It was 1966. I was 16 years old, and top rated music station KHJ/930 AM Los Angeles California was doing a “Cash Call” contest. The cash prize, which grew larger at every incorrect answer, had just been won the previous hour, so it went back to a small amount ($10). I guessed wrong, and got the

consolation prize, which I wanted anyway. It was a souvenir KHJ Boss Radio record album, with pics of the KHJ jocks including Robert W Morgan, The Real Don Steele, and twelve songs from 1965 including “Gloria” by Van Morrison, Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe”, and Barry McGuire’s “Eve Of Destruction”.
For someone who wanted to get into radio, this was better than winning the cash. Unfortunately, when I moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1970 for my first radio gig, my album collection and other stuff I left at home, was given to the Salvation Army.
I listened to and worked with Dennis Brougher, (J. Michael Stevens), at the now defunct: AM-1570: KPRO-Riverside, California. The station was broadcasting a brokered religious format by the time the station went silent in August 2018. He was a pros’ pro and had a wonderful sense of humor. The station tried to balance its books and the late general manager Valorie Stitely and Dennis tried to hold it together; but, in the end, the property on which the radio station sat, was more valuable to the “mom-and-pop owners” than an Inland Empire radio legacy of sixty-one years.
I remember calling K-5 hotline on Sunday Nights just to hear my voice on the radio. Loved that show!!