NOTE: I now have full length mp3's for the clips below at HERE. These are the full tapes ripped into mp3's, and hosted at rapidshare.
Here is a KOME radio (San Jose, CA, USA) Christmas promo
spot which aired in 1978. This is off an old cassette, where I used to hodge podge stuff off the radio, so not smooth edits, intros may be missing etc. . You can hear DJ Dennis Erectus explain how to "handle" the
Christmas tree:
KOME RADIO CHRISTMAS SPOT
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I finally upgraded the above XMas spot to 64kbps mp3 from the old WebTV 8K 30-second max wave files, and will plan to do the same for the rest of this site soon, as I had to split anything over 30 seconds, and even the 64k mp3 sounds mauch better thab the 8K WebTV wav.
KOME jingles 1978:
J1
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J2
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J3
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J4
Decal Spots 1978:
I also seen similar decals in the
Bay Area at the time that said "COKE 99.5" instead, that I
presume came from a headshop.
D1
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(D2a -
D2b)
Erectus Wrecks a Record: KOME played rock, no disco, and Dennis Erectus made sure he took a swipe at disco every so often, by "wrecking" a (disco) record, in this case, "Shake Your Booty". He comments about it below in file DE6. ---
WRECK
Dennis Erectus himself (the funniest of all the DJ's at
the time, IMO:
DE1
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DE2
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DE3
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DE4
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DE5
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DE6
Then there was the TV show, movie, or other lead in clips
often placed before songs:
C1
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C2 ---
C3
No discussion of late 70's Bay Area radio would be complete
without a tribute to the legendary KFAT, in the garlic
capitol of the world, Gilroy, CA. These clips are also from
1978:
FAT1 ---
FAT2 ---
FAT3 ---
FAT4
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