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>One of John Rook's priorities at KQV, in retrospect, >appears to have been a mainstreaming of the playlist >away from local-hit R&B obscurities; notice how many >of them placed in the KQV year-end countdown for 1963 >(available on Jeff Roteman's website) and consider how >few charted on KQV the following year. The Beatles and >other British acts had something to do with it, but >only so much. If KQV began paying more attention to >KDKA and less to WAMO or the indie hop circuit, it's >kind of ironic that KDKA played something like Tom & >Jerrio or "Hanky Panky"; but remember also that KDKA >was much more heavily dayparted musically than KQV >was. It probably only aired on the Clark Race show (I >remember the record, and hearing it on KDKA, but >that's the extent of it). > >If nothing else, the failure of KQV to play this and >other ABC-Paramount records (e.g. "Gator Tails and >Monkey Ribs" by the Spats, a sort of garage-frat >record of the Kingsmen ilk from 1965 that charted >elsewhere) shows that ABC O&Os were not obliged to >play their corporate cousin's product, and may even >have avoided it in many cases to avoid the appearance >of bias.

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