… Welcome into the Mad Lad Swing-A-Thing for a tough type of Thursday …
Here’s Mad Lad Mort Downey (Morton ‘Doc’ Downey, Jr.) on KDEO, San
Diego, circa 1964. When you joined the Mad Lad Marauders, you also received
a commission as a colonel! Mort is heard with his “live studio audience” and
newsman Stan Brown (later known for sports in L.A.)
Downey worked at WPOP, KRIZ, KAFY, KDEO and in 1967 he joined WNOE. Sometime after that, he left radio, but he returned as a controversial talk show host at KFBK in Sacramento in 1982 or 1983. When Downey was terminated for politically incorrect statements in 1984, a nearly unknown Rush Limbaugh took his place. Downey went
on to WMAQ in Chicago, and later, television.
Downey was a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society after successful treatment (1996) for lung cancer at Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. He passed away on
March 12, 2001.