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Another Legendary New York DJ Has Died
I know he wasn't a household name like a Cousin Brucie or a Dan Ingram, but I was sad to hear that Bob Shannon has passed away. He was a part of WCBS-FM for years and had spent most of his career in the New York radio market, so you know he was really good. He worked at CBS-FM from the mid-80s right through 2012, when a health issue forced his retirement.
But Shannon was important to me for another reason - he wrote one of my all time favourite books about 60s and 70s music called "Behind The Hits: Inside Stories of Classic Pop and Rock and Roll." It's filled with behind-the-scene tales of how some of the biggest hits came to be, with sometimes bizarre twists and turns surrounding tunes we all know.
Shannon was a major talent and though he'd been off the airwaves for a while, made an indelible mark in the #1 market in the world, something that's not easy to do. He was just 74.
Dale Patterson's Rockradioscrapbook.ca has a sample of his on-air work via this aircheck.
WCBS-FM host Bob Shannon dies at 74
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It's not often you can find what is the first appearance of a legendary jock in the making, but Shannon (under his real name of Don Bombard) won a contest to be a guest DJ on WOLF in Syracuse N.Y. in 1962, while he was still in high school.
He was introduced by no less a soon-to-be-famous voice than Marv Albert, at the time a local disc jockey, eventually to become a legend of his own in New York radio. What an amazing aircheck this is, with neither man suspecting what his future held. You could certainly never have predicted Shannon's future success by listening to this, but how many of us were really good the very first time we turned on a mic?
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