB, Pete McNeil KYNO, Bobby Dale
KFRC, Dave Jeffreys KYNO, Bob Elliott KGB, Steve O’Shea KFRC, Bill
Brown KGB, Howard Clark KFRC, Glen Adams KFRC, Ed Mitchell KFRC,
Robert W. Morgan KHJ, Humble Harv KHJ
This classic West Coast Boss Collage has been mentioned in various comment threads  thought it would surface on the site sooner. There’s a misconception that all of the airchecks were recorded on the same day. There are certainly a few things from the same time frame, but this composite really does stretch over a few years. From Seattle to Hawaii and down to San Diego, covering the mid-late sixties Drake era, it’s a unique representation of the market hierarchy and talent caliber.
You can really discern the difference between a Steve Jay at KGB and his work as Jay Stevens at KFRC. Great to see the similar evolution of Bobby Ocean at KGB,
Harry Scarborough at K/MEN,
and Pete McNeil at KYNO.
Some of the sets here have been heard on other REELRADIO exhibits, but what a wonderful mix and blend of some truly rare stuff, capped off by Humble Harv at KHJ.
Scoped
If all you want is the jings and the jock and the news and the spots, this version’s for you!
For aficionados of the late Chuck Browning (d. 1988), there’s nothing truly spectacular here content-wise, other than its overall rarity. Even the great Chucker couldn’t breathe life into the moribund WMCA at the end. He was soon on his way to the best work of his career, at KFRC in San Francisco, where he lit up afternoons.
It’s still more than worth it though, just to hear him say, “WMCA-love-the-Chucker-time,” or to catch him riffing with the Temptations, and announcing, “our album will be out very soon.”