Jim Long, who went from a teenage record producer and radio announcer to creating award-winning broadcast and entertainment companies in Dallas, Nashville, and Los Angeles, died on May 30 from a pulmonary embolism, while recovering from knee surgery. He was 79.
Born Timothy John Moynihan, he took his on-air name from his maternal Irish grandfather and began his five-decade-long career at the age of 18 at WDEW Westfield, MA. This after broadcasting from his parent’s basement at the age of 13 and producing the song “Liza Lee” by Roger and the Marquees at the age of 15.
At age 24, he co-founded the TM Companies with composer Tom Merriman and subsequently went on to grow and sell numerous entrepreneurial businesses, including production music library FirstCom.
