My first beautiful music presentations were with WBAL AM 1090 in Baltimore (1961) when the station was briefly programmed by Art Wander. Shortly after the station went to an "All News and Sports" format. My personal beautiful music radio story continued at Connie B Gay stations WQMR and WGAY-FM, WGAY , Silver Spring, MD became WQMR (A daytime AM station at 1050 on the dial) with The Concert Hall Sound of beautiful music. At sign-off the AM-FM simulcast switched to country music on WGAY FM. A juke box semi automation system in the hallway played 45 RPM country music records until FM sign-off at midnight. Winton and sales manager Ted Dorf asked owner and country music promoter Connie B. Gay to continue with the beautiful music format on FM and I was hired as the first evening operator-announcer. I was a radio program producer for the U S Air Force band at thius time. In 1964 I left for American Forces Radio (AFKN, Korea) and when I returned Ed Winton re-hired me as news director of the WGAY-WQMR stations. Sometime later Winton started his Florida operations. WWBA, Tampa and WOCN, Miami. I left to join the WFLA AM-FM-TV operation in Tampa. From there I was hired by the Thomas Jones stations to work at their beautiful music stations KBON and KDIG-FM in Southern California. Jones set me up with his Hawaii station for a year before I went to work at Honolulu's beautiful music stations KUMU AM-FM where I remained until retirement in 1994.
-----R Alan Campbell
