Remembering Dusty Street

Whether or not she was the very best of all the remarkably talented deejays of the Freeform Radio era, there were none bettter than the late, great Dusty Street. She was one of the very first female jocks when Tom Donahue founded KMPX-FM and had the good sense to hire her, first for her engineering skills but very soon thereafter for her brilliant taste in music. She rocked the airwaves from Day One and drew a huge, devoted audience.

Dusty knew the music and she knew how to present it, neatly wrapped with her sulty voice and generous personality. It carried her through several generations in the evolution of radio broadcasting, from those halcyon days in the late Sixties and into the Seventies - a time, she said, "It was all about the freedom. It was never about the money, it was never about the acclaim, it was all about the freedom."- to "her goth" days at KROQ and KLOS in Los Angeles and onto a long stretch at Sirius Satellite Radio and finally to her broadcasts from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

Through it all, she never lost her love of music and never stopped championing the new stuff, wherever and whenever she found it. She was a remarkable talent and a persistent example of how to make magic on the airwaves. You can hear her at work in a soundcheck from KSAN October 4, 1972 on our Soundcloud archive (https://soundcloud.com/feed).