Someone should make a movie about the golden age of FM radio - the 70's

[Taverner]

Something that's part "FM," part "WKRP," and part "Almost Famous"

Show the deejay gods of the era, the concert scene, and why KOME was so groundbreaking in it's day

[Wounded Bear]

1. How about "Good Morning Vietnam"? nt

[Taverner]

2. Fictitious Movie about a fictitious time

[pinboy3niner]

8. Based on a real guy, Adrian Cronauer...but liberties were taken

I met him at a VN veterans' reunion about 10 years ago. He didn't look anything like Robin Williams.



Adrian Cronauer

[jmowreader]

10. Didn't ACT anything like Robin Williams, either

[Boomerproud]

3. It sure was the golden age of FM

On Sunday mornings I'd listen to American Top 40 and in the evening I'd study to Dr. Demento and (briefly) a program called Radio 2000 (this would have been '72, '73) and I remember the disembodied female voice and once when introducing "Imagine" it said "Here's the late John Lennon". Gave me the creeps.

[Zorro]

4. Dennis Erectus made KOME groundbreaking

Unfortunately he passed away a couple of years back.

[Taverner]

6. Yes he did. Dennis Erectus invented the deejay-as-social-insurerectionist

I grew up with him - KOME FM...

His life story would make a great movie

[kwassa]

5. WMMS in Cleveland - the DJs programmed their own shows.

before corporate America took everything over and turned it all into vanilla.

I met one of the DJs in a bar, had a great talk with him.

College stations were a huge influence, too.

[Taverner]

7. KOME was like that - hell in the early 70s most FM radio was that way

I miss the days of KSJO, KOME, and KFOG (in the 80s - in the 70s they had elevator music)

[Populist_Prole]

17. Yeah that was a good station n/t

[Logical]

9. Almost Famous is one of my favorites. The Tiny Dancer scene is amazing. I also love....

Dazed and Confused!

[Tabasco_Dave]

11. I miss KMET in So Cal

even ABC owned KLOS was good and KROQ created the new wave and alternative radio movement in the USA.

[DinahMoeHum]

12. WLIR-FM New York (Long Island) was THE station in the 70's. . .

. . .as the movie FM says, they were "On The Air And Off The Wall"

http://wlir.fm/

[PufPuf23]

13. Push the date back to 1967 and include KMPX and KSAN in FM history

Tom Donahue.

Outrageous time and place for music in Bay Area.

Attended boarding schools 66-70 in Marin and Contra Costa and undergrad at Cal 73-78 so North Bay oriented, rather than KOME.

Spent Fall/Winter 72-73 in New Almaden and we listened to KOME.

My HS sophomore 68-69 roommate recorded on an Ampex reel-to-reel as the Beatle's White Album was played before released in stores on either KMPX or KSAN, can't recall which.

[LiberalEsto]

14. WNEW-FM in NYC 102.7 in the late 60s - early 70s

Pete Fornatale, Alison Steele, can't remember the rest

[Populist_Prole]

18. Was actually pretty good into the early 80's

As big as the NYC area population was, there was not a lot of good rock stations. A couple of good college stations though.

[RobinA]

15. Too Depressing

Not that I wouldn't go see it.... A bunch of times.

[bluesbassman]

16. Don't forget KSAN...

http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Birth_of_Community_Rock_Radio:_A_brief_history_of_KMPX_and_KSAN-FM

[PufPuf23]

24. Good link and good times.

See my post above.

The SF Bay area was great for music then.

[benld74]

19. KSHE-95 Real Rock Radio

http://www.kshe95.com/
https://www.facebook.com/kshe95

Going strong since 1968

[pintobean]

23. Something In The Water: A Saint Louis Rockumentary

Something in the Water: A Saint Louis Rockumentary takes a look at the electrifying classic rock scene in St. Louis in the late 1960s and 70s. From a unique St. Louis sound, to the origins of album-oriented rock radio, to R & B influenced musicians, to stadium concerts and festivals, Something in the Water examines a unique time in St. Louis history. Told entirely through interviews and rare archival footage and photos, Something in the Water is a fun look at the region's musical subculture, told in a style as free form as rock itself.

http://www.hectv.org/video/11635/something-in-the-water-a-st-louis-rockumentary/

[Archae]

20. Yes, the beginning of "All Stairway To Heaven, All of the time!"

[KamaAina]

21. WPLR New Haven

kept it going at least through the '80s.

[jakeXT]

22. Wrong decade, wrong country... Pirate Radio