Author Archives: Jeff Winfield

Happy 80th Birthday to Blondie's Debbie Harry! In celebration, today's Forgotten 45 at 3:45 is from the group, from 1979 "Dreaming". She co-founded Blondie with guitarist Chris Stein in New York in th...

Welcome to the Monday edition of the Forgotten 45 at 3:45! For today's choice we go back to the charts on June 30th, 1984 for the Thompson Twins with "Doctor Doctor"! The British new wave trio recorde...

105.7 KOKZ welcomes the biggest hot-roddin' party of the year to Des Moines this weekend! It's the Goodguys 34th Speedway Motors Heartland Nationals at the Iowa State Fairgrounds July 4th-6th. Check o...

As we head toward for the 4th of July holiday on Friday, we've put together a list of area fireworks displays in Eastern Iowa. If you have any additions or corrections, please send them to me at jwinf...

Today's Forgotten 45 at 3:45 is part of Nina Blackwood's Total Recall Top 5 from 1984. From Laura Branigan it's "Self Control" a song you can hear again on Absolutely 80's Saturday night at 9. The tit...

105.7 KOKZ is your home for classic American Top 40 shows every weekend! Saturday morning at 9 Casey Kasem has the top songs from June 21st, 1975 and Sunday morning at 8 join him for the top songs fro...

For today's Forgotten 45 at 3:45 we celebrate the birthday of Carly Simon! The singer-songwriter is celebrating her 82nd trip around the sun so how about a hit from 1978 "You Belong to Me". Carly had ...

For today's Forgotten 45 at 3:45 we celebrate the 78th birthday of Mick Fleetwood with their 1987 hit "Seven Wonders". The song appears on their album "Tango in the Night" which was the 5th and final ...

I'm not sure where or how I got today's Forgotten 45 at 3:45 stuck in my head, but now it will be stuck in yours! From 1981 it's the Tom Tom Club with "Genius of Love". A group that was originally a s...

Welcome to the first weekend of Summer! Every Saturday night from 9 to midnight, we let Nina Blackwood take over for 3 hours of Absolutely 80's tunes. It's where I found today's Forgotten 45 at 3:45 f...