Ep. 54: Pat O’Day 65th Anniversary Tribute for National DJ Day

Feliks Banel presents a tribute to late Pacific Northwest DJ and pop culture renaissance man Pat O’Day on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY. With a vintage aircheck and two long excerpts from an oral history recorded by WSU Professor Hugh Rundell in the late 1970s, we hear directly from Pat O’Day about his early influences and his peripatetic radio career around the Evergreen State (and a corner of the Beaver State). O’Day, born Paul Berg, made his Seattle debut on KAYO – and introduced his “Pat O’Day” deejay name – 65 years ago on February 1, 1959. This LIVE broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY was originally presented at 8pm Pacific Standard Time on Sunday, January 21, 2024 via SPACE 101.1 FM and streaming live via space101fm.org from studios at historic Magnuson Park – formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.