Ray Ramsey dead at 87

[Wonderfulwino]

For those of you long time locals, you may remember Ray Ramsey as not only the Weather guy at KOMO, but before that, one of the best speed jocks of the day on "colorful" KOL AM 1300 during the early/middle 60's. His board work was flippin' amazing. I would kill for an air check from his days there.

 

[Bongwater]

I too remember Ray Ramsey. He was weather guy when Bill Brubaker and Ruth Walsh had the anchor chairs at 4th & Denny......

 

[Wonderfulwino]

Thanks for that link. Ray was so good that even when he was talking slow, it sounded fast. His sentences never seemed to have a period at the end of them. Also brought back a few memories of the "good ol' days" of the KOMO machine. They had the market by the ballz for a long time..

 

[JakeMott]

Mr. Ramsey was my art teacher back in the early 70's. Fun class. As fast a speaker as he was on TV.

 

[radiojjh]

Great link to the Larry Nelson/Ray Ramsey aircheck. That was simply a reminder what good morning radio is all about....personable, fun, very relatable. Something so few are able to do nowadays. I knew Larry and he worked with my dad....he was a class act. Ray was up, fun and simply Ray! Again, thanks for sharing the link!

 

[Dick Skinner]

My first exposure to Ray was in '54 when he was doing weather as "Hayhead Ray" on KREM-TV.

 

[formeraa]

Wow, I literally don't remember any Seattle broadcasters before Ray Ramsey! Literally, he's the first Seattle broadcaster that I remember watching on television. Because of Ray, I wanted to be a tv weathercaster when I was growing up. Alas, that was not to be but I did end up getting an education in Math and Science.

Ray, RIP. You were a Northwest legend. :'(