Hello all. Got an e-mail from somebody wanting to reconstruct the KSKD FM 105 playlist. I sent him a batch of tunes I remember, but my focus is from 82 to 86. Thought this group might pull out a batch more from earlier times.

Any tunes welcome though!

Here's a set of tunes he has collected so far to jog your memory:
"Gary Numan", "Cars"
"Paul Simon", "Late in the Evening"
"Paul Simon", "One-Trick Pony"
"Robbin Thompson Band", "Brite Eyes (long)"
"Supertramp", "Dreamer (live)"
"Allman Brothers Band", "Angeline"
"Bette Midler", "The Rose"
"Cheap Trick", "Stop This Game"
"Nitty Gritty Dirt Band", "Make a Little Magic"
"Donna Summer", "The Wanderer"
"Elton John", "Sartorial Eloquence"
"Hall & Oates", "How Does It Feel to Be Back"
"Elton John", "Little Jeannie"
"John Cougar", "This Time (long)"
"Kinks", "Lola"
"Little River Band", "It's Not a Wonder"
"Pete Townshend", "Let My Love Open the Door"
"Robert John", "Lonely Girl"
"Ambrosia", "Biggest Part of Me (long)"
"Ambrosia", "You're the Only Woman"
"Amy Holland", "How Do I Survive"
"Toto", "Africa"
"Hall & Oates", "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"
"Toto", "Rosanna"
"Re-Flex", "The Politics of Dancing"
"Starship", "Sara"
"Starship", "We Built This City"
"Kajagoogoo", "Too Shy"
"Depeche Mode", "People Are People"
"Andy Gibb", "Time is Time"
"Andy Gibb & Olivia Newton-John", "I Can't Help It"
"Average White Band", "Let's Go Round Again"
"Billy Joel", "Don't Ask Me Why"
"Irene Cara", "Fame"
"Billy Joel", "It's Still Rock & Roll to Me"
"Billy Joel", "Sometimes A Fantasy (long)"
"Billy Joel", "You May Be Right"
"Billy Preston & Syreeta", "With You I'm Born Again"
"Blondie", "Atomic (long)"
"Blondie", "The Tide Is High"
"Blues Brothers", "Gimme Some Lovin'"
"Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band", "Against the Wind"
"Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band", "You'll Accompany Me"
"Boz Scaggs", "Breakdown Dead Ahead (long)"
"Jackson Browne", "Boulevard"
"Boz Scaggs", "JoJo (long)"
"Boz Scaggs", "Look What You've Done to Me"
"Boz Scaggs", "Miss Sun"
"Jackson Browne", "That Girl Could Sing"
"Kansas", "Hold On"
"Manhattan Transfer", "Trickle Trickle"
"Natalie Cole", "Someone That I Used to Love"
"Olivia Newton-John", "Magic"
"Leo Sayer", "More Than I Can Say"
"Pat Benatar", "Hit Me with Your Best Shot"
"Quarterflash (formerly Seafood Mama)", "Harden My Heart"
"Randy Meisner", "Deep Inside My Heart"
"S.O.S. Band", "Take Your Time"
"Tierra", "Together"
"Air Supply", "All Out of Love"
"Air Supply", "Every Woman in the World"
"Barbra Streisand", "Woman in Love"
"Carly Simon", "Jesse"
"Blondie", "Call Me"
"Devo", "Whip It"
"Fleetwood Mac", "Sisters of the Moon"
"Genesis", "Misunderstanding"
"Kenny Loggins", "Celebrate Me Home"
"Kenny Loggins", "I'm Alright (long)"
"Larsen-Feiten Band", "She's Not in Love (long)"
"Larsen-Feiten Band", "Who'll Be the Fool Tonight (long)"
"Manhattans", "Shining Star"
"Neil & Dara Sedaka", "Should've Never Let You Go"
"Olivia Newton-John & Cliff Richard", "Suddenly"
"Christopher Cross", "Ride Like the Wind"
"Paul Davis", "Do Right"
"Queen", "Another One Bites the Dust"
"Queen", "Need Your Loving Tonight"
"Queen", "Play the Game"
"Ray, Goodman & Brown", "My Prayer"
"Spinners", "Cupid"
"Tommy Tutone", "Angel Say No"
"Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb", "Guilty"
"Carole King", "One Fine Day"
"Diana Ross", "I'm Coming Out"
"ABBA", "The Winner Takes It All"
"Diana Ross", "Upside Down"
"Diana Ross", "It's My Turn"
"Earth, Wind & Fire", "Let Me Talk"
"Fred Knoblock", "Why not Me"
"George Benson", "Give Me the Night (long)"
"George Benson", "Love X Love (long)"
"Harry Chapin", "Sequel"
"Jennifer Warnes", "When the Feeling Comes Around"
"Meco", "The Empire Strikes Back"
"Neil Diamond", "Love on the Rocks"
"Dan Fogelberg", "Heart Hotels (long)"
"Olivia Newton-John & ELO", "Xanadu"
"Paul McCartney", "Waterfalls"
"Pat Benatar", "We Live for Love"
"Ray Parker, Jr. & Raydio", "Two Places at the Same Time"
"Stephanie Mills", "Never Knew Love Like This Before"
"Al Stewart", "Midnight Rocks (long)"
"Barry Manilow", "I Made It Through the Rain"
"Cars", "Touch and Go"

