When I recall the St. Louis radio scene from 30 years ago, I remember that the compact disc was a novelty then. In Autumn '85, I remember Leo Chears saying during a Streetside Records commercial on WMRY that the store now offered "the latest in stereo technology, the compact disc." A DJ on KSHE, running through the list of albums scheduled to be played in full during the station's "7th Day" show one Sunday, said that one album "will sound really crisp and clean in your ears because it'll be played on the compact disc player." On KSHE and other stations, DJs would sometimes lead into songs by saying, "Let's head to the compact disc player." Looking back, hardly anyone on the air referred to a compact disc as a CD then.
How time flies, technologically...
