AM Radio and billboard top 40. Great music, masterful broadcasters. Remember Dr Don from his Philly stint. Great way to start grade school with a smile. Dr Don is some ways laid foundation for the FM radio morning zoo programs that dominated the 1980s. Miss AM radio. Grave yard of broadcasting today.
i grew up in St. Helena, Ca and on the bus ride to Justin Siena High in Napa, our bus driver, Ralph would play KFRC so we could all listen to it during the morning ride to school. Dr Don was the voice of my childhood. rest in heaven, legend...
Thanks so much for posting this. He was a great man and a true legend. This should have been played at the KFRC reunion luncheon in Berkeley a few weeks ago.
He was a best radio station.. I grew up listening to KFC. 60s. I live in Sonoma County. Redwood area. I was only too well accurate with my grandfather. Didn't learn too much for men but I missed the rest of my family that lived in Southern California. But the music on kfrc then got me through. I had transistor radios in . Summer times are great riding my bicycle. Those Country Roads listening to kfrc.👍🏽🤙🏾🤘🏾. I sure miss those years. Can I still listen to oldies give me the fifties and sixties. Great times. And if I can find a station where I live at still listen to that old songs. Except for nowadays you listen to always in there from the seventies eighties and nineties they're crap and only for me. I really have no Mideast mostly country. I don't care for it unless it was from the fifties severely sixties. Santa Rosalia kpls. 🤙🏾🤘🏾👍🏽🙋🏽♂️😊😎
And don't forget, Dr. Don Rose was also doing voiceovers for WFLD-TV (channel 32) in Chicago during one of the morning and afternoon blocks back in the 1980's.
"And Good Morning FM!" "Dr. Don Rose (voiceover "use only as directed") KFRC!" "Dr. Don Rose (voiceover "rated PG") KFRC!" I remember this last show, and feeling very sad. I had been a fan since high school in the 70s, listening to him during my time in the Air Force, my first marriage, being single again, and a working stiff, enjoying listening to him while I was commuting.
I guess WLS was the last one out the door in 1989. The last song: Chicago's "Just You and Me". Don Rose worked primarily at WFIL/Philadelphia and KFRC; both were 5-kilowatters that didn't reach the Midwest, so I didn't get to hear him much. But he was, indeed, a legend. Be at peace.
Sadly, all my fave stations seemed to close down right after I moved to Georgia. I understand on KWSS's last day they played Louis Louis all day. Can someone confirm?
This guy was so incredibly awesome all the years he was on the air!! Love this guy!!!
AM Radio and billboard top 40. Great music, masterful broadcasters. Remember Dr Don from his Philly stint. Great way to start grade school with a smile. Dr Don is some ways laid foundation for the FM radio morning zoo programs that dominated the 1980s. Miss AM radio. Grave yard of broadcasting today.
Dr Don's show meant so much to me. I was in a hospital bed when I heard KFRC changed formats, and things had changed.
i grew up in St. Helena, Ca and on the bus ride to Justin Siena High in Napa, our bus driver, Ralph would play KFRC so we could all listen to it during the morning ride to school. Dr Don was the voice of my childhood. rest in heaven, legend...
Every morning on the way to school, the radio tuned to DDR. We would laugh our butts off. I will never forget him.
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Thanks so much for posting this. He was a great man and a true legend. This should have been played at the KFRC reunion luncheon in Berkeley a few weeks ago.
Still have my LP vinyl air check of DDR on WQXI Atlanta, 1967.
I miss him. Im sorry for the younger generation that has no attachment to radio.
Dr. Don an iconic Bay Area radio legend...back when AM commute radio-music mattered...
He was a best radio station..
I grew up listening to KFC. 60s.
I live in Sonoma County. Redwood area.
I was only too well accurate with my grandfather. Didn't learn too much for men but I missed the rest of my family that lived in Southern California. But the music on kfrc then got me through. I had transistor radios in . Summer times are great riding my bicycle. Those Country Roads listening to kfrc.👍🏽🤙🏾🤘🏾.
I sure miss those years.
Can I still listen to oldies give me the fifties and sixties. Great times. And if I can find a station where I live at still listen to that old songs. Except for nowadays you listen to always in there from the seventies eighties and nineties they're crap and only for me. I really have no Mideast mostly country. I don't care for it unless it was from the fifties severely sixties.
Santa Rosalia kpls.
🤙🏾🤘🏾👍🏽🙋🏽♂️😊😎
And don't forget, Dr. Don Rose was also doing voiceovers for WFLD-TV (channel 32) in Chicago during one of the morning and afternoon blocks back in the 1980's.
Doc donold d rose. Smooth as silk at 6:00 in the morning til 10:00 in the morning.
"And Good Morning FM!" "Dr. Don Rose (voiceover "use only as directed") KFRC!" "Dr. Don Rose (voiceover "rated PG") KFRC!"
I remember this last show, and feeling very sad. I had been a fan since high school in the 70s, listening to him during my time in the Air Force, my first marriage, being single again, and a working stiff, enjoying listening to him while I was commuting.
I guess WLS was the last one out the door in 1989. The last song: Chicago's "Just You and Me". Don Rose worked primarily at WFIL/Philadelphia and KFRC; both were 5-kilowatters that didn't reach the Midwest, so I didn't get to hear him much. But he was, indeed, a legend. Be at peace.
That's a great point about WLS being "the last one out the door in 1989." WABC left the Top 40 biz in 1982, KFRC in 1986 and WRKO in 1981.
that was a sad day
Sadly, all my fave stations seemed to close down right after I moved to Georgia. I understand on KWSS's last day they played Louis Louis all day. Can someone confirm?
what happened to the sound???