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KGON Celebrates 50 Years Of Rock This Week
50 years ago this week on February 1 1974, KGON 92.3 Portland signed on with an AOR format. Since they are celebrating the milestone this week, here is some audio from a couple of airchecks I have in the aircheck vault of KGON from the past.
September 1986 Aircheck
From mid-September 1986, a short aircheck of “The Home Of Rock & Roll” with DJ KC McCoy.
Yes/“Changes”
Legal ID
John Fogerty/“Eye Of The Zombie”
Jeff Beck & Rod Stewart/“People Get Ready”
The Rolling Stones/“Back To Zero”
Heart/“Kick It Out”
Phil Collins/“Take Me Home”
Eric Burdon & The Animals/“Monterey”
Huey Lewis & The News/“Hip To Be Square”
November 2019 Aircheck
KGON shifted to classic rock in the early 1990s, which it still remains today. At this time, I was having to make a 1600 mile commute from Dallas to Portland each week for a brief consulting job at a truck manufacturer. So, I had recorded several Portland stations over that time. It was a brief time since COVID-19 soon ended flying to PDX… Back then, KGON was promoting their 45th birthday event.
Pat Benatar/“We Belong”
AC/DC/“You Shook Me All Night Long”
The Cars/“Good Times Roll”
Nazareth/“Hair Of The Dog”
Foo Fighters/“Everlong”
Motley Crue/Shout At The Devil”
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers/“Don’t Come Around Here No More”
Legal ID
The Doors/“Love Her Madly”
Guns N’ Roses/“Patience”
Bryan Adams/“Summer Of ’69”
Green Day/”Boulevard Of Broken Dreams”
The Rolling Stones/“Miss You”
Talking Heads/“Burning Down The House”
As always, the logos and other intellectual property belong to the stations. The recordings were made from over the air broadcasts.