Table of Contents
Author's Note vii
Part 1 A Kid From Jersey
1 December 10, 1967 3
2 When Radio Mattered 8
3 Hyde Park and Woodstock 15
4 Pit Stops on a Bumpy Road 28
5 Head East and Westward Ho! 37
6 Circuitous Routes 41
Part 2 Behind the MIC
7 Me on the Air? 47
8 If at Flirt You Don't Succeed 55
9 Let's Do It … Let's Fall in Love 59
10 I Begin Asking Questions 68
11 Kenny & the Kritix 90
12 The Second Incarnation 108
13 Back for More 114
Part 3 Unstable Cliffs
14 My New Best Friend 123
15 San Rafael 129
16 America's Finest City 133
17 El Tio 138
18 Doing the Laundry 141
19 1984 145
20 We Gotta Get Humphrey's 151
21 Miles in the Rain 155
22 Transition 161
Part 4 Backstage at the Bay
23 Gonna Be Huge 171
24 It's a Bird, Mr. Charles 176
25 The Domestic Goddess 181
26 The Fat Man's Baggage 186
27 Pretty Woman Running Scared in Dreams 196
28 Extortion Chuck Berry Style 201
29 Static from the Godfather 211
30 A Higher Voice 215
31 Lady Soul at the Hotel Del 221
32 Diva Demands 227
33 Angels 242
Part 5 Hard Lessons
34 Music Without Boundaries 259
35 Station Hopping 265
36 The Final Episode 276
37 Playing the Game 282
38 Denouement 292
39 What's Next? 301
Acknowledgments 307
About the Author 311