Happy New Year!  Seems like only yesterday we were stocking up on canned tuna and bottled water as we prepared for 2000.   I'd ask where the last dozen years went but I already know:  to my hips, my thighs, my stomach.   As long as I'm reminiscing, it was exactly thirty years ago this month that I started working at KBCO!  Dennis Constantine hired me to work the overnight shift so yeah, I guess you could say I was a lady of the night.  It was pretty lonely being in the studio around 3am but luckily there were other 3rd shifters to commiserate with and make frequents requests for the likes of "Ain't Nobody Here but us Chickens" by Asleep at the Wheel.  Ah, good times.

That was then, this is now.  I still love my job and you are a big part of why I enjoy coming in to work every day.  So please, keep the phone calls and emails coming my way.  It can get lonely at 2pm too.

I wanted to take this opportunity as 2011 nears its close to thank you so much for your continued support of 97.3. KBCO.   As much as I enjoy the music and interviewing the likes of Sting and Sarah McLachlan, the best part of my job is you!  I enjoy your emails and  phone calls, and most of all I enjoy meeting you at events.  Please, if our paths cross, don't hesitate to come up and say hi so I can personally thank you for listening to KBCO.

Happy Holidays and all the best to you and your family in 2012!

Ginger

Lyle Lovett will perform at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House (DCPA) on January 4.  Wanna go?  Submit a select a set and I'll try and play it this week at noon so I can give you a pair of tickets.  This offer ends Friday, 12/16!

This week on the KBCO Select A Set Lunch I'm giving away a weekend filled with entertainment!  If I play your set by Friday (11/11), you get two tickets for Saturday's game between the Colorado Buffs and Arizona Wildcasts, and a pair of tickets for Stephen Stills' concert at the Ogden on Sunday.    Sure beats staying home to watch "The Real Housewives of Atlanta!" 

Where did the month of October go?  Over the weekend I was doing some shopping and I couldn't believe the Christmas ornaments were already out and one store had already switched to full-time caroling!  I'm no Scrooge, but really, do we have to start decking the halls quite so soon? 

Thank you so much if you submitted a set for the KBCO Select A Set Weekend.   I really enjoyed the great variety of music and heard some artists and songs that I hadn't heard in ages.  Once again the response was incredible which means we couldn't play everyone's set.  Ah, but if we didn't get to yours, I still might play it at noon on the KBCO Select A Set Lunch.  And, if that happens before Friday, 11/4, you'll get tickets for a Colorado Avalanche game.