One of the more intriguing set of tapes that I have acquired over the years. I uploaded some content from these tapes back in 2018. That was made during a trip through Texas. The person who recorded the tapes must have been a big radio enthusiast as evidenced by the content and the writing on the tape boxes.
This upload concentrates on station KAZZ FM from Austin Texas. The station was owned by Bill Josey. His son Rim Kelly was a DJ at the station and is featured on the second clip. Father and son were supporters and promoters of then indie Texas acts such as the 13th Floor Elevators and later Johnny Winter. They had a record label called Sonobeat and were also concert promoters. The station often featured live performances.
The station started to experiment with a progressive rock show in 1967 as heard on the first clip from June 1967. Features the Mothers of Invention, A Texas act called Leo and the Profits and a track called Tilt-A-Whirl, a segment about Zen, a brief segment of Donovan’s Fat Angel. Plus two versions of Love Has Made a Fool of You, in the great prog tradition. Also a segment featuring tracks that have been banned by other radio stations including Acapulco Gold by the Rainy Daze.
Tilt-A-Whirl BTW was released on Josey’s Sonobeat label and has since become a Texas garage classic and was banned by other radio stations due to supposed drug references. There’s a little break with with KNOW top 40 radio playing the Hollies’ Pay You Back with Interest and then back to KAZZ.
This clip was recorded before KMPX in San Francisco became the first 24 hour underground station.
The summer of Love and the Summer of Sgt Pepper. The DJ I believe is Kirk Wilson. Wilson’s presentation here reminds me of early David Pritchard and Reiner Schwartz of CHUM FM.
The second clip features Rim Kelly from May 1967 with a creative top 40 approach where we hear the track Levitation by the 13th Floor Elevators and much more. Lucy in The Sky from Pepper is played and that means they must have had a advance copy as the album was not released in the US until June 67.
The third clip is about 15 minutes of WABC jingles from the 60’s.
The final clip is from a station called KTSA from San Antonio and features a show called Amazon Ace which was produced by the creator of Chickenman, Dick Orkin.
I have much more content from these tapes that I plan to upload in the future.
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