Dale Starkey

Dale Starkey (b. June 6, 1924) Musician, artist and writer. He spent 65 years in radio and television as host of 365 television shows and thousands of radio programs.

Biography

Dale Starkey was born in 1924 in Pryor, Oklahoma to Flossie Jones and Garland Starkey. He started his radio career at age 6 on the "Kansas City Kiddies Review" as a singer and child performer,which was broadcast over Radio station WDAF.

Serving in the U.S. Naval Amphibious forces during WWII he participated in the Invasion of Omaha Beach, Normandy France, on his 20th birthday, June 6, 1944. Later, 'was bombed during the invasion of Okinawa by a Suicide plane.

On discharge from the service in 1945, he went to work as one of the original voices of Classical music station KDFC in San Francisco, California. Later he worked at CBS in Hollywood as singer, writer, actor and announcer, retiring in 1982 from San Francisco station KABL.

He still does Commercial announcing, and writes fiction and screenplays at his home in Carmel, California.

References

External links

• http://www.radioyears.com/other/details.cfm?id=551

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