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Audio Archives from WYBC
WYBC-FM 1969 air promo for "Saturday Night Diversion" program, hosted by Yale student Dean Pailler. Promo conceived, written, produced, and voiced by Kevin McKeown. Images: posters of the era.
WYBC-FM 1969 air promo for personality Judy Vecchione. Promo was conceived, written, produced, and voiced by Kevin McKeown. The image is Judy Vecchione on the Old Campus of Yale during a bladderball game.
The generational culture war inspired this on-air promo for WYBC-FM's Saturday Night Diversion program, hosted by Yale student Dean Pailler. Promo conceived, written, produced, and voiced by Kevin McKeown. The image is Kevin McKeown and Joyce Ireland, about that time.
Produced as a presentation for New York ad agencies to acquaint them with the new sound of progressive rock, hosted by Yale students who'd committed their summer to keeping their station on the air year-round and round-the-clock for the first time. This tape includes airchecks of each show in daily sequence, “around the clock, around New Haven.” Image: WYBC-FM’s air studio as it looked that summer.
Community member air personality Malou's love for all things cetacean inspired this 1970 on-air promo for WYBC-FM's Friday Night Diversion program, which she hosted. Promo conceived, written, produced, and voiced by Kevin McKeown. The image is Malou at about this time.
WYBC was the perennial winner of the traditional annual Yale bladderball contest, as celebrated in this radio special from 1968. The image is a WYBC bladderball team two or three years later, likely 1970 or 1971.
An advertising contract for Personna razors allowed WYBC copywriters and producers great latitude, to say the least. Jim Korris created these ads about 1970, and the image is the WYBC-AM air board at about that time.
WYBC-FM promoted many concerts at and around Yale. This Poco concert, about 1970, was held in Yale's Woolsey Hall. Ad written, produced, and voiced by Kevin McKeown. The image is a helmet worn by him as a Cosmic Laboratory member, along with the group's signature orange jump suit.
This brief aircheck of Kevin McKeown from early 1972 includes, embedded, an on-air promo for the station's diverse programming line-up. The image is a poster by talented artist and puppeteer Betty Baisden (then Betty Murray), a WYBC community member.
Who says rock lyricists of the 50s and 60s didn't have a way with words? And Ken Devoe certainly had a way with a razor blade. Like all WYBC production of the era, this was done painstakingly with multiple small bits of recording tape reassembled and spliced together by hand. We had no ProTools...
Audio documentary pressed to vinyl in 1962, giving glimpses of the Yale Broadcasting Company's WYBC programming then and in years previous. Written, produced, and apparently voiced by Einar Westerlund, Yale '62.
Yale students now broadcast on an internet stream called WYBCx. For the fiftieth reunion of my Yale Class of 1969, I produced and WYBCx broadcast this half-hour documentary about the generation of Yalies who created one of the first FM progressive rock stations in the entire country.