I see where WABC New York DJ Ron Lundy has died. I wasn't aware that he started out at the late great WDDT in Greenville. Does anyone remember him when he was in Missisippi. Wikipedia says he also was voice of the DJ on the Starship song "We Built this City" (a song I hate btw) It seems there have been quite a few local DJ's that have gone on to make it big. It must be something in the water down here.
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Ron Lundy
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Must be the part in "We Built This City" where the guy says "I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge on another gorgeous sunny Saturday, not seein' that bumper-to-bumper traffic".
I seem to recall a New York DJ who was from Mississippi that it made it big up there. I think we went by the name of Jack the Wack or something.
I didn't know who Ron Lundy was, but my condolences to his family.
I seem to recall a New York DJ who was from Mississippi that it made it big up there. I think we went by the name of Jack the Wack or something.
I didn't know who Ron Lundy was, but my condolences to his family.
You would be recalling correctly. Jack is still on the radio in Houston ... that's Houston, TX: http://thenew93q.com/inside/jackbio.html
the golden boy said:Must be the part in "We Built This City" where the guy says "I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge on another gorgeous sunny Saturday, not seein' that bumper-to-bumper traffic".
I seem to recall a New York DJ who was from Mississippi that it made it big up there. I think we went by the name of Jack the Wack or something.
I didn't know who Ron Lundy was, but my condolences to his family.
I always heard that voice in the song was Les Garland that was one of the originators of MTV. I know there is an aircheck of him doing a "celebrity appearance" on Y95 in Dallas at one time and he makes the claim on the air that it was him.
Ron Lundy was a great voice. I didn't realize that he had retired to Bruce...
Ron Lundy did work at WDDT, then on to WIL in St. Louis in 1960 and WABC in '66; but it was Les Garland's voice on the Starship record. Ron's voice had a cameo role in the movie Midnight Cowboy, giving his signature "Hello, Love" greeting on the portable radio as Joe Buck nears New York.
I worked at the great WDDT in 1965. We called outselves the "giant killer" because KAAY out of Little Rock called themselves "The Giant." Ron Lundy worked there either before I did or after I did. I don't remember him. But anyone who worked at WDDT was a star. It was a great G-R-E-A-T radio station.
Thank you Delta Democrat-Times (that's the DDT in its name).
Thank you Delta Democrat-Times (that's the DDT in its name).
I got the information about Ron Lundy being from WDDT and the voice on the Starship record from wikipedia. And of course wikipedia is often wrong because anyone can write and article, and I've spotted errors and exagerations on the website before.
The nationally-released version of "We Built This City" did utilize the voice of Les Garland in the bridge where the jock is doing his thing. But many stations took the mix-out version of the song without the Garland v/o and inserted their own, using a local talent in its place. I've never heard the Ron Lundy version, but it stands to reason that it probably did exist, and may have been done for or by WCBS-FM, where Ron worked from 1984-1997. WABC had already gone all-talk (5/9/82) by the time "We Built This City" was released.
For those who don't know about Ron Lundy, yes, he started at WDDT (well, actually he started at a station in Memphis as a record librarian, but ended up on the air when a jock didn't show up for his shift; the owner of WDDT heard him and offered him a job).
After stints in Baton Rouge and St. Louis, he found his was to WABC/New York, thanks in large part to his friend Dan Ingram. He retired from WCBS-FM in 1997 and he and his wife resided in Bruce, MS until his death on 3/15 at age 75.
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