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Welcome to ProfJeff.comv2.0
An Electronic Music Composer,
Professor of music technology & the recording arts,
Story Writer, Published Poet, Conceptual Artist, & Guest Lecturer
Welcome toThe Archive
Here you will find an assortment of audio files selected from my personal music library archive. All the audio was produced during my 13 years working for KUOP Public Radio. Much of the audio found here was recorded and produced in the KUOP production studios with the assistance of Pacific students. As always, the pride of the university exists within the skills, talents, achievements and success of Pacific students. Throughout my career at Pacific, it has been the students for which I have been honored to teach and serve.
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KUOP 91.3FM
KUOP 91.3FM Stockton/Modesto (originally KCVN) began broadcasting from the University of the Pacific in the Fall of 1947. At that time, it was financed and built by the College of Pacific which then became the University of the Pacific. It was the first FM stereo radio station on the West Coast, and one of the first 200 stations invited to join the newly established National Public Radio (NPR) network back in 1971. Broadcasting at 30,000 W from Burns Tower it served the Stockton community. In 1983, K UOP’s transmitter was relocated to Mount Oso in Stanislaus County. Now at an elevation of 2800 feet with a 7000 W transmitter output, KUOP broadcast radius covered most of the Central Valley. In 2000, KUOP moved to Sacramento after a format change to all news talk, resulting in a much lower local listener support. Today, KUOP, along with the entire NPR network has been defunded due to the elimination of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by the Trump administration. Public broadcasting in all of its diversity and clarity, just like our democracy, maybe now a thing of the past.
Main On-Air
On-air Announce
News Control
KUOP Productions
From 1987 to 2000, I was the production director for KUOP Public Radio, 91.3FM. Besides operating, producing, and managing our 2-track broadcast production studio (Studio C) and our two multitrack recording studios (Studio A & B), I was in charge of the production department which provided audio support for the station. Using the assistants and talents of Pacific students working at the station, recording projects and on air promotional materials were created, recorded, and broadcast throughout the Central Valley. This included recording and producing local concert series such as the Stockton and Modesto symphonies for on air programing, live studio performances for on-air show hosts, station IDs and underwriting announcements for marketing, and the creation of original promotional radio spots for the membership campaigns (see below). In addition, I was responsible for providing recording studio production services to individual clients and artists throughout the Central Valley.
The KUOP Membership Campaign
In the Fall and again in the Spring, for 2-weeks KUOP staff would break in to the regularly scheduled programing throughout the day, trying to encourage listeners to support the station by becoming a member. In order to break up the constant on air fundraising chatter, the production department was directed to produce original promotional announcements to motivate and entertain the listeners. Each campaign had a theme and the production department would produce promos related to that theme.
All the below public radio promos were produced in the 1990s when KUOP broadcast from the University of the Pacific. At that time the station was equally funded by the University, KUOP listeners, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CPB. It should be noted, in the current political climate the need for well-balanced journalism and free speech radio broadcasting is no longer possible. With the elimination of CPB, the last commercial-free media outlet is gone.
Here are a few KUOP station jingles and fund drive promos that were produced for a variety of on air membership campaigns. All of them were created, recorded and produced by the KUOP production department student staff (see below).
KUOP Public Radio Jingles
Public Radio NightmareZach Hammer
00:00 / 02:01
JazzOnTheRadio Jingle Jeff Crawford
00:00 / 02:52
We Want Your MoneyJeff Crawford
00:00 / 01:34
KUOP Recording Studio Projects
The KUOP recording studios were comprised of five attached rooms that housed an analog 4-track, an 8-track, and a 2-track broadcast radio production studio. Studio A was a 4-track, 10-inch Otari reel-to-reel recording studio with a Tapco 12 x 4 mixing console. The room was roughly triangular with a short doorway passage, with a glass window overlooking KUOPs full size recording, and live broadcast sound studio with baby grand piano. Studio B, the main recording and production studio (formally the 8-Trak analog recording studio) was similar in shape as the 4-track studio and also overlooked the live broadcast sound room. However when Studio B was upgraded in the mid 90s, a 16-track ADAT system with BRC (Big Remote Control) and a Mackie 24 x 8 mixing console was installed. The fifth room was the Studio C announce booth that was in between Studio C and Studio A. The announce booth was also used as a drum booth as it shared windows with Studio A and Studio C, the broadcast radio production studio. All these rooms were part of KUOP Productions for which I operated and managed
At the mixing board
Looking into the sound studio
Siting in the drum booth
Off She GoesTina Louise Barr
00:00 / 03:04
St. Louis BluesMidnight Rose Jazz Band
00:00 / 05:35
Spancil HillBlack Irish Band
00:00 / 04:00
Sugar HillPiney Creek Weasels
00:00 / 02:55
Distracted Again The InfamousThey
00:00 / 05:19
The Smuggler's SongJane Therlfall & Carl Horgsden
00:00 / 05:47
Natural BridgesDanilo
00:00 / 05:02
Planxty IrwinKatie O'Brian
00:00 / 02:04
Window to the PastBrandon Lee
00:00 / 01:29
Home Studio
In 1991, Home Studio hit the KUOP airwaves. This 1-hour program offered a multi-genre format and provided local and independent musicians, public radio broadcast air time throughout the Central Valley. The Home Studio program was the first public radio program in the nation that featured original home studio produced music created in small format home recording studios. Hosted by Jeff Crawford, the program aired on Monday evenings from 9 – 10pm.
