This week's episode of the show features an interview with KFI's Mo Kelly. Radio: April 30 It was all supposed to happen May 5, 1965. One of LA’s oldest radio stations — dating back to 1922 — KHJ (930 AM) had a long history of great programming. But the decade prior to 1965 was not kind. It had gotten so bad that most employees inside the building at 5515 Melrose in Hollywood didn’t think the new team would last any longer than the previous few programming teams. Especially when it was about to enter the tough top-40 competition dominated until then by KFWB (980 AM) and the original KRLA (now KRDC, 1110 AM). Primary figures included station manager Ken DeVaney, programmer Ron Jacobs, and consultants Bill Drake and Gene Chenault; Jacobs Drake and Chenault had battled it out at previous stations in smaller cities, honing their craft. New DJs included morning man Robert W. Morgan and afternoon legend “The Real” Don Steele, who I am told once captured a full 40% of the afternoon listening audience. But about a week before the planned launch, new morning man Robert W. Morgan happened to tune into KFWB and heard things he should not have been hearing … like the term “Boss Radio,” a slogan invented by and for KHJ, along with other stolen KHJ ideas. It seems one of the newsmen thought he was going to be fired from KHJ and went to KFWB with the inside information in order to land a job there. There is much more to the story, which you can find by searching “KHJ Sneak Preview” on socalradiowaves.com, as well as numerous other places. The short version: the staff decided to launch a week early with a “sneak preview” on what is my best guess, April 27, 1965. The rest is radio history. For its brief life as a top-40 station, KHJ was huge. It started big in 1965 — copied at stations from coast to coast — and ended big — the last true top-40 programmer, Chuck Martin, brought back much of the station’s glory, and ratings, right before RKO made a horrendous decision to take the station Country in November, 1980. Between those times, some the world’s best DJs worked behind the microphone, and some of the best programming ever produced came from the little 5000-watt transmitter at Fairfax and Venice Boulevards. Last week I asked for your memories of the station. In no particular order, here are a few: “ If 56 years ago was 1965 I would be a sophomore in high school and listening to KRLA. KHJ came on STRONG with the line: KHJ PLAYS MORE MUSIC. And I think they did. At least fewer commercials than we were accustomed to. And of course…’Tina Delgado is alive, ALIVE’. Loved the Real Don Steele, he was my favorite. — Mark Edwards, Huntington Beach “I have many fond memories of 93/KHJ Boss Radio … They were my go-to radio station to hear all the latest hits. They had the best music mix — on one radio station you could hear music from artists like Dean Martin and the Rolling Stones played back-to-back; the wide variety of popular music they featured was the greatest. My sister’s favorite personality was the Real Don Steele, mine was Sam Riddle. I especially enjoyed tuning in every Wednesday from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. to hear him do the Boss 30 countdown, years before Casey Kasem started doing American Top 40. My sister was once the correct caller to win the Tiny Tim album they wer