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Tune in to 1967
These are the real broadcasts as they went out in the 1960s and early 70s, with the DJs, the news, the ads and the live sets, just as listeners taped them off the air. Each station runs a daily schedule on your own clock: the afternoon DJ plays in your afternoon and the late-night shows come on after midnight. Switch on and you come in partway through, like a real radio.
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KSAN 94.9 FM · San Francisco · 1968–1973 · 16 shows, 23 h 29 min
"The Jive 95". In March 1968 the KMPX staff walked out on strike, and on May 21, 1968 most of them went on the air at KSAN. Here are the DJs, the news, the ads and the live broadcasts from Winterland and the Fillmore.
- October 26, 1968 Alan Stone · Saturday show · 2 h 27 min · recording
- April 16, 1969 Tom Donahue · Big Daddy on the Jive 95 · 1 h 56 min · recording
- May 7, 1969 Live broadcast · Jefferson Airplane, Golden Gate Park · 60 min · recording
- 1968–1972 Tom Donahue · Sign-on to closing, with 1969 news and ads · 1 h 13 min · recording
- April 26, 1970 Live broadcast · Van Morrison, Fillmore West · 1 h 1 min · recording
- June 8, 1970 Dusty Street · Rock, blues and folk · 1 h 19 min · recording
- December 1970 Live broadcast · David Crosby & the Grateful Dead, the Matrix · 1 h 58 min · recording
- 1971 KSAN staff · The mighty KSAN · 2 h 0 min · recording
- April 30, 1971 Live broadcast · Hot Tuna in the KSAN studio · 59 min · recording
- June 30, 1971 Live broadcast · Stoneground, Fillmore West closing week · 1 h 1 min · recording
- June 30, 1971 Live broadcast · Boz Scaggs, Fillmore West closing week · 1 h 45 min · recording
- July 4, 1971 Tom Donahue (intro) · Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks in the KSAN studio · 53 min · recording
- December 5, 1971 Live broadcast · The Youngbloods, Pacific High Studios · 1 h 46 min · recording
- May 10, 1972 Bob McClay · Afternoon show · 47 min · recording
- May 10, 1972 Richard Gossett · Evening show · 48 min · recording
- July 9, 1973 Ron Middag · Late-night show · 2 h 37 min · recording
KMPX 106.9 FM · San Francisco · 1967 · 6 shows, 8 h 59 min
Where it started. Larry Miller began a folk-rock overnight show on this foreign-language station in February 1967, and Tom Donahue followed on April 7, 1967 with an 8 p.m. to midnight show of whole album sides. From August 6, 1967 the rock format ran all 24 hours.
- April 1967 Tom Donahue with Jerry Garcia & Phil Lesh · The Grateful Dead as guest DJs · 1 h 47 min · recording
- May 2, 1967 Tom Donahue · Big Daddy at night · 2 h 2 min · recording
- October 11, 1967 Edward Bear · Afternoon show · 1 h 7 min · recording
- October 12, 1967 Bob McClay · Early evening show · 1 h 25 min · recording
- October 12, 1967 Tom Donahue & Edward Bear · Evening into night · 1 h 32 min · recording
- December 1967 KMPX staff · December morning · 1 h 7 min · recording
KMET 94.7 FM · Los Angeles · 1968–1971 · 5 shows, 11 h 16 min
Metromedia's KMET went freeform rock in 1968 when Tom Donahue brought over most of the strikers from KPPC-FM, among them B. Mitchel Reed. The DJs chose the music themselves, with no limits on genre.
- June 27, 1968 B. Mitchel Reed & Tom Donahue · Summer 1968 · 1 h 16 min · recording
- August 13, 1968 B. Mitchel Reed · Summer 1968 · 1 h 38 min · recording
- 1970 B. Mitchel Reed · Sign-on to sign-off · 1 h 14 min · recording
- January 17, 1970 KMET air staff · Six hours of KMET · 6 h 13 min · recording
- March 4, 1971 Jimmy Rabbitt · Outlaw country-rock · 55 min · recording
KPPC 106.7 FM · Pasadena · 1968–1971 · 3 shows, 6 h 41 min
Freeform radio from a church basement in Pasadena, set up by Tom and Raechel Donahue after the station's 1967 sale. Its hosts included B. Mitchel Reed, Les Carter, Dr. Demento and Johnny Otis, until the owners fired the whole air staff in October 1971.
