Art Laboe, a revered Los Angeles radio mainstay for more than half a century who delighted local fans and a syndicated audience by playing those “oldies but goodies,” has died. He was 9…
radio mainstay for more than half a century who delighted local fans and a syndicated audience by playing those “oldies but goodies,” has died. He was 97.said Laboe died October 7 of pneumonia at his home in Palm Springs.
Laboe then launched a series of dance concerts in El Monte, east of Los Angeles, which drew big crowds — and some of the era’s biggest touring acts including Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles. It was during those live events that Laboe realized most of the audience requests were for older records. He regularly spun tunes by white, Latino and Black artists, and the events were a cross-cultural smash in the melting pot of Los Angeles.
Laboe’s Hollywood-based Original Sound label also made original recordings. Two of its earliest releases, the percussion-driven instrumentals “Teen Beat” by Sandy Nelson and “Bongo Rock” by Preston Epps, were national pop hits in 1959. Laboe moved back to KRLA in 1975, where he would spend the rest of the decade. He was something of a Renaissance Man at the station, doing a show while serving as program director, sales consultant and in other capacities. By 1979, he was its senior VP.
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