WIL 1960-1965;
WIL-FM 1965;
Inducted in 2006
One of the crazy bunch of young guys who catapulted WIL to the top of the market in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, Ron Lundy left St. Louis in 1965 to go to New York’s legendary rocker, WABC. For awhile here he used the air name “Wil’ Child” and he lived up to the image.
In 1960, Balaban’s Bob Whitney brought Lundy to town from Baton Rouge, citing his audition tape as a combination of “country and crawfish pie,” a folksiness that stayed with Lundy through his career. Whitney said Lundy was “a guy who radiated the fun of being alive.”
