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GENE
NELSON
Gene entertained on the morning show before moving to
San Francisco and spending many years at KYA and KOIT. He is
now reportedly retired and living on the island of Kauai,
Hawaii.
Click
here to hear
Gene on KYA (courtesy of The Bay Area Radio Museum)
DUSTY RHODES
1956-57
Dusty was responsible for the Sandman Serenade for a
few years then moved on to Cincinnati in 1961, starting at WSAI as
nighttime jock '61 to '66. Then on to CKLW mornings for less than a
year before moving back to Cincinnati to do radio sales, and into
elected office as a Township Trustee for 21
years.
In
1968 he became a stockbroker until 1999.
In 1990 he was elected
Hamilton County Auditor, re-elected '94 and '98.
Dusty has
been married since '63, and has two sons, one is Production Director
at Q-101 in Chicago, the other a
firefighter-paramedic.
He also produced Sunday night oldies shows in
Cincinnati since the '70s, first on WKRC, then on WLW from '84 to
'91, and since on WGRR, Oldies 103.5. He has also done national
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day music programs on 90 stations
coast-to-coast including WGY, WBBF (Rochester), WSAI and WABC.
As
of January 2025 he was on 91.7 WVXU. Check out Dusty
here.
Photo courtesy Red Parton with thanks to Max
Carroll, WCNY TV
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