"Eddie Rabbitt", "Drivin' My Life Away"
"Heart", "Tell It Like It Is (long)"
"Eagles", " I Can't Tell You Why"
"Jacksons", "Lovely One"
"Kenny Rogers", "Lady"
"Linda Ronstadt", "I Can't Let Go"
"Linda Ronstadt", "Hurt So Bad"
"Michael Franks", "One Bad Habit"
"REO Speedwagon", "Keep on Loving You"
"Stevie Wonder", "Master Blaster"
"Alan Parsons Project", "Games People Play"
"Benny Mardones", "Into the Night"
"Charlie Daniels Band", "In America"
"Eagles", " Seven Bridges Road"
"Electric Light Orchestra", "All Over The World"
"Electric Light Orchestra", "I'm Alive"
"Gerry Rafferty", "The Royal Mile"
"Jimmy Hall", "I'm Happy That Love Has Found You"
"Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes", "Don't Fall in Love With a Dreamer"
"Michael Jackson", "She's Out of My Life"
"Paul McCartney & Wings", "Coming Up (live)"
"Robbie Dupree", "Hot Rod Hearts"
"Steely Dan", "Hey Nineteen (long)"
"Ali Thompson", "Live Every Minute"
"Firefall", "Love That Got Away"
"Ali Thompson", "Take a Little Rhythm"
"Bernadette Peters", "Gee Whiz"
"Charlie Dore", "Pilot of the Airwaves"
"Dionne Warwick", "No Night So Long"
"Grateful Dead", "Alabama Getaway"
"Joe Walsh", "All Night Long"
"Kim Carnes", "Cry Like a Baby"
"Kim Carnes", "More Love"
"Lipps, Inc.", "Funkytown"
"Mickey Gilley", "Stand by Me"

Here is a set of additionals I'm positive I heard, but am not quite sure:

Only the lonely - motels
Heat of the moment - asia
only time will tell - asia
year of the cat - ??
time passages - ??? same person --think this is al stewart
games people play - alan parsons
twilight - elo
hold on tight to your dreams - elo
harden your heart - seafood mama before they were quarter flash (They played this a lot for a while)
can't go for that - hall and oates
(Actually many hall and oates songs) - she's a rich girl - private eyes - others....
Boy in New York City - manhattan transfer
call me - blondie
centerfold - j giles band
turn me loose - loverboy

What are words for? - ???
Kids of America - ???

The Voice - Moody Blues
Heart and Soul - T'Pau
On the Loose - SAGA
Wind Him Up - SAGA
Saved by Zero - FIXX

I know we did this on the other things part of the board, but the posting history on that is currently under construction. Care to indulge this topic again?

You're way light on Beatles and America.

Beatles:
Taxman, Hello Goodbye, Lady Madonna.

America:
Sister Golden Hair, Lonely People, Don't Cross The River, Daisy Jane.