- November 27, 1968 Les Carter with Frank Zappa · Frank Zappa plays his old doo-wop records · 3 h 0 min · recording
- November 2, 1970 Johnny Otis · The Johnny Otis Show, with Frank Zappa and Shuggie Otis · 1 h 44 min · recording
- July 25, 1971 Dr. Demento · His last live show on KPPC · 1 h 57 min · recording
KPFK 90.7 FM · Los Angeles · 1971 · 1 shows, 6 h 51 min
The listener-sponsored Pacifica station of Los Angeles. In November 1971, after KPPC fired its air staff, KPFK put the dismissed underground DJs on the air for a long night.
- November 23, 1971 Bob Gowa, Steven Clean, Dr. Demento, Mississippi Fats · The ex-KPPC hours · 6 h 51 min · recording
WOR-FM 98.7 FM · New York · 1966 · 2 shows, 3 h 25 min
On July 30, 1966 WOR-FM started a freeform-based rock format for most of its day, one of the first FM rock stations. Murray the K led the air staff, with Scott Muni and Rosko, who later moved to WNEW-FM.
WNEW-FM 102.7 FM · New York · 1967–1972 · 7 shows, 8 h 38 min
WNEW-FM went progressive rock on October 30, 1967, with Rosko, Jonathan Schwartz and Scott Muni on the air within weeks. Muni became the afternoon voice, and from January 1, 1968 Alison Steele, 'The Nightbird', had the overnight shift.
- November 28, 1967 Rosko · A mind excursion · 59 min · recording
- February 11, 1969 Alison Steele · The Nightbird · 1 h 54 min · recording
- July 1969 Pete Fornatale · Summer 1969 · 1 h 14 min · recording
- August 1969 Pete Fornatale · August 1969 · 49 min · recording
- November 5, 1970 Scott Muni · Afternoon show · 2 h 5 min · recording
- January 1971 Scott Muni · January 1971 · 29 min · recording
- September 6, 1972 Alison Steele · The Nightbird · 1 h 8 min · recording
WBCN 104.1 FM · Boston · 1969–1973 · 3 shows, 3 h 4 min
"The American Revolution". WBCN went underground on the night of March 15, 1968, at first only late in the evening and overnight. Peter Wolf was on the early air staff, and Charles Laquidara took the 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. shift after Wolf left in December 1968.
WMMR 93.3 FM · Philadelphia · 1970–1972 · 5 shows, 8 h 32 min
WMMR's first rock show, Dave Herman's The Marconi Experiment, started on April 29, 1968, and the station moved to progressive rock from there. Michael Tearson took the late-night slot in 1970 and stayed for more than 20 years.
- March 29, 1970 Jim Keen · Kinesthesia, Easter night · 47 min · recording
- March 9, 1972 Michael Tearson · Late show · 2 h 42 min · recording
- 1972 Dave Herman · Looking back on the Marconi Experiment · 2 h 14 min · recording
- December 1972 David Dye · December 1972 · 1 h 8 min · recording
- December 20, 1972 Michael Tearson · Late show · 1 h 42 min · recording
WABX 99.5 FM · Detroit · 1968–1969 · 4 shows, 7 h 16 min
WABX switched to freeform rock on February 1, 1968, with the DJs choosing their own music. Before that it had a 7-to-8 p.m. show called Troubadour that mixed blues, folk and rock.
WAMO-FM 105.9 FM · Pittsburgh · 1968 · 2 shows, 3 h 16 min
One evening a week the soul and R&B station WAMO handed the air to Ken Reeth as Brother Love, who played psychedelic rock and told tall tales in the style of West Coast underground radio.
CHUM-FM 104.5 FM · Toronto · 1970 · 2 shows, 2 h 55 min
CHUM-FM was one of the early underground stations, in Toronto. In the summer of 1970 it broadcast the Toronto show of the Festival Express, the train tour across Canada with Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead and the Band.
WABC 770 AM · New York · 1965–1971 · 8 shows, 8 h 20 min
Musicradio 77: Top 40 around the clock, and at night its 50,000-watt signal reached across much of the eastern United States and Canada. Dan Ingram, Cousin Brucie, Herb Oscar Anderson and Harry Harrison became household names.
- November 10, 1965 Herb Oscar Anderson, then Dan Ingram · Morning show · 50 min · recording
- January 14, 1967 Charlie Greer · All-night show · 53 min · recording
- July 8, 1967 Dan Ingram · Saturday afternoon · 1 h 7 min · recording
- September 17, 1968 Cousin Brucie · Evening show · 1 h 8 min · recording
- November 26, 1968 Chuck Leonard · Late show · 49 min · recording
- July 21, 1970 Harry Harrison · Morning drive · 1 h 4 min · recording
- July 29, 1970 Harry Harrison · Morning drive in a heatwave · 58 min · recording
- August 31, 1971 Dan Ingram · Afternoon drive · 1 h 31 min · recording
KHJ 930 AM · Los Angeles · 1965–1970 · 6 shows, 8 h 14 min
"Boss Radio". In April 1965 Bill Drake and Ron Jacobs turned KHJ into a tight Top 40 station with fast-talking "Boss Jocks" and more music. It made stars of Robert W. Morgan and The Real Don Steele.
