Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rebecca Luna talks about hosting the "The Art Laboe Connection Show" at its Palm Springs studio. Imagine succeeding someone who'd ...

The radio pioneer died Friday night at home in Palm Springs after catching pneumonia, his representative said Shafiq Najib is a former writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He left PEOPLE in 2023. Art Laboe, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fans spanning three generations had been introduced by DJs Art Laboe and "Angel Baby" Rodriguez to the songs of Sly, Slick and ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Art Laboe, the pioneering radio DJ who read heartfelt song dedications to generations of loyal listeners and was credited with helping end segregation in Southern California during ...

Radio DJ Art Laboe, who interviewed Elvis for radio in the 1950s before he helped make Black music and Latino youths lifelong friends, has died. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

Memorial services were pending today for Southern California radio pioneer Art Laboe, who spent seven decades behind a microphone, brought rock 'n roll to the West Coast and coined the phrase "Oldies ...

When Art Laboe was a child, his mother couldn’t pull him away from the radio. “I listened to soap operas. I listened to news. I listened to all the announcements,” he told The Times in 2009. “I was ...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Art Laboe, the pioneering radio DJ credited with helping end segregation in Southern California, has died. He was 97. Laboe died Friday night after catching pneumonia, said ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Art Laboe, the pioneering radio DJ who read heartfelt song dedications to generations of loyal listeners and was credited with helping end segregation in Southern California during ...

Pioneering DJ Art Laboe, who has been credited with ending segregation in southern California, has died at the age of 97. Joanna Morones, a spokesperson with Laboe's production company, Dart ...