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Favoriting February 24, 2023: The Sun Sets On K-Dawn
As of March 1st, KDWN-AM will be no more. So this week, I pay tribute of my favorite Vegas station of yore by playing the old tapes of radio spots and small bits of the local programing that once populated its airwaves. All from 1978 to 1983....before all that talk radio jazz.

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Artist Track Album Year Format Comments Approx. start time
KDWN-AM  KDWN-AM Tribute part 1   Favoriting The Vegas Tapes  1978  MP3  Vincent’s – KDWN-AM – Valley Bank – Maxim: Theme – MGM Grand: Rich Little & Sandy Duncan – Hacienda: Ice Fantasy – Las Vegas Transit – MGM Grand: Jai Lai – Knob Hill Casino – KLAS: Lawrence Welk & Hee Haw – MGM Grand: Dean Martin – Sand Dunes Motel/Bali Hi Blair House Motel – Rainbow Co. - Bill Haden Lincoln/Mercury – Musical Arts Workshop – KDWN-AM – Weather – Downtowner Motel (The Entertainer) – The Jockey Club: Silk’s – MGM Grand: Hallelujah Hollywood – Las Vegas Dealers – KDWN-AM – Gold Key Motel - The Boulevard Mall: Art Show – KDWN 60 Seconds - The Old Professor – Stardust Room Special – KDWN-AM – The Old Professor – Hickory Farms – Larry’s Fireside Inn – KDWN-AM – Desert Inn: Juliet Prowse & Anthony Newley – Crown Jewelers – KDWN- AM – MGM Grand: Jai Alai  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
KLVX (VegasPBS)  Real To Reel: Las Vegas Radio (1983) (excerpt)   Favoriting     MP3    0:29:16 (Pop-up)
KDWN-AM  KDWN-AM Tribute part 2   Favoriting The Vegas Tapes  1981  MP3  Landmark: Skybar Lounge – WonderWorld – KDWN: Breakfast In Vegas promo – Las Vegas Club: The Stadium Club – Maryland Square – KDWN-AM – Weekend In Las Vegas with Charles Supin: Marina Hotel & Casino – Union Plaza: Harry James Big Band – KDWN-AM – Sundance Hotel & Casino – Holiday Inn & Casino - Las Vegas Hilton: Maluge w/ Charo – Las Vegas Club – Barbary Coast: Pick The Pros Contest – Jubilation – Four Queens: entertainment – KDWN-AM – Stardust: The Palm Room – Hotel Fremont: Poker Room – Stardust: Poker Room – Hotel Fremont: Fiesta Showroom – KDWN-AM – Hotel Fremont: Freddie Fremont hotel special – Stardust: Lido 25th Anniversary – Hacienda Holidays – Sundance: hotel special – Sahara: Sahara Summer Spectacular – Hotel Nevada – KDWN-AM – Union Plaza: What The Butler Saw – The Brewery – KDWN-AM – Weekend In Las Vegas w/ Charles Supin: Barbary Coast  0:30:47 (Pop-up)
 
KDWN-AM  KDWN-AM Tribute part 3   Favoriting The Vegas Tapes  1982  MP3  Stardust Sports Line with Lee Pete & Jim Brown (intro) – Showboat boxing – Mint Hotel & Casino – Holiday Casino: The Galley – The Showboat – Landmark: buffet – Stardust: Moby Dick – Hotel Fremont: hotel radio package – Union Plaza (new jingle): The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas – Desert Inn: One Of A Kind – KDWN-AM: Dr. Cat promo – Union Plaza (new jingle): National Zip Code Contest – Maxim: Allen & Rossi – Alpine Village Inn – Riviera: Sold Gold – KDWN-AM: All Nighters promo – Sundance: restaurants – Tommy’s BBQ – Stardust: hotel package – Circus Circus - KDWN-AM call-in promo – Sahara Winter Spectacular – Frontier Hotel – Weekend In Las Vegas with Charles Supin (partial) – KDWN-AM -  1:04:16 (Pop-up)
 
