The Power of Love

January 14, 1976

January 14, 1976

So we eventually told everyone that I was pregnant. Soda and Candy kept their promise not to tell anyone that they already knew. The hard part was keeping KJ form saying anything for a week cause Candy had pretty much told him, even though I'm pretty sure that he wasn't completely sure of what she had said that day, or he was just confused by the whole thing. I'm still not quite sure about that.

I also told Andy and Lina at the radio station. At some point, I pretty had to tell them. Since I had to be at the station so early, I'd kinda have to rush around and for some reason, it'd make me sick. Before I told Andy or Lina, they'd get worried since it would happen every day and not just once or twice. At that point, I definitely had to tell them to ease their nerves that nothing was wrong with me. I didn't mind telling them- until Andy surprised me and announced on the air one day an hour before the show ended. I was annoyed at first since it was on the spare of the moment, but now I just kinda laugh at it.

"Next, we have Hello, I Love You by the Doors," I said into the microphone.

"Then after that," Andy said into his own microphone, "Stick around for a little of America's British invasion." He pressed the button on the soundboard that would play the already selected music which included the Doors, Genesis, George Harrison, Rod Stewart and Led Zeppelin.

Once that song started to play and the microphones were turned off, our boss- Mr. Wilson- came into the studio, nearly running. "We truly work at the best radio station in Oklahoma," he said eagerly.

Andy and I shared confused looks. "Why? What'd we do? And did the ratings prove that?" Andy asked.

Mr. Wilson looked ecstatic and I don't think I've ever seen him so ecstatic. "I was able to arrange for you two to air from a live concert on July fourth, this year. But it's not just gonna be any concert, it's gonna be a huge one to celebrate America's two-hundredth birthday."

"Whose concert is it?" I asked.

"You guys aren't going to believe me when I tell you... that it's Elvis Presley!"

"Are you serious?" I asked with excitement.

Mr. Wilson nodded. "Yes, I am," he smiled, "On July fourth of this year, America's Bicentennial, you two are going to be broadcasting live from an Elvis Presley concert."

Apparently, Mr. Wilson knew one of the people who would schedule concerts all throughout the state of Oklahoma. Every month, the two would get together and discuss all the upcoming concerts for that month throughout the whole state. They had met up the night before for their usual meeting, and his friend was all excited about a specific concert- which was the Elvis Presley concert. He was also able to arrange it so that we could have special backstage passes for friends and family- even with all the people I knew, cause apparently Mr. Wilson had mentioned how large of a group I knew, and his friend said that it was fine for me to bring them all.

Andy and I couldn't actually announce the concert on the air till the middle of February. At that point, we would start having radio contests for people to try and win tickets for the concert. We'd have a contest once every morning, Monday through Friday. There would be one of these contests twice a day on the station, once during our show and once during the evening show. It seemed pretty fun to me, and the person who did the evening show who'd worked as a DJ for the station for ten years said he'd done contests before and they really were fun and exciting, which made the whole thing more exciting for me.

Once we finished off the show for the morning, I drove to Mrs. Mathews' house. I still had about an hour and a half before I had to pick up KJ from preschool, so I had some time to kill since I had nothing to do at the moment. Her house was on my way home from the radio station, so every day that I didn't have something to do before picking up KJ, I would stop by her place about half an hour to an hour, then stop home before going to pick up KJ from the preschool at 12:45 in the afternoon.