Happy Monday!

So what else was happening in Ktown in early '73? Your Dave Young was working afternoons at WNOX, Allen Keller and Bud Veazy were Ktown TV personalities, Jim Clark joined WETE radio, Larry Robinson was offered a basketball scholarship at UT, and 101 went to work for the first time...at the Ivanhoe House of Beef as a busboy!

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"Is there anyway you could tell me who the DJ's were on 93.1 around 1992 or 1993 before it became Star 93.1? The station was still playing Pop but also played quite a bit of rap and hip/hop at that time. I just can't remember the DJ's, especially the Morning DJ's before Toddzilla." (Steve Hancock)

Happy Birthday wishes to "Jack Diamond"...does the name ring a bell?

Jack and his side kick "Guerrilla" invaded Ktown's 7-midnight time slot in early '73 at WKGN 1340. Jack was destined for greener pastures and moved to WAKY in Louisville Kentucky....and he's still in Louisville and still on the air.

In 1980 Jack joined WAMZ (country) and has been there ever since, he's the Program Director and afternoon personality.

Here's the WKGN line up at that time~

6-9 Bob Baron

9-12 Frank Erwin

12-3 Chris Hampton

3-7 Wayne Bernard

7-12 Jack Diamond 

12-6 Jerry Steel

Weekends- Sonny Knight, Ken Burger, and Jack Gregory

News- Walker Johnson, Jim Goodman, Joe Anderson, and Mary Glen Martin

In the fall of 1976 15Q featured Suitcase Simpson, Shotgun Kelly, The Brothers, Charlie Fox...and the zany morning duo of Chuck Baron and Eddie Beacon~

Happy Chinese New Year...it's the year of the dragon!

101 always enjoys receiving photographs and memories...this is a classic of Eddie Beacon "The Swingin' Deacon"!

This is a classic photo of Dolly and former Ktown DJ Tony Eubanks! When I joined WIVK in '76 as a weekend jock Tony was working the 7p-midnight slot. Tony now resides in Jacksonville, Florida!

Happy Hump! Here's a 101 Reload~

Today 101 takes a look back...30 years to the summer of '80!

The #1 country song as June arrived was "He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones.

Celeste was the midday DJ at WIVK, soon to be replaced by Bob Thomas (of course Bob returns on 8-2 to 100.3's new morning show).

Phil Williams was working 10a-2 on WNOX 990. Other DJs there were Eddie Rogers, Randy Miller, Scott Majors, Tom Michaels, and James Maurice.

WKGN was known as "Love 13" and featured Jeff Winters, POA with a talk show from 9a-noon, Arch Bishop, and Chuck Edwards.

Bob Kagan left WRJZ for WBCY Charlotte and was replaced by JJ Scott as Operation Manager and Fred Story as Program Director.

A new country night club opened that summer in West Knoxville. It was called Sam Houston's and Jamey Kerr and I were the DJs!

In Oak Ridge WOKI's line up was Michael Henry Martin from 6-10a, Gary Adkins 10-noon, Joe Blackmon noon-3p, Mike Beverly 3-7p, Brother John 7-12, and The Brothers at midnight.

The April/May ARB ratings were-

WEZK 19.9

WIVK-FM 19.7

WRJZ 10.5

WIVK 9.9

WOKI 8.3

WNOX 7.1

WIMZ 6.1

Mike Beach was morning DJ at WIMZ but left for Kansas City...Kerry Lambert, Kim Mayo, Dave Elrod, and Carson Cooper could also be heard on Rock 104!

And in September '80 Bob Kesling left WIVK radio to become Sports Director at WBIR-TV Channel 10...

Did you use to dial twist back in the day? I enjoyed finding radio stations in Nashville, Atlanta, Cleveland, Louisville, even Chicago, etc...

The 101 Audio Vault steps out of the box today, here's an aircheck I recorded of Steve King on WLS Chicago back in the mid 70's~

The 101 Audio Vault features The Aardvark on WNOX...plus the voices of Scott Sams and Eddy Roy~

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"Hey George...As to what happened to Ann Alexander the last time I saw her was in the early 80s. She had moved back home to Wilmington, NC and was the anchor lady on one of the local channels there. By then, Ann changed her moniker back to Stella Stevens...her maiden name. Ann/Stella was a wonderful person and I had some great times with her at 62/WETE in the mid 70s!" (Bill Beason)

Happy Hump Day...time to read the 101 InBox~

"So where is Ann Alexander these days? She and J. Worthington Smith are two of the K-Town jocks that just seem to disappear." (500 Mega Watt)

"Hi George...I was wondering if you (or your readers) know what might have become of the "Stories of Christmas" wraparounds/vignettes that used to air in syndication around the country in the 70's and 80's. They were about a minute each and the narrator told of various Christmas traditions around the world. Our local station, WEZK in Knoxville, TN, used to air them and I've often wondered about them. Is it possible to get hold of any copies? Thanks!"  (Bill Edwards)

"Looking for a way to contact Jack Bean." (George Wilkinson)

Happy Monday...101 wants to hear from you, send photographs and memories to KtownRadio@gmail.com!

One month before "The New 62 WRJZ" debuted, Walker Johnson was still working afternoons at the predecessor WETE.

The 101 Audio Vault features Walker along with Mark McKinney and Ann Alexander~

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Back in the day a local teacher named Worley McKinney aka Worley Max climbed the WIVK survey charts with several songs that he wrote and performed. 101 gives a shout out to the old ball coach!!!

101 travels to July 1985...

The jock line up at WOKI-FM 100 included The Animal in the morning, Jeff Jarnigan middays, Charlie Wheeler afternoons, and Shotgun Stevens at night!

The top rated stations in Ktown were...WIVK-FM #1, followed by WIMZ, WEZK, WOKI, and WMYU.

...and the first baseman for the Knoxville minor league team was~ Cecil Fielder!

Happy 2012!

The 70's featured many "rock wars"...WNOX and WKGN were in the midst of an epic battle for listeners, both sounded great. WRJZ joined the party in late '76...and earlier that year W-149 had morphed into the major market sounding 15Q, great memories!

PS- If you noticed, these were all AM stations as FM was still only slowly becoming king of the dial...WOKI had changed everything by debuting in '74 on 100.3 FM with a booming and clear sound out of Oak Ridge.

Many great DJs planted their flags in Ktown in the 70's...Wayne Bernard aka Charlie Chase, Kid Curry on 15Q then for decades in Miami, and a guy who helped make disco famous~ Dick Winstead! A few years before the disco revolution Dick was working drive time at WNOX~