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The Mellow Sound - soft rock KNX FM changing its format from classy to cheesy Top 40 with echo - Hit Radio 93 from August 25th 1983. KNX-FM's long-running (1971-1983) "Mellow Rock" format...which drew its core sound from the singer-songwriters (Carole King, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Elton John, Billy Joel, Steely Dan, softer songs by Eagles and Doobie Brothers, etc.) popular at the format's inception socalradiohistory.com/kkhr.html