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Interview with KRUX Good Guy Kit Carson (Part Two)
By Norm Seeley | May 15, 2010
Yesterday here on normradio.com in place of Friday’s Music, I aired an interview with Kit Carson who was with KRUX here in Phoenix back in the 1960s. We were both at the station at the same time.
Today’s interview starts as I have just asked how he got along with the PDs, who followed Al McCoy and Lucky Lawrence. Starting with Stan Richards…
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Topics: America, Arizona, Audio, Broadcasting, Phoenix Radio of the 60s | 3 Comments »
May 15th, 2010 at 4:11 am
I knew, and was a fan of BOTH, Stan Richards at KCBQ in 1965, and Rhett Walker at KFXM (1964) and KRLA (1967)…Walker came to Arcadia High School on Career Day. Interestingly, Kit doesn’t talk much about just WHAT his “day job” was after his KRUX days. Norm, next you have to interview AL MCCOY. I’m happy to hear YOU embracing your KRUX years! I never knew that Kit jocked at KGIL and KFMB. Sorry I missed him at those gigs. Another great interview, Norm!
May 15th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Yeah — we need to know what the day job was!!
May 16th, 2010 at 7:41 am
From Kit:I had a flight instructor license from 1967 (to the present) and taught flying part time while at ASU and working at KRUX. So, when the contract dispute with KRUX came along, I just went to full time flight instruction until the year was up – then Jack Kelly hired me at KTAR.
The year of teaching flying was incredible. I recall an amazing trip from Phoenix to Provo to deliver a 1940′s vintage Luscome 8A to a new owner. It had no radio and the engine was so loud I had to stuff toilet paper in my ears – those were the days before earplugs. We flew along the Grand Canyon until we found the most narrow point to cross. Another memorable trip was coming back to Phoenix from the midwest when I got on top of a 10,000 foot cloud layer over New Mexico and had to make an instrument approach into Tucamcari. The pitot tube (which operated the airspeed indicator) got iced up and I lost the airspeed indicator. Fortunately, the other flight instruments worked and I was able to keep airspeed up by keeping the nose down and broke out of the clouds at about 1000 feet over the Tucamcari airport. It was a great year. But it was kinda nice to get back to radio after my year of flying full time.