Single Minded Saturday

The Program

Single Minded Saturday was among the first programs broadcast on KPFT, first airing March 7, 1970, the station's seventh day, and first Saturday, on the air. It was conceived as a day-long broadcast dedicated to a single topic.

That format would prove to be challenging to maintain and within a month, the program had shifted to an afternoon-only segment, eventually settling into a 7 PM-Midnight timeslot.

Along with every other program on KPFT, Single Minded Saturday did not air from May 12, 1970 until the first week in June, due to the first station bombing, although the May, 1970 folio did provide a full schedule of what might have been.

September, 1970 appears to be the final month for the program under that name, as the October, 1970 folio lists in its' place Schizoid Saturday.

Program Topics

1. March 7: The Beatles
2. March 14: George Bernard Shaw
3. March 21: Combat
4. March 28: The City

1. April 4: Lewis Carroll (begin afternoon only broadcast)
2. April 11: Four Voices (Simone, King, Davis, Fitzgerald)
3. April 18: Bertold Brecht
4. April 25: The Texas Blues (Hopkins, Lipscomb, Jefferson, Leadbelly)

1. May 2: Dan McClosky (radio documentarian) presents six of his productions
2. May 9: A poetry open house (well know and local poets)
3. May 16: The 13th Floor Elevators (UNAIRED DUE TO TRANSMITTER BOMBING)
4. May 23: The Silver Screen & After (UNAIRED DUE TO TRANSMITTER BOMBING)
5. May 30: Louder & Funnier (UNAIRED DUE TO TRANSMITTER BOMBING)

1. June 6: The Beatles (not a re-broadcast, a do-over)
2. June 13: Bob Dylan
3. June 20: The Art Of The Beach Boys
4. June 27: The 13th Floor Elevators

1. July 4: Charles Ives, American (now in the 7PM to midnight time slot)
2. July 11: The Rolling Stones Revisited
3. July 18: Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young or You Can Get There From Here
4. July 25: The Enormous Country: The Music Of Mexico & David T. Lopez

1. August 1: Garfunkel & Simon
2. August 8: Lenny Bruce
3. August 15: A Group Called Love
4. August 22: Chico Hamilton, Dave Brubeck, Modern Jazz Quartet, Ramsey Lewis, & Mystery Vocalist
5. August 29: Zappa

1. The September schedule is difficult to interpret, but may include several Single Minded Saturdays