Below you will hear some of the incredibly creative music sent to the Home Studio program. All the music was transferred from CD and is presented here without any audio processing. (Unfortunately, the cassette Home Studio library was discarded when KUOP moved to Sacramento.)
Only the CD album title, along with the track name will be shown. As you listen, keep in mind that Home Studio aired its last broadcast in the Fall of 1997. All the tracks presented here were recorded before that time and represents some of the most innovative and independent music produced in local home studios.
It should be also noted that today, roughly 30-years later, some of these home studio artists maybe successful songwriters, music producers, and stage performers. Regardless, it was KUOP’s Home Studio program that may have provided first exposure and the motivation for all of them to pursue their musical career.
If you click on each song’s play button and just briefly listen to the first few seconds of the selected track, you will clearly hear the wide range of musical styles and diverse lyrical content Home Studio offered. The honest outpouring of creativity by unsigned, independent musicians was freeing. This was the signature of public radio and the mission of Home Studio. The loss of that freedom by today’s corporately controlled music industry, like our democracy, is now hard to find.
Please note, all the Home Studio intro themes were recorded directly onto cassette, post radio broadcast signal.
Heme Studio Intro 1Jeff Crawford
00:00 / 04:33
HomeStudioIntro2Jeff Crawford
00:00 / 05:32
Home Studio Intro 3Artist Name
00:00 / 02:59
Home Studio Music
Torn From the Heart - Still Strangers
This is an E.P. - I'll Never (The Turkish Ska Song)
This is Reggae Style - Family Affair
The Way Home - Rainsong
Something Out There - Catfish and Truffles
Blue Ivory - Indian Summer
Out of Tailhook - Death Vallie Boardwalk
Morning Light - Blessed Be The Fool
Jamie Bonk - Offering
In the Mud - We Fall In Rain
First Light - So Here We Are
Etudes And Bagatelles - Watermusik
Dreamers Awaken - Birdsend
Clutch - A Fetish For Conflict
Desire Caught By The Tail - Elliott Dreams
Amador Country - Ron Curran
Under the Western Freewary - A.M. 180
The Will - Free Virginia
The Gate - Talk Radio
The Minstrel - Peace Be With You
Scattered Blue - Escape The Night
Rogue Rats - Shake your Moneymaker
N.U.B. - Borderline
Eclipse - Last Chance
Lost Zen - The Groove
Hali Hammer - Children's Crusade
In The Lounge - Leave a Message
Fetish Underground - Symphony of War and Crime
Detente - Save Our State
Dogmachine - Animal Farm
David Plumb - Galileo
Gorgeous - Last Play
“That’s the Way it Started”
In 1990, KUOP was approached by Cliff Dochterman, President of Rotary International and former University of the Pacific administrator, to produce a historical radio series about the early days in the San Joaquin Valley. Presented by the Bank of Stockton, “That’s the Way it Started” was a collection of historical audio vignettes. Each vignette was roughly a minute and a half in length, voiced by Cliff Dochterman, and bedded with original music. With Bank of Stockton tags at the start and end of the vignette, the series was aired throughout KUOP’s broadcast day.
The music beds were composed by KUOP’s Production Director, Jeff Crawford who recorded and engineered the project with assistants from the KUOP student production team.
Cliff Dochterman
I first met Cliff Dochterman in January of 1987 when I was being introduced to all the University administrators as the top candidate for Production Director of KUOP. Cliff was a very gentle man. He personally escorted me around the campus, making introductions for me to various department heads. When walking towards Burns Tower, he humorously remarked that the nine story tower was a large water tank designed to flush out university administrators when needed.