KDWN-AM  KDWN-AM Tribute part 4   Favoriting The Vegas Tapes      Union Plaza: The Old Couple – Sand’s 3rd Annual Big Band Fling – Holiday Casino – Las Vegas Club – KDWN-AM – Castaways – Silver Slipper: breakfast buffet – Royal Americana – Frontier: Chuck Wagon Buffet – Las Vegas Hilton: Rich Little & Gladys Knight – KDWN-AM – Las Vegas Club – The Treasury – The Las Vegas Inn – Top Line Auto - Downtowner Motel (Alley Cat) – Gold Key Inn – KDWN Roy Masters promo – Good Time Charlies – KDWN-AM – Las Vegas Hilton: Benihana Village – Crest Motel – Hotel Fremont: radio special – Royal Americana – Las Vegas Sun – Crest Motel – MGM Grand: Rich Little – Stardust Sports line (end) – FCC statement  1:36:24 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

  6:00pm
Krys O:

KrapItude!
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Mr Fab:

Yo Don-O!

What happens in Vegas... ends up here in Sheena's
Avatar 6:03pm
Don-O:

Time for Vegas Crap and aircheck obscurity. 2 fer 1, y'all!
Avatar 6:04pm
Don-O:

Welcome to the obscure crap, Mr. Fab and Krys O.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
dale:

ah, the wonderful sound of the broadcast band. was most of this recorded in the evening when the band opened up?
Avatar 6:06pm
Mr Fab:

oh yeah, Jai alai. Forgot about that sport. They were really hyping it there for a bit. Where'd it go?
Avatar 6:06pm
Don-O:

↳ Mr Fab @6:06
I suspect back to Florida and on a Jackass segment.
Avatar 6:07pm
Mr Fab:

Aargh, why didn't I see Dino live?! I'm a dumb.
Avatar 6:08pm
Don-O:

↳ dale @6:06
It was recorded 300 miles away and on some good nights. Catch as catch can.....
Avatar 6:11pm
Mr Fab:

free meals, free champagne, $14.95 a night...Downtowner, we got a deal.
Avatar 6:12pm
Don-O:

I don't know about you guys but I'm turning this AM signal buss up!!
Avatar 6:13pm
Don-O:

↳ Mr Fab @6:11
The Downtowner is still there. Not as "free" as it used to be, but they do have a bar in the lobby and a mini-golf course. I even bought a couple of their shirts!
Avatar 6:17pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Don-O @6:13
Right on!
Avatar 6:18pm
Mr Fab:

True story: there is a Vegas-based law firm called...

Winner & Booze.
Avatar 6:19pm
Don-O:

↳ Mr Fab @6:18
Are you sure it\s was run by Oscar Goodman?
Avatar 6:21pm
Don-O:

UT! The wind are blowing down here, MIGHT be some internet cuts ahead.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
dale:

↳ Don-O @6:08
i still love a little medium wave dx'ing.
Avatar 6:23pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Don-O @6:19
known for making settlement offers you can't refuse...
  6:32pm
Dean:

Not counting a more recent layover at the airport, I was last in Vegas in 1976. Yes concert w/ Donovan opening.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
dale:

i worked on some radio commercials for bell atlantic. not the most creative experience. needed some pams jingles.
Avatar 6:33pm
Don-O:

↳ Dean @6:32
Lucky you, Dean!
  6:34pm
Dean:

I was underage, but managed to run around with buddies dropping nickels into slot machines. Won $5. LV is never getting it back.
Avatar 6:35pm
Don-O:

Programing Note: I'm saving that Live broadcast from the Orbit Inn for episode three of my mini-series The Reluctant Return of The Lost decade .
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
dale:

was there a playboy club in vegas?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
dale:

'street car' - i see what they did there.
Avatar 6:37pm
Don-O:

↳ Don-O @6:35
I don't want to repeat myself THAT much in this Jungle Room.
Avatar 6:37pm
Mr Fab:

The Landmark was the coolest - like a flying saucer on a stick. When Space Age architecture lived.
Avatar 6:37pm
Don-O:

