Tony Sandoval

[leebaby]

My Friend, Tony Sandoval, Is the best Disc Jockey in the World.............

 

[LKellerIII]

Coming from you, Lee Baby - that's a real compliment. I've personally mentioned Tony's talents on this board on a couple of occasions. It's too bad Kiss-FM can't loosen the playlist a little on the weekdays, like they do for Tony on the Sunday Super Oldies Show. After about 8 years of those same few dozen "old school songs" (more like 11 or 12 years if you count Kiss-FM's predecesor 98.9 KSOL) I find that I have no desire to hear them yet again, so I'm listening less. It's too bad, because Tony and most of the other jocks on that station are top notch.

 

[DyingMedium]

Worked with Tony...He is a great jock..and a very nice guy...

 

[crackthemic3]

I agree Tony is a solid jock 100 percent enough said!!! Lee great to hear from you another solid jock and inspiration! Where are you now?

 

[XM RADIO]

Lee Baby Sims, You were great on KYA93.3 you and Terry McGovern !!! This Bay Area has so much "Classic Talent" they have "Overlooked" These Big "Media Monsters" Hire Dj s that just dont do Radio!! Your time at KYA was "When Radio was Fun" !! Between you, John Mack Flanagan, Candi Chamberlin, I wish there was a Oldies Station in this Bay Area!!! The talent is here, but no Frequency yet!! After years of the Dean and Cammy regime, I personally want to hear "Legends in Radio"!!! You were on KFRC 99.7 in 1993 for a short time, they should have kept you! That guy in charge David Bramnick got rid of Gary Bryan and J. Paul Emerson,, that was a great morning show!! All the Radio shows i like always dissappear!! Funny how They work in Radio, they need to ask the listeners what they want,for me i surely didnt like Dean and Erin Garret!! Gary and J.Paul Emerson got KFRC ratings,and they get rid of them, ridicuolus!! Kenny in Concord

 

[SFStatic]

Some great talent mentioned there, but bringing back the cranky J. Paul will be difficult...he's dead.

 

[LKellerIII]

I don't consider myself poltically correct, but we need to remember that J. Paul Emerson was fired by KFRC when his right-wing rants went overboard. I don't remember all of the particulars since I hadn't been listening - but it was defintely PAST Michael Savage territory. Remember that KFRC was an Oldies station, not a Talk station. Their show was popular in the last year or two before Hot Talk KSFO came on the air, so the KFRC morning show was the Bay Area's go-to station for right wing talk, as odd as that sounds. If I remember correctly, Emerson finally said something about gays that station management decided went over the edge into hate speech, so they fired him. Gary Bryan was not fired, and did the show solo for a number of months before they moved Ron and Cammy to mornings.

When "Hot Talk" KSFO premiered, they hired Emerson for their morning show, but he only lasted a couple of weeks. Lee Rodgers moved over from KGO to replace him. I listened to a couple of the KSFO Emerson shows, and it seemed to me that the guy had gone over the edge. It was nothing more than an extreme right-wing rant. He couldn't even stay on a subject - just veered wildly from one subject to the next - whatever was upsetting him at the time. As extreme as Savage is - he comes off as sane, but Emerson was sounding like a man who had gone off the deep end.

 

[SFStatic]

I agree about J. Paul & Savage, having worked around them both. My impression was that Gary and J. Paul couldn't stand each other when I was around them (which was admittedly for a very brief time.)

 

[XM RADIO]

As I remember after Gary left we were blessed with Erin Garrett and Dean Goss!! April 1st of1996 to be exact!! Gary and L. Paul had a unique radio program and no one did news like J.Paul and "The Good Stuff" he was very entertaining and I remember they got suspended quite a few times, and Joe Ike would fill in while they were suspended, and when they returned alot of listeners were thrilled they had a loyal following, and they quite frequently ran their show into overtime, right into Sue Halls show, not to many DJ s run into the next show, they had alot to say, and I was a big fan!! Gary Bryan was "Jumbo Jack" @ KYA in 1976 , what a talented guy, Hes gotta be good, He is still on KRTH !! One song they played ,I will never forget, "Blow Me A Kiss" by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis from 1956, J.Paul is gone but I have over 100 cassettes on that morning show,,I never cared about taping Dean and Cammy, personnally Im ready for some "Nostalgic Radio" with John Mack Flanagan, Candi Chamberlin, Lee Baby Sims, Chris Edwards, of course the (REAL ONE) from the 60s wnen KYA 1260 was at "the Bottom of the Mark" hopkins Hotel that is!! There is only "One Real Chris Edwards" and to the Phony Chris Edwards you are exposed people know, What you ought to do is turn over your operation to the Real "Chris Edwards and quit taking credit for something you were never a part of !! Kenny in Concord

 

[dharmadoug]

It's too bad Kiss-FM can't loosen the playlist a little on the weekdays, like they do for Tony on the Sunday Super Oldies Show.

did anyone happen to catch the link on craigslist for a new music director for Kiss?

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/tfr/238661816.html


maybe someone new will loosen them up?

 

[doublecashkgb]

Lee Simms is too humble. There are maybe 2 or 3 jocks that are 100 percent unique
and always incredible. Lee is one of them. Nobody could be hipper, more street, and
more creative than LBS. I'm sure Tony is great, but Lee Simms is a living frigging'
legend. Tommorow if he keyed up a mic, he would instantly be better than 99
percent of the human beings walking around in a radio station. We are fortunate that
he is one this board!!!

 

[LKellerIII]

Agreed! I first heard about Lee Baby Simms in 1970 from a UCLA dorm roommate from San Diego who was a total "underground" rock FM fan, but nevertheless also a fan of Simm's show on Top 40 KCBQ. So needless to say, I checked him out when I visited SD, and later followed his work in Los Angeles at KRLA and other stations (KMET, I think), then again in the Bay Area. His career spans about 40 years, and a number of his airchecks can be found at reelradio.com. He retired after Kiss-FM, and I'm sure he's happier for it - but he could have continued on-air another decade or two, as far as I'm concerned.