KSHE

KSHE (94.7 FM - styled as K-SHE) is a commercial radio station licensed to Crestwood, Missouri, and serving the Greater St. Louis area.

At times, fans would come to the station with copies of classical selections they thought would be a good addition to those owned by KSHE.

The first rock song played on KSHE in November 1967 that ushered in their format change was Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit".

[5] KSHE sometimes played music nonstop for hours without station identification, which eventually was brought to the attention of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Albums played in their entirety included The Firesign Theatre's Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him, The Who's Tommy, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's Gorilla, Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant, and Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, KSHE helped launch the careers of several midwestern bands such as Styx, Cheap Trick, REO Speedwagon and Head East.

[6] KSHE had a playlist, which popularized international rock artists as Lake from Germany, Stingray from South Africa, and rising bands from Australia and New Zealand including Midnight Oil and Split Enz.

Instead of the standard reading of news ripped from the Associated Press or United Press International wire machine ("rip and read"), early KSHE newscasts introduced news topics by preceding the story with rock music excerpts that had lyrics introducing or commenting on the topic.

He's been full time on the radio station for 47 years and is considered to be the longest running rock DJ in the world.

He also co-hosts a show with St. Louis radio legend Mark Klose called Vinyl Exam on Sundays at noon.

At top, the cartoon Sweetmeat used in the 1980s; at bottom, "vintage" Sweetmeat used as of June 2013.