↳ dale @6:36
At the Palms during the late '00s. It didn't last long.
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Don-O:

↳ Mr Fab @6:37
The guy behind THIS site is selling a book about Landmark history. If you want to go THAT far down this rabbit hole: www.landmarkhotelmemorial.com
Avatar 6:42pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Don-O @6:39
Where Howard Hughes spent his crazy years, wasn’t it?
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Don-O:

↳ Mr Fab @6:42
I think that was during his 'Desert Inn/yellin\ at that neon slipper from thet Silver Slipper' days.
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Don-O:

↳ Mr Fab @6:42
He did buy the Landmark while it remained unfinished.
Avatar 6:50pm
Mr Fab:

our own Don "Kitten Sparkles" Bolles will be hosting tours of Vegas' new Punk Rock Museum
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Don-O:

↳ Mr Fab @6:50
Punk + Vegas? Whodathunkit!?!?
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Mr Fab:

I bought this book that you might want to add to your library Don:
www.amazon.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
dale:

42 dollars for two nights sounds like a very good value.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:53pm
melinda:

hi everyone
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Mr Fab:

↳ Mr Fab @6:52
the author is described as "Las Vegas' Only Nude Magician." So there ya go.
Avatar 6:53pm
Don-O:

Call me a cynic but I'm waiting for that F1 racing jazz to show up on the strip. That\s going to be a clusterfuck!
Avatar 6:55pm
Don-O:

BTW: I'm planning to buy and read June Wilkinson's new audio biography, 'Hollywood Or Bust'!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
dale:

wasn't she june 'the bosom' wilkinson?
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Don-O:

↳ melinda @6:53
Hay, melinda! Um, have you heard of VCR Party Live? They are looking for you.
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Don-O:

↳ dale @6:55
Yup!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
dale:

i think russ meyers shot her playboy pics.
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melinda:

VCR party sounds fun
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Don-O:

↳ dale @6:56
Yup!
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dale:

hey now melinda.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
melinda:

howdy dale
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Mr Fab:

↳ Don-O @6:55
AUDIO biography? So we might hear excerpts here..?
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Don-O:

↳ melinda @6:56
They call their fans Melinda from a video segment featuring a receptionist named Melinda. Just warning ya!
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Don-O:

↳ Mr Fab @6:58
Spell check in me head is broken.....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
dale:

here's charles supin interviewing liberace.

www.pbs.org...
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Don-O:

↳ dale @7:02
Ooh Ooh! I will have to watch that fer later! Thank for sharing!!
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Don-O:

For the complete broadcast version of this show, I posted it up here: archive.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
dale:

↳ Don-O @7:06
it's a lot of audience question and answer. i guess that was charles' format.
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Don-O:

WOW!! Mr. Supin has been busy since then!! www.linkedin.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
melinda:

↳ Don-O @6:58
Just looked it up, I went to a Found Footage Festival show years ago
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
dale:

you think that's the same guy?
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Don-O:

↳ dale @7:12
Much respect for a journeyman like him!
  7:14pm
Robm:

Hello fellow crap listeners
Avatar 7:15pm
Don-O:

BTW, I spent a Vegas trip at the Showboat. I wished I learned about the public buses back then.
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Mr Fab:

↳ dale @7:12
well it does say:
Entertainment Journalist and Columnist
Las Vegas Review Journal, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, KLAS-TV (CBS), KDAWN (PBS)
Jan 1973 - Dec 1995
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Don-O:

↳ Robm @7:14
Hay, Robin. We're crapping out on Vegas.....again! Watch for the flying dice!!!
  7:16pm
Robm:

↳ Don-O @7:15
I will watch out:)
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Don-O:

↳ Mr Fab @7:15
The only thing I see on Ralph Pearl is listing for his book....and not much else. There is his appearence (sic) in that Vegas doc The Last Oasis In America'. I got a better copy of that on my YT channel.
Avatar 7:19pm
Mr Fab:

this was a GREAT show:

www.geffenplayhouse.org...
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Don-O:

