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True Country 540 KWMT.

I'm Dale, Dale Eichor.

I started in radio broadcasting in 1960.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen.

Dale Eichor: When I was a child I just always was fascinated by radio.

My mother was a, she always had the radio on.

She was a fan of music.

She liked music.

And so did my dad for that matter.

That's probably where I got my interest right there.

♪♪ Dale Eichor: We moved back to Iowa in 1972, came here to KWMT and have been here since.

All the news coming up at five o'clock, Fox News, we'll have KWMT news for you, check the weather, probably back with more music on the driving home show.

Here's Buck Owens' band, The Buckaroos.

♪♪ Dale Eichor: Well, I like a lot of different kinds of music really.

People think I only like country.

But I like -- the old joke was I like both kinds of music, country and western.

But I like a lot of different kinds of music and I played different kinds of music in my early radio jobs, Denison and Shenandoah.

And so later on it became exclusively country.

They say your favorite music is the music you grew up with and I think that's probably so.

So that's what we play here at KWMT, classic country.

The True Country station KWMT, let's go back for one from Kenny Rogers.

One of Kenny's big hits, here's Lucille.

♪♪ Dale Eichor: I like to do more than just say here's George Jones, and there was George Jones.

I like to talk about the artist some.

I like to talk about the history of the music.

I use my Billboard chart book.

I like to go back and see what the big hits were of years ago on this particular date and maybe dig one out and play it and say, well here's the number one song from 1975 this time of the year.

And I like to do, I dig up all of my Nashville notes, I like to give country news about the artists and birthdays and things like that.

I want to add my condolences and extend my sympathy to Ronnie Milsap, Ronnie's family and friends and his fans.

Ronnie is mourning the passing of his wife Joyce.

Many of Ronnie's songs were inspired by his wife.

So extending our sympathy to Ronnie Milsap and family on the passing of his wife Joyce Milsap this past week.

Dale Eichor: I'm still startled when somebody, I'll be in a checkout line or something and somebody will recognize me either by they hear my voice or maybe they've seen me somewhere.

But I'm really taken aback by that when that happens.

True Country 540 KWMT is proud to be the home of Country Music DJ Hall of Fame member Dale Eichor.

Dale Eichor: The biggest hall a country boy could aspire to is the Country DJ Hall of Fame Award.

I was inducted in the year 2001.

It's in Nashville.

It's the epitome of being a country DJ.

That's where you would like to end up.

Way back when, 1974, CMA has, the Country Music Association, CMA has a Country DJ of the Year Award in three categories, small markets, medium markets and big markets.

And I won the small market award in 1974.

♪♪ Dale Eichor: I never thought I would make a living of it, make a living out of it, and for all these years, 60 years.

Yeah, I never really thought of that happening.

I just thought it would be something I'd try for and see what happened.

This guy is having a birthday today, Freddy Weller.

Remember Freddy Weller?

Dale Eichor: We've been a country station for 50 years and we'll let the FM's have the hot new country and we'll play the oldies but goodies, play it like it was.

(laughs) Freddy was born on this date September 9th in 1947 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Here's Freddy Weller.

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