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Fred King

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Clayton Douglas

just heard former top40 jock Fred King passed on this summer. years ago he was on WLAN,WSBA, WFEC. (great guy / great jock) (real name was Fred Klein)
 
I just read about Fred King's death a couple of weeks ago myself, on a web site about Central Florida radio. I don't recall him working at WSBA, but he did jock at Lancaster's WGAL 1490 and WLAN 1390 in the early 60s, and later was one of the WFEC "Good Guys" in Harrisburg, who kept the "Very Important Platters" spinning at the 1400 spot. He went to Cocoa Beach Florida in the 70s and also jocked at WLOF in Orlando as Sean King. There used to be a rather poor Fred King WFEC aircheck on that Reel Radio Repository site, there were also some really smoking Sean King airchecks there too.

Coincidentally, he died of Parkinson's, as had WSBA's Ed Lincoln and Hal Raymond. So many of the great local Top 40 jocks of the 60s are gone now. I'm sad that we've lost another one. What stories those guys could have told!
 
Fred was on WSBA doing his King's castle show mid-day as I recall. he also was PD and did am-drive briefly on the old WCOY-am1580. (Columbia). I think am1580 is now dark/silent. suppose nobody else wanted to lose $$$ trying to own it! that could happen to other AM stations soon!
 
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