↳ Mr Fab @7:19
PH! VERY interesting!! BTW, THAT Taylor Hackford?!
Avatar 7:21pm
Don-O:

BTW, I\d post Downtowner Merch page, but they got just the standard stuff. They sell a shirt with a large pink flamingo on front and the Downtowner logo on the back.
Avatar 7:22pm
Don-O:

I wish I can find that Hello Gere song they just played.
Avatar 7:26pm
Don-O:

The Home Of The Space Age Shuttle!!! I actually rode the damned thing. Not bad!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
dale:

allen and rossi's 'the last of the secret agents' is the most unfunny comedy film ever. nice nancy sinatra theme song though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Aitch:

In late, hey Don-O and crew
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Don-O:

↳ Aitch @7:34
Hey, Aitch! Don't mind the clanging of the dice and the swishing of the booze.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
dale:

tom poston! i can see him as oscar.
Avatar 7:40pm
Mr Fab:

you know how they have all these themed hotels in Vegas, like the Paris, The New York New York, The Venetian, etc? There should be a Las Vegas-themed one.

They could call it...hmm...how 'bout - The Las Vegas.
Avatar 7:42pm
Don-O:

↳ Mr Fab @7:40
Not corparate enough....
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Roberto:

↳ dale @7:37
His son was in one my Latin American literature class in college.
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Roberto:

↳ Roberto @7:43
my not "one my"
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Mr Fab:

↳ Roberto @7:43
Was he funny? Did he resemble his father?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
dale:

↳ Roberto @7:43
neat. wiki shows he had one son and four wives.
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Don-O:

↳ Roberto @7:43
Don't worry, Roberto. Typos are my middle name.
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Roberto:

↳ dale @7:45
Hopefully not all simultaneously.
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Don-O:

↳ Song: "KDWN-AM Tribute part 4" by "KDWN-AM"
Downtowner!!!!
Avatar 7:47pm
Roberto:

↳ Mr Fab @7:44
He was tall and he said "holy cowshit, man" a lot.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
dale:

suzanne pleshette was the last. i'll bet he made her laugh.
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Mr Fab:

↳ Roberto @7:47
well, that's kinda funny
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Roberto:

↳ dale @7:48
Her uncle was the ob-gyn who delivered me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
dale:

↳ Roberto @7:48
that's WAY too weird of a coincidence.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
dale:

jason psoton tried acting.

www.imdb.com...
Avatar 7:51pm
Roberto:

His son, John Pleshette, also an actor, is a friend of my mom's.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
dale:

the crest sounds like the place you went to for a casual hookup.
Avatar 7:53pm
Don-O:

↳ dale @7:51
I've seen the postcards of some of these places....yup, casual.
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Don-O:

"casino razzamatazz!" might be an early resort fee in those days.
Avatar 7:54pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Mr Fab @7:40
Now that I think about it, I wish this was real. With actual lounge acts, not DJs playing the same stuff you can hear anywhere. With slot machines that still take change and make that ching-ching-ching sound. Bringing back Lost Vegas!
Avatar 👻 7:55pm
Cp304:

Anyone know how the buffet is at the silver slipper
Avatar 7:55pm
Don-O:

After this Vegas Shtick, THIS guy!> www.wfmu.org...
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Don-O:

↳ Cp304 @7:55
Hey, Cp304. ANYTHING was better than Circus Circus....rule of thumb.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
melinda:

I've never been to Vegas
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
dale:

loved rich little when i was a kid. you had frank gorshin and fred travelena and all these people doing impersonations....good times.
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Don-O:

My thanks to all for putting up with this Vegas deal. And in advance for next week's nostalgic crap show....
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Don-O:

↳ melinda @7:56
Don't worry. It is always looking over your shoulders!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
dale:

↳ Don-O @7:57
this was good crap. a small history of a small place and it's impact on buffet diining.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Rich in Washington:

Hey, Folxs! I'll be spinnin' for you next door right after this show!
wfmu.org...
Avatar 7:59pm
Don-O:

Just sating bye to an old Vegas friend.....
Avatar 8:01pm
Mr Fab:

I loved this episode way too much...
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