Johnny Gee-Biography

Johnny Gee on WLOF 1966
                                courtesy of Dick Camnitz 

Dick Shane-(Dick Camnitz)1966-1970, 1973
Dick is the moderator and creator of  
   CFL History                                

                                    
                                            
"Weird Beard” Bill Vermillion-Chief Engineer/1966                                 Johnny Gee (WLOF), Rock Robinson (WHOO) -Music Director-Clarke Broadcasting Corp. In Memory                                                          and Bill Vermillion (WLOF)
For more on "The Weird Beard"  see http://www.bilver.com/                                              Photos courtesy of Dick Camnitz

From Dennis Snyder: "This is 18  year old me while visiting WLOF around January,1969 (the) photo was taken by 
Bill Vermillion"
 courtesy of Dennis Snyder 

            Studio Entrance courtesy of Tom Hale

Bill Barber-1971-Music Director-Home Security Broadcasting Biography

Darrel Douglas-1976

Dave Edwards-1981-1982 Biography  

Allen Shades

Sean King tells about his day as a "male model"
"In 1972 I was working for Pat O'Day (he was Jerry Thompson off the air) at WLOF, Orlando, East Central Florida's top rocker at the time. Burt Reynolds had just appeared as a partially nude centerfold for Cosmopolitan Magazine and Pat wanted to do a "take-off" on the idea. So, he asked me if I would be a model for the photo which was to be a double page in a local newspaper known as "The Watcher". He said we'd cover the private parts with 45s or an LP or two. I agreed and the one-month on-air promotion began. The picture was to appear in April. However, two weeks into the promotion, the sale of the station was finalized and the new owners heard the promotion. They ordered it cancelled immediately as they felt it was in bad taste and might affect business (at least one major sponsor had threatened to cancel). Pat called an emergency staff meeting to pick our brains for a solution. After about a half an hour he came up with the answer himself. He asked me if I had any of those nude baby pictures that parents often take of  their infants and I remembered that I did.
We cleared the idea with the new management, informed the wary sponsors, kept the on-air promotion going unchanged and arranged with the newspaper publisher to have the newspaper on the stands April 1st, "April Fool's Day". So, after a month of all the air personalities telling their audiences that I would appear nude in an upcoming edition of "The Watcher", that's exactly what I did. Only the picture was one of me when I was less than a year old. It was a great "April Fool's" joke. The newspaper sold out in hours, the promotion was a tremendous success and the new owners were pleased. Pat O'Day saved the day. 

The caption reads;
"Cosmopolitan's Helen Brown may be culturally refined, but WLOF is on the "ahead" and never on the "behind".   APRIL FOOL -  WLOF
Sean King 12 to 3pm-WLOF  950 KC On your dial"


  Sean King talks about his "nude"  
                centerfold on the air in 1974.

"The Janitor" (Warren Miller)-Warren would also work at WKBW, Buffalo, NY (1973) and KNOX, Grand Forks, ND

Brandy Alexander-"Dateless and Desperate"-Brandy, (not her real name) is now married, has two children, lives in the West Palm Beach area and has a PH.D. in psychology. Thanks to Dave Edwards for this info.

"Hostile Harve" (Bob Jenkins)-took over for Steve Kane who was fired in 1982

Barbara Barri-Sean King tells us about Barbara "...she was the first female jock at WLOF, I think it was 1976. She was my one and only "discovery". I found her working as a waitress in a night club and, thought she had a good voice & introduced her into radio at WCKS-AM 860, Cocoa Beach. She went on to be a top country jock in Los Angeles for 15 years and is currently doing voice work in New York" For more on Barbara see www.barbarabarri.com

Bob Bacon-From Ray Slaton; "..."The Morning Mayor" ..., in real life Stan Barrett. I want to say 1963 or 64. He left WLOF and went to WMFJ-AM 1450 to do mornings there."  And this from Dennis Snyder; "...one of the things he used to say was "Breakfast with Bacon" - he worked mornings right about that time, before Pat O'Day.

Al Dunaway
Jim Casey
Blue Christie
Phil Conrad
Gary Collins-1975-1977-Afternoons
Steve Craig  
George Crossley-Sales
Rick Davis
Gerald Douglas
Mimi Doyle
Chris Garrett
David Gerard
Jim Gantner
Tom Gaut
Greg Gentleman
Jan Giles

1968-Boys with the noise-Pete Porter, Bill Vermillion, Johnny Sutton, Pat O'Day &  Dick Shane        
 photo courtesy of Dick Camnitz

Chris Glendon                                                                                  

Ron Fisher

Arnold Kaufman-General Manager

Johnny Gilbert-From Ray Slaton on the name Johnny G; "...The first one called himself Johnny Gilbert around 1963-64...

Tom Clark "The Body Beautiful" (Wayne Trout)  Biography  In Memory 

                                 
            WLOF Sales Piece circa 1970                                                                         WLOF-TV Channel 9
                      courtesy of Dick Camnitz                                                                                                           courtesy of Roger Simmons

Herb Craft

Robert Hall

Harmony

Sheila Hill

Greg Masters

Marsh Muke

Gary Mitchell-1982

May Mulligan

Bob Nadeau

"Cowboy" O'Neil

Tom Roberts

Jay Preston
photo courtesy of Dick Camnitz

Tom West
Pete Porter
John Scott
Teri Deck-Copy Writer
Bobby Sharpe-1979-1982
Tom Sherwood
Mark Sebastian-From Mark-"...I (worked at) WLOF in '73 and '74. I left and worked at such stations as Q102 (WKRQ) in Cincinnati, Z100 (WHTZ) in New York City, WLS FM/AM and B-96 in Chicago. I now work for Clear Channel-Tampa doing production and I voice track an Oldies show for Cool 105.7 WLCL-FM in Atlanta.

Bruce Wayne

JoNell Patterson

Alex Stone

Wolfman Jack-syndicated. But there is a Central Florida Connection. In 1991 Wolfman Jack would open a club in the Old Towne section of Kissimmee. It was originally called "Little Darlin's Rock and Roll Palace" becoming "Wolfman Jack's Rock and Roll Palace"

Its Bernie's Turn (Weekends, Barnard of London mid 60s)

Casey Kasem-"American Top 40" syndicated

Ral Donner makes an appearance for WLOF in 1959
photo courtesy of Greg Galloway

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