Hey, I got a dedication here that’s for a friend of the ol’ Wolfman. And he wants me to play the next song for a blonde young lady in a Thunderbird. A white T-bird, you understand? Now my friend’s name is Curt and he wants to talk to you out there, baby. — Wolfman Jack
On The Media has a feature on border radio, radio station on the Mexican border that transmited 500,000 watts or more — ten times the power allowed in the United States.
Once the world’s most powerful radio station, XERF commenced operations in 1947 using the old facilities of Dr. John Brinkley’s XERA (Comix). Dr. Brinkley got his start at KFKB in Milford, Kan., which he owned and operated.
The fourth commercial radio station in the United States, KFKB promoted Brinkley’s surgical technique for transplanting goat gonads into men who needed a viagra-like lift (until authorities shut him down). After moving the radio business to Mexico, business really took off.
Wolfman Jack was a sensation on XERB (1962 to 1964), which George Lucas featured in American Graffiti.
OTM’s Jamie York tells the story (MP-3 download).
