K/men Bill Watson Lights up your day!

This was selling on EBAY this last week (no I didn't buy it) Someone did for 38.00.
Does anyone have the history of this lighter?
Were there lighters for each of the K/men? Bill Watson 3 to 6 PM

April Fools (I know the 11th is a little late, but there are two 1s in the date) on KFXM

Instead of the "Fabulous 59" On April 1, 1961 had the "Foolish 59"
Actually it was the "Foolish 40" where the artists appear more appropriately suted to the song" The most interesting #8 #9 (this was 47 years ago!) #22 #25

April 6, 1973...35 Years Ago

New #1 on KMEN The Nights The Lights Went Out In Georgia-Vicki Lawrence
KFXM still sticking with Roberta Flack at #1 Neil Diamond trying for a live version of his hit Cherry Cherry
Blue Suede Shoes-Johnny Rivers. In 1973 still remaking the hits for a Hitbound

Comment: At this point I haven't scanned any additional 1973 surveys into my computer. Should I continue? There doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in 1973. Any other years in the 1970s that might be more interesting. (There were no regularsurveys on KMEN after 1973, but I do have KFXM and KOLA)

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KFXM and K/MEN 45 Years Ago April 5, 1963

Surfin' USA-Beach Boys #1 on both
A new instrumental on K/MEN in the top 10 Stingray-Routers
Shy Girl-Cascades new as their followup to Rhythm Of The Rain
There's a Dennis Weaver song as a Honorable K/mention From Genesis Through Exodus He's A Bad Boy-Carole King moving up into the top 10 at #6
Buddy Holly has a single Bo Diddley under Wax To Watch

K/mentertainer April 6, 1968

K/MEN Magical Mystery Tour continues... K/MEN Band Happening Winners, Love Unlimited

New pictures of the K/MEN First time published, and I believe the last time published

#1 Honey-Bobby Goldsboro

Highest Debut #21 Feelings-Grass Roots Also a song that drives many people crazy The Unicorn-Irish Rovers #29

My favoprite Hit Bound this wek Alone Again Or-Love, nothing likeany other of their Inland Empire Hits

K/mentertainer April 6, 1962

The 2nd K/mentertainer. A lot of my K/mentertainers from 1962 are copies made from KFXM jock Vic Moreno's collection. Without him the first year of these surveys would not have been possible.


#1 Mashed Potato Time-Dee Dee Sharp
Midnight In Moscow, Soldier Boy and Love Letters are new in the K/men-dous Ten
A lot of interesting new titles coming on as Honorable K/mention, that I've never heard. Among hem are.
Jacobs Ladder-Fred Darian
Tanglefoot-Charlie Drake
Call On Me-H.B. Barnum
All I have of the rest of the K/mentertainer is a copy of the front page. What is also interesting is that the color of the copy here came out different than on my copy saved to the computer. The background of the survey is a lot darker green than the white that shows up here.

KFXM Tiger April 5, 1968

Blue Cheer making the cover. Some Beatles news in Bits & Pieces
Bobby Goldsboro picture and article

Article about The Sunshine Company This is the April 5, 1968 survey, although it does say March.

Honey-Bobby Goldsboro #1

There's a tie for number 4 this week Playboy and Dance To The Music

Highest debut Son Of Hickory Hollers Tramp-OC Smith #20 It was a Personal Pick (#42) last week

It looks like the new guys are on KFXM Jim Crane, Don McCoy and Jimmy Mack. Goodbye Johnny Helm, Danny Dare and Gary Marshall

No new pictures, and there won't be any for a long time.

If you notice Last Week position, there are numbers like 49 and 54. I guess someone used the in station playlist to come up with those numbers. Someone new must be working on the survey.

March 30, 1973...35 Years Ago

Once again Killing Me Softly With His Song again #1 on both surveys

Future Hit
an instrumental Frankenstein-Edgar Winter Group

An address to write for Poster Photos of the KFXM DJs. Anyone write in for them? Anyone get them? Tell me about it!

