KJLH

With Dara Starr Tucker

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Good morning, and welcome back to The Front Page.

I am Dara Starr Tucker, and we are here this morning with the man, the myth, the legend-

Very simple.

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You are listening to The Front Page on Radio Free 102.3 FM KJLH.

I'm Dara Starr Tucker.

It sets us up for Thanksgiving.

There's three different stages for live performances, from gospel and soul to musicians curated by Inglewood radio station KJLH.

McMillan relishes seeing different generations of neighbors and customers.

It's like a family reunion.

It sets us up for Thanksgiving.

There's three different stages for live performances, from gospel and soul to musicians curated by Inglewood radio station KJLH.

Bakewell says station owner Stevie Wonder even stops by on occasion.

He's

My eclectic musical taste came from a Mighty 690.

And then And KJLH is where I was getting my Luther Vandross and my Freddie Jackson and my Lana Richie and the Michael Jacksons and the Prince.

And then 1580 K-Day at the time was where I was getting my hip hop.

I was being introduced, you know what I'm saying, to Eric B. and Rakim and N.W.A. And so those pop music and R&B music and hip hop music, they all converged on me as a kid listening to Los Angeles radio.

is, I think KBLA,

I think KJLH front page.

Yeah.

And it was like overnight or early in the morning.

He spent roughly four decades working around L.A. radio.

Back in the heyday of L.A. radio, he worked at Stevie Wonder's KJLH, which is, yeah, Stevie Wonder has a radio station.

And he later would become the program director of KJAZZ 88.1, which is a college radio station, I believe, on the campus of Cal State Long Beach.

if I'm not mistaken.

They know him as the Lakers public address announcer.

Before he became the Lakers public address announcer, he was the program director at our station in L.A., KJLH.

And that's actually how he got the job.

The station, you know, all the people used to come to the station all the time.