Happy Birthday to YDY 101 Wall of Fame member Jean Ash!!!

Jean was first heard on "Cookin' 'KGN" in the mid 70's followed by decades as a leading news anchor at WIVK. 

Jean was good pals with Lester Longmire and Mr Schultz, and of course Claude the Cat too! Time to dance!!!

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101 is updating the links to the right, let me know if yours is outdated and needs to be reworked!

WIVK was sounding magical back in '78...no, not because I was a DJ there then, ha, but because of the incredible talent and voices.

Here's Joe Grant, Your Dave, Sargent Wayne Bell, and Dan Bell in the 101 Audio Vault~

From the 101 InBox...

George,  Enjoy your Radio 101 Blog -- Grew up listing to Knoxville radio while living in Oak Ridge.

I remember you at WIVK, even attended a bluegrass concert at Knoxville Auditorium which you hosted with the Knoxville Grass and McPeak Brothers.

Just have a curious question.  I worked many years at Y-12 in Oak Ridge as a statistician and remember working with a guy named Spears Vavalides -- I always wondered if he may have been kin to you, he was old enough to have probably been your dad. 

(Earl Nall)

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Yes my Dad was Spears, my son is Spears too (2)!

Back in the late 70's Jimmy Vineyard and I MC'd several "Bluegrass on Parade" concerts...


Happy Birthday to 101 radio legend Mike Hammond!

"George, I thank you for the honor of having the wall of fame named for me. You do a good job and it's nice to see all the old memories" (Your Dave Young)

"George, looked over all of the WOF inductees this morning and loved it. I worked with several of these folks, others were "worthy adversaries", all are deserving. I was especially happy to see Sonny Knight among the most recent inductees. He was a prince of a guy who left us too soon. Eddie Beacon (yo' swingin' deacon) was among the best Top 40 night jocks ever. Of course, Dr Al Adams and his friend/nemesis Willard Duck were the original Duck Dynasty. Keep up the good work." (Paul Randall Dickerson aka Possum Riley)

Thiiiiiiiis is Paul Oscar Anderson...

Thanks to Chris Stubblefield for this classic pamphlet of POA on KOL radio.

Thanks for all the cards and letters (emails) regarding our wonderful 2015 YDY 101 WOF selections!!!

Do you remember when radio was all live and all local? It's now been a few years since the rug was pulled from under the legs of Jack Ryan as night time DJ at WIVK. Jack and Hoss handled an 11 hour block of radio brilliance at the frog from 7p-6a but were replaced with syndicated programming. That overall trend continues in our transistor world!

Before Hoss, the overnight WIVK airwaves was handled by the "midnight rider" Terry Womack. Terry joins our YDY 101 WOF, here he is in the 101 Audio Vault...

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Hoss (Ron Cantwell) can be heard daily on sister stations WMTN mornings and WCRK afternoons!

The Your Dave Young 2015 101 Wall of Fame...

101 turns seven years old today (that's 4 jobs in a DJs career, ha) Thanks to everyone for reading, writing, and opining about Knoxville's radio history, it is rich indeed! 

Since we debuted on this date in 2007 under the cloak of Anon E Mouse we have had over 178,000 unique viewers to our blog, thank you! 

Thru the years we have had thousands of contributors reliving and sharing their radio stories, we have dusted off the long lost 101 Audio Vault and have enjoyed the sounds that boomed thru our transistor radios, we have shared photographs and memories of DJs, control rooms, and those great old radio stickers.

101 has also sadly said goodbye to some of the legends... 

Keeping up with the Jones (is that Milton's family?) we added a Facebook page which allows for 101% interaction and contributions, join today! Our 101 blog and our 101 Facebook page are similar, but more so are fraternal twins! 

In recognition of the legends we created our own version of a radio hall of fame...celebrating the life and times of those in front of and behind the microphones~ owners, PDs, disc jockeys, engineers, and more! 

This year we officially named our hall the "Your Dave Young 101 Wall of Fame" in recognition of Dave's incredible contribution to the landscape of our East Tennessee airwaves, thanks YDY!!! 

Introducing the 2015 "YDY 101 WOF"~ 

Bob Kesling
Bob Thomas 

Dave Foulk 

Ed Dodson 

Gary Adkins 

Hallerin Hilton Hill 
Kerry Lambert

Lindsey Nelson 

Sonny Knight 

Terry Womack

Go Vols beat Arkansas State

Happy Saturday...tomorrow marks the 7 year anniversary of our blog and we will be announcing the "Your Dave Young 101 Wall of Fame" class of 2015! 

Recently the 101 Audio Vault has been playing in the year 1978. Over at WNOX 990 the station was programmed by Scooter McLeod, he also worked the 6p-9 on air shift.

Happy September

Remember this guy...John Boy Isley on WRJZ, he was electric~ (101 Audio Vault)