Punch it up with some Badfinger while you're at it:

Badfinger:
No Matter What, Come & Get It, Day After Day, Baby Blue, Without You [Or the popular Nilsson version]


Herb

Year of the Cat is Al Stewart

I also heard these quite a bit on KSKD back in the day(most likely as 'Gold'):

Queen-Killer Queen
Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit

And these as currents/new:

Aldo Nova-Fantasy
Van Halen-Jump
Duran Duran-Hungry Like The Wolf

(and digging really deep now):

Musical youth-Pass The Dutchie
Thomas Dolby-She Blinded Me With Science
Eddy Grant-Electric Avenue
The Fixx(?)-One Thing Leads To Another
Madness-Our House
Men Without Hats-Safety Dance

and at least a couple of songs from "Flock Of Seagulls."

I seem to remember the KSKD played quite a bit of the "New Wave" type stuff that my little sister liked in the early 80's.

"Dolby Stereo, K-S-K-D."

and the clssic ID:

"Serving the Great Northwest with 100,000 watts of Music Power, K-S-K-D Salem over Portland"

Who was the female who did some of the voice work for KSKD?

This is harder to do with the KISN Time Machine playing in the background.

>>What are words for? - ???

That is “Words” by Missing Persons

>>Kids of America - ???

Might be “Kids In America” by Kim Wilde

More on the way.

Interesting list...

I will preface this with the fact I don't know much about KSKD...but there seem to be quite a number of "stiffs" on this list. If that was the intention, and these days, (Charlie, Jack, Bob), perhaps that was indeed the intention.

The "Oh Wow" factor is definitely there, but so is the "Wow, what in the hell was that?" may also be there.

Just a programmer's opinion...

Paul, that's a good summary of what KSKD was about. They took a lot of chances on then new releases, many of which became stiffs. However, for a time they were the closest thing to CHR that Salem and Portland had.

Heart And Soul by T'Pau came out in 1987. KSKD was long gone by then.

Thanks everyone.

There is one that drives me nuts! Heard it while falling asleep long ago. "I believe" was the title, but my memory of the artist is "chiolowak" --remember the sound of the announcer, but not what my brain translated the meaning to. Any guesses?

---and they played the long version of Safety Dance. Have that 12" somewhere. Actually, they would toss the extended mixes in on a lotta tunes from time to time.

Queen - "Thing Called Love" was played also.

Paulwalker, those elements are what I miss about the station. They went through moods and trends, blending them together over time. The automation was done from tapes that held 15 to 20 tunes. (I'm trying to remeber the number from the actual playlists I've got somewhere, but can't find after moving...)

This forced sets, that I think current systems ignore because of their more or less infinite selection pool. To make it all go well, meant putting groups of tunes together in creative ways, that allowed for the linear nature of the tape. Would be interesting to emulate this on modern day systems, IMHO. Programming would be harder than on a rotation based system, but the results would have a distinct texture to them.

This artifact of the tapes mitigated the "Wow, what in the hell was that?" factor, as the playsets were limited in scope. One could have a fairly wide playset, and be sure there were no trainwrecks, ala Charlie. Put another way, only a small subset of tunes could be played at any one time. Those subsets always contained the same tunes --and in the same order, I believe.

That list needs to be tempered with the fact that it spans quite a bit of time as well. If you were to sort those tunes by their release date, the list would make more sense as they were introduced in a slow blend, keeping a few signatures along the way for longer times.

Who did "Leader of the Band"? Can't stand that tune, but KSKD played the heck out of it for a while. (Long while too.)

Must have been KINK then! I'll strike it from the ones I'm gonna submit.

(Heart and Soul)

Thanks for a further clarification, missing.

"Leader of the Band" was Dan Fogelburg and was a big AC hit.

"I Believe" by Chilliwack. The group is named after a city in B.C. They also got some play out of "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)."

Yep. As soon as I read it, I could hear Mr. Mullens voice ring in my head. (Along with a nice photo memory of an amplifier / tuner combo I had just finished fixing. All that work and that tune was first outta the gate!)

God I hated that tune! Thanks, now after it's added to the list, I'll promptly forget who did it again!

