Rebecca Luna talks about hosting the "The Art Laboe Connection Show" at its Palm Springs studio. Imagine succeeding someone who'd been at his job for 79 years. Known for its oldies music, dedications ...

Art Laboe, a disc jockey for more than 70 years and one of the first to play rock 'n' roll on the West Coast, died Friday of pneumonia. He was 97. His popular "The Art Laboe Connection Show" had a ...

LOS ANGELES, CA – Art Laboe fell in love at the tender age of 8. Art Laboe celebrating 75 years on-air Show “The Art Laboe Connection” plays on 13 stations Listeners call in to dedicate a song to a ...

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

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 ...

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. He was 97. Laboe, who hosted a show on Los Angeles ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — 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, ...

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