by jon » Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:23 pm
This is a really great aircheck, especially when you consider it was aired during PM Drive, with its heavy "feature load", from Traffic to lots of commercials and promos.
This is the first I've heard of Red during his "middle years". His timing is great. And he has some great voice qualities that were missing by the time I began hearing him again on CFRN, simulcasting CISL, in 1998. I really hadn't heard him, other than doing spots, after he left CFUN in the mid-1960s.
Nice extended aside about the master of the Drake format, Robert W. Morgan, at the 24 minute mark. I knew that Red and Robert W. both worked at KMBY Monterey, but I didn't know it was at the same time. Robert O. Smith came later, and I heard KMBY regularly by that time, but only after midnight.