Sunday, September 26, 2004

On Ballance

From Bill ballance's obit in the LATimes:

In the late '50s and early '60s, Ballance was one of the top rock disc jockeys in Los Angeles on KFWB until he was caught in KFWB's transition to all news in 1965.

He was more of a "Top 40" kind of DJ, but the obit writers are probably too young to remember that "rock and roll" and "pop" tunes were once all lumped together.

KFWB was THE station of my youth. All we had in those days was AM radio. Everything I did for the first time as a teenager, in the car or on the beach, I did while listening to KFWB. Mr. Ballance wasn't the only DJ of course, but I remember him as one of the most popular.

Adios, amigo

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