I listened to KRLA all through the 60's until my family moved from SoCal in summer of '69. KRLA was my favorite station out of the big competitors........KRLA...KHJ...and KFWB. I remember in the summer of '67 when the 5th Dimension song Up, Up, and Away was super popular, KRLA had a promotion going where they dropped balloons from a helicopter in various locations all around LA and Orange Counties. The balloons had a note with a prize you could redeem from KRLA. KRLA also played their own version of the song where at the end they sing "Up, up and awayyyy....then you heard "KRLAyyyyy". KRLA was always promoting or sponsoring a lot of big events like Surfing Contests, Battle of the Bands, Haunted Houses, Drag Races, and many others. In early '67 KRLA released their own vinyl LP album titled KRLA 21 Solid Rocks featuring some of the top hits on KRLA from '64 to '67. It sold for $2.95. It went over so well that they released a second compilation album in late '67 titled Son of KRLA 21 Solid Rocks. I had both albums at the time and played them both a LOT. The second was my favorite. On the second album Son of KRLA 21 Solid Rocks was the song New York's a Lonely Town by The Tradewinds. It's a song about a surfer living in Pasadena, SoCal, who is forced by his folks to move to New York and the song describes how he's very bummed out about how "New York's a lonely town when your the only surfer boy around". All of us who lived in SoCal at the time could really identify with the song and pity the poor guy. When that song got popular KRLA always played their own special version only heard on KRLA. On the Son of KRLA album we were all happy to find that KRLA had again used their own special version on the album. What made it so special? About one minute into the song there's the lyric "From Central Park to Pasadena's such a long way".....suddenly a voice comes in saying "And there's no KRLA"..........song continues with "I feel so out of it walking down Broadway"......then the voice again "Sure do miss KRLA". That made the song REALLY hit home.
@@surferpam1 No, you can thank the 1996 Telecom Act for that when your buddy Bubba Clinton was in office. But hey, a leftist doing her research? Yeah, right. That'll be the day.
what memories!- listened to KRLA daily while I attended Loyola University (wasn't co-ed at the time) 1962-late '64- whenever I hear "Rag Doll" by frankie Valli or NKC singing "Hazy crazy days of summer I'm right back on campus- but a little!! bit older
Dick Moreland was a frustrated singer, and I remember he would sometimes sing along with the records he played. He somehow got a hold of the instrumental tracks of "I Wish You Love" and would sing, karaoke style, to the tracks. He did have a really good voice. Sam Riddle and Jimmy O'Neill both had successful careers outside of radio as well. Ted Quillan also worked at KRLA for awhile, and he was a neighbor of ours who lived just a couple of houses down from us in Anaheim. He was a really nice guy and pretty friendly as I remember.
Thanks cyberdadstl. Just listening to these short clips brings back so many memories of listening to KRLA in the 60's & 70's ;D Los Angeles radio just isn't the same without the 11-10 men!!
I Grew Up in Los Angeles...1110 KRLA was always on...My Mom's Radio was On All The Time....My Dad Used to tell me that radio would be on at 5 am when he left for work....than when he came home at 5 pm from work it would still be on!!!...I said Dad what was It playing?...Rock and Roll !!!!..he said
I heard the news that KRDC’s “Radio Disney Country” will be pulling the plug on 1110AM starting in early 2021, and I hope that 1110AM might be a candidate for an format. “K-Surf” did pulled the plug on 1260AM last month where it flipped back to classical as “K-Mozart”, and “K-Surf” is now on 105.1 on its HD2 channel. I hope 1110AM would be a great idea to put oldies on there and maybe KRDC will change the letters back to KRLA, maybe they should bring back the jingles, and I hope 1110AM will becoming an oldies station starting in early 2021 when “Radio Disney Country” goes away.
Wink Martindale, B Mitchell Reed (in NYC too) - wow. Mexico by Bobby Moore. This was right about the time I started listening to KRLA and KFWB. They were rivals on AM. It was very limited but amazingly entertaining - mostly because of the great DJ's and great records. It was very high paced - always something happening. Wolfman Jack spun off and even went on to FM with better sound on XERB, Rosarita, Baja California. This is when stations went "south of the border."
Great post! I hope one day before my grandma and grandpa are long gone from this world, that I can team up with someone to create a station like KRLA, in memory of them! They introduced me to it before it left the airwaves in 98 or 99. I was still a kid then, but even today I feel inspired to create a station like that, since both my Grandma and Grandpa have no cable, and are suffering the annoyance of KFI AM 640! LOL! Anyway, keep up the good work! I'll be 24 in March.
