# Ask The Old (Late 60's-Early 70's) DJ Something **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 28, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756 "2009-12-28T01:31:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/1 "2009-12-28T01:31:36Z")
1. Yes, I DID play in a band… Next? :)Q:) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/2 "2009-12-28T01:42:19Z")
Were you an AM or FM DJ? What was the advantages/disadvantages of either format? Which did you prefer? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/3 "2009-12-28T01:52:13Z")
Were you able to play what you wanted, or did the station management dictate the playlists? Were there any songs that struck you immediately as having a ‘new sound’ and being obviously great? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/4 "2009-12-28T02:03:39Z")
Do you know [Pat O’Day](http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3130)? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/5 "2009-12-28T02:48:39Z")
1. I was FM from 12 - 6, and on Sundays I was on with the Preachers on AM! 2. As an FM DJ from 12-6 am (on weekdays), I could play ANYTHING I wanted , including “Stairway To Heaven” or “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” by CCR and anyything by _Klaatu_ Guess what I did through those long tunes? 1. Never met Pat O’Day , but I DID meet “The Gator”! Q ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/6 "2009-12-28T03:30:10Z")
Whenever you had to go poop did you play a long song like Stairway to Heaven or Green grass and high tides? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/7 "2009-12-28T03:33:05Z")
Uh…yeah…umm…can you play “Truckin’” by the Dead and dedicate it to Karen? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/8 "2009-12-28T03:55:34Z")
Hope you like the “pristine” version? And “Dead” i-cated to… Karen! [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pafY6sZt0FE/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgWihFMA8=&rs=AOn4CLAILbaz7ha_uBznWiZ-8dSnKVKOrg "Grateful Dead - Truckin'") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafY6sZt0FE) Q ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/9 "2009-12-28T04:09:02Z")
> [@rolandgunslinger](#): > > Whenever you had to go poop did you play a long song like Stairway to Heaven or Green grass and high tides? Yes, I **did!!** Only not just to poop. Sometimes I barely made it back! Q ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/10 "2009-12-28T04:31:52Z")
How varied was your playlist? Did they allow you to play stuff from The Velvet Undergrund? Was it strictly rock-oriented or did you play cuts from, for example, Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” or any of Stevie Wonder’s albums from the mid-70s? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/11 "2009-12-28T04:59:16Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Yes, I **did!!** > > Only not just to poop. > > Sometimes I barely made it back! There is a whole sub-genre of rock songs that owe their popularity to 70s era DJ’s bowels - “bowel-movement music”. On KY-102 in Kansas City, one DJ played Traffic’s _Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys_ every day at around the same time. Man was as regular as clockwork. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/12 "2009-12-28T05:41:29Z")
What was your broadcast market? Are there any acts that you were among the first to play? When, in your estimation, did Rock ‘n’ Roll die? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/13 "2009-12-28T05:48:38Z")
And I **know** mah "Kiddos’ was a-waitin’ for **this** one: Og bless Jerry! Just **look** at him! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P0_KuDjrdU) Q ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/14 "2009-12-28T06:04:28Z")
Do you have to keep a list of songs that had to be ‘fixed’ before they could be played on the air? I mean like the songs that contain colorful words or phrases in their original version that somehow become tamer when played on the radio. How did that work. Were you just given different versions of the songs to play? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/15 "2009-12-28T06:49:37Z")
1. _Low Spark_ was one, sure enough, but I had to _listen_ at that time, since I was at war with the VC… 2. _THAT_ side of Marvin was a touch too early for me, because I flunked out of what was then called “West Georgia College” soon after. 3. **Stevie**? You’re kidding me, right??? This was the fucking **SOUTH** in the early 70’s! They scrubbed the rest of it off the godamm album!. Only thing they let me play by him in the middle of the night was _I Was Made To Love Her_. Little black music except for Otis and James and some others I’m gonna forget to mention. Yup. Still existed even in the 70’s. Not my heritage though. Mine is the 6 million Jews. And I _hate_ that part of me. I surely do. Q ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/16 "2009-12-28T08:00:40Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > _THAT_ side of Marvin was a touch too early for me, because I flunked out of what was then called “West Georgia College” soon after. > > 1. **Stevie**? You’re kidding me, right??? This was the fucking **SOUTH** in the early 70’s! They scrubbed the rest of it off the godamm album!. > > Only thing they let me play by him in the middle of the night was _I Was Made To Love Her_. > > Little black music except for Otis and James and some others I’m gonna forget to mention. > > Yup. Still existed even in the 70’s. > Q If that’s the case, I’m guessing playing _anything_ by The Velvet Underground (even at 3 a.m. Monday morning) probably would’ve gotten you physically thrown out of the station. Anyway, since you were going to school at West Georgia College, am I correct in assuming that you played _a lot_ of Allman Brothers? ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/17 "2009-12-28T08:08:36Z")
Ok since no one else has asked yet and I assume that the statute of limitations has passed, what about payola. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/18 "2009-12-28T15:06:43Z")
1. No payola. Too late for that, and I would not accepted it anyway. 2. Allman Bros? _Idlewide South_. _Live At The Fillmore_ followed me into the military. 3. No list. Just keep it relatively clean. 4. Nope, no _Velvet_. We had to leave them to the college station. Speaking of which (I worked there too): Do any of y’all have a copy of _The Wilderness Road Gospel Hour_? On the college station, I think we “broke” that one. On WBTR (the FM station), we _thought_ we broke _this_ one too: (and that was _after_ my USAF days)… [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R044sleOW6I/hqdefault.jpg "Ram Jam - Black Betty 1977") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R044sleOW6I) I used to love listening to 45’s sent to the studio. I’d play them on “cue” between album cuts. Sometimes I’d send notes back. I wonder if any of them ever “took”? Q ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/19 "2009-12-28T15:41:12Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > There is a whole sub-genre of rock songs that owe their popularity to 70s era DJ’s bowels - “bowel-movement music”. On KY-102 in Kansas City, one DJ played Traffic’s _Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys_ every day at around the same time. Man was as regular as clockwork. What one had to do, was roll a tape of a “show”, but **never** mention the time or temp or what day it was. Then one just had to start the tape, play it back one night, lock the doors, hope like hell it wouldn’t “catch” and go get laid. That’s how I met D. If y’all tell her that, and I’m still alive, I will kick yo’ ass! 🙂 J/K, I’m too old to kick _anybody’s_ ass. 😉 Q 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756/20 "2009-12-28T16:08:57Z")
> [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > Do you have to keep a list of songs that had to be ‘fixed’ before they could be played on the air? I mean like the songs that contain colorful words or phrases in their original version that somehow become tamer when played on the radio. How did that work. Were you just given different versions of the songs to play? Program Director took “care” of that. Janis Ian got snuck in. We had **2** stations at that time, WLBB (country) and WBTR (rock) (I could have looked at the LBB DJ through the glass separating us). BB used to sign off at sundown, but BTR kept right on rockin 24-7’. Q [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-old-late-60s-early-70s-dj-something/522756.md?page=2)