# Radio hosts you miss **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784 "2007-02-19T04:36:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AHoosierMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@AHoosierMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHoosierMama)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/21 "2007-02-20T21:05:03Z")
Chicago-areans in 70’s and 80’s will miss with me Old Uncle Lar and Little Tommy from WLS - espcially their Animal Stories. ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/22 "2007-02-20T21:09:10Z")
[QUOTE=toadbriar] I miss listening to Tim Conway Jr. and Doug Steckler in L.A. [/QUOTE] Steckler was awesome when he got irate about something. Is the Cannon Mess still on in Minneapolis? ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/23 "2007-02-20T21:14:29Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] I miss Herb Score calling the Cleveland Indians. [/QUOTE] I miss Joe Tait, who did Indians broadcasts for about 5 years in the '70s. He’d always say “It’s a BEAUTIFUL day (or night) for baseball!” even if it was pouring down rain at gametime. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/24 "2007-02-20T21:20:28Z")
I miss – **Derek McGinty** , who did a two-hour public interest program for many years on WAMU in Washington. He was an absolutely fantastic interviewer, always getting to the heart of his guests’ and callers’ comments, and also had a kind of geek appeal (his was a Star Trek and video game fan). Much, much better than WAMU’s current hosts, Diane Rehm and Kojo Nnamde. McGinty now does television – I’ve seen him on WJLA-TV and on Bryant Gumbel’s sports show on HBO – but it’s oh-so-shallow stuff. He’s wasting his talents (although probably making a lot more money). **Jack (?) Carney**, who hosted a weekly comedy show out of St. Louis. I think he died in the late 1980s or early 1990s. That show was my first exposure to Monty Python and other comedy greats (I had only four channels on television). [QUOTE=Jurph] Bob Edwards from NPR was the voice that got me through mornings when I was in the military [/QUOTE] Edwards is still on the radio – “Bob Edwards Weekend” on Public Radio International. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/25 "2007-02-20T21:47:20Z")
I’m amazed that there are no nominations yet for WJR’s J.P. McCarthy. Died much too soon, and the morning commute still isn’t the same without him. Of course there’s Ernie Harwell doing the Tiger games. His voice could lower your blood pressure by 30 points, so smooth and easy, yet so knowledgeable. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/26 "2007-02-20T22:16:54Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Ashtar] I’ll probably get some flack for this, but I miss the Greaseman. [/QUOTE] [Get your Grease fix here](http://wmet1160.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/27 "2007-02-21T00:45:19Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] I realize the intent of this thread may not be a call for geezers to name hosts from their youth just for the mental exercise. [/QUOTE] What the hell, I’m going to have to go with DeeJays from LA’s famous rock station, KHJ. **Charlie Tuna, Machine Gun Kelly, Robert W. Morgan, Humble Harve, and The Real Don Steel.** [QUOTE=winterhawk11] I miss Blazy and Bob from the KOME (San Jose/SF Bay Area) morning show. \ I also miss Dennis Erectus, from the same station (he was the late-night jock and got away with a lot of stuff that was quite shocking in its day, though I doubt it would be a blip on the post-Howard Stern radar)/ Any other Bay Area Dopers remember these guys? [/QUOTE] I kind of remember **Dennis Erectus,** because of his name, but I do remember the station tagline, “There’s cum in your left ear, there’s cum in your right ear…”. I always found that amusing. And the FCC fines people for accidentally saying “fuck”? WTF? [QUOTE=Asimovian] Since sports announcers are valid in this thread, I’ve got to add Chick Hearn to the list. I never realized how little I cared about basketball until Chick was gone. I guess I enjoyed listening to him more than being interested in the game itself. [/QUOTE] I shed a tear for **Chick**. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/28 "2007-02-21T01:08:06Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah] I miss the late Peter Gzowski of the great “Morningside” (and previously, “This Country In the Morning”) and Vickie Gabereau of both an evening show and an afternoon show. CBC AM. \*Edited to clarify: Peter’s dead, Vickie’s not, but neither are on my radio any more, and my radio is much the poorer for it. \* [/QUOTE] All on CBC radio: I came here to mention Peter Gzowski. Morningside was a wonderful program because of Peter Gzowski, who excelled in interviewing people from all walks of life. I agree on Vicki Gabereau, though I enjoyed her more on radio than on t.v. Somehow it just wasn’t the same. I also miss Arthur Black. The quirkiness of his Saturday morning show was very appealing to me. You never knew quite who he might be interviewing because it could be nearly anybody. Finally, I miss Alan Maitland from As it Happens. Man, I listen to CBC radio a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/29 "2007-02-21T01:19:31Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] [Get your Grease fix here](http://wmet1160.com/). [/QUOTE] Is this the same maniac that I used to hear decades ago? He talked of “Highsteppers” and “Depth Charges” and such. I used to hear him on WAPE radio out of Jacksonville, Fl. many years back. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/30 "2007-03-01T17:27:50Z")
[QUOTE=Nic2004] Is this the same maniac that I used to hear decades ago? He talked of “Highsteppers” and “Depth Charges” and such. I used to hear him on WAPE radio out of Jacksonville, Fl. many years back. [/QUOTE] Yeah, that’s him. He had been on a couple of stations prior to that but WAPE was the first place he was really popular. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/31 "2007-03-01T19:11:20Z")
Wolfman Jack. He just seemed like the epitome of cool and his turn in **Motel Hell** was hilarious. I miss him and his show, _The Midnight Special_. ☹ Hope he’s howlin’ happily wherever he’s at. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/32 "2007-03-01T19:12:52Z")
Jim Ladd. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/33 "2007-03-01T19:20:56Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] From the baseball airwaves I miss **Bob Murphy** calling Mets games. Like **ZipperJJ** ’s comment regarding Herb Score, towards the end he was getting a bit confused, often calling certain players by their father’s name (e.g., referring to Brian McRae as “Hal McRae”, or even Barry Bonds as “Bobby Bonds”), getting the number of balls and strikes reversed or even occasionally the number of outs wrong. [/QUOTE] Wasn’t his partner, Ralph Kiner, the somewhat addled one? (Ralph _did_ play in the era before batting helmets, you know.) I always thought Bob was the one who had it all together, Ralph was a little scattershot, and good ol’ [Lindsey Nelson](http://www.americansportscasters.com/images/nelson.jpg) was just color- and pattern-blind. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/34 "2007-03-01T19:29:16Z")
Another vote for Wolfman Jack. He was one cool dude. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/35 "2007-03-01T19:43:54Z")
[QUOTE=Nic2004] Is this the same maniac that I used to hear decades ago? He talked of “Highsteppers” and “Depth Charges” and such. I used to hear him on WAPE radio out of Jacksonville, Fl. many years back. [/QUOTE] Hijack: I’m from Jax, too! I remember the “High Steppers”! I was in junior high school (Landon) during his heyday. VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/36 "2007-03-01T20:10:50Z")
[QUOTE=vivalostwages] Jim Ladd. [/QUOTE] He’s still on in Los Angeles (95.5 KLOS) but it’s weird having him come on early. He’s got the 8 pm - 1 am shift now. He’s back to doing the free form stuff he was doing at KMET. I still vividly remember listening to his show the night John Lennon was murdered. Sadness, confusion, and anger all poured out, seemingly simultaneously. He even got away with playing “Working Class Hero” multiple times with the F-bombs intact, and nobody went crying to the FCC. Speaking of KMET… I miss KMET. Cynthia Fox is at KLOS, but I miss Paraquat Kelly (there’s a dated moniker), Mary Turner, Jeff Gonzer and Ace Young, and Dr. Demento. I know Demento is still syndicated, but no station in his hometown carries the show. Nearest is an AM station in Ventura, which I can’t get. More recently, I miss Dicky Barrett from Indie 103. The former Mighty Mighty Bosstones singer had great guests and good conversations about music, but got fired for being too political. I miss Rodney on the ROQ. Technically, he’s still on the air, but KROQ has moved him to such a crappy timeslot (Monday morning, midnight - 3 am) he might as well be off the air. Meanwhile, they have room for Loveline 6 nights a week :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/37 "2007-03-01T20:17:27Z")
[QUOTE=Veuve\_ClicquotNJ] Hijack: I’m from Jax, too! I remember the “High Steppers”! I was in junior high school (Landon) during his heyday. [/QUOTE] I was in the studio audience one morning when he was on WARW in DC. It was…interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/38 "2007-03-01T20:18:31Z")
Jean Shepherd. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/39 "2007-03-01T20:40:24Z")
I miss Andy Serwer from CNN’s _American Morning_ . I think he went on to be a CEO of some company or other. Garrison Keillor From _Prarie Home Companion_ had the perfect radio voice. I’ll miss him also. And, lastlly, Dr. Demento. A fine arts connisewer. 🙂 Don’t hear him much on the East Coast. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784/40 "2007-03-01T22:55:17Z")
I grew up listening to Johnny Most broadcasting the basketball games of the Celtics. I never really enjoyed the games, but he made the fun, and exciting to listen to. It’s a rare talent, I think, and one that’s passing as TV has become the prevalent medium. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-hosts-you-miss/392784.md?page=3)