Art Vuolo‘s 8th Annual Radio Dream Lunch on December 30th took place at Steve Resnik‘s Rock and Roll mansion. It is a radio & record museum and could double as the west coast version of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! The event features many icons in the radio & music industry. Photos & videos from the event are below. Video shot & edited by @SteveSievers
Part one video features the following: Joey Reynolds, Don Kelley, Kerri Kasem, Ron Alexenburg, and Johnny Tillotson.
Joey Reynolds rose to fame as a Top 40 radio personality during the 1960s and 1970s, amassing huge audiences in places such as Hartford, Connecticut, Cleveland, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and his hometown of Buffalo, New York. Joey Reynolds was named Billboard Magazine’s DJ of the Year three times. He is often regarded as the originator of “shock-jock radio”
Don Kelley was Wolfman Jack’s business partner and personal manager and now president of the Don Kelley Organization.
Kerri Kasem is a multimedia personality, producer, and writer who has anchored numerous music, talk and entertainment programs for both radio and television. Kerri is the daughter of the late radio host and icon Casey Kasem. She founded the Kasem Cares Foundation to establish and fight for the rights to have visitation and reasonable access to an ailing parent, especially when under the care and control of an uncooperative spouse or sibling.
Ron Alexenburg has over 50 years’ experience in the music industry. He worked at CBS Records, Columbia Records and eventually was promoted to Senior Voice President & General Manager of Epic Records. Among the artists that Alexenburg worked directly with were Boston, Meat Loaf, Charlie Daniels and Michael Jackson. Under his helm, Michael Jackson’s Thriller became and still is the best-selling album of all time.
Johnny Tillotsonis is one of the top 100 recording artists of the rock era and a two time Grammy nominee. He had six number one international hits and nine top ten hits in the USA. He sold millions of records and a member of America’s Pop Music Hall of Fame.
Part two video features the following: Randy West, Bob Hamilton, Wink Martindale, Shadoe Stevens, Howard Lapitas, Ken Levine, Shotgun Tom Kelly, Freddy Snakeskin, Joey Reynolds, Randy Thomas, & Lou Simon.
Randy West is an American television personality, best known for his work on game shows. He has been an announcer on American television game shows since 1990, with credits including Supermarket Sweep , Trivial Pursuit, Hollywood Showdown, and filling in on The Price Is Right.
Bob Hamilton has over 40 plus years of working in the radio industry. Today is he President of Hamilton Communications Media which is a Programming/Management consulting company that specializes in fixing radio stations from programming to sales to engineering to management methods.
Wink Martindale is an American disc jockey, radio personality, game show host, and television producer. In his six-decade career, he is best known for hosting Tic Tac Dough, Gambit, and Debt.
Shadoe Stevens is an American radio host, voiceover actor, and television personality. He was the host of American Top 40 from 1988 to 1995 and was the announcer for The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS.
Howard Lapides is a veteran of radio. As CEO of Lapides Entertainment, Howard is now managing writer/producers, talk show hosts, authors, comedians, and actors, as well as executive producing a variety of shows, like VH-1’s highly successful “Celebrity Rehab” franchise, Comedy Central’s “The Man Show,” and “LoveLine”
Ken Levine is an American writer, director and producer in the television and film industry, and an author. Levine has worked on a number of television series, including M*A*S*H, Cheers, Frasier, The Simpsons, Wings, Everybody Loves Raymond, Becker and Dharma and Greg. He has also been a radio and TV play-by-play commentator for MLB, having worked with the Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariner, and San Diego Padres.
Shotgun Tom Kelly is a radio and television personality, two-time Emmy award winner, Billboard Air Personality of the Year winner and recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Freddy Snakeskin is a radio personality who worked at the world famous KROQ from 1980-1990 and at KROQ-HD2, JACK-FM & MARS FM.
Randy Thomas is a voice over legend. She is the first woman to announce The Academy Awards, The Emmy Awards, The SAG Awards and The AFI Awards. In addition to voice over, she has more than 20 years of experience as a radio personality.
Lou Simon is a radio programmer & on air host at Sirius XM Satellite Radio. Make sure to check out his show The Diner with Lou Simon on Channel 6 every Sunday night at 11 PM.