Where Did All The DJ’s Go?

Friday, February 22nd, 2008 @ 12:12PM

The world's most famous DJ?

Wolfman Jack was probably the world's most famous DJ at one time.

Now, it's probably Howard Stern. But what about all those DJ's you grew up with locally? What happened to Uncle Nasty and Straight Arrow? Where is Skinny Johnny Mitchell? Where is Jordan Mitchell? Who knows what became of Evan Lake, the Water Man? Has anybody seen the Red Rocker around? Scott McCormick anyone? Wasn't there a Shotgun Kelly in this market? Ugly Jerry...he was here and he was ugly but is he still alive? And there was a Mrs. Ugly too. Someone emailed me about Hans Peterson today. I know Tony Butler is still out there somewhere. I spoke with Michael G. Kavanaugh the other day in person. Gary Zane. Scott Gentry. Scott Christopher.

Some of you may remember a DJ from quite along time ago named Ray Kalusa. I got word the other day that Ray had died of a heart attack. And then, a few days ago, I was at a Megaplex Theatre and one of those home produced movie trivia things was on before the feature. It was hosted by Ray Kalusa. Back from the dead? No, I don't think so. Just an old piece of production.

Where do all the old (and not so old) DJ's go? The radio business gets done with a lot of them before they're ready to be done. But radio doesn't care. It just throws them away anyway.

We were talking about this on the RFH show Friday and maybe it's something we can pursue. Are there any DJ's that you want to know about or any that you can share some info on? We don't need to know about the Wolfman or Howard. We know one is dead and the other makes millions on the satellite. Sometimes we just get curious about all the little guys.

Thanks for listening,
Bill