My radio debut

My dad came across this clipping recently:



The station was presumably KWON in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, which now appears to be part of a bigger set of stations. Jon Boone (front right) was one of my best friends through elementary school.

KWON is also the station from which I won a long-lost (sadly) copy of the records (actual records) of Kasey Kasem's American Top 40 for a week. I listened to that set of records over and over and over. I think Stars on 45's Beatles medley (which is, for the record, execrable) was number 1; I also remember that Billy Squier's "Stroke" was on the chart, and the Stones' "Paint it Black" was one of the older songs they played. I can't find archives of those charts, but it must have been around 1981 or 1982 or so. Let's see...yep, 1981.

How, you ask, did I win that? Well, my mom was heavily involved in the Bartlesville Women's Network and various other feminist groups. The meetings were frequently at the Bonanza (go ahead and do the theme song, you know you want to). While tagging along, I would often fill out entry form after entry form for the giveaway of the AT40 records that KWON had set up there. And I won. It was great; I went from the kid who had nothing but classical records (and one lonely Electric Light Orchestra record) for the Friday music listening time at school to the kid who had the best stuff ever.

Okay, so now I'm rambling a bit.