- April 29, 1965 Roger Christian · Third day of Boss Radio · 33 min · recording
- April 29, 1965 Roger Christian · Third day of Boss Radio, later · 48 min · recording
- February 3, 1967 Humble Harve · Evening show · 1 h 9 min · recording
- July 4, 1968 The Real Don Steele · Fourth of July · 2 h 16 min · recording
- May 30, 1969 The Real Don Steele · Afternoon show · 1 h 38 min · recording
- October 2, 1970 Robert W. Morgan · Morning show · 1 h 50 min · recording
KFRC 610 AM · San Francisco · 1966–1971 · 6 shows, 5 h 19 min
"The Big 610". In the mid-1960s KFRC dropped easy listening for the Drake "Boss Radio" format and became one of the most influential Top 40 stations in the country, the AM opposite of KSAN across town.
- November 24, 1966 Howard Clark · Thanksgiving 1966 · 1 h 27 min · recording
- February 28, 1970 Don Kelly · Saturday night, part 1 · 28 min · recording
- February 28, 1970 Don Kelly · Saturday night, part 2 · 31 min · recording
- March 21, 1970 Dave Diamond · Saturday show · 43 min · recording
- November 16, 1970 Dave Diamond · With the Top 30 · 1 h 24 min · recording
- July 26, 1971 Bob Foster · Midday show · 45 min · recording
WLS 890 AM · Chicago · 1966–1972 · 6 shows, 7 h 31 min
Top 40 since May 1960 with 50,000 watts that carried far beyond Chicago at night. Art Roberts, Ron Riley, Larry Lujack and Chuck Buell made it one of the best-known hit stations of the 1960s.
- January 1, 1966 Art Roberts · The top hits of 1965, with news and ads · 1 h 42 min · recording
- August 25, 1967 Art Roberts · Evening show · 50 min · recording
- January 22, 1968 Ron Riley · Evening show · 1 h 3 min · recording
- December 31, 1968 Chuck Buell · Top 89 of 1968, New Year’s Eve · 2 h 6 min · recording
- January 21, 1970 Gary Gears · Midday show · 58 min · recording
- April 17, 1972 Larry Lujack, then Gary Gears · Late morning · 51 min · recording
CKLW 800 AM · Windsor / Detroit · 1968–1971 · 5 shows, 8 h 16 min
"The Big 8", across the river from Detroit in Windsor, Ontario. It took the Boss Radio format in April 1967, was number one in Detroit by that July, and was famous for its rapid-fire, lurid newscasts.
- December 31, 1968 Jim Edwards & Ed Mitchell · The Top 100 of 1968 · 2 h 21 min · recording
- August 27, 1969 Hal Martin · Evening show · 46 min · recording
- September 17, 1969 Frank Brodie · Midday show · 50 min · recording
- December 21, 1970 Pat Holiday · Christmas week, overnight · 2 h 35 min · recording
- August 27, 1971 Hal Martin · Evening show · 1 h 43 min · recording
XERB 1090 AM · Rosarito Beach, Mexico · 1966–1971 · 7 shows, 7 h 10 min
"The Mighty 1090", a Mexican border blaster whose 50,000 watts reached San Diego and Los Angeles. From 1966 Wolfman Jack taped his howling R&B and rock shows in Los Angeles and sent the tapes across the border.
- December 3, 1966 Wolfman Jack · December 1966, then April 1967 · 1 h 25 min · recording
- October 17, 1967 Wolfman Jack · The Wolfman Jack Show · 30 min · recording
- August 1968 Wolfman Jack · Summer 1968 · 1 h 2 min · recording
- 1968 Wolfman Jack · The show opening, autumn 1968 · 54 min · recording
- April 12, 1970 Wolfman Jack · April 1970 · 58 min · recording
- March 15, 1971 Wolfman Jack · March 1971 · 1 h 10 min · recording
- March 30, 1971 Wolfman Jack · March 1971 · 1 h 10 min · recording
Radio London 266 m · MV Galaxy, off the Essex coast · 1965–1967 · 19 shows, 25 h 1 min
"Big L", broadcasting from a former US Navy minesweeper off Frinton-on-Sea until 3 p.m. on 14 August 1967, with an American Top 40 sound and its weekly Fab 40 chart. After midnight John Peel ran The Perfumed Garden, the British twin of San Francisco freeform.
