Dale knew he wanted to be in radio since he was very young. He literally walked by a radio and heard a man's voice come out of it and said to his mother, "who's that guy, how does that work?" She said that he was miles away talking into a microphone and that it was through the air to the radio. Dale thought that was the coolest thing.
From then on that is what he wanted to do.
He applied at what seemed a ‘million’ radio stations, when in September of 1964 Dale showed up in Syracuse, NY at WOLF/1490 AM. Just the day before a jock had quit and they also had another position to fill. The Program Director asked for a tape of Dale’s show but he didn't have a one because he had no experience. The PD gave him some records and a tape, sent him into a studio and told him to make believe he was on the air just to see how he would sound. That was at 5 PM and at 6 the same night he was on the air for real and has been working in radio ever since.
Dale went on to work at KFRC in San Francisco from ‘66-‘68 during the “Psychedelic 60’s” music scene.
Dale came to Boston in August of 1968 and the first song he played was the Grassroots and Midnight Confessions. Ironically it is still one of the most requested songs today on Oldies 103.3!
Several years ago Dale was inducted into the DJ section of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame!
This year Dale celebrates his 40th anniversary in Boston and is psyched to be here and still “having a ball” at Oldies 103.3!
