I love the recording beep during phone calls. Remember this well in those days! Beeps every 30 seconds to let the caller know they're being recorded.

I got to know Danny Williams in Edmond Oklahoma. I played golf with him at Oak Tree several times. (now called Oak Tree National). He was a great guy and hilarious to be around. I watched him on WKY as 3D Danny when I was a kid and I couldn’t believe I was playing golf with 3D Danny!

i'd like to make another comment if I can. That record at 43:13 is TELL ME MAMA by singer Christine Quaite. Now that record came out in 1964.That segment must have been spliced in with another bit from 1962. Unless the P.D. at the time was Rod Serling. Enjoy looking at the pictures. So far I remember more than half of them. Larry N. Boyington aka Larry Neal, former curator of the Wax Museum on the big 1520 KOMA

WKY...here's the first of one in a row! Now we know why the Bill Drake 'much more music' format was invented.

Yes, that IS Ross Porter, later did sports on L.A. Television, then on to the Dodgers Evereybody gotta start somewhere.......

Cool i ENJOYED Im 80 Likrd the old PHOTOS

.....used to listen to this when I was a kid.....thanks for the memories

Pukers ruled supreme on WKY.

That short segment in which Lee Allen Smith locked the door to the music room and the DJ's had nothing but Frank Sinatra records to play, that wasn't the only time they did that. It happened one morning early on the Danny Williams show. Thanks for the memories as Bob Hope would have said. Larry N.Boyington, aka Larry Neal, former curator of the Wax Museum on the big 1520 KOMA

The audio must have been crud over the phone because that DJ was not hearing her at all.

Thanks, Jon! I just realized that one of these guys may have been Wakefield Holly (Holley?) in his younger days. I discovered the long form interviews with Danny Williams and Russell Pierson in the past few weeks and really enjoyed them. I appreciate all the KZread projects you have done to document the past. That's me at 2:07 in a promotional shot of my 22 year old self in this video. Wish I knew how to download the picture. Thanks! Bill Miller WKY 1972-74

HEARD IN DALLAS TEXAS BUT KOMA HEARD IN VIET NAM AM NIGHTS

One final comment if I may. At the point at 43 minutes and the song TELL ME MAMA, the rest of the video is from the year 1964. I know that all songs played (partially) is from the year 1964 Larry N. Boyington, aka Larry Neal, former curator of the Wax Museum on the big 1520 KOMA

5:57 Cripes, I thought that was Walter von Huene, background character actor on Happy Days. I’ve always called him Big Ears. Obviously not him since this guy has regular ears and was born way before Walter.

Yes, Claudio...the "W" call letter was grandfathered from the old, pre-1925 radio rules, which set the W-K calls division at the 100th meridian (100 Degrees longitude-roughly the NM-TX border). In 1925, the Federal Radio Commission (FCC's predecessor) was organized and the W-K division line was moved to the Mississippi River. Stations already assigned call letters between the two boundaries were allowed to keep their calls (e.g. WOAI, WBAP, WFAA, WKY, WRR, etc.).There were also eastern stations (KDKA, KYW) that pre-dated the 1925 rule that set 100 Degrees longitude as the first line...they were allowed to keep their call letters, too.

@MidKid61

9 жыл бұрын

King Bee WIL here was allowed to keep it's call letters.

@kingbee1500

9 жыл бұрын

Yep...a classic set of calls. With transmitters on both sides of the Mississippi, St. Louis stations have several examples of W-K waiver.

@ApartmentKing66

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, the boundary was moved in 1923. The Federal Radio Commission was formed in 1927.

Non-stop Clutter, You could tell why KOMA owned The Oklahoma City Market ratings-wise.

@darwinblinks

4 жыл бұрын

"Our programming puts you in a KOMA!"

@Day-ZDuke

Жыл бұрын

This video is edited; it’s only the “clutter” such as news updates, intros, etc. Read the description There’s no way to tell the ratio of music vs clutter based off of this video

@kb9788

9 ай бұрын

Wrong, WKY was number one overall. Do basic research and you would be proven wrong

It cracks me up the conservative hair styles in the early 1960s compared to the long over the ears hair styles of the 1970s.

FYI this is scoped

WKY big in my teen My s?DAD I LIKER WKY MORE THAN KOMA 15😎❤

Any explanation for the “Remember… R.J. Reynolds Instructions” signs in the studio?

@brendanjobe6895

2 жыл бұрын

Probably had something to do with the order or spacing in between their commercials for Camels and Winston. I would imagine they had paid for the prime spots. May have also had to do with "No mention of Lucky Strike or Marlboro on the air."

John Spence, were you at wndr then later at Wcgy?

@jonmspence

9 ай бұрын

WTF????????????????

@charliebrown5611

9 ай бұрын

@@jonmspence there was a DJ in Syracuse wndr named John Spence. He was a ham operator John Spence was at Wcgy Lowell too.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

@jonmspence

10 жыл бұрын

Not sure what the format is now. I was 930am at the time of this recording. Jon

@78enrique

10 жыл бұрын

Jon Spence 930am is the correct frequency and WKY currently runs a Hispanic music format, which is sad.

@michaelbarnhart2593

8 жыл бұрын

+stevations I get the joke! ;-)

Is This The Same Ross Porter? That Would Become The Play-By-Play Voice Of The LA Dodgers?

@jonmspence

5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@raymondmalcuit8361

5 жыл бұрын

Thank You Very Much.

WKY is from Oklahoma City, OK?

@raceyboy

6 жыл бұрын

Yes.

$1.30 prize. Thst stunk even in the 60s.

Song at 43:13?

@gary1559

5 жыл бұрын

Christine Quaite - Tell Me Mama. I used an app called Shazam to identify it.

@bradyh9513

5 жыл бұрын

@@gary1559 Awesome. Thank you!

Good thing he didn't ask us to provide a rhyme word for the word "purple"! There is NO English word that rhymes with 'purple'! Roses are red Violets are purple Sugar is sweet like maple ...surple!

I think this should be 1964, not 1962

@jimbacon3006

10 ай бұрын

A clip from May 23, 1964, got attached to the end of the 1962 aircheck. (Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher -- as mentioned on one of the newscasts -- divorced in 1962 and she married Richard Burton.

it

Way too much talk, for a station targeting teens and young adults.

Kinda boring when they cut out all the songs.