Feast Your Ears: The Story of WHFS 102.3 FM
2023•1h 36m•Released
DocumentaryMusic
Built out of “a pile of radio junk,” Bethesda, Maryland’s WHFS was a music fan’s dream of a radio station: the place on the dial to hear music listeners loved and new tunes they soon would, all with an anything-goes mentality and an ear for the sounds of social change. This doc pays loving tribute to free-form radio and WHFS’s influence over FM stations across the US from the 1960s to the 1980s. All good things come to an end, and so did the disc-jockey-driven format that WHFS pioneered and made successful, but its legacy lives on. The station’s DJs relate its history with passion in this film that captures the tenor of an era, abetted by reminiscences of performers including Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Jesse Colin Young, and others whose music found its way to ears and minds eager for something more than the same old Top 40 programming.
Director
Jay Schlossberg
Languages
English
Studio
Media Central Films
Cast
Emmylou Harris
Performer
Taj Mahal
Performer
Jesse Colin Young
Performer
Bonnie Raitt
Performer
Production
Company
Media Central Films
Producer
Dick Bangham
Producer
Linda Bangham
Producer
Eileen Brengle
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