After The Fire - Der Kommissar
Gary U.S. Bonds- This Little Girl
David Bowie - Modern Love
David Bowie - Blue Jean
Boys Don’t Cry - I Wanna Be A Cowboy’
Irene Cara - What A Feelin’
The Cars - Since You’re Gone
The Clash - Train in Vain (Stand By Me)
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
Marshall Crenshaw - Someday, Someway
Paul Davis - Cool Night
Paul Davis - ‘65 Love Affair
Diesel - Sausalito Summernight (Long version)
Duran Duran - A View To Kill
Sheena Easton - Morning Train (Nine To Five)
ELO - Rock & Roll Is King
Eye to Eye - Nice Girls (not a particularly great song)
The Go Gos - Our Lips Are Sealed
Joe Jackson - Steppin’ Out
Joe Jackson - You Can’t Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)
Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy
Greg Kihn Band - The Breakup Song ( They Don’t Write ‘Em)
Lone Justice - Sweet, Sweet Baby (I’m Falling)
Melissa Manchester - You Should Hear How She Talks About You
Mike & The Mechanics - Silent Running
Missing Persons -Destination Unknown
The Moody Blues - Gemini Dream
The Moody Blues - The Voice
Cliff Richard - Dreaming
Smokey Robinson - Being With You
The Romantics - What I Like About You
The Romantics - One In A Million
The Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods
The Tubes - She’s A Beauty


(Not sure if these were on KSKD)

April Wine - Just Between You And Me
Bourgeois Tagg - Mutual Surrender (What a Wonderful World)
Berlin - No More Words
Laura Branigan - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You
Earth Wind & Fire - Let’s Groove
Face To Face - 10-9-8
Jermaine Jackson - Tell Me I’m Not Dreamin’ (Too Good To Be True)
Le Roux - Nobody Said It Was Easy ( Lookin’ For The Lights)
Kim Mitchell - Go For A Soda
Models - Out of Mind Out of Sight
Linda Ronstadt - How Do I Make You
Scritti Politti - Perfect Way
Simple Minds - All The Things She Said
Thompson Twins - King For A Day
World Party - Ship of Fools

Randy in my former town...

Chilliwack. Wow. KJR and KING in Seattle played them a bit, (and I really mean, a "little" bit), but unlike Canadian content laws, Seattle stations dumped them pretty quickly and nobody really cared.

T'pau was purely a pop song, so I wonder if KINK really ever played it. I believe it's chart numbers are fairly decent though.

Well somebody played it in or around PDX! Could have been Z100. They did get caught playing "Living a Boys Adventure Tale" - A-HA. (hehe, had to have been a mistake!)

Yeah, good old "Can Con." If the CRTC hadn't enacted those regs, all of North America might have been saved from having to hear "Seasons In the Sun" from Vancouver's Terry Jacks.

I'd rather listen to Chilliwack any day...

April Wine's "Just Between You and Me" was on KSKD(quite a bit if I remember correctly) but their earlier stuff such as 1972's "You Could Hve Been A Lady" (has a really cool intro) is more to my taste.(OK, I know, I have bad taste in music, but I like what I like!)


When I was in high school KSKD was the only FM we could receive clearly where we lived.(It was also great for recording songs off the radio because there were no DJs talking over the music!)

Len E. Mitchel was the last PD of KSKD. When Bobby King left KDUK, Len became PD of KSKD bringing Keith Miller with him. Both Len and Keith in my opinion were audiophiles who were very focused on the technical sound. It was apparent this was their love at KSKD. At KSKD I would guess there was little processing. However they couldnt achieve the same sound at KDUK because of the horrible transmitter location in the coast range.

Unfortunately I don't know what happened to Len after being fired at KDUK. Keith Miller was involved at KSND Newport and apparently attempted the same strategy that had worked at KSKD but failed. I think Radioexpert told me he got an email from Keith even saying he wouldnt use a compressor!

It's hard to imagine KSKD without an Optimod, but I do remember it being a very clear station with greater dynamics.

Anyway if anyone knows the whereabouts of Len or Keith I'm sure they kept the playlists.

