KFRC's Frank Terry Passes Away

[CarterB]

Frank and I worked on Battery st. and I used to call in on KNEW and run some jokes by him with a very poor country accent.  Frank would always say after the joke.  Thats Carter B. from KABL, he's allowed by my PD on KNEW as long as I dont use his name.  Thanks Carter B.

[SFStatic]

Frank was a HUGE talent and great guy. His stuff on the KSAN last show was off the charts funny. Since we're hitting names (like Glenn Boy), Jo Thomas also went by Vannessa Jo, I believe up in Sac before coming to SF. Last I saw her she was engaged, and pimping station equipment at the last Gavin (and that show was a whole other story, for all who were there!)

[blackhole]

Frank was a HUGE talent and great guy. His stuff on the KSAN last show was off the charts funny. Since we're hitting names (like Glenn Boy), Jo Thomas also went by Vannessa Jo, I believe up in Sac before coming to SF. Last I saw her she was engaged, and pimping station equipment at the last Gavin (and that show was a whole other story, for all who were there!)

Funny!! That is the last time I saw Jo Thomas too!

[Lkeller]

I'm sorry to hear about Frank Terry.  Thanks to Jack Friday and others for posting their memories of working with Frank. Having grown up in LA in the 60s,  I remember him well as an early Boss Jock on KHJ.

[Marv-L.A.]

I grew up listening to KHJ from it's inception in 1965 until the mid-seventies, and I KNOW that Frank Terry worked there, but I can't remember what his shift was, except that it MIGHT have been 9PM-midnight.

Also, I do recall hearing the exceptional Eric Chase on KFRC during a visit to your fine city in the fall of 1973; was Terry also on KFRC then?

Thanks!!!!

[Lkeller]

"KNOW that Frank Terry worked there, but I can't remember what his shift was, except that it MIGHT have been 9PM-midnight."

Where's Michael Hagerty when you need him? I generally give the "facts" as I remember them, and Michael corrects me with the REAL information.  But if I remember correctly, Frank worked middays: 9 to noon and possibly 12-3.  Even though he wasn't the weekend/fill-in jock, he would move into drive times often when Morgan and Steele were on vacation. From what I've learned just recently, he was heavily involved in formatting and programming Boss Radio with Ron Jacobs, but I don't have any info on that

Here's a link to Ken Levine's ("Beaver Cleaver") blog on Frank:

http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2007/06/frank-terry-1938-2007.html

[FluxCapacitor]

I worked with Frank when I first interned at KNEW/KSAN. Always funny and gracious. He never copped a star attitude and answered all my stupid questions. He gave me a bit of advice that I have always kept near and dear to my heart.
" Larry, ALWAYS have good weather!"


you will be missed frank!

Argus Scoggins will miss you too!

[BossRadioDJ]

I grew up listening to KHJ from it's inception in 1965 until the mid-seventies, and I KNOW that Frank Terry worked there, but I can't remember what his shift was, except that it MIGHT have been 9PM-midnight.

Frank Terry was Ron Jacobs' "partner in crime" in San Bernardino and Fresno before RJ arrived in LA to turn 93/KHJ into Boss Radio (with Bill Drake).

According to "KHJ: Inside Boss Radio" (http://www.93khj.com) -- one of the best and most "fun" books about radio ever -- Frank was the ultimate utility man at KHJ, serving as RJ's right-hand man, assistant PD, weekend jock, vacation relief, last-minute pinch hitter, feature producer ... he also held the regular weekday noon to 3 p.m. shift on KHJ, most notably when Bobby Tripp (a/k/a Bobby Mitchell at KYA) was seriously ill during the Summer of 1968.

According to the all-time Boss Jock Roster in the KHJ Silver Anniversary Limited Edition Souvenir Scrapbook, Frank worked at KHJ "1965-1966, 1967-1968."

Frank was at KFRC by the Winter of 1969, as noted earlier, and appeared in the "Gimme Shelter" documentary.

DJ

[michael hagerty]

"KNOW that Frank Terry worked there, but I can't remember what his shift was, except that it MIGHT have been 9PM-midnight."

Where's Michael Hagerty when you need him?

In this case, at a barbecue at a friend's house on Camelback Mountain, but I'm back now. 

Frank replaced Donn Tyler as the KHJ relief guy (a neat RKO position that paid a fulltime salary...union scale, most likely...and benefits. The one catch was that you were the guy...if the phone rang, you answered. Two months without a day off? Hey, it happens) only a couple of months after the May 1965 launch of Boss Radio.

By the end of the year, he'd replaced Roger Christian in 9AM-Noon, and stayed there until February of 1967, when he moved back to the utility/fill-in role, replacing Steve Clark.

The change was short-lived, as Bobby Tripp became ill and Frank ended up back in middays, plus a couple of weekend shifts and filling in for the other guys whenever they were sick or on vacation. After Bobby died, they just made it official, and brought in Bill Wade as the new utility/fill-in guy. Frank stayed in middays until the fall of 1968, when he left for KFRC and was replaced by Scotty Brink.

---Michael Hagerty

[Marv-L.A.]

Thanks again Michael; I do recall Bill Wade also doing a lot of vacation relief at KHJ as Frank did.

 I also recall that Wade was doing morning drive for awhile between the time that RWM left for WIND/Chicago and Charlie Van Dyke's contract at another Windy City radio station was up so that he could return to KHJ.

I was attending a JC here in LA in from Sept. 1970 until 1974, and I do remember Charlie Van Dyke worked 9AM-NOON, followed by Mark Elliott during part of that time period.

On a very somber note I grimly recall Elliott crying on the air when the news broke that the police were looking for 'Humble Harve' Miller after his wife had been murdered, until Bill Wade scrambled down to the station to finish Elliott's airshift that day.