He spent 79 years on the radio, promoted shows and put popular songs together for compilation albums. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Art Laboe, the DJ and music promoter who spent 79 continuous years on ...

FILE - DJ Art Laboe sits in his studio and talks about his 75 years in the radio business on Oct. 9, 2018, in Palm Springs, Calif. Laboe, a pioneering disc jockey who hosted a syndicated oldies show ...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Art Laboe, the pioneering radio DJ credited with helping end segregation in Southern California, has died. He was 97. Laboe died Friday night after catching pneumonia, said ...

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With his cheery baritone and enthusiasm for old rock, R&B, doo-wop and soul, Art Laboe was a fixture of West Coast radio for 79 years. The gregarious Los Angeles disc jockey was considered as much a ...

Art Laboe gets ready for his call-in dedication radio show in the KDAY studios in Palm Springs in 2015. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) When Art Laboe was a child, his mother couldn’t pull him away ...

DEAR GABACHO: It ain't just cholos who are down with oldies but goodies. Mexican-Americans of all social classes have largely kept alive that particular music genre—the brown-eyed soul of Thee ...

The Oldies But Goodies will perform its variety show, "Remember Then: Reminiscing Through The Decades," at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17 and 18, at Wahconah Regional High School, 150 Old Windsor ...