After working at Bonebrake's KOCY, which dominated this market in the late '50s as its first Top 40 station, in November 1960 Dale and fellow KOCY jock Bill Miller went to new Top 70 station, KIRL Wichita (it had just switched from KFBI). He was back in Oklahoma City at WKY in January 1962 doing 12m-6a, replacing Chuck Dunaway who had moved up to replace Jim Belt 9a-12n. In March 1962 he moved to 9a-12n when Chuck went to WABC New York. In the summer of 1965 it seems Dale was back doing 12m-6a briefly because of some controversy, and was picked up by KOMA PD Deane Johnson to do 4p-8p. Don McGregor soon replaced Deane as PD. When Don, like Deane, was transferred to Storz station WTIX New Orleans, probably 1966, Dale became PD of KOMA. Michael Dean said in a previous post here that Dale was PD at the number one radio station in the Detroit-Windsor market, but I beg to differ. After being PD and 4p-8p personality on KOMA - giving WKY one of its most legitimate threats to date - Dale indeed went to the number one station there, RKO's CKLW. But it was programmed by soon-to-be KHJ Los Angeles PD Paul Drew and consulted by the legendary Bill Drake. Dale did 3p-7p and Saturday 12n-4p there in the summer of 1967 as Johnny Morgan, with a classic Drake jingle by the Johnny Mann Singers like Johnny Williams' at KHJ. Although he sounded pretty good to me on an aircheck I heard of him on The Big 8 - one of the greatest AM Top 40 stations ever - he was soon let go (I believe after only a few weeks). I know he was there in August. As I recall, he then became PD of a station in Flint. From there he went to WMEX Boston, from which he returned to WKY to do weekends and fill-ins in April 1968. When Terry McGrew went to KFNB later in 1968 Dale moved back into 9a-12n. He soon became Assistant PD, implementing a Drake-style format. In the mid-'70s he was transferred to be PD at Gaylord's new Top 40 station, KRKE Albuquerque (he offered me a job there but I had no interest). After WKY separated from Channel-4 and moved into the present Renda building Danny Williams stepped down as PD but remained on-air. We had no PD when our 12n-3p guy Steve Harrison left, so GM Lee Allan Smith hired Dale for that shift, c. 1977. Within a few weeks, Bill Burkett was hired to replace Danny as PD. However, he had also come from KRKE where there had apparently been some bad blood between him and Dale, and he immediately let Dale go. After that Dale did weekend Oldies shows on KWHP and KTOK. In 1994 he did Sundays 4p-8p on KOQL, and even did middays there for a few weeks after Entercom sold it until the transition to Country as KTST.
