On Sutton way in Grass Valley and online at Ben Franklin dash crass dot com on tonight's show I'd like to give a tribute to a small radio station that became a very big deal to many Bay Area listeners in the mid 20th century k.v.i.a. Lucky 13 was all about the music in the days when independent am radio reached a growing audience of listeners very much like our own station here at k v m r It was all about the listeners and the community they served. Katy I which began this wife as the amateur station 6 x. 8 album in Oakland about 100 years ago was the premiere radio station in serving the Bay Area's last African-American audience in the years following World War 2 when it was known as k w b r and well into the 1990 s. . The station which marked itself as k.v.i.a. Lucky 13 and Buffalo radio played a central role in the community during the turbulence 1960 as Oakland and the Bay Area became a focal point for the civil rights movement the war on poverty the rise of the Black Panthers and social unrest in the wake of the murder of Dr Martin Luther King Jr and the protests against the war in Vietnam. Beyond its role as a peril for voice in the community k t I a was also the go to station for listeners seeking the solid sound of soul music regardless of their f.m. To city whether it was James Brown the supreme the impressions Aretha Franklin the 4 Tops The Temptations Otis Redding Sam Cooke's Wilson Pickett The list could go on forever you were cool unless your radio was set to k.v.i.a. At Coolidge delivered by a supreme Metallica teen announcers and news people including Big Daddy Don Barksdale Belva Davis bouncing Bill Doubleday shops bug Scruggs jumping George Oxford Bob Jones Johnny Morris life stone John Hardy Bill Hall Bob White Roscoe Roland Porter Wally raves rather Louis Freeman Sam Skinner Marlon Scott and that's just a few and then it went on and on. So Tonight Show is taken from the actual k.v.i.a. Top $25.00 songs on the playlist of January $8965.00. So let's get things started out here with. A little help. One we like to do We started with that you remember it was one of our very 1st. Big questions when you say that because you made a big force goes something like this. On the Kona her. Group. Don't you why don't you give me a. List until you bring that. That's a good loser. You. Are right. And I wanted. To bring back. The. Yeah. Who's. Who who's. The boss he's what. You use you. Who's the one. Who's out who's who's. Who who's the one who has this is the one who has. Who has. This is the one. Who has. This has. This has. This is. You. You see this summit has . Caused. This has. Given you the right. If you love. To. Say that. This is because. This is one Leave. Leave. The. Baby this is. A lazy. Boy. And not. A reason. a zombie issues. Oh yeah. Very is the great Marvin Gaye. When you get this whole fiasco and that's for sure Marvin Gaye How Sweet It Is and before that we had Johnny Taylor just the one I've been looking for I marvel at too many fish in the sea we started that set off with a little Milton a live version of blind man tonight we are playing music to choose the soul from the 1965 k.v.i.a. Playlist let's keep it going. Hate to be. All. Ah. I'm catching a theme here. Be good to your woman be good dear man and above all be kind to each other that was the spirit $165.00 from his playlist that I'm playing in it from k.v.i.a. To Lucky 13 up in California a funky little radio station building right next to the toll plaza of the babe Ridge Man this place was funky and it was full of great music and full of great people that played that music kind of like a b.m.r. You know a lot like what we do for you and we really appreciate all of you listening we always do and that was the great Chuck Jackson with his version of since I don't have you and before that we heard Carla Thomas a woman's love and then the great Joe Tex legs in all Joe Texas was a song called Hold what you've got and we started off with a song that at the beginning I said You all know it but y'all know it from a different singer it's called you're no good and that's a big hit that Linda Ronstadt had with that song but that was Betty Everett's version before Linda did all right let's carry on. a. Lot of. The . Stuff. Well yeah Mr James Brown there this is Peter Black chili with you until 8 o'clock tonight the show was called our town and I dropped by the booth once a month Sunday evenings. If you like the show will come back next month and we'll do some other thing. We haven't thought of yet but I'm sure we will and in the meantime we're continuing to take you through 1965 playlist from the classics already your station k.v.i.a. Lucky 13 out of Oakland California and in its heyday it was playing all kinds of great soul music and a lot of it just like you're hearing tonight so let's keep it going on. You. All right Peter Bligh actually with you here on Katie m.r. And we're doing some music to soothe the soul from the 1965 k.v.i.a. Playlist from that great radio station and we've gone through pretty much all of the songs that were on that playlist in January of 6580 I and. That last song we just heard was by the radiance called Voice your choice and before that we had been taking singing and 7 letters and a great Walter Jackson doing it's all over before that changed around with a tune called Have Mercy Baby the in crowd would Dobie Gray I think about that song the in crowd that was in 1965 and I'm thinking would you call grab what you call them social media influencers today instead of the in crowd maybe you're a social media influence or something like that. Before that we had Little Anthony and The Imperials going on in my head and Major Lance do and sometimes I wonder All right let's get a little more contemporary We have a little more time left in the show this hour and of course following the show our town will be town probably want to call it our town to go into the town make sense . You know so we're going to go to was something a little more contemporary right now gentleman by the name of Leon bridges. 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Aerial Canada the weather award winning filmmaker. And somehow why brushfire recording artist Jack. Joins me now in welcoming if he were. Forced. Thank you very Bonnie thank you hello and welcome to the town hall. We have got 3 guests who are adventurers and we're going to get to go on a journey with our fellow travelers this week they are going to the 4 corners of the earth and reporting back to work through their songs they are noticing what's going on around them we've got a filmmaker who literally went around the world looking at coral reef we've got an actor singer and poet who's chronicling her changing personal and we've got a world class surfer who's also a filmmaker only a musician too who has long been committed to the health of the oceans that he loves to plan and I think it was about 15 years ago the 1st time that Jack Johnson came to the town we had heard about him from Ben Harper and we discovered of Commonwealth of guitars and news again we all shared a desire really to try to lift things up making a little better and that was the very beginning of his career of course he went on to sell millions of records and a good 1000000 tickets to his live shows that Arenas and huge venues all over the world any tapped into something really universal along the way something kind of accessible songs about love and friendship who's committed it all to the ocean's continues with a new film he's involved with an. He has a new record also called all the light above it too so please tell me welcome back to the town Jack John. Aloisi Abdullah. Thank you thank. You Very Much Music with us today.