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AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of December 7, 2014
Edition #812

Talent: PETER "BOOM BOOM" BENSON and JACK CASEY
Station: CFUN Vancouver
Date: December 29-30, 1974
Time: 14:42

Peter "Boom Boom" Benson takes care of the old tunes and Jack Casey plays the hits of the day in this pre-New Year's aircheck of CFUN from 1974.

First, we hear Benson doing an excellent job re-creating the radio of the '50s and '60s with classic CFUN jingles on Canadian Graffiti (Scott Carpenter hosted this show on CHUM around the same time). Then Casey spins the hits of the day (plus a few oldies) on his all-night show. Lots of references to the Top 100 of the year coming up in a couple of days. Portions of newscasts with Doug Foster and Randy Jackson are also heard.

Benson left CFUN in 1974 moving to KQEO Albuquerque, N.M., a couple of years later. Since then he's been at several other Albuquerque stations including his current home, KNKT. Casey, whose radio career also includes stops in Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Drumheller, Alta., and Terrace, B.C., is retired and living in Washington State.

Enjoy Peter "Boom Boom" Benson and Jack Casey at CFUN from December 29-30, 1974 here.

(Courtesy Ted Wendland, radiowest.ca)

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