KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 3: KPFA Miscellany

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1989.04.15.03.c1

Program Length

57 min

Dates

1989-04-15 | broadcast
| 1989-04-15 | created

Description

In another segment from KPFA’s all day broadcast celebrating its 40th anniversary, Charles Amirkhanian introduces a program of unusual “airchecks” (recordings made during a live broadcast), saved by KPFA producers during strategic moments. You will thrill to the sounds of Bill Schechner, who later went on to a career with NBC News, reading headlines from the wire services on April 1, 1978, complete with impertinent asides; Kris Welch in a confrontational interview with Wayne Dyer, author of “Your Erroneous Zones” on July 29, 1976; Shafi Hakim playing music on Thanksgiving Day, 1977; the inaugural program of Sue Donati’s sex show, “Not Tonight I Have a Headache” on December 2, 1977; San Francisco artist Doug Kahn’s radio collage, “The Alienatisch”, starring Bill Sokol; an excerpt from the 1984 “Vox Pop Verite” program, and many more fascinating highlights from 40 years of alternative, listener-sponsored radio.

Genres

Current Events
Folk music

Musical Selections

I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night (2:34) / Joan Baez -- [unidentified guitar and sitar music] (2:44) -- [unidentified Brazilian folk music] (4:30)

Subjects

Radio news bulletins
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Folk songs
Vox pop radio programs
Guitar and sitar music
Folk music -- Brazil
Sex

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Schechner, Bill
Dyer, Wayne W.
Welch, Kris
Baez, Joan
Mandel, William M.
Hakim, Shafi
Ohori, Susan
Kahn, Douglas
Sokol, Bill
Donati, Sue
Stein, Peggy