Like many colorful radio programs on many small college radio stations in the country it has come to pass. KVCU-AM is still there, but the host of Skip Pop Scratch, Kathy E. Gatliffe has moved on. She is no longer at KVCU, and no hosts her masterful 3-hour program and longer DJs the monthly Denver Barn Dance at the Mercury Cafe. In September of 2003 she had a co-host "Danny" but he was gone from the website early the following year. The last time the website was updated was October 2006. I presume that was somewhere around the final airdate. In 2007 there's a note about switching servers and a link to some audiobook recordings she did for Librivox.org"Skip Pop Scratch is three hours of blues, folk and country broadcast on Radio 1190, KVCU Boulder, Colorado from 10 - 1 pm mountain time. It can be heard on 1190 am along the front range in Colorado (roughly between Ft. Collins and Castle Rock.)"
KVCU-AM is a small station, they don't go dark at night, but they do power down to a mere 110 watts. Few people outside the Boulder community were able to hear her program. They don't know what they're missing. So, to that end I'm sharing a couple segments from my aircheck tape. I've edited out the music, I'm afraid copyright law won't permit more than that. Enjoy:
December 15th 2002 - Skip Pop Scratch
Kathy inherited the 1190 Skip Pop Scratch show from her sister. Danny would host or co-host a SPS show occasionally for about a two year period but eventually left to work for the ill-fated KCUV-AM "Americana" experiment in Denver. Not sure what happened to Kathy (she was in engineering grad school) but Danny moved to Phoenix 3 or 4 years ago and still maintains a streaming web site: http://radiovagabond.com/
ReplyDeleteI've got years of SPS digital archives. Someday I should post them somewhere.
Yes you should!
ReplyDeleteWow! I can't believe you remembered the show for so long! I'm still in Boulder but I'm a jeweler now.
ReplyDeleteAnd I created the show, but there was a period of time in the middle when I was unable to do it and my sister took over.
Thanks so much!!!
It was truly one of the best undiscovered radio programs I've ever found.
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