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John Mack Flanagan (1946-2018) 2 April 2018 BARHOF Hall of Fame, People 2 John Mack Flanagan at KFRC-FM (1992) It is with great sorrow that the Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame notes the passing of John Mack Flanagan, one of the greatest voices in broadcasting and a member of BARHOF's Class of 2017. "Whizz," she starts. He was known all over the United States.. DJ Courtesy of David Jackson. Oct. 23: "The tearing down of goalposts is all a part of football tradition and students participating in after-game rallies upon the field should not be interfered with." Flanagan died in his sleep at home in Daly City, with his wife of 53 years, Joann Flanagan, by his side. He was believed to be 70 years old. This is a carousel. John was one of those people you worked with and you admired, said Bobby Ocean, who was on the air at KFRC in 1973 when Flanagan joined the station. Both men recalled seeing him just two weeks ago at a luncheon where he looked great., Back in the 70s he was considered one of the best Top 40 DJs in the entire country, said Cleaveland, who did the morning news for KGO. A unique and rare person whom I was blessed to know.. Glenn Adams at KFRC was the greatest all night jock in America in 1967 and BONUS COVERAGE: Infinity Radio trades 610/KFRC to Family Stations for 106.9 FM in order to acquire a television station in Sacramento. All rights reserved. While at theBillboard convention to receive his award, Dr. Don encountered RKO Radio programming chief Paul Drew, who offered him a prized opportunity he couldnt resist. Since 1965, Dornacker has been a 6-foot-tall Bay Area landmark. With special thanks toMichael Hagerty, Chris Sharp, and Marc Schoenitzer. Timothy Bruce Boyd. Sam Whiting has been a staff writer at The San Francisco Chronicle since 1988. DP Courtesy of David Palmer. But he walked out and walked back in to the Broadcast Legends luncheon six months later. She became a prominent entertainer in the mid-1970s at the now defunct Palms Cafe on Polk Street, where she performed with her band Leila and the Snakes. She was funny, too, with her smoky voice and quick wit. Among the regulations is one that requires that police applicants must be able to lift a 150-pound sack of sand, place it on their shoulders, and then return it to the floor without dropping it. August 4, 2022 (81 years old) View obituary. The Bay Area has lost its voice the voice of one of its wackiest, most upbeat personalities. The pilot was critically injured. The pay was top-shelf dollars, with actual performance bonuses, phat talent fees and contracts to boot. Copyright 2005-2023 California Historical Radio Society. discs, featured rapid-fire clips of KFRCs stellar air staff including Dr. Don Rose, Tom Parker, Bob Anthony, John Mack Flanagan, Robin Bailey, Don Sainte-Johnn, Rick Shaw and Harry Nelson, plus brief snippets of news reports from Paul Fredericks, Jo Interrante, Connie Gordon, John Winters, Mike Colgan and Robert McCormick on the first disc, while the second highlighted the production side, leading off with the Clio Award-winning, Paul Frees-voiced Close Encounters promo which found KFRC offering eight seconds of radio silence to allow extra-terrestrial beings to use the 610 frequency to contact Earth. Email rwagoner@socalradiowaves.com. Drop me a line via our contact page, and Ill reply (rather than posting the info here). Mr. Shaw, a disc jockey at K101- AM (KIOI), died Monday at his San Rafael home after. Known for. Roses death came as a shock to both Cleaveland and Catchings, they said. I was so glad to have her as a friend. Shes got everything money can buy. A pair of scoped Summer of Love airchecks from Jay Stevens, beginning with an undated July 1967 clip, followed (at about seven minutes into the recording) by another from July 11, 1967. 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After continuing heart problems forced his retirement, Rose also was diagnosed with diabetes in the early 1990s. There, in a room used for sewing classes, Flanagan described his induction as the greatest thing thats ever happened to me. Dr. Don caricature by Bobby Ocean. Richard Wagoner is a San Pedro freelance writer covering radio in Southern California. Front row, right. After his altercation with Woodbeck, the officer was charged by spectators and students with having drawn his gun and threatened the mob of milling students around the posts. Oct. 23: Jane Dornacker, 40, the comedian and traffic reporter who was a San Francisco celebrity before moving to New York last year, died yesterday after her helicopter crashed into the Hudson River while she was on the air. My name was attached so I guess it must have been some contest. and St. Mary's on October 1. The $61,000 Challenge on KFRC, 1985 (30 minutes). 