KAKC - Memories of the Big 970

02/02/2025

After the last few weeks of craziness, it's always good to remember that music is the great equalizer. Throwing it back to 50 years ago. Those of us of a certain age remember what we were doing then. And I was listening to these songs on my hometown radio station. Lots of forgotten gems here. And three of the biggest hits of the 70s were on their way up the chart at #13, #20 and #21. Enjoy!

12/31/2024

Happy New Years to all from the Big 97 jocks.

08/01/2024

Throwback Thursday to this week 50 years ago. Summertime 1974. Thanks to Michael Grant, Scooter B, Charlie Derek, Mike McCarthy and others for this great radio station. "Tell Me Something Good. Tell me that you like it..."

08/19/2023

From Mike Hardeman…56 years ago today!

08/02/2023

BK Cobb, you should be able to listen to it here. Part One is slightly finicky…I had to press”play” multiple times, but it finally started playing. Please let me know if you are able to get it to work for you. Steve

BK Cobb…it appears that my “share” only copied the link for Part 2 of the documentary. If you don’t see Part One, scroll down to the original post from October of last year, and play it from there. 😁

07/01/2023

Shared from Mike Hardeman…the Billboard HOT 100 from 56 years ago today!

06/05/2023

From Mike Hardeman….the Billboard chart from 52 years ago this week. That’s 1971 for the math challenged.

05/13/2023

Here is the year end Top 100 songs of 1967 from KAKC. Thank you Clyde Cole for sharing your copy.

What's your favorite year for music on KAKC? One of mine is definitely 1967, which includes the Summer Of Love, and some of the decade's best songs like "LIght My Fire" by The Doors.

05/13/2023

To the person who wanted to see a Billboard chart from May 1966, Sonny Hollingshead offers this:

05/12/2023

Courtesy of Mike Hardeman. 50 years ago this week.

04/21/2023

Time flies! 10 years ago this week the book, “Tulsa’s KAKC Radio: The Big 97” came out. It celebrates the wonderful Top 40 radio station us baby boomers in the Tulsa area grew up with. Listening on our transistor or clock radios and in the car, KAKC radio was our constant companion. Scooter Segraves, Lee Bayley, Dick Schmitz, Mike “Morning Mouth” McCarthy, Robert W. Walker and Jim Peters were some of the DJs who turned us on to new music by the Beatles, Beach Boys and the Doors, and entertained us like no other radio station in Tulsa has since!

The book is still available around the Tulsa area at Walgreen’s, Ida Red, Decopolis and the Sand Springs Cultural and Historical Museum. If you’d like a signed copy for $20, 4 bucks off retail, send me a private message.

10/08/2022

The 2-hour KAKC radio documentary aired in two one-hour installments over Tulsa's Public Radio 89.5 KWGS in September 2010 and again in 2011. Written and produced by Steve Clem, the special featured interviews by many of the principals who made KAKC the great station it was, including Dick Schmitz, Scooter Segraves, Robert W. Walker, Lee Bayley, Beau Weaver, Mike "Morning Mouth" McCarthy, Jim Peters, "Happy" Harry Wilson, Clayton Vaughn and others.

Winner of two awards in statewide and international competition, the documentary is now available for you NOW, right here, using the links below. Enjoy!

NOTE: If you have trouble getting “hour #1” to play, click on the download arrow, and the file should start playing.

KAKC documentary hour #1:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nNmnUfIroXCE5P5mO7UkGe0JfAFPVF_w/view?usp=sharing

KAKC documentary, hour #2:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LLyRCTfz8yY5Sdi2u87Awr0CshomJJLZ/view?usp=sharing