In fact, he even named the production company for the movie Boss Film Productions. AM radio was the only way to hear new music back then, and I’m sure those memories provided the same sentiment for Tarantino. I was a child of the 1970s, and would often fall asleep with a little transistor radio tucked under my pillow playing the Bee Gees and the Jackson 5.
Hearing those original Boss Radio jingles and commercials brought tears to my ears. (For those raised firmly in the era of iPods and music streaming, airchecks are breaks between songs when DJs remind you what station you’re listening to, which songs you’re about to hear, and which ones you’ve already heard.) As the enthusiastic crowd waited for the movie to start, some of those airchecks played on the loud speaker. On the film’s opening night, I was lucky enough to attend a screening at Tarantino’s own New Beverly Cinema. Tarantino and his longtime music supervisor, Mary Ramos, listened through 14 hours of original KHJ airchecks from 1969 to set the perfect tone…and the result is…well, a bit emotional. The film is an homage to Los Angeles in 1969, and features radio station KHJ, also known as Boss Radio, which created a format that changed the sound and content of pop radio in the ’60s.
And yet Tarantino takes it a step even further. We are treated to Roy Head & the Traits, the Mamas & the Papas, Neil Diamond, Deep Purple, Vanilla Fudge, and Paul Revere and the Raiders, among others. In director Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, not only do the sets, wardrobe, and street transformations create an authentic setting, so does the music. Before the digital age, there was AM radio and disc jockeys who broke the hits on stations like KHJ.
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