Southern California Radio Station Jingle Memories

[suziesbro]

Answering the question, the Pomona station in those years was KWOW/1600.

[far1956]

Who remembers the boss 30 countdown on wednesday evening starting at 6?I listened to it polishing my shoes for catholic school for years.

[DaveWVideo]

Chuck--I wish you could find KHJ-FM's jingle from 1969-70. They were AOR format at that time, and had a jingle with a full orchestra and singers, with the line "Hit Parade, '69"(for the year)--then changed it to "Hit Parade '70" at the first of the year. The phrasing for 1970 just didn't fit, so they eventually dropped it. They even had a version in 5/4 time! Very cool for it's time. KHJ FM eventually became KRTH 101 FM. I hope you can find it and post it some day.

[reinruof66]

Boy what memories the only thing missing is Orange County KEZY and who could forget KW (pop) IZ

[oldradioguy1]

KFXM still lives on at 96.7 FM in Lancaster, CA!

Great old jingles and the LARGEST record library in all of radio!

[peaceandlove5051]

XTRA XPRS XERB they use to broadcast from Rosarito Mexico

[93KHJ]

Nice job Chuck. Radio just ain't what it used to be.

[LosAngeleno1959]

I grew up in Los Angeles (Boyle heights in the 60's and it's funny how a radio jingle can take you to a certain place in time.

[brabon1]

lack of true competition has killed the radio industry

im from the bay area, and i was able some nites to pick up that station in mexico...it was soooo cool

[showtime951]

wow...my life from 1968-1982.

[juniorsgv88]

OMG brings back as a kid, driving with my pop and listening to them oldies on krla .. i remembered them jingles ...what a flashback!

[RogerWBerry]

Where is "A little bit of heaven 94.7 KMET tweedle dee"?

[ChuckJPC]

KMET's was not a professional radio jingle and instead was a home studio parody. Also I never ran across it.

[deedub1979]

Thanks for all the jingles from the late 80's and early 90's. I heard Pirate Radio in there! :)

[LordShen]

I miss krla 1110's classic car shows.

[Robbyjean]

This is KILLER GOOD!!!!!!!!

[meltvision]

Thank you for that...Great.

[dadgamor]

ok i just remembered the radio station out of pomona was 16kwow and they played oldies................lol i knew if i gave myself a min i would remember it

[dadgamor]

does anybody rememebr the name of the radio station out of pomona in the 70's? i know it was on AM

[marcotor949]

Marvarla, the station jingles on KRTH are close to the old KHJ because the station was programmed for years by Bill Drake, the voice you hear on " A Super 60's Weekend". Drake was one of the creators of the original Boss Radio sound, and this was not the only station they programmed as a Boss station, thus the Johnny Mann Singers doing the KGB jingle.

[Tyllannon]

What?? No Doctor Demento excerpt? *sniff sniff* too bad :(

[SandyDog102]

OK, Wolfman Jack wanted you to send...cash, check or MONEY ORDER to 8228 Sunset Blvd.....HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA! Anyone ever been in the building? Guess the postman was pretty busy on that route!

[ChuckJPC]

I visited Wolfman Jack (Bob Smith) during his XERB Sunset Blvd. studio days. He used to do a promo about sending stuff to the Melrose Ave. studios of the LA soul station KGFJ. And not with standing "American Graffiti," he never was a DJ in Fresno.

[funtyrone]

KRTH rocked and still does

[Mavarla]

Okay, I knew my mind hadn't been playing tricks on me when I told a friend recently that "The KRTH-101 jingle is a total rip from the old KHJ's!" Also, hearing the Tijuana radio I.D. with the girl's voice, again, was *brilliant*: I think this was the first sentence I ever learned in Spanish! MARS-103 was a short-lived/great format, as was the ALL heavy metal station (which you missed :-)...but THANK YOU for posting ChuckJPC!!!

[1015kgb]

Excellent!

[rsands9]

chuck, kbla was my favorite station to. did you go to their listener appreciation party? sonny and cher were there among many great bands. plus they gave away a rolls royce. i know. i was there!

[TL250Rider]

Now KRLA

KRTH have both Died RIP

Art Laboe RIP KRTH

The whole Management is bad no more 60's weekends too much Disco

[tartanbaws]

Loads of jingles @ tartanbaws

[1angus]

great so cal memory. thanks

[devulboy1]

Please make more of them (5 minute radio/TV jingle samples), since you tend to only have Los Angeles area radio station call signs or history (and some from San Diego). You can expand on the Riverside-San Bernardino and Palm Springs-El Centro markets (i.e. KXO, KCLB/KCHV, KCMJ, KEZY, KATJ, KFRG/KXFG, KATY/KATJ, KECY, KICO, KSIQ, KNWZ, KAJR, KPSI, KDES and KCAL radio). You're right about KHJ never was regulary heard in the Central valley, the movie "American Graffiti" was filmed in Modesto. +

[vinyl12s]

@devulboy1 I think we need to get the American Graffiti story cleared up. The movie was actually filmed in San Rafael,CA (Marin County) and Petaluma, CA (Sonoma County). The Mel's Drive In scene was filmed at it's old location at the corner of Van Ness Ave and Mission St. in San Francisco. The film was set to take place in Modesto, CA in 1962. It was'nt until 1963 that the Wolfman appeared on a "border blaster" and that was XERF near Del Rio, TX. He would be on XERB from 1965-1970.