Concert coming up featuring Deep Purple and Fleetwood Mac at the Swing Auditorium


Donny Osmond moving up on both surveys with one of his remakes-The Twelfth of Never

Kmen Hit Bound
Reeling In The Years-Steely Dan

KFXM and K/MEN 45 Years Ago March 29, 1963

#1 Puff-Peter, Paul & Mary on both stations


Wow! #5 debut Surfin' USA-Beach Boys ! The prediction made was correct!
"Wax To Watch"
#59 Needles and Pins-Jackie DeShannon awhile before the Searchers had their hit


Highest debut in the K/men-dous Ten #9 Can't Get Used To Losing You-Andy Williams
Honorable K/mention
another good instrumental
Hot Pastrami-Dartells

K/mentertainer March 30, 1968

Constant Bands Happening winner "Love Unlimited" with Miss Apple Valley Pictures of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers

Details about the Magical Mystery Tour contest.
Article by Phil Otis about Smokey Robinson & The Miracles concert, which was their first Inland Empire concert, and it happened at San Bernardino High School!

Winners of the last part of the Bonnie & Clyde contest.

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles with Russ O'Hara
Moving up to #1 Honey-Bobby Goldsboro

Playboy-Gene & Debe up to #4

Everlasting Love finally sneaking into the top 10

This is survey #312 with a cover date of March 30, 1968. March 30, 1962 was #1 52 issues x 6 years = 312. I guess they were keeping track.

Early Gordon Lightfoot-Black Day In July a new Hit Bound

K/mentertainer March 30, 1962

On this date in 1962 K/men printed their first survey. It featured pictures of the K/men on the cover. An ad on the back page.

Chuck Clemens "Huckleberry" in the morning to George Babcock at midnight. Rather than the top 40, tThe inside would include the K/men-dous ten, plus the Honorable K/mention, which would be a lot more than 40 songs.

It's a probabiity they had a top ten playlist before this since they were on the air a couple weeks before the date on this K/mentertainer. Anyone ever seen one. The earliest songsheard on K/men were on 3/10

Thestyle of survey will last almst until the end of 1966.

#1 Johnny Angel-Shelly Fabares. Elvis Presley #2, and Clyde McPhatter #3

The newest song debuted 3/20 Bobby Lewis-A Man's Gotta Be A Man

KFXM Tiger Mag March 29, 1968

April Fools Day cover Picdture of the Merry-Go-Round
Editorial from Pacific High School paper


ED GRrrrrr Sez
from the article, looks like there's a change in the line up. There's a mention of Don McCoy, Jimmy Mack and Jim Crane.
Pictures of The American Breed and The Lollipop Shoppe

I know it says March 22, but it is the March 29th issue

#1 Honey-Bobby Goldsboro

Highest debut Anything-Eric Burdon & The Animals #32

Still hanging on at #40 Unwind-Ray Stevens

Personal Picks

Aint No Way-Aretha Franklin

Jumbo-Bee Gees

Suddenly You LoveMe-Tremeloes

All three of these deserved to be bigger hits than they were (you guessed, I liked all three)

K/MENTERTAINER 1962

Coming soon

Issues from the first year of the K/mentertainer

1962

March 23, 1973...35 Years Ago

Roberta Flack #1 again

KFXM and K/MEN 45 Years Ago March 22, 1963

Puff-Peter, Paul & Mary #1
There is a tie for #2, so there are 11 songs in the top ten this week on K/MEN

The Contours have a new song on both surveys Don't Let Her Be your Baby


He's So Fine-Chiffons #1. Do you think George Harrison is listening?

C C Cinder -Sunsets #5 on KFXM, still moving up on K/MEN

Foolish Little Girl-Shirelles and Baby Workout-Jackie Wilson new on each survey

Sunday

Myself, K/MEN129 Harley Davidson and Tim Abney, at the Orange Show Swap Meet in San Bernardino 4/23/2008 Tim stepped out for the moment.

Harley realizing he was back in San Bernardino.