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 "Wil 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. He later hosted middays on oldies WCBS-FM from 1984 until his September 18, 1997 retirement. Upon retiring from radio, Ron and his wife Shirley moved to the small town of Bruce, Mississippi where they live comfortably to this day.

[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 Joe Buck arrives in New York City, and on the CBS-FM version of the song "We Built This City" by 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.

Ron still does occasional radio work however it's mainly done over the telephone. Mainly though these days he does occasional interviews with Mark Simone on The Saturday Night Oldies Show on WABC.

Sometimes when Dan Ingram (the DJ that followed Ron for many years except for a brief time in 1981), Ron Lundy would keep going until Dan arrived. He would do impressions of "The Shadow" where he would play Margo and Lamont Cranston