93 KHJ Tribute to Boss Radio

[hotskel2546]

The funny thing about the BOSS RADIO format was that in PHILLY WIBG switched to the Drakes format in 1968 & was never known as BOSS RADIO because rival station WFIL went by that name. WIBG was always known as the BIG 99 & had the BIG 30 during the 18 month run with the Drakes format. CKLW also was known as THE BIG 8 with a BIG 30 never a boss 30.

[securitycat11]

I remember almost all these songs remember Cam Nelson on boss city Sat nights she is a weather girl on northwest news and she is still a stone cold fox.

I even remember the signing off of KFWB the first station in LA for rock.

LA was great then !

[RetroTony1959]

@securitycat11 Yes L.A. was so awesome back then.I grew up just a mile east of Downtown LA in Boyle Heights and all these jingles took me back to my childhood. Me and all my brothers sitting on te front porch hearing 93KHJ and waiting for the "HelmsMan" truck to pass with fresh glaze doughnuts. lol My Dad working on his car in front the house,and all of us riding our bikes up and down the street.Great sweet memories. My old neighborhood looks like a shithole these days. So sad.

[oscarflores1980]

AT 2:40 WHAT THE NAME OF THE SONG AND THE ARTIST THAT PLAYS THAT SONG?

I WANNA KNOW BECAUSE I LIKE IT

THANKS

[ChuckJPC]

@oscarflores1980 "Double Shot of My Baby's Love" by Swingin' Medallions

[ChuckJPC]

@oscarflores1980 "Double Shot of My Baby's Love" by Swingin' Medallions

[mrdarok85]

@ChuckJPC - You are so right! I forgot about this song until now. I am going to share it with all my friends. Love the time frame I grew up in musically as a teen (1963-1969).

[newhotman1001]

The Big 8 in Detroit, CKLW (actually it was out of Windsor but called itself the Motor City) was the midwest version of KHJ. If you grew up in Michigan like I did or in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and parts of western New York, you listened to CKLW's 50,000 watts. I even listened to their 20/20 news which has its own personalities. Ladies and gentleman, the beat goes on, CKLW the Motor City.

[222sunday]

I still have my KHJ sweatshirt.... So loved those days. Love these days too, but, ahhhhh, sweet memories.....

[ywmpg]

I STILL have about 20 of the top 30 hit sheets!! (see 3:200 I wouldn't take ANYTHING for them!! They're from like '72 and '73 I think....

[lovebeads1967]

Loved KHJ, KRLA, and KFWB and the Cyrcle!

[oneof3borg]

KHJ, I hadn't thought of that since I left California. Loved it, you're right they don't make them like that anymore. Also guilty of the transistor radio on my bicycle's handlebars.

[spyneyes1]

Thanks for the memories! Especially remember the early 70's and Machinegun Kelly!

[Motorcycliste]

I have died and come back to heaven on Earth! I grew up in Sylmar Ca. back in the late 60's/70/'s

[SteveB801]

Man this is too cool! They would be glad to know that this many years later, I still even remember many of the commercials: Coppertone "tans in 3 to 5 hours, with or without sun." "Sooner or later you'll own Generals" (tires). Does anyone else remember fast-talking Tom Campbell for Cal Stereo?

I used to listen to Mark Elliot, Big Ron O'Brien and the Reel Don Steele!

BUT I also used to enjoy the old KKDJ (a big drum roll before every song) and 1580 KDAY with Wolfman Jack!

[Sang1957]

An awesome bitchin' blast from the past Man! Groovy!!!

[drb7777]

Radio at its BEST!

Although we did have Radio Caroline.

[khj93play]

Wow. I still have those weekly surveys with pitcures of The Reele Don Steele, Charlie Tuna,Sam Riddle, Bill wade,Humble Harve, and of course the top hits of the week.

[rgarcia77]

@khj93play I can't remember, but was Robert W. Morgan part of this group of DJ's? When did he use the Morganizing Machine?

[ChuckJPC]

Zap...you are Morganized!

[rgarcia77]

@ChuckJPC It didn't even hurt!

[crazykeyman]

@rgarcia77 Yes he was and he used to have a TV show on KHJ channel 9 where he would usually pick a girl to get in the machine after she swore not to reveal what went on in there. It seemed they always came out shrieking and giggling after which he would say, "You've been Morganized." Do you remember Sam Riddle's show on TV? most guys had big crushes on Kam Nelson who was his co-host.

[karmices]

May 2010, 45th anniversary of BOSS Radio.

[stevenbrager]

My sister saw Sly & the Family Stone at Coachella last week. Don't forget ...KHJ is one of the places my Dad hung his hat -- there, KFWB, KGFJ, and KRLA. How do I forward this clip to my Dad (silly me). BY the way, I can't type or make sense at 5:30 a.m. My emails are attrocious when

[sphmusak]

Does anyone remember Boss City with The Real Son Steele and Kam Nelson?

As young kids we used to watch it after school. Those were the days!!!

[LeslieGMN]

@sphmusak Ohhhhh yes, I do. My sons can't believe that some people--specificially me--grew up without a record player.