KRLA 1110....KHJ 930...K100 and K-Earth 101…..The Best!!!...Los Angeles and California...Best Radio Station Jocks .. Just being in a place that we didnot hear our Stations from Home was a Drag....The Only Station We Can get on the Road was XERB. On 1090.. with The Wolfman..at night from Tijuana Mexico and CKLW 810 from Windsor Canada also at Night....in Lake Elsnore California we could not get Local Stations...Thay would be replaced by Stations from Mexico and Canada..or another State....Las Vegas.... Dallas Chicago ETC
Ah, 1110 before it became Radio Disney (or whatever it is now). The call letters moved down the dial to 870 AM (formerly KIEV-AM), now known as 870-AM The Answer.
At least two of these KRLA "1110 Men" DJs, Wink Martindale and Bob Eubanks made it big on TV later in the 60s and 70s. I'm surprised someone has not mentioned it yet. Wink Martindale had modest success as a crooner, and cut easy listening records before becoming a game show host. Likewise Bob Eubanks went on to be the host of the tremendously popular "The Newlywed Game" on ABC in the late 60s and into the 70s. Certainly folks should remember that. Both of these guys were active through the 80s.
I remember all of the deejays. In fact, Frosty Harris was my English teacher at Westchester High in 1963 when he had the weekend shift. Although the quality isn't the greatest, the jingos from this period were the absolutely best, following on the breakthrough of the first jingos from KFWB in 1958. With the singers and the brass instruments, the jingos made such a strong, clear and commanding declaration: K-R-L-AAAAAAAAAA!
The "commercials" like Faulty Real Estate Company in March 69. "Howdy folks. I'm Sam Andreas from the Faulty Real Estate Company announcing the greatest thing in urban renewal since the days of Pompei and Mount Vesuvius. New Mecca Shores You better buy quick before it's too late. This offer void after April 15th. Someone had prophesied that a major earthquake would happen on April 15th, and LA would drop into the ocean.
Sie Holliday was a DJ on KDEO in San Diego in 1959. Later, she was the first female DJ in Los Angeles from 1962-1976. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sie_Holliday
Sie Holliday was KRLA's Traffic Manager during the week, and was on the air weekends. And I knew this before wikipedia existed. Some of us predate the internet.
KRLA stopped the music November 29, 1998 and went talk the next day. On that date I mentioned, KRLA pulled out all the stops to do a fourteen hour farewell broadcast from 10am-12 midnight. The final disc-jockey ever to grace its microphones was Richard James "Dick" Hugg (Huggy Boy) (1928-2006). From its first DJ, Jimmy O'Neill (9/3/1959) to 'Huggy Boy' (1998), he would go to another oldies station in L.A., KRTH "K-EARTH" (101.1) four-five days later. The station would have a very tight playlist of the same 200-300 songs over and over again. I would call it "overplayed oldies radio" due to the heavy frequency of certain oldies played throughout the course of the day. The station would become ESPN Radio and change call letters to KSPN until 2003 with a frequency swap with AM (710) (KDIS) "Radio Disney". Today, (2017), (AM 1110) is now KRDC (Radio Disney Country), the only terrestrial radio station Disney currently owns after selling many other stations to focus on online and future digital media platforms.
@@bossradio930 Exactly. Ira Fistell, formerly of KABC 790, was the night talk show host there and I became a caller for fun. I later followed him to KABC when he returned there in 2001; he was fired from the station in May of 2006 when the station changed talk show hosts that year.
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I used to love listening to Sam Riddle during dinner and watching him as the host of "9th Street West." Good times and great memories!😊😁🤩
I listened to KRLA all through the 60's until my family moved from SoCal in summer of '69. KRLA was my favorite station out of the big competitors........KRLA...KHJ...and KFWB. I remember in the summer of '67 when the 5th Dimension song Up, Up, and Away was super popular, KRLA had a promotion going where they dropped balloons from a helicopter in various locations all around LA and Orange Counties. The balloons had a note with a prize you could redeem from KRLA. KRLA also played their own version of the song where at the end they sing "Up, up and awayyyy....then you heard "KRLAyyyyy". KRLA was always promoting or sponsoring a lot of big events like Surfing Contests, Battle of the Bands, Haunted Houses, Drag Races, and many others. In early '67 KRLA released their own vinyl LP album titled KRLA 21 Solid Rocks featuring some of the top hits on KRLA from '64 to '67. It sold for $2.95. It went over so well that they released a second compilation album in late '67 titled Son of KRLA 21 Solid Rocks. I had both albums at the time and played them both a LOT. The second was my favorite. On the second album Son of KRLA 21 Solid Rocks was the song New York's a Lonely Town by The Tradewinds. It's a song about a surfer living in Pasadena, SoCal, who is forced by his folks to move to New York and the song describes how he's very bummed out about how "New York's a lonely town when your the only surfer boy around". All of us who lived in SoCal at the time could really identify with the song and pity the poor guy. When that song got popular KRLA always played their own special version only heard on KRLA. On the Son of KRLA album we were all happy to find that KRLA had again used their own special version on the album. What made it so special? About one minute into the song there's the lyric "From Central Park to Pasadena's such a long way".....suddenly a voice comes in saying "And there's no KRLA"..........song continues with "I feel so out of it walking down Broadway"......then the voice again "Sure do miss KRLA". That made the song REALLY hit home.
