Post by John Quincy on Mar 23, 2010 11:50:11 GMT -5
We received this e-mail on March 18, 2010:
In the summer of 1963, I was twelve years old, and my family and I were residents of Austin, Texas. However, we spent the first two months of that summer in Louisville because my father was doing some graduate-level seminary study there. (He was a native Kentuckian, from Lebanon, Marion County).
While my dad was away at school, my sisters and I often commandeered his Admiral desktop radio, and more often than not, we were tuned into WAKY.
There's nothing remarkable about this in itself, but what makes it worth writing about is that WAKY is where I first heard the Beatles: the song was "From Me to You." I'm pretty sure WAKY played this song several months before the great majority of American radio stations.
The first American airplay mentioned by Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Me_to_You
was by Dick Biondi at KRLA in Los Angeles, where the song made the playlist in mid-July. Do you have any documentation of when "From Me to You" entered the WAKY playlist?
Regardless of the exact date, WAKY was way ahead of the curve in playing the Beatles.
To this day, "From Me to You" remains one of my very favorite Beatles songs.
Zack Replica
Arcata, California
I didn't know the answer to this, so I checked with Tim Tyler, who was a WAKY DJ in 1963...and Tim replied:
I do remember that some way, somehow, we did have an advance copy of "From Me To You" and we promoted it like crazy. But, that is all I remember, and certainly I have no documentation. With the lack of technology, relative to today, we would have had little knowledge of who else may have had advance copies although we thought we were the only one or among the few with that had an advance copy.
In the summer of 1963, I was twelve years old, and my family and I were residents of Austin, Texas. However, we spent the first two months of that summer in Louisville because my father was doing some graduate-level seminary study there. (He was a native Kentuckian, from Lebanon, Marion County).
While my dad was away at school, my sisters and I often commandeered his Admiral desktop radio, and more often than not, we were tuned into WAKY.
There's nothing remarkable about this in itself, but what makes it worth writing about is that WAKY is where I first heard the Beatles: the song was "From Me to You." I'm pretty sure WAKY played this song several months before the great majority of American radio stations.
The first American airplay mentioned by Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Me_to_You
was by Dick Biondi at KRLA in Los Angeles, where the song made the playlist in mid-July. Do you have any documentation of when "From Me to You" entered the WAKY playlist?
Regardless of the exact date, WAKY was way ahead of the curve in playing the Beatles.
To this day, "From Me to You" remains one of my very favorite Beatles songs.
Zack Replica
Arcata, California
I didn't know the answer to this, so I checked with Tim Tyler, who was a WAKY DJ in 1963...and Tim replied:
I do remember that some way, somehow, we did have an advance copy of "From Me To You" and we promoted it like crazy. But, that is all I remember, and certainly I have no documentation. With the lack of technology, relative to today, we would have had little knowledge of who else may have had advance copies although we thought we were the only one or among the few with that had an advance copy.
