-
Get involved.
We want your input!
Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.
After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.
After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/
Thanks in advance and have fun!
RadioDiscussions Administrators
KGBS 1020 Bill Ballance aircheck
- Thread starter stevations
- Start date
Fun to listen to! Billo as DJ is every bit as glib as Billo the talk show host.
T
Thomps2525
Guest
In 1997 when the second edition of Don Barrett's Los Angeles Radio People came out, Don hosted two autograph parties at local music stores. Bill Ballance was one of several DJs who took part. At age 78, he had lost none of the wit that had made him famous on KNX, KFWB, KGBS and KABC. He leered at my wife and then said to me, "I bet you have a Ku Klux Klan marriage---nobody knows what goes on under the sheets." 
Here is Bill-Boy on KFWB in 1959 announcing details of the Jantzen Jamborees at Hinshaw's Department Stores---and have you ever had your wing dinged?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4ZQHow6TsI
Here is Bill-Boy on KFWB in 1959 announcing details of the Jantzen Jamborees at Hinshaw's Department Stores---and have you ever had your wing dinged?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4ZQHow6TsI
Dr. Akbar said:
Yes - the "KGBS" shout always came after the song's intor, and a split second before the singing began. I always figured they dubbed those songs to cart with the shouts inserted - to make them so perfect.
I hazily remember Ballance from KFWB - I was a little kid, but his clever word-play went over my head. I appreciated his humor much more when I was a teen on KGBS
Some of his on-air chuckles from the late '60s-
"The air conditioning in our studio is broken. The butterfly fluttering above the 1 inch pipe on the Mansard
roof flew away".
"Reincarnation...it's when you pour the milk back into the can".
"They had to install a 9 phase triple diode sphincter in the transmitter".
"I'm in the studio simulcasting in front of everbody, all over Southern California".
Merciless pounding of Momma Cass-
"Her family coat of arms is a knife and fork running through a field of calories".
"New panty hose came out for Momma Cass, they have Gabriel Hi-jackers installed".
(Load-leveling air shocks for cars).
"The air conditioning in our studio is broken. The butterfly fluttering above the 1 inch pipe on the Mansard
roof flew away".
"Reincarnation...it's when you pour the milk back into the can".
"They had to install a 9 phase triple diode sphincter in the transmitter".
"I'm in the studio simulcasting in front of everbody, all over Southern California".
Merciless pounding of Momma Cass-
"Her family coat of arms is a knife and fork running through a field of calories".
"New panty hose came out for Momma Cass, they have Gabriel Hi-jackers installed".
(Load-leveling air shocks for cars).
T
Thomps2525
Guest
One time after playing a song by a female artist (who I can't remember now because it was almost a hundred years ago), Ballance shared this bit of trivia: "She's of French descent---she fell off the Eiffel Tower."
Does anyone remember the monthly humor columns that Ballance wrote for Tiger Beat magazine in the mid-1960s?
Does anyone remember the monthly humor columns that Ballance wrote for Tiger Beat magazine in the mid-1960s?
- Status