It's 9pm 195? your transistor radio under your pillow,you lay your head down

[GunClick Rick]

and HO NO!!!!!!!!!! THEY HAVE LANDED!!!!!!!!

REMEMBER THESE

[GunClick Rick]

A wooooooooo wooooooo wooooo

[Foothills]

Howdy......
I think I remember..maybe....
I was born in the 40's...raised in the 50's...a hippie in the 60's...married in the70's...
You will have to ask my boys what happened after that.......

Vern / Foothills...

[El Peludo]

1955 -1958, didn't have a transistor radio, but did have a brown bakelite cased RCA on the desk next to my bed, and it was on all night; listened to KRLA, KBIG (740 AM) "KBIG in Avalon, beside the bay, KBIG in Avalon, each day, all day, --------", and a few others that I can not remember.

[GunClick Rick]

I used to put my transistor under my pillow and listen to Wolfman Jack till i went nto sleep,he was in Baja,Ca. then Roserito Beach or somethin like that,it sounded like he was way off in another land or somethin.Now you can listen to things all over the world and it sounds like it's in your back yard..

[Pay Dirt Norvelle]

I sure remember Wolman Jack and still have the transistor radio I made in Electric class in Junior High School in 1958.

[GunClick Rick]

Now Pay Dirt,i would love to see a pic of that.

[Dirtwater Doc]

Not old enough for that but in the 60's my family lived in BelAir, MD.  I could pick up Cousin Brucey (Bruce Morrow) on WABC in NY on most nights.

DD

[wildman1]

Was drivin west with my wife late one nite in western Illinois or eastern Iowa and was listenin ta the Wolfman on the radio.  WM

[wildman1]

Listened ta KOMA a lot in the late 50's and early 60's. WM

[Foothills]

I used to put my transistor under my pillow and listen to Wolfman Jack till i went nto sleep,he was in Baja,Ca. then Roserito Beach or somethin like that,it sounded like he was way off in another land or somethin.Now you can listen to things all over the world and it sounds like it's in your back yard..

Howdy......
I remember that well....kinda sorta.... The station was XERB in Roserito or Tijuana....can't remember which.
Back in the later 60's we use ta spend a lot of time in 'TJ'. We got so 'MESSED UP' (drinkin and other stuff)
I'm surprised  I'm still alive!
I'm surprised I still remember.........  

Vern / Foothills...  

[Forty Rod]

Listened ta KOMA a lot in the late 50's and early 60's. WM

KOMA Oklahoma City, 10,000 watt clear channel radio:  came into northern Utah after sunset and played the best stuff out there.


Eeeeeeeeeeeeyup, I remember those days, I do.

[Forty Rod]

I purposelly did not say where KOMA was, wanted ta see If any other poor lost souls had heard it and knew from whence it came. It reached all the way ta western SD way back then.  WM

We listened to it in Cache Valley, Utah.  It beat the bejabbers out of KVNU and KLGN, the local stations.

[Stu Kettle]

We listened to it in Cache Valley, Utah.  It beat the bejabbers out of KVNU and KLGN, the local stations.

We listened to it in the Platte Valley in Central Nebraska too - far as I can remember 'twas the only thing on the dial worth hearin'

[Danny Bear Claw]

Mmmhmmm... Cousin Brucey.  Remember him well, back when I haunted NYC.  Anyone remember the "Night Bird" - aka - Alison Steele?   

[Texas Lawdog]

Bro. Wm,  KOMA is still in OKC. They have gone full circle on their programming. I listened to it in the 60s and 70s from the Panhandle of Texas and Oklahoma. They mainly broadcast on FM now and play oldies. The other big AM station was WBAP out of Fort Worth. Bill Mack and his "Open Road" show on the night shift. I listened at night on patrol as a peace officer.  WBAP is talk radio and Bill Mack has a show on Sirius.

[Tuolumne Lawman]

I listened to WLS and WCFL in Chicago as a kid.  Anyone else remember Dick Biondi?

[Four-Eyed Buck]

My trasistor was on at night( ear plug). listened to a station out of Ft. Wayne. It'd come in at night, but not during the day. Can't remember the call sign, though...........Buck

[Jubal Starbuck]

   Yeah, I remember listening to Dick Biondi on WLS out of Chicago on my 6 transistor radio with an earplug in north central Iowa as a kid.  He put me to sleep lotsa times.

[Trailrider]

If I could stay awake long enough (1:00 - 2:00 AM!), I'd listen to Franklin McCormick on WGN. During that hour he'd read two poems, "Vagabond's House" and "Farewell To Vagabond's House", by Don Blanding. They were about a drifter/adventurer who dreamed of building a house "someday", and filling it with all sorts of things he'd picked up during his "yondering" (as Louis L'amour would put it) in faroff places. Finally, he gets to build his dreamhouse, only to have it burn down (smoking in bed or something), and so he is off once more...  In the background, McCormick has Hawaiian music playing.  I was a teenager, and it conjured up all sorts of images.  Never got out of CONUS, though, except on our honeymoon to Puerto Rico.

Oh, and there was another night with the radio, not under my pillow, but on late at night... October 7, 1957.  The Russians had just launched the world's first manmade earth satellite.  Then there was another night, in April 1961, when they orbited Yuri Gagarin! Took us eight long (then) years to catch up!

Another night, in the '60's, with the radio under my pillow, so as not to wake my expectant bride... Why were they replaying President Kennedy's assassination?  He had been shot in the head... I came wide awake! They were describing the murder of Robert Kennedy! 


I don't listen like that much anymore...