I grew up (to the extent I grew up) in Los Angeles in the sixties. That meant I often listened to 93/KHJ Boss Radio, the top-rated local Top 40 station. If you liked hearing the same hits played over and over, it was a great companion. They didn't play a lot of commercials and their on-air personalities — they called them Boss Jocks — didn't talk much.
Much fuss was made about the Boss Jocks and I never quite understood the delusion that they were superstars. They all had the same playlist and said pretty much the same things in their brief interjections so they were pretty much indistinguishable from each other. Still, the station promoted them (and they seemed to all believe) that the kids were tuning in to hear them, not the Beatles or the Doors or Petula Clark or any Mama or Papa.
Here's twelve and a half minutes that should give you a good idea of what KHJ Boss Radio sounded like when I was in high school. It'll be more authentic if you can figure out some way to listen to this on a transistor radio with bad reception…
