WWL,New Orleans, WBAP, Dallas, KVOO, Tulsa, talking of late night radio, all of these played all night country music, they billed themselves as Trucker’s radio. I loved WWL always having on every hour “a song of inspiration”. It was great.
http://www.virtualtruckroute.com/radio_personalities.html
There is still some of this. One show even went local but it’s ads, some talk radio and some music.
It’s always one thing or another, in the ‘80s, I think a lot of people were critical of country for being too “sexually suggestive”, does anyone remember that?
There was that song “Love is just a sin away” and other songs like Conway Twitty’s “Baby’s got her bluejeans on” and maybe Barbara Mandrell singing “Sleeping Single in a double bed”. So it goes.