- July 7, 1965 Kenny Everett & Dave Cash · The Kenny & Cash Show, previewing the Beatles' Help! · 48 min · recording
- September 2, 1965 Kenny Everett & Dave Cash · The Kenny & Cash Show · 1 h 3 min · recording
- February 4, 1967 Kenny Everett · Big L in the daytime · 27 min · recording
- February 12, 1967 Tony Blackburn · The Fab 40, hour 1 · 46 min · recording
- February 12, 1967 Tony Blackburn · The Fab 40, hour 2 · 1 h 3 min · recording
- July 12, 1967 John Peel · The Perfumed Garden · 1 h 26 min · recording
- July 14, 1967 John Peel · The Perfumed Garden · 50 min · recording
- July 16, 1967 John Peel · The Perfumed Garden · 1 h 17 min · recording
- July 18, 1967 John Peel · The Perfumed Garden · 1 h 41 min · recording
- July 19, 1967 John Peel · The Perfumed Garden, plus extracts · 1 h 54 min · recording
- July 22, 1967 Ed Stewart · Big L in the daytime · 19 min · recording
- July 22, 1967 John Peel · The Perfumed Garden · 1 h 36 min · recording
- August 6, 1967 Tommy Vance · The Final Fab 40, hour 1 · 58 min · recording
- August 6, 1967 Tommy Vance · The Final Fab 40, hour 2 · 1 h 4 min · recording
- August 6, 1967 Tommy Vance · The Final Fab 40, hour 3 · 1 h 24 min · recording
- August 14, 1967 John Peel · The last Perfumed Garden, hours before Big L closed · 5 h 27 min · recording
- August 14, 1967 Chuck Blair · The last morning of Big L, hour 1 · 1 h 1 min · recording
- August 14, 1967 Chuck Blair · The last morning of Big L, hour 2 · 1 h 2 min · recording
- August 14, 1967 Chuck Blair · The last morning of Big L, hour 3 · 57 min · recording
Radio Caroline 199 m · North Sea and Irish Sea ships · 1964–1967 · 7 shows, 11 h 49 min
The first of the pirates: pop from the ship MV Caroline off Felixstowe from Easter 1964, then two ships, Caroline South off Essex (259 m) and Caroline North off the Isle of Man (199 m). It kept broadcasting after the Marine Offences Act outlawed the pirates on 14 August 1967.
- March 29, 1964 Chris Moore & Simon Dee · The second day of Radio Caroline · 1 h 19 min · recording
- July 12, 1965 Jim Murphy · Midnight Surf Party, Caroline North · 1 h 58 min · recording
- July 12, 1965 Tom Lodge · Breakfast hour, Caroline North · 58 min · recording
- July 16, 1966 Emperor Rosko · Afternoon show, Caroline South · 1 h 43 min · recording
- September 17, 1966 Graham Webb · Countdown of Sound, Caroline North · 1 h 31 min · recording
- August 2, 1967 Tom Edwards · The last summer before the ban, Caroline South · 1 h 25 min · recording
- August 14, 1967 Johnnie Walker · The night the pirates were outlawed, Caroline South · 2 h 54 min · recording
BBC Radio 1 247 m · London · 1967–1970 · 4 shows, 5 h 20 min
The BBC’s answer to the pirates opened at 7 a.m. on Saturday 30 September 1967, six weeks after they were outlawed, with Tony Blackburn and The Move’s "Flowers in the Rain". Several of its first presenters came straight off the ships.
- September 30, 1967 Tony Blackburn · The first breakfast show: Radio 1 goes on the air · 1 h 34 min · recording
- September 30, 1967 Emperor Rosko · His first Radio 1 show, launch day · 43 min · recording
- September 30, 1967 Johnny Moran · The first Scene and Heard · 57 min · recording
- October 5, 1970 Tony Blackburn · Breakfast show · 2 h 6 min · recording
AFVN 540 AM · Saigon and across South Vietnam · 1968–1971 · 5 shows, 8 h 10 min
The American Forces Vietnam Network played stateside hits for the troops from Saigon, Qui Nhon, Nha Trang, Pleiku, Da Nang and Hue. Its morning show was Dawn Buster, the one Adrian Cronauer opened with "Good Morning, Vietnam".