I used to listen to this station
When I was very young
Especially late at night
And I do miss this station
Raymond Bermudez Me too i used to sleep with it on all night
Monique-Rose Lopez
Yes sweetheart great memories indeed
Love this ! Thanks so much . I grew up listening to all these great d.j's.
KRLA WAS NUMBER 1 TILL KHJ ALOT OF DJS WORKED BOTH THEY BECANE THE KRTH(KRTH AM ON AM STILL KHJ DISK JOCKEYIES
That Wink was a class act...I always liked him
This was one of my favorite radio stations growing up as a teenager in the 1960's. I finally got to meet Dave Hull. He was one funny guy!
I used to get this radio station on the way to Indio California back in the good old days
I miss this radio station so much!!
THE GREATEST 60s radio station in SoCal!!!
An amazing radio station! Johnny Hayes, Real Don, Dave Hull, and "Emperor" Bob Hudson were all legendary! What LA radio has been reduced to is tragic!
You are so very right and you can "thank" Ronald Ray-gun's deregulation leading to consolidation for that.
"Get off the freeway , peasants"!
Remember The Real Don Steele, but from another station. Quote the character!
@@surferpam1 No, you can thank the 1996 Telecom Act for that when your buddy Bubba Clinton was in office. But hey, a leftist doing her research? Yeah, right. That'll be the day.
@@ApartmentKing66 👏👏👏👏👏 👍👍👍👍👍 😁😁😁😁😁
One of the great radio stations when DJ'S were personalities on the air cooperate America ruined radio.
I love KRLA too , I use to listen to this station when i lived in Los Angeles in 1978 -1982 .
what memories!- listened to KRLA daily while I attended Loyola University (wasn't co-ed at the time) 1962-late '64- whenever I hear "Rag Doll" by frankie Valli or NKC singing "Hazy crazy days of summer I'm right back on campus- but a little!! bit older
What memories. Thanks for posting. I miss KRLA!
Dick Moreland was a frustrated singer, and I remember he would sometimes sing along with the records he played. He somehow got a hold of the instrumental tracks of "I Wish You Love" and would sing, karaoke style, to the tracks. He did have a really good voice. Sam Riddle and Jimmy O'Neill both had successful careers outside of radio as well. Ted Quillan also worked at KRLA for awhile, and he was a neighbor of ours who lived just a couple of houses down from us in Anaheim. He was a really nice guy and pretty friendly as I remember.
Thanks cyberdadstl. Just listening to these short clips brings back so many memories of listening to KRLA in the 60's & 70's ;D Los Angeles radio just isn't the same without the 11-10 men!!
I Grew Up in Los Angeles...1110 KRLA was always on...My Mom's Radio was On All The Time....My Dad Used to tell me that radio would be on at 5 am when he left for work....than when he came home at 5 pm from work it would still be on!!!...I said Dad what was It playing?...Rock and Roll !!!!..he said
I heard the news that KRDC’s “Radio Disney Country” will be pulling the plug on 1110AM starting in early 2021, and I hope that 1110AM might be a candidate for an format. “K-Surf” did pulled the plug on 1260AM last month where it flipped back to classical as “K-Mozart”, and “K-Surf” is now on 105.1 on its HD2 channel. I hope 1110AM would be a great idea to put oldies on there and maybe KRDC will change the letters back to KRLA, maybe they should bring back the jingles, and I hope 1110AM will becoming an oldies station starting in early 2021 when “Radio Disney Country” goes away.
they are now KSPN 1110
I Love Krla I use to listen to it all the time when i lived in los angeles from 1978 to 1982 .
Wink Martindale, B Mitchell Reed (in NYC too) - wow. Mexico by Bobby Moore. This was right about the time I started listening to KRLA and KFWB. They were rivals on AM. It was very limited but amazingly entertaining - mostly because of the great DJ's and great records. It was very high paced - always something happening. Wolfman Jack spun off and even went on to FM with better sound on XERB, Rosarita, Baja California. This is when stations went "south of the border."
yes what memories.. love it
karen castaneda I used to
Listen to this station
Especially late at night
Great post! I hope one day before my grandma and grandpa are long gone from this world, that I can team up with someone to create a station like KRLA, in memory of them! They introduced me to it before it left the airwaves in 98 or 99. I was still a kid then, but even today I feel inspired to create a station like that, since both my Grandma and Grandpa have no cable, and are suffering the annoyance of KFI AM 640! LOL! Anyway, keep up the good work! I'll be 24 in March.
