“Underground Rock” Playlist Recovered
Those of you, like me, who enjoyed the cutting edge of music in the late 60’s — what was called “progressive rock” — will enjoy this.
Our classmate at WYBC, Kevin McKeown, went into professional radio, then into sound and film production in California, and eventually served as the mayor of Santa Monica. He compiled this amazing three-hour playlist of songs we used to play “back in the day.”
Magical! I hadn’t heard “8:05” by Moby Grape in over 50 years.
A group of us were instrumental in taking WYBC from a campus-only, AM station to a 24-hour, FM broadcast station serving Yale, New Haven and neighboring Southern Connecticut, starting in 1967. See WYBC and the Summer of ‘68. I was part of the crew that inaugurated that progressive rock era.
Earlier in 2024, Kevin and the other Yalies who led that transformation offered a full Zoominar on the history of WYBC in the late 60s and very early 70s. See the report on that Zoominar at When Boomers reached WYBC — and everything changed! See also this YouTube video of the event.
Here’s the link to the songlist: http://www.mckeown.net/WYBClate60s/wybclate60s.mp3 (backup link)
And here’s the Songlist: