*** Merrill Mael was the morning host 1953 & 1954, The Hour of Confusion listed at 8am in the 1954 listings is just another name for that portion of his show, leading up to a morning of Christian devotional programming.
AM-1450 Puyallup Radio Listings 1953-1959
1955 listings – Tom Read (newspaper misspelled his name) had a program on KAYE, just 4 years before he fired up his own radio station, KTWR, which eventually became KTAC FM. (KBRD, KMTT, now KHTP)
“Last Year’s Hit Parade” sounds like the musical equivalent of day-old bread.
Maybe the station had poor service from the record companies.