Yuck! Ugh! I've just discovered that Rush Limbaugh was broadcasting on Pittsburgh radio on the station I listened to religiously as a teenager!

I feel soiled. Station KQV was the ONE station everyone in my junior high school, and my siblings' various high school classes listened to daily. Our favorite dj was Jim Quinn, who was on anytime I seemed to turn on the radio. That guy was terribly popular. He did occasional high-school spoofs, in which he made fun of the teachers at a particular school for you; I clearly recall him saying Hi to Miss K, the geometry teacher, by clucking like a chicken. This was because she moved like a chicken, and everyone called her the chicken lady.

I listened to that station nearly every day. On January 1st each year, we'd all listen to the big Top 100 countdown of most popular songs. We drew up a list of them, because I don't think the station published that list anywhere. I remember in 1972/3 the top song was, of all things, Joy to the World by 3 Dog Night. That year was an enormous letdown. I was hoping Bill WIthers would have come out higher.

The name Limbaugh apparently worked under was Jeff Christie. I remember that name, but not the voice accompanying it. Occasionally, in National Record Mart at the register, there were stacks of little radio advertising flyers with not photos, but drawn silhouettes, I think, of the regular daytime djs; I remember Jim Quinn had a big beard, but do not remember what Jeff Christie looked like in the drawing. I did not see a photo of Jim Quinn, even, until years later. He too went into right-wing political radio. Oddly enough.

To think that Rush L invaded my airwaves back then, and thus my memories, gives me some really strange nausea.