1977 John Mack Flanagan on KFRC, January 17, 1977 (57 minutes), Dr. Don Rose on KFRC, June 1977 (70 minutes), 1978 John Mack Flanagan on KFRC, February 1, 1978 (11 minutes), Marvelous Mark McKay on KFRC, February 1978 (12 minutes), John Mack Flanagan on KFRC, March 1978 (5 minutes)TR, Beverly Fox and Rick Shaw on KFRC, June 1978 (37 minutes), Marvelous Mark and Don Sainte-Johnn on KFRC, 1978 (13 minutes), Father Harry of The God Squad on KFRC, 1978 (1 minute). In recognition of his contributions to local radio, Dr. Don Rose was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in 2006 as a member of the first class to be enshrined. Courtesy of Sam Gold. On March 31, 1968, as President Lyndon Johnson was telling the nation that he would not seek re-election to concentrate on ending the war, Flanagan was flying to Vietnam to begin his tour in-country. Feb. 20, 2011 3 Although Carter B. Smith had battled brain cancer for nearly three years, his death, on Jan. 24 at age 74, shocked many of his friends and fans, people who'd listened to his radio. Flanagan was never paid more than the union minimum of around $30,000. Howard Clark was simply amazing doing middays. Marvelous Mark McKay, KFRCs afternoon man, filled in as interim program director untilGerry Cagletook over the position in September 1980. April 27, 2023 (66 years old) View obituary. Winners will be announced Oct. 1. How will courts rebuke of Berkeleys natural-gas ban affect the national movement it began? Courtesy of Carter B. Smith. I have no clue where I obtained it, but on a recent late-night walk, I saw a recording from August of 1986, featuring the final hours of KFRC/San Francisco as a top-40 station come up in my. Left to right : Kenny Jones, Ronnie (Plonk) Lane, Steve Marriott (1947 - 1991) and Ian McLaglan.. 9th November 1965: British band the Dave Clark Five play at a Royal Command Performance.. 2nd May 1968: American rock 'n' roller Bill Haley playing at the Albert Hall, London.. 1969: English composer Sir Malcolm Arnold poses with newly formed British heavy metal rock band Deep Purple. I worked with Shana twice, once indirectly and more recently a lot closer, Mary Lyon, another female Los Angeles radio pioneer, told me. The Bay Area has lost its voice the voice of one of its wackiest, most upbeat personalities. {sbox}. Oct. 26: If you can't lift a 150-pound bag of sand - you can't be a policeman in San Francisco. San Jose, California. The Kinks, (L-R) Dave Davies, Ray Davies, Peter Quaife, and Mick Avory, wait on the set of a television show, ready to perform, 1968.. American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan plays acoustic guitar and sings on stage during his performance at the Isle Of Wight rock festival, Woodside Bay, August 31, 1969.. Left to right: Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones share a joke at London Airport (now Heathrow) before a flight to New York, 1st June 1964.. 4th November 1965: The Small Faces, a popular English Mod band of the late 1960s. In summer 1964, after his junior year, Flanagan was hired as an on-air host by KRSY, a local country-western station. John Mack Flanagan, one of the top names in Top 40 radio at KFRC, the Big 610, in the 1970s, died March 31 of congestive heart failure. BONUS COVERAGE:Having been acquired by Bedford Broadcasting in 1991 as the last broadcast property to be spun off by RKO General 610/KFRC returns to its roots, playing the Top 40 hits of the past. - 1970), lead guitarist and co-founder Ken Williams, and drummer Quint (Michael Fortune). ALL ACCESS sends condolences to the family and friends of radio, record and artist management industry veteran HARRY "BUD" NELSON, who passed away this past FRIDAY, JUNE 4th, at 5:20p (EDT). I felt so proud of her because women at the helm in morning drive were rare back then. Ive often wondered where these men are today. This broadcast, presented in magnificent AM Stereo, also includes newscasts anchored by Abby Goldman and cutaways to Vince Garcia in the Mobile Sturgeon Studio. Among the social media tributes to NELSON is a tweet from artist STEVE AZAR, who wrote on SATURDAY (6/5), With the heaviest of hearts we say goodbye to my dear friend and comrade in the music business, with our label, RIDE, a legendary DJ and radio program director HARRY BUD NELSON. One year later he was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame. Rose came to work at San Franciscos KFRC in 1973, where he stayed until 1986 when the station turned from its Top 40 format to oldies. 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He got a job in security, wearing a suit and working the front desk at the Embarcadero Center. I left, he was the new guy, Ocean said. JB Courtesy of James Baker. I lost a longtime friend and mentor. His next employer, the Union Pacific Railroad, offered only manual labor pounding spikes into the railbed but he continued to pursue work in radio, and finally landed a job at KTUL/Tulsa. Former morning disc jockey Don Rose known to listeners as Dr. KFRC, a Top 40 powerhouse in the '60s and '70s, and then an oldies station at 610 AM (with a brief run as big-band "Magic 61" in between), had been at 99.7 FM until last fall, when owner CBS Radio . He chose to give his induction speech at a senior center in Daly City. But it was at KLOS (95.5 FM) where she really made her mark. She was a writer and editor for Album Network Magazine, taught broadcasting classes at UCLA and Pasadena City College (even hosted a show on KPCC 89.3 FM in 1996 and 1997), worked as a talent coordinator for the syndicated radio program Rockline, did voiceover work and hosted fundraising events. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. He carried a tape recorder and interviewed his fellow foot soldiers on dangerous search-and-destroy missions, for later broadcast back home.
