Would you believe that 87 year old Art Laboe, the founder of the "Oldies But
Goodies" oldies record label, and longtime Southern California DJ and
promoter is STILL doing a regular DJ show and promoting shows? I remember
listening to him on XERB growing up here in the Bay Area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Laboe

It was funny; my mom bought me some of Art Laboe's "Oldes But Goodies"
albums in the 1960s and the songs had familiar titles, but the songs were
sung by different people! It was years later that I learned that many of
the songs I grew up with were white cover versions of earlier ones done by
black and Italian doo wop singers.

He is about to be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. I met him a
couple of years ago at a tribute luncheon hosted by LARadio.com; he's
a very nice guy and has worked hard for his money and recognition.

On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:53:42 EDT, "David Kaye"
wrote:

Would you believe that 87 year old Art Laboe, the founder of the "Oldies But
Goodies" oldies record label, and longtime Southern California DJ and
promoter is STILL doing a regular DJ show and promoting shows?

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K.M. Richards
Mad Programmer

On Oct 28, 7:55 pm, K.M. Richards wrote:
He is about to be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. I met him a
couple of years ago at a tribute luncheon hosted by LARadio.com; he's
a very nice guy and has worked hard for his money and recognition.


Laboe's going in with Howard Stern and Terry Gross. Talk about an odd
couple.

Here are all the honored ones:

www.radiohof.org/

Gary Burbank
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Ron Chapman
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Jack L. Cooper
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Fresh Air with Terry Gross
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Art Laboe
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Luther Masingill
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Howard Stern
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