[Dixielandjazz] DJ's In LA Help

[Don Robertson]

Don't know about the others, but the guy who did the weather report was 
Johnny Magnus.

Napa Don Robertson

On 1/30/2011 7:39 AM, Robert Ringwald wrote:
> This from a singer's
> email list.
>
> During the 1950's, I spent lots of time listening to Los Angeles jazz DJ's. For the
> life of me, however, I can't remember the names of these:
>
> 1. There was a jazz DJ whose programs started at midnight and lasted into the wee
> hours. He called himself "The Voice of Jazz." He spoke in a very deep, ultra-cool,
> drugged-out sounding voice. I remember him only as "The Voice."
>
> 2. There was another LA jazz DJ whose beginning and ending theme music was taken
> from Miles Davis/Gil Evans' "Miles Ahead."
>
> 3. There was a daytime LA jazz DJ who used to do a daily national weather report
> to the music of Count Basie, with Neal Hefti's arrangement of "Cute." When the weather
> headed south, the pilot who took us on the voyage was Frank Wess on flute.
>
> I should remember the names, but time has faded them for me. If anyone knows, I feel
> it will come from here.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Irving
>
>
>
> --Bob Ringwald
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> really ugly woman.
> That's when he realized he had made it home safely.
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