I had no idea he was the President of Rotary international or how influential he was throughout the world. Dochterman’s iconic status did not overtake his warm personality. To me, he came across as just a really nice guy.
My next encounter with Cliff Dochterman, was in a meeting with KUOP’s program Director and Station Manager Dennis Easter. The three of us met in the KUOP Manager’s office on the second floor of Hand Hall. Cliff presented his idea of short historical radio vignettes that he wrote and titled: “That’s the Way it Started.” Dennis and I agreed to take on the project, and I would begin recording the narration tracks for the series.
Cliff Dochterman passed away on November 23, 2021. This part of my website is in memory of his enduring spirit to Stockton, the University of the Pacific, the San Joaquin Valley, and the world.
The Production Process
After recording roughly 20 of the narration tracks, Cliff said it would be nice to have some kind of music behind the voice. As the stories had a clearly western feel, I suggested using music composed by Aaron Copeland. Copeland’s music fit with the narration, but as the stories would also air on commercial radio and not just on KUOP Public Radio, the music needed to be licensed by the performing Orchestra. The licensing of the music became a concern and threatened the continuation of the project. However, I told Cliff not to worry as I would compose original music with a similar feel that could be used as music beds with no need for licensing. When I played Cliff the three music beds I composed, he gave me a big smile and said that’s wonderful. We then went back into the voice track studio, continued and finished the recording for the rest of the entire series.
After all the narration tracks were edited, a 2-track tape master reel was created with each story segment separated by four seconds of paper leader-tape ready for transfer onto multitrack. The Bank of Stockton intro and outro tags were voiced and transferred onto radio cart for easy trigger playback. The music beds, which would determine the overall length of the vignette was transferred first onto the multitrack with the narration inserted and the tags placed at the top and bottom of the story.
The Music Beds
KUOP did not have any electronic music generating devices. As an electronic music composer and the Production Director for the station, I brought in from my home studio my Yamaha DX7 keyboard and TX802 tone module. Using Passport Design’s Pro 4 software on a Macintosh-2ci computer, I composed three distinctive music beds—Hoedown, Industry, and Melancholy. Here you can listen to the three original music beds in stereo.
HoedownProfJeff
00:00 / 01:30
IndustrialProfJeff
00:00 / 01:30
MelencolyProfJeff
00:00 / 01:31
That's The Way It Started - Stories
Below you will find a series of produced, “That’s The Way It Started” story vignettes, voiced by Cliff Dochterman with music by Jeff Crawford (AKA ProfJeff). The series was presented by the Bank of Stockton and later an educational CD collaboration with the San Joaquin County Office of Education. The stories cover the development of the San Joaquin Valley, highlighting the background of the significant people, places, industries, and institutions where the history of the San Joaquin valley began.
Focused primarily on Stockton, these colorful stories bring to life the spirit of those early pioneering days. Please keep in mind, as these stories are strictly historical, they only represent what once existed at the time they were written.
Special thanks to the Bank of Stockton for their community spirit, and their support for preserving Stockton’s history for generations to come.
Dr. Deen Juitt Lock
Indian River Names
Hotel Stockton
Stockton Street Names
Chief Stanislao
Carnegie
Jack Tone Rd
L. U. Shippy
Captain Charles Webber
The Stockton Record
Mckamy City
French Camp
James H. Budd
Stockton Community Parks
Mirada
Vernalis
Sheriff Thomas Cunningham
Linden
Woodbridge Academy
Stockton Developmental Center
Terminus
The Seel of Stockton
Port of Stockton
The Bank of Stockton
Warren H Atherton
The Haggin Museum
The Mary Mason
Hogan Dam
The University of the Pacific
Louis Parke
Rough & Ready Island
Stockton Metropolitan Transportation District
Lathrop
Tully C Knoles
St. Joseph's Hospital
Billy Hebert Field
Burns Tower
San Joaquin City
Manteca
Damoron Hospital
Delta College
Escalon
Stockton Public Schools
Lodi
Banner Island
Ripon
Farmington
Stockton Churches
San Joaquin River
Jedediah Smith
Thorton
Stockton Telephones Company
McLeod Lake
Humphries College
Clements
Hazleton Public Library
Lottie Gronski
Acampo
Amos Alonzo Stagg
Mickey Grove Park
Benjamin Holt
Commodore Robert Field Stockton
George Shima
Tilly Lewis
Sperry Flower Mill
The Lodi Arch
Tracy
Woodbridge
Morris College Vill
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