Do you remember Free Form FM?

[berettafan]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Yep, I used to listen to Bob and Tom iin the Morning, they start laughing hard at the slightest joke and it make it impossible to hear the joke or the person talking.

They did have some funny bits and guests on occasion.

Bob and Tom was the best! We lost it here a few years ago. I listened every day. Donny Baker was one of my favorites. They are also where I heard Joe Walsh say he knew he toured with Ozzy cause he saw the posters. ****ing riot that guy is. Dear Penis is the only country song I ever liked. They really had some great talent on that show.

[ramonesfreak]

Originally Posted by p911dad

I remember WPHD/WYSL out of Buffalo, NY in the 70's and 80's consistantly clear channel FM rock mostly. Long ago. At that time we lived in a college town, Alfred, NY out in the hills, got them on our (back then) rudimentary cable system. Pulled them in on a Scott receiver off the cable. Then we had WCMF out of Rochester, NY with Brother Wease, totally great show with music every day!

Wease is still here. I stopped listening a few years ago. You can still hear him on iheart using 95.1. Starts at 9 these days. All they talk about is sports, mostly football

[flatbutt]

How many of you remember hiding your little transistor radio under your pillow so you could listen to the music as you went to sleep?

[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by berettafan

Late 70s I recall am as much as fm. Transitioned to all fm before long. Don’t remember station names until the late 80s and 90s. Loved KC Kasem on the weekend with his top 40 show. ‘And she writes…..’. Also loved Paul Harvey.

WNUE 1400 was an AM station in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida and was a rock station. I can remember hearing "Hot Child in the City" for the first time on WNUE. When we lived in Destin, a friend there had a sister who won a moped from WNUE. I remember listening to the radio when it was announced that she won!!! We rode that moped all over the place.
I also remember recording the top 40 with Casey Kasem on cassette to get all my favorite songs!!!

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[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

How many of you remember hiding your little transistor radio under your pillow so you could listen to the music as you went to sleep?

I used a small microphone plugged into the earphone jack on a cassette player and would have that under my pillow listening to music. I don't know how, but the microphone was like a speaker, and I would fall asleep listening to music.

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[herr_oberst]

The best FM station in Boise when I was growing up was the University campus station, KBSU.
It was everything an FM station in the 1970's should be, and it introduced me to the soundtrack of the counterculture lifestyle I enjoyed in my formative years. They played all the music. Rock, Blues, Ska, Reggae, New Age, Classical, anything and everything, and the DJ's would discuss the music between tracks.
Boise being a small town, I hung out in the same pub where a few of the KBSU DJ's hung out and talked music with them. I remember being so bummed when KBSU affiliated with NPR in the early eighties and the music became a byproduct.

There were generic top 40 FM stations, too, (I don't remember the call letters) and we all listened because everyone knew all the new albums and songs from Pink Floyd to Boston to Steve Miller to Rush or The Eagles at the exact same time.

[Billiam 911 2.8]

Had a blast doing my radio show in college for two years. The station had just come off a suspension by the FCC as a result of someone hooking up the radio station's antennae to the railroad tracks that went through campus.

[Rusty Heap]

Nothing better than me in the 60's early 70's as a young lad in bed staying up "too" late to listen to the Dr. Demento show on my AM Crystal Radio and single earphone.

If you wanted to call your neighbor you just pulled tighter on the string between the cans.


Ah, simpler times.