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        GOLDEN GATE GREATS

KYA Golden Gate Greats is a unique, local San Francisco Bay Area Internet radio station. We play top quality, original rock and roll from the KYA days of 1955-1966. We then add artists and songs from all other years that fit our format. KYA Golden Gate Greats is programmed for longer listening, perfect for your work day or just hanging at home. Unlike AM & FM radio stations, playing the same 250-500 songs over and over and over again, we play over 5,000 of the greatest songs of all time. Rockabilly from the City is our specialty. KYA, an education in rock history.

You will hear music from: 

  • Elvis Presley           The Beatles                Eddie Cochran           Rolling Stones        Animals                    Coasters/Drifters/Dylan      

  • Buddy Holly             The Kinks                   Wanda Jackson         Beach Boys             Everly Brothers       Doors/Jimi Hendrix

  • Gene Vincent           Gene Vincent              Little Richard            Patsy Cline              Carl Perkins             Fats Domino/Cliff Richard

  • Aretha Franklin       Jack Scott                  Chuck Berry              4 Tops/Temps          Roy Orbison            Johnny Horton/J. Cash

  • Yardbirds/Clapton   Dave Edmunds          Ricky Nelson             Marvin Gaye            Otis Redding            Jackie Wilson/Pickett  

  • Dion/J.L. Lewis        Bo Diddley                 Sam Cooke                Led Zeppelin           The Who/DC5           Stevie Wonder/Smokey

 

Rock & Roll to Soul, Blues to Boogie, and Motown to the San Francisco Sound - it can all be found here at KYA Golden Gate Greats! 

Bay Area artists like: 

  • Boz Scaggs                                        Tower of Power                  Bobby Freeman        Etta James               Elvin Bishop/Country Joe  

  • Creedence Clearwater Revival        Steve Miller                         Beau Brummels       Pointer Sisters        Stevie Nicks/Quicksilver

  • Janis Joplin/Huey Lewis                 Jefferson Airplane              Doobie Brothers       Jackie Gotroe           Benn Joe Zeppa

  • Santana/Van Morrison                    Grateful Dead                      John Lee Hooker      Greg Kihn                 Sugar Pie DeSanto

  • Sly & The Family Stone                    Wendy and Bonnie             Johnny Otis               Taz Devils                 Mojo Men/Vejtables       

  • Sir Douglas Quintet                          Jimmy McCracklin              Larry Williams          Chris Isaak               Neil Young/Kingston Trio              

 

 

... and over a hundred more Bay-Faves. We don't miss a San Francisco beat! 


The SF Bay Area, much like the rest of world, needs fun, independent radio voices to offset the damage done to the airwaves over the years by ... the big guys. Now it has a new one, with the new KYA Golden Gate Greats. Be sure and tell all your friends!

POP GOES THE NEWS!

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ron Wood are back with their first studio album in 18 years and it rocks, "Hackney Diamonds." Here at Radio KYA we're playing fresh cuts from the album on pink vinyl. Wait until you hear Mick wail with a very special lady, Lady Gaga, they nail it

on the critically acclaimed "Sweet Sounds of Heaven." Jagger at age 82 still clings to his bad boy image and drops three f-bombs on "Bite My Head off," bad boy! My grand mother used to wash my mouth out with soap and all I said to her was no I won't. The new album features incredible performances by Paul McCartney, original Stones bass player; Bill Wyman, now 89, Stevie Wonder and Lady Gaga. STONES!

Sparks are flying with Ron and Russell Mael and their cool new tunes "Veronica Lake." and My Devotion." Keep doing that awesome little dance Ron, that only you can do. Whew! Radio KYA with new rockabilly from The City: JD McPherson sings "I Can't Go Anywhere With You" and "Rock And Roll Girls," John Lindberg Trio with "Cry Cry Cry," Jerry Lee's sister - Linda Gail Lewis belts out "I'm Diggin' My Way Out Of Here" and The Bullets jam "Ain't Too Late to Bop." Rockabilly from The City sizzles on KYA with deep cuts.

For instance, Alis Lesley, a female Elvis Presley. She is so talented Bob Dylan put her on the front cover of his latest best selling book, "The Philosophy of Modern Song." Thank you for listening to KYA!

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Dion is on the charts again with a new album "The Rock 'N' Roll Philosopher" the 86 year old Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee is rockin' better than ever with KYA Number One Hits -  New York Minute" and "Gangster Of Love." "Dion, like a circling star that never fades, generates the energy and fire we need to pull ourselves up and start again," according to Peter Townsend of The Who.

British Invasion is alive and well in 2025.

Childhood friends, Allan Clarke and Graham Nash are back together for a new song, "Buddy's Back," written by Nash for Clarke's new album, "I'll Never Forget."

Clarke and Nash formed The Hollies in 1962 in honor of their hero, Buddy Holly. Nash left the band at the end of 1968 and Clarke stayed on to write and sing "Long Cool Woman" among other big hits.

The Zombies were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. Fifty-five years earlier they came to New York City

at ages 19 to perform their hit "She's Not There." The Zombies led by keyboard wiz, Rod Argent and lead singer, Colin Blunstone, continue to shine with their incredible creativity and endless talent.

Listen for fresh cuts from their new album,

"Different Game." Blunstone's voice, wow!

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