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Sam Lawson’s Audio Vault: Larry Lujack & Tom Snyder, 1975

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Larry Lujack
Tom Snyder

“You say ‘we play the most music’ when your disc jockeys are no good.” ~Larry Lujack (at 7:40)

Hear a bunch of great Larry Lujack bits from KJR, WLS, and WCFL, intertwined with a 1975 appearance on “The Tomorrow Show” with Tom Snyder. This comes from a vinyl record album called the “Ultimate Radio Bootleg Volume 2,” which I copied to reel to reel in the late ‘70s, burned to cd in the ‘90s, and most recently converted to mp3. I’m now thinking about putting it on a cassette.

Runtime: 16:07

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Sam Lawson

Student engineer at pioneer Nathan Hale radio station KNH 1210 in 1970 (prior to KNHC). Also attended North Seattle Community College and L.H. Bates in Tacoma (KTOY-FM). Sam’s career began as a KJR request line operator in 1970, with his first on-air job at KRKO in 1972. In 1976 he segued to overnights at KTAC as Cory Landon, then weekends at KING. In 1978 he moved to Lewiston, Idaho for afternoons on KOZE and KRLC. Throughout the ‘80s he was an announcer and/or engineer at "the best mix and biggest variety" of Spokane radio stations; including 97KREM, KZUN, KGA, KKER (The Sam & Pam Show), KZZU, PD of KJRB, 98 KISS-FM, and the voice of KAYU-TV. In 1989 he moved to Los Angeles as Assistant Chief Engineer and weekends at KZLA/KLAC. Also engineered for KBIG, KFI, Premiere Radio Networks, CBS Radio, and others. "After avoiding any actual work for nearly 45 years, now happily retired and very appreciatively back in the great Pacific Northwest!" ---Click here for other Sam Lawson articles ---and here for Sam Lawson airchecks

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  • September 4, 2021 at QZVX

    Jason Remington says:

    Did he call the station “Cripple”?

    Reply

  • September 4, 2021 at QZVX

    kjrol says:

    Love the mass chaos at the start of his show at 5am on WLS

    Reply

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