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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">DocMcCoy</strong> said:</div><div><blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">RAJ</strong> said:</div><div>This station had a HUGE influence on me when I lived in CT in the mid 80s.<br />
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	The first time I heard "Jam on It", "White Lines,"  "Ain't No Body" was on KISS FM???. and the Red Alert Shows!??? Legendary NYC right there.<br />
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	RIP</div></blockquote>
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	This station had a huge influence on <em>me</em> when I lived in the North-West of England in the early 80s.  Peter Powell's evening show on Radio 1 used to do a regular monthly Monday night link-up with Kiss when it was still in its infancy, and they'd play whatever was hot in New York that weekend along with some of the specials Shep Pettibone used to do, and may even have featured a mix by Tony Humphries on a couple of occasions (can't be certain of that, though). That brief taste of what was happening on NY radio and in the clubs was one of the things that drew me towards DJing. I know that I went out and bought the Kiss-FM Mastermixes comp that Prelude put out in 1982, solely on the basis of what got played in that monthly half-hour feature.</div></blockquote>
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	You're probably right about the Tony Humphries part, I've seen Kiss mixes from him dating back to the earliest '80s sprinkled among the blogosphere.  I know I have a couple on tape, from the 90's though and they might have even been off Hot 97, although they had Glenn Friscia and Hex Hector around that time.

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