Lingering
Lovelights 
No
doubt, St. Valentine’s Day had something to do with “Dedicated to the One I Love”
scaling WABC/New York’s survey ladder in one GIANT leap, from an obscure #57 on February 25, 1967 to #15 the following week.
The Mamas & Papas’ favorite nearly wore out the station’s turntables as we
lingered in its lovelights for another month, propelling it all the way to #3
by April 8th.
Elsewhere
in the February 1967 Rock & Roll
Radio landscape, we have some fun listening to entertaining pioneering DJs’ airchecks
at ReelRadio.com! Join us as Jan Gabriel hams
it up at WJOB/Hammond,
Indiana;
The Real Don Steele keeps KHJ/Los Angeles
listeners on their toes; and our “fuddy duddy buddy,” Dr. Don Rose,* razzes his radio audience at WQXI/Atlanta, Georgia, in February 1967. (Far left, Feb 1968,
but still … 😉)
HUGE
aircheck announcement for you Radioheads! Uncle Ricky, who owns the ReelRadio.com non-profit vintage
airchecks site, is reconverting it to FREE access (like when it began in 1996)
toward the end of March.
But
PLEASE support his herculean efforts any time with a donation,* to thank him and
ensure ReelRadio remains an enduring and endearing go-to site. As he says, “a ‘free’
site will kill us, or make us grow.” Let’s help him grow! (*This is not an ad,
and Uncle Ricky didn’t ask me to post it. I just LOVE his site. It has been invaluable to me for writing the BFYP
books.)
Featured Radio Survey: Since
I don’t have a February 1967 radio
survey in the BFYP Collection, I’ve
posted a KCBQ/San Diego tribute survey
featuring BFYP DJ Jack Vincent, for December 10, 1961. He began spinning vinyls in
Rock & Roll Radio Heaven on January 29th, escorted by East Coast
fave DJ, Herb Oscar Anderson, best known at WABC/New York. R.I.P. gentlemen.
Celebrate FEBRUARY 1967: 50 Years Ago
… Rock On!
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