[denny906]

When I lived down in Diego County I was able to get most of these stations during the night.

[vonrollskyway1]

loved power 106 back then.72,000 watts of music power!

[mynameismic]

we could get 93 khj in san diego and kfi640 am . and  kcop channel 13

[ChuckJPC]

...and I could get XETV channel 6 from Tijuana in LA!

[devulboy1]

...and I used to get KXO/KBLU/KYEL/KSWT (or whatever they're called now) channel 13 from Yuma/El Centro in my home town Indio near Palm Springs. But in Feb. 2009, the national Digital TV transition will change everything about the local TV market.

But radio reception in the Palm Springs area wasn't the best, usually AM is dominated by the Mexican border and certain FM ones are on some radio sets, during certain times or required a weird FM antenna system facing west & south to San Diego. +

[hookalakah]

Do you remember anything about the KBLA sudio/experience?

[ChuckJPC]

I remember that Humble Harv did his show with the door closed and covered windows which was the opposite of Dave Diamond formerly of Denver's KMIN(?)

[hookalakah]

How did you wangle your way into KBLA, Chuck?

[ChuckJPC]

I generally have been in most stations herein; I became of friend of Dave Diamond who was also at KRFC San Francisco who recognized me much to the chagrin of my doubting friend (who later was on KSTN Stockton).

[59phonebone]

Great stuff!

[mrevans60]

What about 94.7 KMET the mighty met? When I was in High School in the mid 70s that was the station for rock and roll, Dr. Demento and Jim Ladd. I still can't believe they turned it into the Wave in the mid 80s. Well at least Ladds still on KLOS 95.5. I enjoyed your post very much. I remember in the 60s when I was a kid listening to 93 KHJ. Wasn't Charlie Tuna DJ at the time?

[ChuckJPC]

KMET had no jingles, like KLOS. Charlie Tuna with his own jingle was a mid day on KHJ and recently canned from KBIG which is now gone.

[rocksan64]

What??!! How about.............LITTLE BIT O HEAVEN NINETY FOUR POINT SEVEN KMET, TWEEDLE DEE! Now that was a jingle man!!

[ChuckJPC]

If I had found it, it would've been here; however, KMET's was not a professional jingle instead being a home made spoof.

[oldschoolen1]

this rite on! KRLA...do have any with huggy boy?

[rwagoner]

I don't believe that "hit after hit" KRTH jingle was ever used on the air. They never went to the format even though they thought about it.

[captain2112]

WOW! What memories! I've done radio since 1969 in Los Angeles and Miami. Sooo nice to hear all those jingles again.

Always loved PAMS.

[hujass1]

It must have been cool to be in radio back then. I got into it business in the mid 90s when computers and corporate radio were changing things. But radio still beats working for a living! Thanks for the history lesson.

[hookalakah]

Thanks for including KBLA, the little Burbank station that gave the L.A. big boys a run for their money in '66 and '67. We remember Humble Harve and Stone City, Roger Christian, Emperor Hudson, Dave Diamond and the Diamond Mine.

[ChuckJPC]

I sat in Dave Diamond's show at KBLA as well as at KFRC San Francisco.

[aujuma]

KBLA was the best!

[nagmashdriver]

Chuck, Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! You have wonderfully encapsulated the golden age of Los Angeles radio for all posterity. The internet is a wonderful tool, but it can never replace radio. Long live RADIO! (even if it is top 40 crap)

[buntschuh]

Cool i love radio stations from L.A. I surch a surf rock radio station. can you help me please?

[ChuckJPC]

There is no more dude...all surfers have grown up.

[cjames5a]

to be blunt radio is dead!

[LordShen]

omg KRLA!

[Hroller1]

Damn, those jingles were long.

[missaprilm]

Thanks for taking me back to the days when am radio was king! we used to stay up late in the night just to hear good old wolfman Jack out of XERB : ) growing up in LA back in the day... exciting to say the least , thanks for the memories!

[djjas79]

Cool fantastic great brilliant. Thanks for posting!!

[skiggley]

Nowadays, all radio markets play the same thing...they all have their MIX, KISS and JACK formats...and they all play the same few choice songs - like Bob Seger's Old Time Rock and Roll and Kool and the Gang's Celebration...over and over and over and over and over again...like Wal-Mart - once you have seen one, you have seen the entire country.

Too bad radio isn't what it used to be.

[devulboy1]

Skiggley, AM/FM radio may become bland or mundane, but Southern Cal. has developed multicultural diversity as a result of immigration in the 1970s & '80s, many Asian-language and an Iranian radio station from the San Fernando valley. Much of the local stations are now in Spanish, either from Mexico or within Sou. Cal. such as KLAX 97.9 and KUNA 96.7 Palm Springs. But what radio companies did in the 60s & 70s brought in "soul" and "blues" music from the Black community into the mainstream.+