[david91326]

Rest in Peace Gene Chenault, co-creator of Boss Radio. Gene passed away on 2/23/10 at the age of 90.

[porterhousey]

At the 6 minute mark, there is a jingle before the Charlie Tuna ID. Who did that jingle? What is that jingle called? I have heard it on several oldies stations.

[ChuckJPC]

Likely the Johnny Mann singers

[porterhousey]

It is the musical jingle with the drum roll. It is wedged in between the Judy In Disguise song and the Charlie Tuna ID. Who does that short musical jingle with the drum roll and is it downloadable?

[IowaEye]

@porterhousey It's the five-tone "WLS" calls jingle created for the Chicago station by composer Anita Kerr in the early 1960s. The original version was acapella, but they later commissioned Dallas-based jingle house PAMS to produce versions with a music background, and asked them to keep the five-tone tune for "W-L-S." Soon other stations began using the WLS way of singing the call letters, and it became very common. It's still heard on a lot of stations today.

[luridplanet]

Love the way they sing Los An-gel-es lol

[DocHollywoodMedia]

OMG..... Does This video Show My Age Or What !!! I Listen to this Station Morning, Noon, And Night......

Anyone who lived in LA in The 60's & 70's Rembers 93 KHJ....... By the way the Radio Jingle Your Are Listening To Were created by Charlie Tuna & Real Don Steele

[halbie71]

93 KHJ Boss Radio Was BITCHIN"!!!!!!!!!!!

[arielterr]

YEAH! me too... a big green 9 volt batery radio under my pillow.. @ SUNAire calif.

SWEET.

[mysterytrax]

Outstanding work ChuckJPC

YOU are the link to our music past.

100% feel good memories here.

THANK YOU for ALL of your great posts.

This was the era when radio ruled and the Boss jocks were rock stars themselves.

[mysterytrax]

Outstanding work ChuckJPC

YOU are the link to our music past.

100% feel good memories here.

THANK YOU for ALL of your great posts.

This was the era when radio ruled and the Boss jocks were rock stars themselves.

[mysterytrax]

FIRST CLASS WORK ChuckJPC

YOU ARE the link to our music past.

THANK YOU for ALL of your great posts.

They are PRICELESS.

[mslizzyborden]

I grew up with my transistor radio afixed to my bicycle's handlebars tuned to KHJ while cruising all around Santa Monica. I met Sam Riddle while skating at the Ice Chalet... And yes, I think it's gonna be all right... The morning sun is shining like a....

[ChuckJPC]

...red rubber ball!

[blueskys1972]

@mslizzyborden

Omg! That is my story!! lol! I had one of those donut panasonic transistor radios on my bicycle handlebars, riding around in Culver City:) Those were the best of times!

[OldMrMemories]

@mslizzyborden I was a little kid about 20 miles east of you near Downtown LA in Boyle Heights and my big brothers all had their transistors on their bikes too. LOL What a sweet memory. At that time my oldest brother was joining the Marines and getting ready to get shipped to Vietnam. I remeber Sam Riddle,Robert W Morgan,Emperor Hudson,Charlie Tuna and all those guys. Wished I could go back in a heartbeat. Unfortunately my old home and neighborhood look like a Third World country now.

[titostacos]

Didn't one of the bossjocks commit a crime or something? Was it Humble Harv?

[ChuckJPC]

Humble Harv (formerly of KBLA) shot his wife after years of her tormenting him. He returned to air after a couple of years of prison.

[mwredit]

I have that news report of that very incident from a KHJ aircheck from May 1971. He shot his wife Mary Gladis while their maid and daughter were asleep. There was an APB out for him that morning, he turned himself in some time later. It was said that he had left the scene in his car at a high rate of speed early that morning.

[andybwins]

This Is ANDY BARBER KJSR/Tulsa I was in LA waiting for Boss Radio in 1965 I was 18...My Dad knew RKO Prez so I was hip to the change, so, Boss Radio is my FAV!! (The Real Don Steele will Always be My HERO!!!)

[ChuckJPC]

Tina Delgado is alive...alive!

[cshargeit]

by 1967 or 1968 -- lets just say after sgt.pepper. people no longer appreciated the disk jockeys talking over the beginnings of the songs. f.m. came and killed all that.

[Sargebri]

Oh yeah.  I grew up on this. KHJ was my gateway to FM and stations like KLOS and KMET.

[miketheshanmanmangan]

The genius of Bill Drake and the talents of the KHJ Boss Jocks completley turned L.A radio on its ear in 1965 and brought great radio,jingles and personalities to sister station KFRC,San Francisco,WRKO,Boston Cklw,Detroit,WHBQ,Memphis and WOR FM in New York as well as numerous fake Drakes all over the country In the late sixties,Ladies and gentlemen The Beat Goes On!!!!Long Live Boss Radio...

[monkeeman1966]

Radio wasn't boring like it is now. You can groove to the DJ. Now the DJ sucks, that's why people like two months of music without interruptions. How about those great 10 minute blocks of commercials on almost every station. The new --HA--format of modern radio.

