{"id":12282,"date":"2022-10-10T16:35:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T23:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12282"},"modified":"2022-12-02T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T23:38:04","slug":"art-laboe-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/10\/10\/art-laboe-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Laboe Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-10-10\/art-laboe-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Art Laboe dies; his \u2018Oldies but Goodies\u2019 show ruled the L.A. airwaves<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/esmeralda-bermudez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ESMERALDA BERMUDEZ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/f9b3bda\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3600x2400+0+0\/resize\/1200x800!\/quality\/80\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fzbk%2Fdamlat_images%2FLA%2FLA_PHOTO_SELECTS%2F2015_06%2F2429734_CA_ArtLaboe_MJB__031.JPG\" alt=\"A man inside a radio station\" style=\"width: 480px;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Art Laboe gets ready for his call-in dedication radio show in the KDAY studios in Palm Springs in 2015 (Mark Boster \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Art Laboe was a child, his mother couldn\u2019t pull him away from the radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI listened to soap operas. I listened to news. I listened to all the announcements,\u201d he told The Times in 2009. \u201cI was enthralled with this box that talked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disc jockey, who got his first radio job at 17, went on to fill Southern California\u2019s airwaves for more than 70 years. He was one of the first to play rock \u2019n\u2019 roll on the West Coast and was a pioneer in creating a compilation album, calling it \u201cOldies but Goodies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His inviting, baritone voice became a beacon for generations of fans, particularly Latinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Behind a microphone until late in life,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2022-10-10\/art-laboe-dead-los-angeles-radio-reactions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Laboe died late Friday<\/a>\u00a0while battling pneumonia, Joanna Morones, a spokesperson for Laboe\u2019s production company, said. He was 97.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-10-10\/art-laboe-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at LAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Los Angeles Times Art Laboe dies; his \u2018Oldies but Goodies\u2019 show ruled the L.A. airwaves BY\u00a0ESMERALDA BERMUDEZ Art Laboe gets ready for his call-in dedication radio show in the KDAY studios in Palm Springs in 2015 (Mark Boster \/ Los Angeles Times) When Art Laboe was a child, his mother couldn\u2019t pull him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}