John Gilliland

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John Gilliland
KRLA 1110
ShowThe Credibility Gap
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WebsiteJohn Gilliland's Pop Chronicles

John Sanford Gilliland Jr. (October 18, 1935 – July 27, 1998) was an American radio broadcaster and

KSFO (AM) in San Francisco
(1971–1978).

Career

Texas radio

His radio career began in 1952 with

Fort Worth.[2][3] His shows were The House of Wax and The Man on the Beat. From 1959-1961 he worked for KLIF in Dallas.[4] He also worked at KILT in Houston.[5]

California radio

At the news department of KOGO in San Diego, Gilliland used the pseudonyms of John Land and Johnny Land.[4]

In 1965, Gilliland came to the news department of

KRLA 1110, later broadcast on many other stations,[10][11] and now can be heard online.[12]

Starting in 1971, at

LPs. While working there he also produced and broadcast, beginning in 1972,[10] The Pop Chronicles 40s, about the popular music of the 1940s.[17][14] He was succeeded in his on-air time slot at KSFO by Jerry Gordon.[18]

Retirement

Gilland left KSFO in 1978 and returned to his native Texas.[4] He edited and in 1994 published Pop Chronicles: the 40s as a four-cassette audiobook,[19][20] which was rereleased later as The Big Band Chronicles.[21][22] During his retirement he hosted a late night show on KREB in Houston[23] and did some work for KIXC in Quanah. He died in 1998. In 2003, Gilliland's sister donated the Pop Chronicles tapes to the University of North Texas Music Library where they form The John Gilliland Collection. Later his 700 reel-to-reel tapes of various old radio shows was added.[5][24]

Discography

References

Citations

  1. Dallas Morning News
    . Retrieved 2010-02-17.
  2. ^ "Vox Jox" (PDF). Billboard. 1955-07-02.
  3. ^ "Disk Jockeys' regional record reports" (PDF). Cashbox. 1956-07-07.
  4. ^ a b c "Biography — University of North Texas Libraries". Library.unt.edu. Archived from the original on June 17, 2008. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  5. ^ a b "ARSC Conference 2008 - Session Abstracts" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  6. ^ a b Hopkins, Jerry (October 4, 1969). "'Pop Chronicles' Chronicle Pop". Rolling Stone. No. 43. p. 34.
  7. ^ "Lew Irwin Sets Record Straight on Origins of 1110/KRLA Credibility Gap" (PDF). sakionline.net. July 15, 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  8. ^ "~Los Angeles Radio People, Archives". Laradio.com. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  9. OCLC 38994418
    . (The pages in this book are not numbered, but Gilliland's essay is located between the E and F entries.)
  10. ^ a b MacKenzie, Bob (1972-10-29). "Radio Returns to the '40s" (PDF). Oakland Tribune. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-09.
  11. OCLC 50111827
    .
  12. ^ Gilliland, John (1969). "Show 1" (audio). Pop Chronicles. University of North Texas Libraries.
  13. ^ "2008 ARSC Conference Recordings (Association for Recorded Sound Collections)". Arsc-audio.org. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
  14. ^
    Bay Area Radio Museum. November 5, 1972. Archived
    from the original on August 1, 2013. Retrieved 2013-06-29.
  15. ^
    ISBN 0-534-00550-0
    – via AmericanRadioHistory.com.
  16. ^ "KSFO-560 Program Log" (PDF).
  17. ^ "The Pop Chronicles Of The 1940s". RadioEchoes. 1972-10-29.
  18. ^ "Where was 'Radio Waves'?". Radio-info.com. Archived from the original on October 25, 2013. Retrieved 2010-02-17. Alt URL
  19. ^
    OCLC 31611854
    .
  20. OCLC 31611854
    .
  21. AllMusic
    . Retrieved 2010-02-17.
  22. OCLC 38555138
    .
  23. ^ R&R Radio & Records: Segues
  24. ^ "John Gilliland Collection, 1955-1991 | Music Library". Findingaids.library.unt.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  25. ^ "Magic of JuJu: Political Porno". Magicofjuju.blogspot.com. 2006-12-21. Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2009-11-16.

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