re: Favorite Radio Stations You Listened to When Young

Rock 103 Memphis

104.5 and 104.9 The X
Rock 93.7

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KAAY Little Rock Friday and Saturday nights Beaker Street

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ditto...late night when the reception was good down here...
Demento and Firesign Theatre. ... Beaker Street...

WRNO was great. Album hour at midnight. King Biscuit Flower Hour. The lost Lennon Tapes. Just to mention a few. It was also powerful as to reach especially after dark. I remember picking it up in Merida during the 1980s and I met some Cubans who said RNO was one of the few stations that the Cuban government did not really spend a lot of time trying to block. You could get it in Havana

WLS-Chicago
WMPS-Memphis

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KSMB, before it became a disco station

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When it was still known as "K94"!

Had this sticker on my binder

The radio was always on in my house and family car growing up. I had a Dad that loved music, a hip mom and an older sister, so I heard every genre on the radio. I turned 13 in 1970, the year I also started to take music seriously. FM radio was just starting to make a splash, so those stations started to play stuff you could not hear on AM. People don't realize during that time most cars only gave you an AM radio! I grew up in NOLA, I remember there was a station (Mother Radio?) that was truly underground as to what they played. Don't know if true, but heard back then the station was raided and DJ's busted for weed. That station, there may have been one other, that were the true vanguard of real rock music. By 1973, WTUL was playing great, more obscure music no one else played. In 1975, I started to listen to WYLD FM for their progressive black music & acid jazz. Today I listen to KTRU in Houston, again, back to a college station that plays more obscure, but great music.
Sad that FM radio, in general, has become so boring and commercialized over the years...

WTIX New Orleans
KVOL Lafayette