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Rest in Peace Bozo.

I remember him on WGEE 1590 in Indy back around 1970 and on WJPS 1330 in Evansville in the mid-60's. Not totally sure on this one, but I think he was Jim Young on WROZ in Evansville in late 67' or early 68'? In the middle 70's, I recall him on WQAM in Miami. He was a legendary talent.
 
Ken Tucky said:
jry said:
Wow. How sad, 68 years old. Way too young.

I did not see what he died of...
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Dale had Addison's disease & diabetes...
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A disease of the adrenal glands? Man, i didn't know that was fatal. The diabetes must have had something to do with it, yes?
I had a buddy that was a pretty big boxing promoter. He died at 60 from complications due to his diabetes. Sad.
 
Dale Summers did afternoon drive on WNDE here, after coming from Evansville. He really did tell all his listeners to flush their toilets at the same time while in the pocket city. It worked. He crashed the sewage plant. From WNDE .. he bounced a little and popped up on WLW and created the "Truck'in Bozo". The rest is history.

Brilliant air talent and more fun than a barrel of doped up monkeys.
 
Potts said:
I remember him on WGEE 1590 in Indy back around 1970 and on WJPS 1330 in Evansville in the mid-60's. Not totally sure on this one, but I think he was Jim Young on WROZ in Evansville in late 67' or early 68'? In the middle 70's, I recall him on WQAM in Miami. He was a legendary talent.
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Agreed, great talent. I will never forget him talking to Willy and Dusty when they were both on 700. Great memories. I remember Willy calling him an "Illiterate hillbilly." Great radio. Rest In Peace, Dale.
 
NDXUFan said:
Potts said:
I remember him on WGEE 1590 in Indy back around 1970 and on WJPS 1330 in Evansville in the mid-60's. Not totally sure on this one, but I think he was Jim Young on WROZ in Evansville in late 67' or early 68'? In the middle 70's, I recall him on WQAM in Miami. He was a legendary talent.
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Agreed, great talent. I will never forget him talking to Willy and Dusty when they were both on 700. Great memories. I remember Willy calling him an "Illiterate hillbilly." Great radio. Rest In Peace, Dale.
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One night, Randy Michaels was on with Dale. RM kept saying that WMAQ must have been off the air with all the calls they
were getting. Great radio....indeed!
 
I grew up a few houses up the street from Glen and he's the reason I got the radio bug a very early age. One day he rode up to me on his bicycle with transistor radio in hand and announced that he just had a radio station installed at his house. I followed him to his basement where he had quite a professional studio for a teenager. The call letters were WDJA and the "stick" was a longwire run vertically up a tall tree in his parent's backyard. Every hour on the hour another neighborhood kid (Bugs), who lived on a hilltop some distance away, would come out in his backyard and give Glen a signal report by waving flags. At the time "Moon River" was the overnight show on WLW. Who would have ever thought...

Young Bozo was the "Eddie Haskell" of the neighborhood, always into mischief but very polite and well-mannered around grownups.

I last saw Glen when I visited him at the studios of WDAF (61 Country) in Kansas City. May he rest in peace.
 
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