In January of 1970, Dad, at twenty-two, was given the job of watching over the legendary singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt on his tour of midwestern college coffeehouses. This week on The Kate and Vin Scelsa Podcast, we listen to a recording of Townes talking and performing on Dad's WNEW-FM Sunday Morning Show eight years later, on Mother's Day, May 14, 1978.

Vin and Kate finish up their history of WFMU and Vin's earliest days in radio by listening to a recording of his final show on WFMU in 1969.

Vin, Freddie and Kate listen to audio from WFMU in the summer of 1968 when Freddie was working at the Chicago DNC and called in to the station to report on what was going on with the protests

Kate interviews Vin and Freddie about the early days of WFMU

On this first episode of the podcast, Kate interviews Vin about how his own teenage disillusionment brought him to radio and WFMU.