KROY would continue to play current hits of the day ; the " Big Bands ," Frank Sinatra, and other legendary crooners.

This competition would continue through the 1960s with KROY usually winning the ratings.

Supplemented by occasional ( and sometimes outlandish ) promotions for concerts, clothing, movies, and Cal Expo July 4 fireworks shows, KROY would become the number one radio station in the Sacramento area for years.

KROY ( 1240 AM ) was a top 40 radio station in Sacramento, California known for its " music power " pop / rock format and on-air talent.

In its early years, KROY programmed live news reports and entertainment while carrying network programming and playing the popular hits of the time.

In 1965, she was working as a secretary at Top 40 radio station, KROY in Sacramento, California, when one of her mother's compositions, " All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers " was recorded and became a No. 10 country hit by Merle Haggard.

KROY was initiated in 1937 by station owner Royal Miller ( for whom the station's call letters were named ) and originally operated at 1210 kHz with 100 watts of power.

But with new ownership taking over by 1954, the FM station was abandoned in favor of putting all efforts into KROY.

By 1974, KROY had adopted the Bill Drake format including jingles played on other Drake-Chenault stations.

Employees switched back-and-forth between the two stations, records were stolen from each other with claims " You heard it first on ...", even local favorites The Beach Boys recorded promos claiming " When we're in Sacramento we listen to number one radio ..." KROY had also moved its studios to 11th and J Streets ( 1010 11th Street ), occupying the second floor above the Country Maid Restaurant.

Even after KROY changed to The Eagle as a classic rock station, the ratings remained dismal leading to a change of format in 1991 to a Top 40 / modern rock music hybrid which evolved into a modern rock music format.

The KROY staff during this era included Hyde and his morning-drive " Uncle John's Fun Club ," midday personalities Bob Sherwood and Martin ” Wonder Rabbit Ashley, Chuck Roy (" the deejay from KROY ) handled afternoon drive with humor and a horn off a Model T Ford.

For a brief time in the late 1960s into the 1970s, KROY carried programming from American Contemporary Radio, a division of ABC Radio.

In the Spring of 1987, KROY beat KSFM in the Arbitron ratings for the first time.

KROY had an incredible radio team running things during this time.

On April 1, 1996, in an April Fools ' Day stunt, KROY returned to the airwaves one last time ( on what was now KSEG ) as many of KROY's DJs-including Dave Williams, Johnny Hyde, and Martin " Wonder Rabbit " Ashley-reunited for an historic twelve-hour broadcast recreating a typical KROY broadcast day.

On March 29, 1941, KROY was reassigned to 1240 kHz where it stayed for the remainder of the station's history.

Following the war, KROY increased its power to 250 watts and carried network programming from the Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ) In 1950, KROY attempted to expand its services with a 12, 500 watt FM station located at 94. 5 MHz.

By the end of the decade, KROY had increased its daytime power to 1000 watts.

In 1960, KROY flipped to a Top 40 format competing against the stronger-signaled KXOA which had made the switch earlier.

The KROY transmitter, which had been located in the southeastern part of the city ( on KROY Way ), was moved to the Sacramento City Dump at 24th and A Streets where the organic materials supposedly increased broadcast output.

In response, KROY hired Johnny Hyde away from KXOA to be the station's program director.

A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.

He would not have cared why it emerged, he only wanted to capture a memory to play with it again in his imagination and somehow to fix and hold in the story the disturbing emotions that accompanied the fantasy.

Sometimes, Mrs. Coolidge would close herself in the Green Suite on the second floor, and play the piano she had brought to the White House.

How literature does this, or for whom, is certainly not clear, but the content, form, and language of the `` message '', as well as the source, would all play differentiated parts in giving and molding a sense of purpose.

Later this play would be called Welcome To Our City.

In the spring, it must have been, he began working on the play that he called The House, which later would be Mannerhouse.

Such a revision, he said, would ruin it, would change his whole conception of the play as well as the treatment.

This huge hulk played the guitar and he would take it along on our walks and play for us as we sat alone in the woods or by the stream.

Small, shirt-sleeved orchestras play in 2/4 or 4/4 time, using guitars, violins, and more alien instruments with names that would open Sesame: the oud, grandfather of the lute ; ;

It was all set up so there would be no dust anywhere and so that their children would color in the coloring room, paint in the painting room, play with blocks in the block house, and do all the other things in the proper rooms at exactly the right time.

The absence, during her childhood and early adolescence, of experiences in developing the self-discipline to complete tasks within her ability -- experiences that would have been subsequent sources of anticipation of achievement -- and her lack of childhood opportunities to practice autonomy and initiative in play and expression, both tend in her adolescence to deprive her of the freedoms to role-experiment and to fail occasionally in experimenting.

Or would you rather deal a hand of show-down poker or play a game of gin rummy, or what ''??

The Texas Aggies got a day off Monday -- a special gift from Coach Jim Myers for its conference victory last Saturday night, but Myers announced that halfback George Hargett, shaken up in the Tech game, would not play against Trinity Saturday.

The owners would like each club in the fourteen-team league to play a home-and-home series with teams in its division, plus two games against teams in the other division.

Benington recalled that he once told Hartweger that he doubted Gordon would ever play much for him because he seemed to be lacking in all of the accepted basketball skills.

He would come home in the evening tired and discouraged -- in no frame of mind to play with their three children, or spend much time chatting with his wife.

Given a small ball or marbles, he would invent games and play by himself for hours.

It was so pretty and artless that she felt like a child again and would have enjoyed running out barefoot to play on the wet grass with all the growing things, but Doaty never permitted bare feet and she was decidedly not a child but une femme d'un certain age.

The Persian Wars would play a large role in the playwright's life and career.

" and " Zalaga " As part of the copy protection, illegal copies of the games would cause a fully polyphonic rendition of Trumpet Hornpipe, the Captain Pugwash theme tune, to play endlessly rather than loading the game properly ( Pugwash being a pirate ).

The argument continues that the only justification humanity could give for its continued existence would be the past creation and continued creation of things like a Shakespeare play, a Rembrandt painting or a Bach concerto.

Nonetheless, it was clear to military thinkers on both sides that tanks would play a significant role in future conflicts.

The new rules mean that rather than representing the state of their adopted club, players would return to play for the state they were first recruited in.