- May 3, 1968 Pat Sajak · Dawn Buster, then Radio Lai Khe with Tim Abney · 1 h 27 min · recording
- December 7, 1969 AFVN · Stateside Survey, the Top 40 hits · 1 h 33 min · recording
- June 23, 1970 AFVN Nha Trang · An evening on the Nha Trang station · 2 h 2 min · recording
- November 26, 1970 AFVN Saigon · Orient Express and Dawn Buster, Thanksgiving · 1 h 3 min · recording
- September 5, 1971 AFVN · Labor Day weekend rock'n'roll special · 2 h 5 min · recording
Live from San Francisco Fillmore, Avalon, Winterland, Matrix · 1966–1971 · 20 shows, 26 h 23 min
The ballrooms of San Francisco, mostly as they went out on KMPX, KSAN and KPFA. Some of the 1966–67 tapes went out on KSAN only in 1972, when the station aired Bill Graham’s concert tapes over three days.
- September 1966 The Blues Project · The Matrix · 1 h 41 min · recording
- October 1966 Paul Butterfield Blues Band · Fillmore Auditorium · 58 min · recording
- November 1966 Quicksilver, Big Brother & Country Joe · Avalon Ballroom · 52 min · recording
- January 1967 Moby Grape, the Sparrow & the Charlatans · Avalon Ballroom · 60 min · recording
- February 12, 1967 Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin · California Hall · 1 h 23 min · recording
- March 7, 1967 The Doors · The Matrix · 1 h 53 min · recording
- June 1967 Jefferson Airplane · Fillmore Auditorium · 40 min · recording
- February 14, 1968 Country Joe & the Fish · Carousel Ballroom · 41 min · recording
- March 3, 1968 Grateful Dead · Free concert on Haight Street · 54 min · recording
- April 6, 1968 Quicksilver Messenger Service · Winterland · 1 h 22 min · recording
- April 28, 1968 Steve Miller Band with Boz Scaggs · Carousel Ballroom · 1 h 33 min · recording
- May 1968 Santana · Avalon Ballroom · 1 h 25 min · recording
- 1968 It's a Beautiful Day · Fillmore Auditorium · 1 h 20 min · recording
- November 2, 1968 The Byrds · Avalon Ballroom · 1 h 11 min · recording
- April 6, 1969 Grateful Dead, Flying Burrito Brothers & AUM · Avalon Ballroom · 3 h 5 min · recording
- October 4, 1970 Grateful Dead · Winterland, the night Janis Joplin died · 1 h 9 min · recording
- October 4, 1970 Jefferson Airplane · Winterland · 1 h 17 min · recording
- October 15, 1970 Miles Davis · Fillmore West · 1 h 4 min · recording
- July 3, 1971 Hot Tuna with Papa John Creach · Fillmore West · 1 h 54 min · recording
- July 4, 1971 Creedence Clearwater Revival · Fillmore West, the last nights · 60 min · recording
Live across the country Fillmore East, Boston Tea Party, festivals · 1967–1971 · 18 shows, 23 h 41 min
The rest of the era on stage: the Fillmore East, the Boston Tea Party, the Grande in Detroit and the summer festivals, mostly from WNEW-FM and WBCN broadcasts.
- August 13, 1967 John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor · National Jazz & Blues Festival, Windsor · 32 min · recording
- March 17, 1968 Jimi Hendrix and friends · Cafe au Go Go, New York · 1 h 14 min · recording
- April 28, 1968 The Mothers of Invention · Grande Ballroom, Detroit · 58 min · recording
- December 12, 1968 The Velvet Underground · Boston Tea Party · 1 h 29 min · recording
- January 23, 1969 Led Zeppelin · Boston Tea Party · 48 min · recording
- February 22, 1969 The Byrds · Boston Tea Party · 1 h 27 min · recording
- July 27, 1969 Flying Burrito Brothers · Seattle Pop Festival · 1 h 15 min · recording
- January 1, 1970 Jimi Hendrix, Band of Gypsys · Fillmore East, New York · 1 h 14 min · recording
- February 1, 1970 Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green · The Warehouse, New Orleans · 1 h 59 min · recording
- June 1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young · Fillmore East, New York · 2 h 5 min · recording
- June 6, 1970 The Doors with Albert King · Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver · 1 h 30 min · recording
- July 7, 1970 The Who · Tanglewood · 2 h 15 min · recording
- July 7, 1970 Jethro Tull · Tanglewood · 1 h 23 min · recording
- October 23, 1970 Derek & the Dominos · New York · 52 min · recording
- November 1, 1970 The Band · Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh · 1 h 9 min · recording
- November 18, 1970 Traffic · Fillmore East, New York · 1 h 5 min · recording
- March 13, 1971 The Allman Brothers Band · Fillmore East, New York · 1 h 7 min · recording
- June 27, 1971 The Allman Brothers Band · Fillmore East, closing night · 1 h 19 min · recording