Ron Lundy

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Ron Lundy, was a radio Deejay in New York City from the early-1960s to 1997.

Born June 25, 1934, Ron started as a record librarian in Memphis, Tennessee at radio station WHMM. He went to work at WDDT in Greenville, Mississippi, then WLCS in Baton Rouge, Louisiana He moved on to WIL in St. Louis, where he was known as the "Wild Child".

He moved to WABC (AM) in September of 1965. He was known for his "Hello Luv... this is Ron Lundy from the Greatest City in the World!" Lundy remained at WABC up until its switch to Talk radio on May 10, 1982.

[edit] Second Bananas

His show included banter with his creative second bananas. Among them:

"Willard" (himself, imitating a duck that sounded a great deal like Donald Duck)
"Mama" (voice of engineer Al Vertucci)
"Bubba" (voice of production director Bob Sagendorf)

[edit] Trivia

Ron was heard in the 1969 movie "Midnight Cowboy" when Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight arrive in New York City, and on the song "We Built This City" by Jefferson Starship.^{[citation needed]}

In February of 1984, he joined WCBS-FM, once again back-to-back with Harry Harrison. In June, 1997, his WCBS-FM show was awarded the 1997 "BronzeWorld Medal" at the New York Festivals Radio Programming Awards for the "best local personality". Ron retired from radio on September 18, 1997.

Ron was inducted the St. Louis Hall Radio Hall of Fame on January 1, 2006, with a banquet held June 10, 2006.