Famous Firsts with Kenny Wall
Kenny Wall
Founder/Partnered Programming Group & Program Director
KXNA (The X 104.9)/Fayetteville, AR
Started one week out of high school in 1984 at KVOM in Morrilton, AR. I was actually spinning records at that time. We didn’t have a playlist, we just had three boxes of music we chose from and played them. There was some method to the madness, but not much. Taught me about programming early. Also, a lot of how I treat people now comes from the lessons I learned from the station owner Stan Willis. Lots of lessons learned.
Willie Nelson with Delbert McClinton at the Pine Bluff Convention Center in Pine Bluff, AR I believe in 1980.
I think it was the 45 of “You Decorated My Life” by Kenny Rogers. Not proud of that.
Keith Whitley. He was such a nice man. He was playing a show at a local bar and invited me to the show. Afterwards, he brought me onto the bus and showed me the video to the song “When You Say Nothing At All”. It had not been released yet. One thing I remember him saying was, he refused to kiss the actress in the video because he felt that would be disrespecting to his wife. Solid dude.
At KVOM, I was doing the evening show. Now, I was also in college and was partying pretty hard. One night I was particularly tired. I put on “There’s No Way” by Alabama and decided to rest my eyes. What I think was about 10 minutes later, I woke up to the clicking sound of the record and the phone ringing. Luckily, nobody working at the station heard that. Lesson learned.
