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Lee Marshall Dead At 67

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Lee Marshall was a news reporter at KCBQ, CKLW, KHJ and KDAY and served as news director of KABC. He hosted sports-talk programs and was an announcer for World Championship Wrestling. In 2005 he replaced Thurl Ravenscroft as the voice of Kellogg's Tony the Tiger. Marshall died of esophageal cancer April 26 at age 67.

http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/472529-lee-marshall-passes-away
 
I don't recall Lee being news director at KABC: we has in the news department there, but I think only as a newscaster. I worked for him when he was news director at KCBQ and later at KHJ where he was news director and news guy during the Rick Dees show. I was always grateful that he took me along to KHJ when he got hired there: it was a real kick to work at KHJ: even though it was at the end of the Top 40 era I still got to work with Lee, Bobby Ocean, Mucho Morales and Banana Joe Montione. After that I did some on-air work at KRLA and KABC and without Lee I never would have had those opportunities. And, even before LA, he gave me the chance to work at the lengendary KCBQ, where I got to work with Perry Allen, Jerry G Bishop, Charlie and Harrigan, Dean Goss and others.

Lee was a dynamic personality who could spin big tales with that big voice.

I remember well the day he informed me that I was being let go because KHJ was doing a big round of budget cuts.

I was ripping copy from one of the teletypes at the start of my shift: I came into the studio, leaned on the adjacent teletype and intoned, rather loudly to be heard about the machines,

"Bob, the recession ax has fallen, and you've been cut."

I was ready to go back to San Diego by then so the big severance check was welcome and off I went. I saw Lee once more when I filled in at KABC, but I really never did make time to thank him for giving me the chance to be part of some radio legends.

Thanks Lee - it was Gr-r-reat!
 
Thank you, Bob! What a nice tribute! In case anyone here is not familiar with your career, I should mention that you used your full name of Robert when you were at KRLA so you wouldn't be confused with that other Bob Hudson. You were the one who didn't refer to us as "peasants." :)

Shawn "Franky" Slauson interviewed Lee Marshall in 2013 for his pop culture program on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ga9lXUVDuc
 
Lee Marshall was also on KVEN-AM 1450 in Ventura when it ran an oldies format branded as "The Boomer." He was the host of their morning drive show, known as "Lee Marshall's Class Reunion," from 5-9 AM.
 
Bob Hudson said:
I came into the studio, leaned on the adjacent teletype and intoned, rather loudly to be heard about the machines,
Click to expand...

That, of course, should read "Lee came into the studio, leaned on the adjacent teletype and intoned, rather loudly to be heard above the machines..."

It's not good to post before one's morning coffee has awakened the brain.
 
I have a few hundred pages of teletypes that I got from the old KIEV in 1969. Those were the good old days of radio---teletype machines bringing the news and ringing bells when there was a major bulletin. And many stations had the sound of the machines in the background during each hour's newscast. Even after news began to be disseminated electronically and the machines were done away with, stations played tape recordings of teletype machines during the news. I miss hearing those sounds.
 
In the Spring of 1977 I was living in San Diego and heard Lee's newscast on KCBQ. I called him and asked if he was the same Lee Marshall who was the newscaster for the Ralph Lockwood Show on CKGM, the Top 40 Giant in Montreal in 1974. He said he was. I then realized radio is a very nomadic business. U-Haul wagons ho!
 
Lee was a very young rebel who started at KRIZ 1230 Radio in Phoenix at age 14. We got to shake hands with Lee at last year's KRIZ Reunion in Chandler. His radio voice was incredible; it matched his personal skills. May The LORD give His peace to the family. He will be missed...
 
Lee Marshall died on April 26. His obituary appeared in the Los Angeles Times on May 8. When an actor or singer or politician dies, the obituary will appear in the next day's paper...but when a DJ or other radio person dies, it will be a week or more before we see the news in the paper. Why is that?
 
Really. It made all the national news sites 2 weeks later and became a Facebook trending topic. I thought "where have all of you been?"
 
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