WYBC ’69ers Create Another Program — This Time For The Reunion!

When our class of ’69 arrived at WYBC, the big attraction for many of us was hosting rock and soul shows on WYBC 640 AM, closed circuit to the Yale campus.

Over the spring break of our freshman year, though, we who heeled WYBC helped build a new state of the art stereo FM studio for what had been an educational, show tunes, and classical station.

The inevitable happened. By summer of 1968, a small cadre of us, mostly rockers, had taken over the FM signal and created the first progressive rock station in Connecticut, one of only a handful in the entire country. We kept the station on the air all summer, for the first time ever, 24 hours a day.

The following is a half-hour documentary I produced for our 50th reunion, for broadcast on WYBCx, the internet streaming station still operated by Yale students.  In this documentary, I include samples from all our shows, annotated with comments and reflections back on that time.

If the above version of the recording doesn’t show in your browser, you can listen to it here.

Among our classmates heard on original tapes from over fifty years ago are Tom Guterbock, Ken Devoe, and Lee Mundell.  Don’t miss the rare recording, included in the first few minutes of this report, captured live from the Old Campus, of WYBC’s decisive Bladderball victory over the Daily News and other campus organizations!