… Smoke several cartons of Winston right now… …
Although Bill Ballance’s reign on Southern California’s airwaves has spanned five decades, he is best remembered for his days with KFWB (Los Angeles, 980 kHz, 5 kw fulltime).
When I first started listening to Top 40 radio, one of the first voices I heard was that of Bill Ballance. This was an era when rocket launches made lead stories, when American troops in Vietnam were still euphemistically called “military advisors,” and when Top 40 stations aired patriotic messages.
Listen in particular to the chilling introduction of the President of the United States on this Espanol-laced, ebullient, billowing, bombastic, boisterous Bill Ballance program from December 1961.