40 Year Itch : Left of the Dial, May 1973

Rick Paddor of WTUL-FM in the 1970's

Low on wattage but high ...in more ways than one, college radio stations offered a progressive alternative to what was going on to the right off them on the FM dials. By 1973, many were reporting their playlists to Billboard Magazine. Here's a sample beginning with my old station -- a decade before I ever spun a record there.

WTUL FM, TULANE UNIVERSITY

1. The Faces Ooh La La

2. Fairport Convention Rosie

3. Stardrive Intergalactic Trot

WTGR FM, MEMPHIS STATE now WUMR

  

1. Help Yourself Beware the Shadow
2. Babe Ruth Wells Fargo
3. Wet Willie Drippin' Wet

WRVU-FM, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY 

1. Climax Blues Band Rich Man
2. Ellie Greenwich Let It Be Written, Let It be Sung
3. Gallery The Wind That Shakes the Barley


"Shake Your Love" by Climax Blues Band