Thanks Don for your speedy reply and I look forward to hearing from
Steve re the KDSK facility when he has a moment. The book you
mention is a good one as it comprehensively covers the music/radio
scene of Australia's eastern seaboard from 1956 onwards. I own 2
versions, the original charting 1956-1977 and an updated 1956-1999
copy. Having been born in Sydney in '54 and starting in radio as a
trainee announcer/'gofer' in 1971 it really covers my musical
upbringing. Ironically, only this afternoon (South Australian time)
I had KD Radio quietly streaming on my PC at work and on came 60's
Oz rockers The Easybeats with their worldwide smash hit "Friday On
My Mind" ! Our planet & communications have certainly sped up over
the past 5 years and the Internet has taught me a lot about American
radio and made me feel more at home with your country, even though I
have never been there.

Many thanks again Don and if ever you want to hear one of the first
(and still one of my favourite) songs I played on the radio in '71,
try and dig up "Golden Miles" by a New Zealand band called Healing
Force, it's still a knockout that doesn't date, unlike myself !
Kind regards, IAN WRIGHT.