From his first solo album, 1982's "Nightfly," I knew of Fagen's love affair with the medium. For the cover, he posed as a DJ behind a microphone and a turntable, and in the title song, he sang about "an independent station, WJAZ, with jazz and conversation." In Fagen's book, he paid homage to one DJ and struck a chord that should ring familiar to many of us: "Mort Fega's radio show 'Jazz Unlimited' came on at midnight and ended at five or six a.m. In order to escape my parents' wrath, I had to pull the radio under the covers.""The Nightfly character from my first solo album wasn't supposed to be a stand-in for any particular jazz DJ," Fagen wrote. In the early sixties, a number of Manhattan's powerful stations were blasting hard bop throughout the metropolitan area. After school, instead of watching "Bandstand," he'd listen to a DJ, Ed Beach, host of "Just Jazz." Friday nights, Torin hosted remote broadcasts from Birdland. Unlike Symphony Sid, whose growling hepcat routine seemed out of sync with the Kennedy era ... Richard Sands, former PD at "Live 105" (KITS) and publisher of the Sands Report, an alternative rock radio newsletter, sent out an amusing message on Facebook, recalling the KSAN of the free-form '70s: "Not too many people are aware how Live 105 came to be named after that legendary free form radio station - home to such stalwart personalities as Dusty Street, Raechel Donahue, Ben Fong-Torres, Bonnie Simmons, Buzzy Donahue, Mimi Chen, Terry McGovern and many others who aren't my FB friends." Norm Winer is VP/programming at WXRT in Chicago, where he's worked for more than 30 years; Tony Kilbert is on Kauai, Hawaii, where he does the noon to 6 p.m. shift on Shaka 103.3 FM; also there, from 6 a.m. to noon, is Ron Middag; Norman Davis has a blues show on KKIT and KVOT in Taos, N.M. Portions are also aired on KEGR, in Concord, and on fatmusicradio.com; Kenny Wardell brought KSAN back to life with the "Live Jive" CD of concert performances, DJ snippets and jingles, which he produced with Jim Draper.
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