’68 Presidential Campaign News - KSTP Radio Aircheck (3/21/1968) - ‘60s Commercials, Music & More
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- This KSTP-AM (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN) radio aircheck from the Don DuChene program on March 21, 1968 is loaded with Presidential campaign news (19:33) (Johnson, Kennedy, McCarthy, Rockefeller, Nixon). A lot was yet to happen after this day (Pres. Johnson withdrawing, RFK's assassination) in the fight for the Democratic Party's and Republican Party's nominations for President in the '68 election, and the Twin Cities' KSTP was covering it all. As well as NBC Radio News stories (19:33) on the ongoing Vietnam War, the civil unrest sweeping the U.S., and battles between Israel and the PLO in the Middle East (23:11). DJ Don DuChene guides us through the proceedings during his late afternoon shift (4:00pm to 8:00pm) on a Thursday, almost an hour of unedited 1960s radio content. There’s a theme of anticipation of Spring after the long winter (in fact, a station contest awards the winning listeners with lawn care products! (9:46)) Plus, this clip includes a host of great 1960s commercials, Weather Ball weather (4:50), local interest stories (including bowling scores (11:32) and high school basketball (43:40), and even a high school play (Li'l Abner 36:38), Bill Cosby comedy bits (16:47 and 45:01)), and jazzy Middle of the Road music (12:04). Much of the turmoil of 1968 was still to come…
Commercials include:
- Salem cigarettes (1:04) (It’s been a long time since any of us have seen or heard a cigarette commercial, as the U.S. Congress passed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act in 1970, which banned the advertising of cigarettes on television and radio starting on January 2, 1971.)
- Christian Brothers Napa Rose wine (3:50)
- Northwestern National Bank (6:39)
- Dodge cars (8:40)
- U-Haul rental trucks & trailers (10:38 and 42:45)
- Long distance phone service on weekends (16:02)
- Volkswagen cars (18:30)
- Pream creamer (22:09)
- Sucaryl sweetener (22:40)
- Di-Gel antacid (24:29)
- Ford station wagons (20:52)
- Firestone tires (35:00)
- Chateau La Salle wine (Christian Brothers) (37:09)
- Ford Mustang (41:35)
- Dayton's stores (44:09)
- Jenny Lee macaroni (44:32)
- The Associates lending company (spokesman, Joe Garagiola) (46:08)
- Western Airlines service to San Francisco (47:08)
- GM cars (48:07)
Don DuChene was a radio disc jockey in the Midwest U.S. from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. In the early-to-mid 1960s, Don had a popular show on KDWB (AM 630) in Minneapolis/ St. Paul, MN. In the Fall of 1965, his show moved to KSTP-AM 1500 where he worked through the end of the decade. Don wrapped up his Twin Cities radio career at KQRS in the early 1970s. The 1960s and early 1970s were a quickly evolving time for rock n roll and pop culture. These tapes are a peek into that time and the heyday of old-school American radio.
when radio was....radio.
Love finding archival radio and TV items form my hometown!
Childhood memory: I lived in Massachusetts would have been about 7 when this was aired. My parents listened to WHDH, their AM jock was the great Jess Cain. Anyway, when I heard that Salem jingle, I remember Cain would follow it up with time and temperature. Like, for example, "It's 25 minutes past 7 o'clock, (Pause), The temperature is 45 degrees." All these years later, I still remember.
Daniel,YES GREAT MEMORIES FOR SURE!
I never would've guessed that Stanley E. Hubbard would ever allow the voice of WCCO's Roger Erickson to be heard over KSTP Radio! It is Erickson who voices the Bell System long distance calling commercial. (16:02-:32)
Sounds like him. It may have been a case of the company hiring Roger Erickson to do voice the commercials and the any station that sold them ad time had to take him doing the spots.
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The way Cosby was going on in his comedy routine, it made me think that he was terribly fortunate to be a father
THIS STUFF IS SOLID GOLD!
Great aircheck and even greater narrative and guide in your comments. Thank you very much for this super time capsule.
Don, thanks for the upload and the detailed contents of your show, it's appreciated!
So at 2:15 the news was about issues with North Korea (the Pueblo ship seizure) and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Those are the same big problem areas today. Nothing's changed.
rrrrr That was from 1968 on KSTP Amplitude Modulation Radio Station Audio 1500 Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota!
Even if the date in this air check hadn’t been posted I would have figured it out and not due to news. The High School Basketball scores would have given it away for me. Amazing how one small piece of info can give away a lot of other information.
A-M Radio Station Audio 1500 KSTP 6 p.m. Newsbreak and Station Identification from Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota from Thursday, March 21, 1968 at 19:33.
I have a question if anybody knows? Who did the play by play for the State Basketball Tournament for KSTP. I know a few years later Rod Trongaard did the broadcasts as I have seen ads in old editions of the Minneapolis Tribune.
I'm stealing that "genealogist" joke and the '68 Mustang commercial for my history walk audio program this weekend. Like a dope, I've been doing family histories for free! 41:20
Didn't know KSTP actually did the State Basketball tournament in 1968. At least the night session. And FWIW what time was this air check during. If KSTP did the afternoon session as well that would take 3-4 hours and I believe in those days the afternoon session started at 2:00 PM.
The High School Basketball scores at 43:40 were the 1st quarterfinal games in the Minnesota State Basketball Tournament. At the time this was a 1 class affair with big and small school all competing to get to Minneapolis and Williams Arena. And at the time it was THE sporting event of the year in Minnesota. The Hockey tourney was still played in the small St Paul Auditorium and the basketball tourney outdrew it by thousands every year. FWIW Edina won the state Basketball title that year and with the title made history as the 1st school to win three titles in a row. Mankato and Moorhead won the night games and in their game Moorhead s et a single game scoring record of 107 points in beating Highland Park and the game was the highest scoring game ever with 196 total points scored. Moorhead won 107-89. That record was broken in 1997 in the famous Red Lake /Wabasso game where both teams broken the single game scoring record and the total combined point total was 230 at 117-113 Wabasso in overtime.(The combined point total was broken in regulation time)