Texas car radio recording

Duration: 0:14:39

Tape labelled ‘Radio broadcast (from car radio) from Fort Worth & Dallas, Texas’, made during Oliver’s 1960 US trip. It is specifically a recording of Dr Jazzmo’s show on ‘KKSN, Grand Prairie, Dallas County’s only Rhythm & Blues station’, and includes music interspersed with DJ patter and advertisements; ‘Jazzmo’ himself is absent from the studio on account of an accident.

Tape contents:

[0:00:04] Recording begins: Little Walter - Wild About You Baby
[0:00:47] DJ patter, including spoken ad for shampoo.
[0:01:50] Howlin’ Wolf - Forty Four
[0:04:44] Announcer - mentions station call sign KKSN, followed by ‘Kissin’’ jingle and another ad for a furniture store.
[0:05:47] Ray Charles - What’d I Say
[0:08:44] Announcer and ad for Budweiser beer.
[0:09:42] Sonny Boy Williamson II - Lonesome Cabin
[0:12:30] Announcements from stand-in DJ (the ‘Rockin’ Doc’?), who mentions that Dr Jazzmo has had an accident. Recording fades out as another song is beginning.

Original file name: POAAAM - BBC Radio broadcast from car radio - From Fort Worth and Dallas - 15 August 1960

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