I first heard Robert W. Morgan as the morning DJ at KMBY in nearby Monterey in 1961 when I was training with the US Army in Fort Ord, CA. He was working on another local station in nearby Watsonville using the name Mark Carroll. At the time my friend Gary Bruno was working on KMBY. He set up a meeting at a local bar where we had lunch and talked. Gary went on to change his name to Gary Taylor and became president of The Gavin Report, a prestigious radio music sheet out of San Francisco.

When I was checking out of Monterey and the army base we got together on Cannery Row and drank ourselves under the table. We corresponded over the years and in 1965 Morgan joined legendary KHJ/Los Angeles, which dominated Southern California radio until 1973. Morgan was one of the original KHJ Boss Jocks and he also co-produced and narrated the first-ever “rockumentary”, the 48-hour History of Rock and Roll.

Robert W. Morgan retained his incredible following upon the demise of KHJ. He worked many markets in the following years before ending up at Oldies KRTH in L.A. He was the number one morning man in Los Angeles until 1997, when he retired for health reasons. He died on May 22, 1998.

A fantastically talented and hard working radio guy. One of the very best ever as a deejay. Ladies and gentlemen… here’s Robert W. Morgan on K-EARTH in 1993. Listen and enjoy!