Matthew Saracho mind if I join in with ya? Aside from 1260, we could create a true So Cal oldies experience.
What's annoying about KFI?
i rember when huggy boy played it all till it was all gone......
KRLA 1110....KHJ 930...K100 and K-Earth 101…..The Best!!!...Los Angeles and California...Best Radio Station Jocks .. Just being in a place that we didnot hear our Stations from Home was a Drag....The Only Station We Can get on the Road was XERB. On 1090.. with The Wolfman..at night from Tijuana Mexico and CKLW 810 from Windsor Canada also at Night....in Lake Elsnore California we could not get Local Stations...Thay would be replaced by Stations from Mexico and Canada..or another State....Las Vegas.... Dallas Chicago ETC
Ah, 1110 before it became Radio Disney (or whatever it is now). The call letters moved down the dial to 870 AM (formerly KIEV-AM), now known as 870-AM The Answer.
R.I.P. Jimmy O'Neill, one of the original KRLA 11-10 men. :o(
Yeah, in fact, the very first live voice on KRLA...after the call letter change, format change, and power upgrade.
TO MANY MEMORIES!!$😀😢😉
With admiration for John Barrett, The Credibility Gap, and the late '60s.
The woman's voice that said "sounds exciting" at 9:08 was Sie Holliday.
Delightful, not exciting.
At least two of these KRLA "1110 Men" DJs, Wink Martindale and Bob Eubanks made it big on TV later in the 60s and 70s. I'm surprised someone has not mentioned it yet. Wink Martindale had modest success as a crooner, and cut easy listening records before becoming a game show host. Likewise Bob Eubanks went on to be the host of the tremendously popular "The Newlywed Game" on ABC in the late 60s and into the 70s. Certainly folks should remember that. Both of these guys were active through the 80s.
Big Dog123456vr--Interesting observation. The KRLA notes do sound a little like the last notes of the Twentieth Century Fox fanfare.
Observe me please
I remember all of the deejays. In fact, Frosty Harris was my English teacher at Westchester High in 1963 when he had the weekend shift. Although the quality isn't the greatest, the jingos from this period were the absolutely best, following on the breakthrough of the first jingos from KFWB in 1958. With the singers and the brass instruments, the jingos made such a strong, clear and commanding declaration: K-R-L-AAAAAAAAAA!
"jingles"
I miss Mamas closet from Humble Harve.
thats wat iam talking about jajajajja krla back when i was a kid
The "commercials" like Faulty Real Estate Company in March 69.
"Howdy folks. I'm Sam Andreas from the Faulty Real Estate Company announcing the greatest thing in urban renewal since the days of Pompei and Mount Vesuvius.
New Mecca Shores
You better buy quick before it's too late.
This offer void after April 15th.
Someone had prophesied that a major earthquake would happen on April 15th, and LA would drop into the ocean.
Looking for a KRLA jingle countdown at 8:00 in the morning...that WINK used to run . 10, 9, 8 7, etc then a big fade in to a song
9:38 WHAT THE HECK?!?!?!?!?!
9:46 That’s better
I notice that there are no female DJs shown. They must not have been on till about the 1970s.
Sie Holliday was a DJ on KDEO in San Diego in 1959. Later, she was the first female DJ in Los Angeles from 1962-1976.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sie_Holliday
Sie Holliday was KRLA's Traffic Manager during the week, and was on the air weekends. And I knew this before wikipedia existed. Some of us predate the internet.
went off in summer of 98..
KRLA stopped the music November 29, 1998 and went talk the next day. On that date I mentioned, KRLA pulled out all the stops to do a fourteen hour farewell broadcast from 10am-12 midnight. The final disc-jockey ever to grace its microphones was Richard James "Dick" Hugg (Huggy Boy) (1928-2006). From its first DJ, Jimmy O'Neill (9/3/1959) to 'Huggy Boy' (1998), he would go to another oldies station in L.A., KRTH "K-EARTH" (101.1) four-five days later. The station would have a very tight playlist of the same 200-300 songs over and over again. I would call it "overplayed oldies radio" due to the heavy frequency of certain oldies played throughout the course of the day. The station would become ESPN Radio and change call letters to KSPN until 2003 with a frequency swap with AM (710) (KDIS) "Radio Disney". Today, (2017), (AM 1110) is now KRDC (Radio Disney Country), the only terrestrial radio station Disney currently owns after selling many other stations to focus on online and future digital media platforms.
@@bossradio930 Exactly. Ira Fistell, formerly of KABC 790, was the night talk show host there and I became a caller for fun. I later followed him to KABC when he returned there in 2001; he was fired from the station in May of 2006 when the station changed talk show hosts that year.