If you've seen Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, you've heard Los Angeles Boss Radio. The AM radio station KHJ is all over the soundtrack. The movie takes place in 1969, the last gasp of the Boss Radio format, just before FM radio took all of the young listeners. But, and this is a justified but, there is something to be said for AM radio back then, even the top 40 stations. They played all sorts of music. You could hear soul back to back with rock 'n' roll. Over airwaves, without a subscription, without a tether and without being monitored. I still listen to a transistor radio sometimes at the beach. Alas, no Boss Radio.
Here's a few hours of KHJ, from 1968 and 1970. The sound on them is real good, the music anyway. Because two of them are labeled "restored" I'm guessing some of the music was redubbed with the actual records. Regardless, these are great. Steppenwolf back to back with psychedelic soul-era Temptations? I'm biting.
The Real Don Steele - KHJ, July 4, 1968 (Part 1) mp3 at Internet Archive 1:17:33
The Real Don Steele - KHJ, July 4, 1968 (Part 2) mp3 at Internet Archive 58:40
Shadow Stevens - KHJ, Oct 18, 1970 mp3 at Internet Archive 1:38:52
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KHJ, L.A.’s Coolest AM Radio Station, Is Basically a Background Actor in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” at LA Mag
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