WLAC-AM Nashville Boat Shot

What do WLAC-AM night time jocks do during the day? In 1978, it was lounge on a boat in Percy Priest Lake just east of Nashville. That's me, Nick Archer, splitting nights on WKQB-FM and WLAC-AM.

WKQB Nashville Concert Calendar July 28 1978

At WKQB Nashville in 1978, it was one of my jobs to do the Concert Calendar, later to become the KQB Street Sheet. Here's the very first issue, hopefully my graphic design skills have increased since then. Click to enlarge.

Harry Chapin at WKQB Nashville Oct 1978

Harry Chapin made a Nashville appearance in October 1978. He had a concert at Vanderbilt's Memorial Gym, and did a press conference at the Exit-In on behalf of world hunger. He also found time to play us in softball. In the photo along the back row are WKQB staffers Susan Stone, the KQBee, Nick Archer, PD Ron Lake, and DJ Jones. Harry Chapin used a pickup team of Vandy cheerleaders that you see in the pic, and beat us severely. Click pic to enlarge.

Harry made the cover and inside of our next WKQB Street Sheet. See below. Click here for the audio version.

Rock 106 WKQB Nashville License Plate

WLAC-FM switched to a Lee Abrams AOR format in 1978, with most of the programming coming from Atlanta. The station changed its calls to WKQB, "The Music That's Meant To Be". After a couple of years, the format went harder, and WKQB became Rock106. The station outpaced WKDF in ratings, but new owners two years later pulled the plug and brought back easy listening to WLAC-FM. Go figure.

Click image to enlarge.  UPDATE - found a pin to go with the license plate.

WKQB 106 Nashville Street Sheet 1978

WKQB 106 were the call letters of WLAC-FM in the late 1970s. It was a Lee Abrams formatted AOR station. Here's one of the monthly info sheets. Text version of the sheet here.  As always, click on any image to enlarge.

WKQB Nashville Sticker 1978

WKQB was a Lee Abrams formatted album rock station in Nashville from 1978-1982. It had been WJYN, The Joy Of Nashville, an easy listening station under Bill Gerson. WKQB had as its slogan "The Music That's Meant To Bee". The station later reverted to its original call letters, WLAC-FM.