Jimmy Jet, KYA San Francisco 1974 (0:15:05)

The Jeff March Collection
… Jimmy Jet, flyin’ high in the Bay Area Sky …
Mr. Jet, circa 1974,Courtesy Bay Area Radio Museum.[Description by Uncle Ricky] Contributor Jeff March didn’t provide a description for this one,
but he wrote it was recorded on Sunday, March 24, 1974. I am left to suggest that you listen to this wonderful retro-Top-40 from an unknown host named Jimmy Jet on KYA in 1974.
Russ “The Moose” Syracuse was the first pilot of Flight 1260, but apparently, 1974 was the “Jet Age”.

It’s almost like Boss Radio didn’t happen, and competitor KFRC didn’t exist. It’s “People Power KYA” and Pilot Jimmy is using drops and bits like it’s 1959 – This is truly one of the most unusual 1974 airchecks we’ve ever heard. We even have a high school
kid reporting the Top Five, and a produced intro for a musical feature called Cable Car Cluster. Most jocks (and Program Directors) had forgotten how to do this kind of Top 40 radio in 1974. And yet, here it was. And who was Jimmy Jet, and where is
he today?

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