Qpatrick: Have any recorded audio left?

As I recall, KSKD was literally a Hot 100 station. They played just about anything off of Billboard's current Hot 100 and very little else. I don't even remember non-currents. They picked up a fair amount of listeners though because they were the only hit based station for a time. There was a point when KMJK had switched to Soft AC and KGW had evolved to AC. KCNR was masquerading as CHR but I don't remember if it evolved or was always that way. It was pretty hard to tell in the early 80s because pop was so soft at that time.

kskd, i've 2 KSKD airchecks but they're 2 years before your focus range. i am planning to digitalize them someday. email me if you want discuss them.

Greg,

Actually KSKD ran C.R.L. processing, although you are right, it was not turned up very much. The station was very much about preserving the audio. Also, as I recall, the Dolby encoding process that was on KSKD at the time did not do well when presented with heavily processed audio.

As for KSND when they were in Newport/Lincoln City, they ran an Optimod 8200, so yes, Keith was using compression as well as multi-band limiting. The processing was just not set up to crush the audio like it is normally set to do.

Both KSND and KSKD were unique stations that were more interested in fidelity than dial dominance, which may be an interesting topic for another thread.

Qpatrick: Have any recorded audio left?

Sorry, all of those old cassettes (and 8-tracks(!)) are "Gone, Gone, Gone."

I do remember the switchover of KSKD to Q105 and the dramatic change in the programme audio. KSKD was crisp and clear but Q105 was just plain LOUD.(especially with Ron Leonard behind the mike!)

After the format change from MOR to "Top 40," in about 1973, pre-1978 105.1 (KSLM FM, KORI, KSKD) was less Hot 100 and more Top 40.

Initially, currents were on reel tape. However, a cart carousel eventually was added and this placed 23 "Currents" running in the carousel and these were voice tracked. Some of the 17 remaining of the Billboard Top 40 would rotate in and out of the carousel, keeping in mind that not necessarily all the chart was aired on 105.1, altho' I can't remember exceptions right now.

After a time, the songs falling off the current list ended up on reels, mixed in with oldies. But there would be a hole in the playlist for awhile, because a recurrent reel was not produced. Oldies went back to 1959 or 60 in some cases, but the earliest "rock-n-roll" years were aired sparingly.

Beatles and Stones were there too, but conservatively. Unlike today's 1067, you could go a day or two on 105.1 and not hear a Beatles or Stones tune. And on 105.1 we said "point."

Olivia Newton-John, John Denver, Carly Simon, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Rita Coolidge, Leo Sayer, America, Al Stewart, Chicago, Al Green, Reunion, Kenny Rogers, all come to mind. In fact, if I'd written that last sentence differently, you'd have a believable, but long, set on 1977 era 105.1

This process changed when KSKD introduced TM's "Stereo Rock" package, which I think was in about 1977 or 78 and about when the call changed to KSKD. Again, I can't remember exceptions right now, but the splicing block was sometimes used to cut out some of TM's stuff and insert KSKD's own choices, especially when Len E. came on as PD.

Beginning in mid to late 1978, Orban's Optimod FM was added to the 1971 vintage Harris exciter and a phase compensator was added at the transmitter end of the audio loop to compensate for the 15KC phone lines between studio and tower. The original Harris peak limiters were kept in the audio chain at the studio end, but only to very lightly clamp down on peaks sent up the phone line. These were dumped by the time the transmitter was moved to Davis creek and a Mosley STL instlled.

But, this thread began with playlists, so I'll think a bit more about those 70s era playlists.

I was talking specifically about a time in the early 80s when the station was very current intensive, promoting "new" music.

Qpatrick: Yep. Woke up that morning... "WTF?!?" comes to mind.

Qpatrickedwards, does the name: Mindy Roby ring a bell?

She was mentioned on the kskdplaylist yahoo group list.

I never remember hearing a name, just the voice on a few promos and an occasional VT such as "Its x:xx(time of day) at KSKD." or "(name of artist and sometimes the song as well) on KSKD."

statesman journal did a big blow story on her, photos and all...she was the official KSKD hot babe...DORA HADLEY was another KSKD babe...