Rman-a-nissing abt 50 years ago Posted on March 31, 2026 at 06:33:43 AM by rman
Whoops I sed FM was in the mid 60s, well yeah, but it was classical and alt at that time. Rock hit FM in the mid 70s when I was aware, when it started competing with WHB on the SuperQ. I don't know when KY102 hit the air, nor when enough people had FMs to penetrate.
I did have a collegue when I was with Amer Forces Radio, he was a california jock. I did the top 40 requestline show at 8p and before me, he did a more folk/underground show...big on Joan Baez, for example Santana, and others that wasn't so Hot 100ish. Course everything hit both coasts before we got it in cow country. We drank 3.2 beer and they were doin dope. That became apparent to me when I got drafted in early 69 and the moment we shipped to Asia, it was a while different recreational setting. The brothers had it first and then the heads. The military was a great mixing pot for social customs.
The funniest thing was what Viet era soldiers did with the available women, which were plentiful. I dont think the straight laced suburban KC girls had any idea what their brothers and former bf's were doing, given how much outrage there is with everyone abt Trump's world today. I expect most of the guys who flew on Epsteins plane were early boomers who went through high school in the mid 60s and went overseas in the late 60s. Women's lib was very trendy even back here by then. I missed Woodstock in 69 and the moon landing but we saw it on TV overseas. Cali had a raging music scene, we remember. I saw Janis Joplin in KCK in 70 when I was back here on leave. Front row, what an experience, so I got a little taste of it. But when I came back, the girls I grew up with weren't wearing bras, and they sure weren't that way in suburban highschools of the mid 60s HERE! We still had girls dorms in college in Kansas and guys had to check in with the lobby to call their dates downstairs. That all changed right THEN and dorms went coed all of a sudden. Young people just quit sneakin around. Course all that changed when boomers got married and raised little kids and hanged with different people than back in college. We started slowly turning into our parents when our wives civilized us and we turned into helicopter parents. Fewer concerts, more dance lessons and baseball games. I remember a lot of radio guys didn't do that, radio kinda stunted a lot of guys, that too was a nitch culture depending on where ya lived.