Talent: ANDY BARBER
Station: KTNQ Los Angeles
Date: July 18, 1978
Time: 1:04:48 (unscoped)
9:53 (scoped)

 

Andy Barber grew up with Top 40 radio and made it his career.

Barber - whose boyhood idols included Robert W. Morgan, the Real Don Steele and Humble Harv - got his start in 1968 at KEYN Wichita, Kansas. He got noticed, winning Billboard's Medum-Market Air Personality of the Year in 1970 and 1971. That led to 38 job offers in three months. Barber soon moved to KUDL Kansas City, then KING-AM in Seattle. After stops at KSTP Minneapolis-St. Paul, KREM Spokane, Washington and a return to KING, Barber arrived at KTNQ Los Angeles in 1977.

At first a swing jock, Barber moved to afternoon drive at KTNQ when his hero The Real Don Steele departed. Barber himself left in 1978, moving to KYTE Portland, Oregon. Next up was KULF Houston (where he rollerskated on top of the Astrodome), KMGC Portland, Oregon, then a return to the City of Angels at KWST/KMGG.

Barber later landed in Dallas, Salt Lake City and Louisville, Kentucky before settling in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1993. He retired from KBEZ Tulsa in 2010, ending a 52-year radio career.

Enjoy Andy Barber on KTNQ (UNSCOPED) here. 

Enjoy Andy Barber on KTNQ (SCOPED) here.