Rock Radio Scrapbook
AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of
August 1, 2010
Weekly issue #591
Talent:
JOHNNY WILLIAMS
Station: KHJ Los
Angeles
Date: November 26, 1971
Time: 13:22
(KHJ Chart/December 21, 1971)
Johnny Williams outlasted them all at KHJ.
When KHJ debuted Boss Radio in April, 1965, the lineup was Robert W. Morgan (6-9
a.m.), Roger Christian (9 a.m.-noon), Gary Mack (noon-3 p.m.), The Real Don
Steele (3-6 p.m.), Dave Diamond (6-9 p.m.) and Sam Riddle (9 p.m.-midnight) and
Williams (midnight-6 a.m.)
One by one the originals left. Diamond was the first to go, just a couple of months after the launch. Christian went in 1966, Mack left in 1967, Riddle departed in 1970 and Steele said goodbye in 1973. Morgan left KHJ in 1970, returned in 1972 and departed for good in 1973. That left Williams as the last of the original Boss Jocks, and he finally departed in the fall of 1974.
Williams started in radio in 1959 at KBOL Boulder, Col. He jocked at KIMN and KBTR Denver, KISN Portland, Ore., WABB Mobile, Ala., KRIZ Phoenix, KCBQ San Diego, KRLA Los Angeles and a few others before arriving at KHJ in the spring of 1965. After KHJ, he went to WTAE Pittsburgh for a decade beginning in 1975. Williams was in Honolulu radio in the 1990s at KHVH and KHNR before launching one of the first radio web sites, 440:Satisfaction, in 1995 (he gave us our first link in 1996!)
Hear Johnny Williams on KHJ here.
(The Tom Howard Collection)
More 1971 airchecks here!
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