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The Pete Chaston Doo-Wop Show of July 4, 2021, edited for Mixcloud. Featured on this show: "Row Your Boat" by The Chanters from 1963, the Silly Song Segment, and dozens of doo-wop songs from the fifties and early sixties.
Pete Chaston (*1943—†2022) was a retired meteorologist who volunteered as a doo-wop deejay on various radio stations like KCXL 1140 AM (1996–2004), KRKT Rock-it Radio (2006–2020) and KPGZ-lp 102.7 FM (2017–2022). He died on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 in Kearney, Missouri, at the age of 78.
Note: This show was reposted because it was accidentally marked as a "track".
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Hello , my name is Bill and I live in Washington state I first heard Pete on Rock-it radio. I enjoyed his enthusiasm and the doo wop. Now I listen to several doo wop shows as well as doowopradio.com. But none of them are as much fun as Pete’ s shows. Are gou going to be able to post anymore of his early shows? I would really enjoy hearing them . Thank you for the effort you’ve already put into making his shows available . You obviously worked with Pete for many years Care to share how you met him
Bill, I still have a few dozen Rock-it Radio shows from 2016–2020, but since last December I can no longer publish any new shows here without either removing at least 224 of the existing shows, or upgrading my free account to a Pro membership for €99 a year.
Last year I already published Pete's first six (or eight) Rock-it Radio shows from 2016 and five more from 2015 and 2016. Those shows were all edited and presented here in near-FM stereo quality, so they sound considerably better than anything Rock-it Radio ever published, but nevertheless some of those shows still haven't even been played half a dozen times in more than six months. This strongly suggests that not many people are still interested in those old shows, which makes me wonder if publishing them all here still serves any purpose—especially if I also have to start paying for that.
However, I can still publish up to 10 shows under my own name and simply repost them here, so that they'll show up on the Doo Wop Shows stream as well. Then I just won't be able to keep all those shows online indefinitely until I "go Pro", but that way I can at least keep entertaining you and a handful of other fans for free. I just uploaded another show that you'll hopefully enjoy.
As for your last question: I live in the Netherlands and since there was always literally an ocean between us, Pete and I never actually met, but we already made contact on the internet in the second half of 1998 and in 1999 I had already started publishing some edited segments with highlights from his his shows for on-demand playback on a little webserver, so what I have been doing here on Mixcloud since September 2017 is basically the same as what I already did from 1999 until 2005.