Also, who can be excited with that crap they call music nowadays? yuk. Makes me want to puke. 93 KHJ! Yes! Go to that REEL website, pay the money and listen to KHJ and other great radio of the 1960's. GREAT STUFF!

[rodneyviper]

What is the last song please?

[ChuckJPC]

Jr. Walker & Allstars "Shotgun"

[rodneyviper]

Thank you very much ChuckJPC

oldies rocks!

[rodneyviper]

what is the last song please? it's so jazzy

[rodneyviper]

Realy cool old school jingles

What is the last song?

[selimthesultan]

Nice! 93 khj was the radio station I always tuned in when I lived in Redondo Beach in 1972 and 1973. I was an exchange "relative" (hi Vera!) and lived for about 3 month each year with my realtives in Vi La Circula, Redondo Beach. I just loved the way Californian yoths lived their "hang loose" style with knee long swim shorts and flouresent t-shirts with surfing motives. I bought a lot of vinyl´s so I think I was one of the first to bring that music back home to Sweden :-)

[10TVMan]

In 1971, I moved from the Bay Area to Santa Barbara to go to college. During the day, I could get KHJ, and at night, KFRC. Perhaps the two best radio stations ever. RIP KHJ & KFRC.

[LosAngeleno1959]

Hearing these station jingles just sends shudders up my neck. Such a wonderful memory growing up in 1960's Los Angeles. 93KHJ had the best DJ lineup in the city of L.A. How I miss those days

[jimwalsh2001]

Just got the word that Bill Drake died this weekend of lung cancer. He was 71.

[ChuckJPC]

Bill Drake passed away Nov. 30, 2008

[devulboy1]

On 2:26 was the famous 60s love song "It's because of you/I wish you belong to me" all in Japanese, but translated and redone in the early '90s with lyrics redone into English. I first heard the '90s version when I was in high school, but my parents said the original version was beautiful being done in Japanese...and on this clip, I found it. I can't imagine a world when my parents grew up when AM radio was where to go for the latest music in the 1950s, 60s or 70s, but thanks chuckJPC. +

[devulboy1]

KHJ (aka "Boss Radio") in the 1970s & 80s was the radio station full of oldies hits my parents never bothered to change the dial when they drove from Indio near Palm Sprigns to L.A., or even to San Fran., (yeah it was available in Northern Cal.) KHJ was a strong signal to get heard across the Western US. They had "K-Earth 101" FM which is still on air under CBS radio networks, but KRTH 93 is no longer with us. Locally where I live, KDES-FM 104.7 became oldies adapted KHJ's style in the 1990s.+

[denny906]

The best radio station in Los Angeles, 93/KHJ always did play more music than their competitor.

[Jiltedin2007]

I remembered KHJ Radio back in the 1970's, and back then, it was the Greatest Radio Station in Los Angeles. Now, if I want music like this, I would have to go to a FM Station.

Back when I was a Little Boy, I would have a Transistor Radio(AM only), I would put on KHJ for Music. I didn't even know what FM was, that's good this Radio Station was in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles back in the 1970's was awesome!

[jskline0]

I grew up in southern California back in the 60's and this was the station I had almost incessantly. I was building and fixing radios back then as a teen, and subsequently listening to them.

I do remember one of the "Boss Jocks" was arrested back somewhere then for a crime. Been too many years so I don't remember what.

I'd love to find a tape someone just started and left on for a few hours!!

[USMCJew]

Response(part 1)01/5/71 In radio news - Humble Harve (Miller) the popular 6 to 9 evening disc jockey on 93-KHJ, Los Angeles is sought by police after his wife is found shot to death in their Hollywood home. An APP went out for the popular evening personality after he failed to show-up for his airshift. Police arrived to find Mary Miller lying on the living room floor face-up, fully -clothed with at least one gunshot wound in the upper chest.

[USMCJew]

Response (part 2)-A neighbor said the Millers have been having marital problems for sometime. They were married in 1963. Top -40 93-KHJ is one of the citys top radio stations - always placing #1 or #2 in the ratings. Miller is described as 510 - 180 to 190 pounds with a bushy beard.

[nanlisa]

I listened to a little bit of this station the last time that I was in L.A. in 1983. I also listened to a little bit of K-EARTH 101 as well.

[drb7777]

KHJ is without doubt the best Radio Station I have ever heard.

Only the old pirate stations like Caroline and London can come close.

[sexyjoanie]

those were the days of real radio as we know it. sure wish it would come back just one more time for ole time sake.

[oceanstreat]

This was way beyond cool! It really took me back in a strong way. I hope you might have some recordings of actual programs, especially in 1965-1966. Those were great times in L.A. radio. If you have any of them, that would be wonderful. Otherwise, you've undoubtedly made a lot of people happy.

[titostacos]

Tina Delgado is alive, alive!

[damngringo]

Thank you for posting this little gem of jingles! Absolutely, BOSS!!

[Modguy61]

Boss Radio forever baby!!

[thechurchofdave]

Hell yes!