Friday, August 2, 2013

"BROTHER" MIKE CHERRY SENDS WAGRadio A WONDERFUL GIFT - THIS COLLECTOR'S PLAYLIST (Chart/Survey) FROM 1963. CJJZ HEAD HONCHO MIKE SEZ: "THIS IS THE STATION SLY STONE WOULD EVENTUALLY END UP AT".



HEY BROTHER MIKE . . . WE GOTTA ASK . . . IS THAT YOUR HEAD IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT?  R U JUMPIN'  GEORGE ?   WE KNOW YOU'RE NOT (ha bloody ha - a poor attempt at humour) BUT LOOK FOR A COUPLA POSTS COMIN' UP IN THE FALL RE: MIKE CHERRY'S CAREER AT NEW WORLD AFRICAN RADIO STAION KYAC IN SEATTLE, WA.
KSAN 1450-AM MORPHED INTO KSOL - A GIANT OF SOUL MUSIC AND SLY STONE'S RADIO HOME IN THE BAY AREA.
Mr. C also wrote; "KSAN 1450 started with religious/ethnic programming and had a few sponsored 'Race Record' shows as early as 1950.   Eventually it adopted a full-time R&B/Soul playlist with a change in call letters to KSOL"

WAGRadio Management


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

yeah right ZigZag - i would have been 10 years old at the time this survey came out!! I wuz just a kid diggin' on this stuff until DJZZ came on the local radio scene!

DJZigZag said...

Mike
You could be a 10 year old with a very hip doo!
Thanks for the compliment.

Anonymous said...

yeah I got so much doo on my hip they had to replace it. Ok...Boss Radio 73CKLG had "Little Stevie Wonder" (Grossman) so I guess I could have done the "Little Mikey" DJ thang at 10!!

Anonymous said...

BTW...the KSAN chart shows Mongo Santamaria's version of jazz keyboardist Georgie Fame's song "Yeh Yeh". Mongo does a smokin' version! HOT BAR-B-Q sez the CJJZ Sky Captain!! Yeh Yeh...