Ken Levine says of Frank Terry: “There was no more versatile performer in radio. The two biggest rock stations in America in the mid 60’s could not have sounded more different. KHJ Los Angeles was ultra streamlined, WABC New York was all bells and whistles (chimes actually) – organized chaos. Only one disc jockey ever worked both formats. Frank Terry at KHJ and later at WABC’s sister station and clone in San Francisco, KSFX. You just gave him the charts and he could play.
He was the guy who broke in the other Bossjocks. He was the guy who worked every shift, often going months at a time without a day off. The beat had to go on and he was the drummer.”
KRLA Los Angeles – Frank Terry (34:07)
* I will post the longer KHJ aircheck when I run across it. Not sure what the big attraction was for KRLA. Though KRLA had some great jocks, the overall sound of KRLA was lackluster.
kjrol • September 18, 2020
KRLA’s time tone was particularly annoying, but would soon be gone forever
Doug Schmidt • September 18, 2020
The legendary Hullabalooer, Dave Hull, at the beginning of the aircheck
Gordon K Iverson • September 16, 2020
KRLA was my station when I lived in Los Angeles ’65-66. I sold lots of records using their playlists.
Dick Ellingson • September 16, 2020
At 14:48 there’s a Thrifty Drugs jingle “Double your savings . . .” so who copied whom, Thrifty or Doublemint? Joan and Jane wouldn’t do something that sneaky, would they?
Here’s the Doublemint jingle: “Double your pleasure, Double your fun . . .”
https://youtu.be/PHfjdxN1URI
kjrol • September 15, 2020
KHJ starts at around 15minutes in
Jason Remington • September 15, 2020
I had a longer Frank Terry KHJ aircheck at one time, but had to substitute KRLA in this case.
kjrol • September 15, 2020
Quite a contrast between KRLA and KHJ. KRLA’s presentation and its jingles were kind of blah. Then KHJ comes on and blows them out of the water