My Radio DJ Premier

[3-LockBox]

I haven't posted in ages, and with just a few words in each response, I can get it up and feel really manly as well without resorting to those blue jelly beans.

Do those blue jelly beans work?

[BarryL]

Do those blue jelly beans work?

Look at my post count, it's only 25 more than yours.

[Audio Girl]

That's cool. At what point did KNTU go to the all jazz format?

It really was a lot of fun. The all-jazz format began in 1981...I graduated 4 years prior to its introduction.

[Audio Girl]

Hmmm, betcha spun some of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. What else? Maybe Hotel California? Saturday Night Fever? Hehehe, did Mellencamp have anything new then? How freaky did you get back then? 1977 was a great music year for me, one of my favorites. Lots of discoveries and albums I'm still very fond of. Almost as wide open as the late 60s, in retrospect, with Costello and Marley and Eno and Mink DeVille and the Heads and Peter Gabriel and Pink Floyd and Cheap Trick and Bowie and on and on and ...

1976/77 were great years for music. That made for a fun time spinning those black discs over the radio...Plus the 1969 - 1975 time period wasn't bad for music either so we played quite a bit from those years.

Believe it or not, Rumours, Hotel California, and SNF were never spun by me. Our listening audience would have tuned their radios from KNTU to the "ZOO" (KZEW) if I had. So, here are just a few of the groups that I remember playing (and usually played the LP cuts that were not being played on other radio stations):

Boz Scaggs (local Dallasite) -- Heavy rotation: "Slow Dancer" & "Silk Degrees"
Steve Miller
Thin Lizzy
Bob Dylan
Joni Mitchell
Elvis Costello
Jackson Browne
Little Feat
Ry Cooder
Nils Lofgren
Joan Armatrading
Emmylou Harris
Foghat
Clapton
Todd Rundgren
Nazz
Graham Parker
Talking Heads
Bob Marley
Marvin Gaye
Doors
Queen
Van Morrison -- Astral Weeks!
Jimi Hendrix
Paul McCartney & Wings -- songs like "Beware My Love" NOT "Silly Love Songs"
Heart
Neil Young
Janis Joplin
Blue Oyster Cult
ACDC
Rolling Stones
Beatles
George Harrison
John Lennon
The Troggs
Steely Dan
Stevie Wonder
Lou Reed
Nazareth
JJ Cale
David Bowie
Pink Floyd
Bill Withers
The Zombies
George Benson
And, of course, The One O'Clock Lab Band, from NTSU!

A wonderful walk down memory lane...
Ag

[Davey]

A wonderful walk down memory lane...
Ag

Wow, that's a heckuva nice playlist Mary! A lot of my favorites.

[BradH]

Our listening audience would have tuned their radios from KNTU to the "ZOO" (KZEW) if I had.

I was thinking of the ZOO the other day. I was listening to a bootleg of Procol Harum in 1975 at some studio hear in Dallas broadcast live over KZEW. Q102 rarely did stuff like that - too corporate, too Van Halen. Although Redbeard did killer interviews, I have to admit. (Got a bunch of those on disc, too.)

The college station in Norman, OK went all jazz in 1982 about the same time as KNTU. They got swallowed by the jazz/NPR format and it killed all that new wave & ska they were playing all day.