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Today's Forgotten 45 is from Billy Ocean. Billy was born in Trinidad and raised in England. He had 12 Top 40 hits during his career, including today's Forgotten 45 at 3:45, "Loverboy" which hit #2 bac...

It's National Disc Jockey Day and 105.7 KOKZ has been blessed with many great talents over the years and this morning in my check-in with Mike Waters, he tells the story of the time he was a human pia...

Today's Forgotten 45 is a song that will appear on American Top 40 the 70's this Saturday. It's Randy Newman's "Short People". The verses and chorus are lyrically constructed as a prejudiced attack on...

We are looking forward to Hairball in concert this Saturday night at 7 as they rock the Hippodrome on the National Cattle Congress Fairgrounds in Waterloo! It's an evening of bombastic rock paying hom...

Today is the 6th anniversary of the death of Glenn Frey, who sadly passed away on this date in 2016. Glenn of course is best known for his work with a little band called The Eagles where Glenn sang cl...

It's safe to say that 20 year old me had a huge crush on Terri Nunn, the lead singer of Berlin. Today's Forgotten 45 at 3:45 is from the band, that like most in the 80's reached higher levels of fame ...

Loverboy is back with their first new music in eight years! "Release" was written originally by guitarist Paul Dean for a metal band that he was going to produce, but the group decided not to use the ...

The National Weather Service has moved the Winter Storm Warning east so it now includes Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, and Iowa City TV-9's Kaj O'Mara says the snow may be heavy at times and look for it to o...

Is from the Bangles as guitarist Vicki Peterson celebrates her 64th birthday today. Today's Forgotten 45 is "Hazy Shade of Winter" a song that reached #2 on the charts in 1987. The song was originally...

Happy 74th Birthday to Steely Dan's Donald Fagen! The band had 10 Top 40 hits on the Billboard charts, and in 1982, Donald hit #26 with today's Forgotten 45 at 3:45, "I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)",...